blossom
Well-Known Member
This is a bit random but just in case anyone can advise, here goes...
daughter has iphone 4s which she wants to buy a portable charger for, in particular for a school trip where they are camping. They are on ebay for about £12.
I have a deep distrust of the safety of all electrical products off ebay in particular chargers as there have been some smoking issues in the news, not these actual ones, but even so....
To buy an apple one is about £70. (Apparently you charge the case at home, then it holds the charge and you have an on/off switch which allows the phone to accept more charge or something, well thats roughly it anyway)
I think she should just go without the ruddy phone for 2 or 3 days until they move on somewhere where she can charge it in the normal way. If there are problems the school will contact us anyway.
She is adamant she is going to buy this one off ebay.
What would you do and am I over-worrying about the situation?
I just have this vision of the damn thing smoking and catching the tent alight - is my imagination just too active?
daughter has iphone 4s which she wants to buy a portable charger for, in particular for a school trip where they are camping. They are on ebay for about £12.
I have a deep distrust of the safety of all electrical products off ebay in particular chargers as there have been some smoking issues in the news, not these actual ones, but even so....
To buy an apple one is about £70. (Apparently you charge the case at home, then it holds the charge and you have an on/off switch which allows the phone to accept more charge or something, well thats roughly it anyway)
I think she should just go without the ruddy phone for 2 or 3 days until they move on somewhere where she can charge it in the normal way. If there are problems the school will contact us anyway.
She is adamant she is going to buy this one off ebay.
What would you do and am I over-worrying about the situation?
I just have this vision of the damn thing smoking and catching the tent alight - is my imagination just too active?