A 33-year-old Dutch woman sustained slight face and neck burns after her mobile phone burst into flames, the Amsterdam police said Thursday. A Nokia spokesman in Helsinki said similar incidents have happened in the past and were always related to faulty batteries from independent electronics manufacturers.
- Reuters

So beware... :o

Oo dear :o

Thank you for sharing that gem of information.
Damn, I've just bought my first ever cell phone, a Nokia I might add. Scary!

It's a 'mobile' phone! Only the Yanks have Cell Phones.

Brings a whole new meaning to the word 'hotline'.

Sorry.....couldn't resist

Originally posted by DaBouncer
It's a 'mobile' phone! Only the Yanks have Cell Phones.

Sorry but it's a cell phone - as in it will only work if you are within the coverage area of one of the cells. Sorry to be pedantic :lol:

Originally posted by Party Boy
Sorry but it's a cell phone - as in it will only work if you are within the coverage area of one of the cells. Sorry to be pedantic :lol:

I'd guess the point that DB is making is that we in the UK call them mobile 'phones and the Americans call them cell 'phones. We have enough creeping Americanisation in this country without adopting their terms for everyday things. It may be trivial but before you know it we'll be using words like faucet and diaper so let's hang on to our own terms for as long as possible, OK?

Originally posted by maxt
I'd guess the point that DB is making is that we in the UK call them mobile 'phones and the Americans call them cell 'phones. We have enough creeping Americanisation in this country without adopting their terms for everyday things. It may be trivial but before you know it we'll be using words like faucet and diaper so let's hang on to our own terms for as long as possible, OK?
Yeah thats the point I was making.... goes over some peoples head I reckon:P

Originally posted by DaBouncer
It's a 'mobile' phone! Only the Yanks have Cell Phones. A guy at work once phoned one of our sales reps in the US on their "cell" phone. The conversation went something like this...

UK person: "Are you in prison?"
US person: "No. Why?"
UK person: "Because it says this is your cell phone!"
US person: "What?"
UK person: "Have you got a phone in your prison cell...?!"
US person: "I'm not in prison!"
UK person: "How come you've got a cell phone then?"

...

Americans just don't get it, do they? :lol:

Wow, Sorry if I have become too Americanized for y'all.
I must have been away too long.
Cell phone vs Mobile phone, it's all the same.

And if we are going to be picky about this conversation; just for your information DB there are no Yanks down here in the south. Yanks only live up north above the Mason Dixon Line.

Maybe a moderator should review my postings and translate everything into Yorkshire slang so you can understand me. I'd hate to offend anyone with my americanisms.
:(

All Americans are Yanks to the Brits... you should know that Funke88:lol:

You didn't offend, just trying to keep the sheffield/yorkshire/british language alive n kicking!

Thanx DB
I feel stuck in the middle. I'm not accepted as English anymore and I'm not American either. Funny really I felt like that when I worked in London years ago. The cockneys made fun of the way I spoke back then too. I've lost my Sheffield twang and I have a slight American one, which my mum picks up on all the time. Especially if I say bathroom instead of toilet and trash instead of rubbish.
So listen everyone, get used to it okay. Life is full of foreigners who speak a diifferent language.

Is it a bread cake or a tea cake is the same argument as whether its a mobile or a cell? Lets agree to disagree and move on.
And don't be mean to Americans, they gave you McDonalds and Burger King :D

You know, Geoff started all this:
He started the thread by calling it":-
"Woman hurt as cellphone burst into flames"
Thanks Geoff!!

Originally posted by Funke88
And don't be mean to Americans, they gave you McDonalds and Burger King :D

I do hope you're being ironic.

Originally posted by maxt
I do hope you're being ironic.
Me too!

I'm gonna sue McD's for making me put on weight!:lol:

Originally posted by maxt
I do hope you're being ironic. Americans don't know what "irony" is ... instead, it's "iony" :P

Ironic, nah sarcastic :lol:
It reminds me of that Monty Python film "Life of Brian" when one guy says " what did the Romans ever do for us?" and the other guy says " well, they gave us viaducts and roads and water heating in the house " Can't recall it that well, but if was as funny. Look around Sheffield and you'll see evidence of America everywhere. Aggggghhh Sorry folks, annoying as they are, the "yanks" gave us fast food. Where would we be today without that (sarcasm again)
Hey, have you got drive throughs yet? Americans sit in their cars for everything from fast food, to banks, to chemists and even wedding chapels. We even have a drive through funeral parlour in town. Now that's just too american even for me. I'm living in a nation of idle people who can't be bothered get out of their cars for anything! They even buy their beer at a "brew throo" Drive up buy a case of beer and cigarettes, pay and drive off.
Cool huh? (I threw that in to annoy the Sheffielders, ha ha)

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Me too!

I'm gonna sue McD's for making me put on weight!:lol:



Make sure you're drinking a very hot cup of coffee when you go into court. Then spill it on yourself in front of the judge. It works.
An instant millionaire. That's why McD's has warning labels on their cups "hot coffee" No S**t!!