{"id":118969,"date":"2017-07-09T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118969"},"modified":"2017-07-07T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:55:21","slug":"google-pixel-catches-fire-and-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/118969-google-pixel-catches-fire-and-explodes","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel catches fire and explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google Pixel smartphone owner has reported\u00a0<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>\u00a0that 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\u2019t 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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/224422368\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>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><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google Pixel smartphone owner has reported\u00a0on Reddit\u00a0that his device caught fire and exploded 45 minutes after being fully charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":97186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[14104,1638,18537],"class_list":["post-118969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-fire","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}