On July 26th Ajay Raj Negi from Noida, India placed his Mi 4i phone on his desk and engaged with his office work. Suddenly sparks started coming from the phone, within few seconds the phone got blasted.
He bought the Mi 4i phone from Flipkart in last may for Rs. 12,999. Xiaomi acknowledged the damage, said sorry to the phone owner and offered replacement phone in place of damaged one.
Within a week time, today another similar incident came into light with Xiaomi phone. This time, the suspected damaged phone is Mi 5. One of the Weibo user shared his customer’s damaged phone images on Weibo. In this case, the back cover melted off.
Xiaomi uses are keenly observing the incidents and fear accumulating in their minds on the quality of the batteries equipped with the phones.
Below you can watch the Mi 4i incident occurred in in Noida on July 26th.