Malaysian CEO dies after smartphone explodes while charging

A Malaysian CEO died recently after his smartphone exploded. Though the exact make of the smartphone is not known, the CEO of Cradle Fund Nazrin Hassan was said to be using devices from BlackBerry and Huawei. Incidentally, this is not an isolated case of smartphone fire causing death. There have been cases before too, including many in India. One of the biggest causes of these smartphone explosions is battery. Smartphones come with lithium-ion batteries, which heat themselves and may become hotter while being charged. So, though there is no sureshot way to avoid smartphones from catching fire, following some simple tips can reduce the possibility by almost 95%. Here are 9 tips to remember to protect your smartphone from catching fire.

in another awful occurrence caused by cell phones, Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan kicked the bucket after one of his telephones detonated while charging. Support Fund is possessed by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance. Hassan was utilizing BlackBerry and Huawei cell phones. Both the cell phones were continued charging in Hassan's room. The blast prompted a fire on the sleeping cushion in the room and the effect was devastating to the point that it was hard to distinguish as to which of the two cell phones really detonated because of overheating.

The explosion led to a fire on the mattress in the room.

The family's adaptation

Unexpectedly, as per Hassan's brother by marriage the demise was evidently not caused by the fire. The relative said via web-based networking media that when one of the cell phones detonated, its broken parts hit Hassan on the back of the head which likely caused "limit injury". After this, the blast prompted a fire in the room, however by then Hassan is said to have been as of now dead.

"He had two telephones, one Blackberry and a Huawei. We don't know which one detonated. Who might have thought such a harmless routine technique is the reason three youthful children will grow up without their dad close by," Hsssan's brother by marriage revealed to The Malaysian Insight.

The official adaptation

In any case, as per authorities the reason for the passing is extraordinary. The police is asserting that the passing was caused because of the smoke inward breath from the blast and not the shrapnels from the cell phone.

In the mean time, as indicated by an official explanation issued by Cradle Fund, "The posthumous report finished up the reason for death as being difficulty of impact wounds inferable from a detonating hand telephone that was being charged beside him."

Who was Nazrin Hassan?

Nazrin was instructed in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B Hons) from the University of Buckingham in 1994. He was likewise an Executive Committee individual from the United Kingdom Executive Council for Malaysian Students (UKEC).

Between 1997 to 2000, Nazrin was an Executive in Corporate Finance in Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad (CIMB) before seeking after his new pursuit in running his own start-up, Zarnet, in 2001.

He was the previous Council Member of Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia (TeAM), an association that speaks to all innovation business visionaries in Malaysia where he campaigned vigorously for an improvement store to limit the subsidizing hole in the beginning time. This in the long run prompted the fruitful presentation of the Cradle Investment Program (CIP) in June 2003 with a reserve portion of RM100 million from the Malaysian Government, as a feature of the monetary jolt bundle.

CIP was at first oversaw by Malaysia Venture Capital Management Berhad (MAVCAP) and Nazrin turned into the program's Head of Structuring in July 2003. In 2004, he was selected as the program's Acting Head and also its Strategy and Policy Advisor. He exited the program in 2005 to center around his own innovation start-up and kept on being a functioning individual from TeAM.

Nazrin came back to Cradle in October 2007, subsequent to being designated as its Chief Executive Officer by the Ministry of Finance, after it was spun out from under MAVCAP into Cradle.