{"id":218790,"date":"2017-07-07T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218790"},"modified":"2017-07-07T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:44:04","slug":"google-pixel-explodes-into-flames-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/218790-google-pixel-explodes-into-flames-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel explodes into flames &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google Pixel smartphone owner has reported <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GooglePixel\/comments\/6lmbyo\/cross_post_from_pixel_phones_my_google_pixel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Reddit<\/a><\/strong> that his device caught fire and exploded 45 minutes after being fully charged.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the device was not running any apps and had not suffered recent damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Pixel owner said he didn&#8217;t want to post the incident on social media, as he wanted to resolve the issue through the proper channels.<\/p>\n<p>However, he took to Reddit when 12 hours passed without feedback on a replacement phone or a refund.<\/p>\n<p>The Pixel owner said he subsequently received\u00a0confirmation that the phone will be replaced for free.<\/p>\n<p>The phone also damaged a tablet when it caught fire, he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/224422417\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/224422368\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/197357-the-google-pixel-is-an-awesome-smartphone.html\">The Google Pixel is an awesome smartphone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google Pixel owner has reported that his device caught fire and exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":218796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[167,39160],"class_list":["post-218790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-google","tag-google-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218802,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218790\/revisions\/218802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}