Tag: overheating
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Hovervault – A Bag that Protects Your Stuff if Your Hoverboard Blows Up
If you can’t stop your Hoverboard from setting on fire the least you can do is stop it from setting fire to your other stuff, right? That’s the concept behind an ingenious new gadget called the Hovervault. We say ingenious mainly because it’s incredibly clever marketing, capitalising on society’s stubbornness and stupidity. Despite the warnings about…
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Samsung Galaxy S6 Drops Qualcomm Chip for Overheating
Samsung will be dropping Qualcomm processors from its next flagship smartphone after a new chip reportedly failed overheating tests in Korea. The Korean tech company behind this year’s anticipated Galaxy S6 forsakes its regularly used chip maker over this recent safety concern and the processor in question is Qualcomm’s latest octa-core Snapdragon 810 – the most…
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Xbox One Detects and Prevents Overheating
The Xbox 360’s red ring of death and overheating often caused the console to be rendered inoperable, so what have Microsoft done to react to the constant concern of the console overheating? In a recent interview, Microsoft’s general manager of console development Leo del Castillo, who has been charged with keeping the console up to…
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Google Nexus 7 Tablet Teething Troubles Surface – Overheating & Dead Pixels Reported
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The ASUS-made Google Nexus 7 tablet went on pre-order hours after it was announced at the annual Google I/O Conference on July 27th alongside the newest Android update 4.1 Jelly Bean. The tablet is just few weeks out of the box, and now that early owners have had a good chance to get to grips…
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Google Nexus 7 Tablet Teething Troubles Surface – Overheating & Dead Pixels Reported
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The ASUS-made Google Nexus 7 tablet went on pre-order hours after it was announced at the annual Google I/O Conference on July 27th alongside the newest Android update 4.1 Jelly Bean. The tablet is just few weeks out of the box, and now that early owners have had a good chance to get to grips…
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Burnt-Out Samsung Galaxy SIII Was Actually Microwaved
After thorough testing Samsung have dodged blame for an exploding phone, proving that it had been cooked in a microwave…
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Third Gen Apple iPad to be Redesigned & Re-Released to Solve Overheating Problem
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After initially shunning the idea that the latest iPad (third generation) was getting a little hot to handle, Apple has now reportedly taken the gadget back to the drawing board to have a rethink on how the tablet computer should be reworked to deal with the safety concerns of many of the otherwise happy owners,…
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Third Gen Apple iPad to be Redesigned & Re-Released to Solve Overheating Problem
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After initially shunning the idea that the latest iPad (third generation) was getting a little hot to handle, Apple has now reportedly taken the gadget back to the drawing board to have a rethink on how the tablet computer should be reworked to deal with the safety concerns of many of the otherwise happy owners,…
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New iPad (iPad 3) Overheating Issues Addressed – “Operating Well” Claims Apple
[Update] Earlier this week the Gadget Helpline covered the rising reports that Apple’s new iPad has not only been cooking up a storm when it comes to sales, but also cooking people’s laps! The online forums combusted with complaints that the tablet gets seriously overheated in the bottom corner, this suggested to be a fault…
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New Apple iPad (iPad 3) Owners Experiencing Overheating Problem
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This season’s hottest gadget is no doubt going to be the recently released third generation Apple iPad, simply known as iPad. But we never believed that this would be taken so literally – as reports and forum posts have surface over the past few days suggesting a number of new tablets have been overheating! Some…
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Gadget Inferno! iPhone 4 Catches Fire While Charging, Galaxy S II Explodes in Man’s Pocket
It’s been a pretty bad week for smartphones seriously overheating and causing a stir in the gadget world; earlier this week an iPhone 4 overheated and caught fire on a plane during a passenger flight, filling the plane with black smoke. Unfortunately for Apple, another user has reported an iPhone 4 catching fire, this…
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Playstation owners suffer from the heat with “L.A Noire” – New console crisis?
It seems some PS3s can’t handle the heat of the hotly-hyped title “L.A. Noire” – launched this week. The release by Rockstar Games is currently rolling out on consoles including Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but a number of Sony owners have reported their gaming gadgets shutting down from overheating while solving movie-style murder mysteries and battling…