OnePlus Phones are Exploding, not just in popularity

[rcmaehl]

Summary

The OnePlus Nord 2 5G is reportedly exploding, having multiple reported incidents over the last couple months.

 

Media:

 

Quotes

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A OnePlus Nord 2 smartphone exploded inside the users’ trouser pockets... The blast caused injury to his thigh. The user shared photos of the injury along with the OnePlus Nord 2 smartphone which appears to have been completely burnt. OnePlus told TOI-Gadgets Now, "We take such incidents seriously. Our team has already reached out to the user and we are in the process of collecting the details to investigate this further." The user... Suhit Sharma, tweeted, “Never expected this from you"... "see what your product have done.” 

 

My thoughts

This doesn't appear to be an isolated instance. A quick search on google news shows several Nord 2 devices exploding on all sorts of users (see Sources). I think it's time for OnePlus to put a pause on these devices until the matter can be looked into further, before they have a Note 7 situation on their hands. Additionally, I thought this affected me as well as I got an extremely cheap OnePlus phone for 5G testing. Thankfully, the Nord 200 5G, while similarly named, is not affected.

 

Sources

Twitter (Media source, WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES)

India Times

Previous Explosion

Another Previous Explosion

Yet Another Previous Explosion

 

[manikyath]

is that a tiny hand, or have phones really gotten that big?

[JLO64]

25 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:

Twitter (Media source, WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES)

Dear lord this is much worse than anything that happened with the Note 7. I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see a recall within the next week or two. The worst thing about this situation is how it's gonna damage OnePlus's reputation in India, a market they've been trying to break into.

[rcmaehl]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

is that a tiny hand, or have phones really gotten that big?

Preteen hand I believe. They're referred to as a "boy" by the twitter account owner.

[dizmo]

I kinda knew it wasn't blowing up in popularity; they haven't done anything impressive in ages. 

 

Good to know though. This was on my shortlist for a backup phone, and now it's off. 

[ouroesa]

Almost looks like something punctured the phone from the front and penetrated the battery, causing a runaway reaction.

 

Not unlike kids to be doing crazy stuff playing outside and falling on shit.

 

Also why does a small kid have a brand new $500 phone?

[StDragon]

24 minutes ago, ouroesa said:

Also why does a small kid have a brand new $500 phone?

Not the kind of money you want burning a hole in your pocket over, quite literally. 

[Fasterthannothing]

Don't buy cheap junk don't get burnt (literal in this situation)

[pinkstro]

sad

 

[NemesisPrime_691]

8 hours ago, ouroesa said:

Also why does a small kid have a brand new $500 phone?

Not $500, Indian price is close to $380 for 128GB variant.

[Just that Mario]

13 hours ago, manikyath said:

is that a tiny hand, or have phones really gotten that big?

Hand of a kid and phones are stupidly big these days as well.

[Just that Mario]

3 hours ago, pinkstro said:

OnePlus is releasing a LIMITED EDITION

"No explosion" version?

[Doobeedoo]

Oh damn. It's not the flagship lineup, but still that sucks. I'm still interested to see their Pro 10 though.

[rcmaehl]

On 11/8/2021 at 7:09 PM, ouroesa said:

Almost looks like something punctured the phone from the front and penetrated the battery, causing a runaway reaction.

 

Not unlike kids to be doing crazy stuff playing outside and falling on shit.

Quite true, maybe an issue with screen durability then?

[ouroesa]

On 11/9/2021 at 7:16 PM, NemesisPrime_691 said:

Not $500, Indian price is close to $380 for 128GB variant.

AUD500, apologies for offending you, I guess. 

[Kisai]

On 11/8/2021 at 4:09 PM, ouroesa said:

Almost looks like something punctured the phone from the front and penetrated the battery, causing a runaway reaction.

 

Not unlike kids to be doing crazy stuff playing outside and falling on shit.

 

Also why does a small kid have a brand new $500 phone?

Yeah in this case it seems like the phone was damaged (either by accident or intentionally.) if the battery had been expanding due to overcharging, it would have pushed outward on both sides.

 

This is of course another one of those "but the right to repair(tm)!"

 

If these phones were easier to repair, the damn batteries would be rigidly packaged instead of being basically in a plastic sock.

[NemesisPrime_691]

6 hours ago, ouroesa said:

AUD500, apologies for offending you, I guess. 

No worries  ! I thought you were talking about USD pricing. 

[Quackers101]

again or is this drama news? Note of being explosive.

or just badly sourced batteries? as they do tend to explode.

[pythonmegapixel]

On 11/8/2021 at 9:57 PM, JLO64 said:

The worst thing about this situation is how it's gonna damage OnePlus's reputation in India, a market they've been trying to break into.

I'd say the worst thing is absolutely nothing to do with OnePlus's bottom line - it's the fact that this has apparently caused serious injury to multiple people.