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Kind of overreacting to a small fire. Evacuating passengers using the slides was unnecessary. There are people injured because of that. Thousand of dollars cost to make the plane operational again. Lithium powered devices are common enough that proper training should be given to flight attendants. Is not a bomb…

You should contact the FAA and airlines letting them know how they can save lot of money!
 
Wow…here we go again. Why would u just not buy an iPhone? It boggles the mind….I think the reason is that smartphones are so important to people’s lives that they would rather suffer with a galaxy then admit they were wrong about such an important purchase….btw I hate getting that puke green text back.

i use both and both have its pros. There are a lot of things I wish my 1250€ iPhone would copy from my 300 € Galaxy
 
Seems like a slow news day. Hopefully just an isolated incident. I’m sure MacRumors will report an iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 fire… right?
In reality, if an iPhone (any model) caught fire on a plane, the whole internet world would be on fire. Every news outlet, every TV channel, every YouTuber and blogger (and their dogs) would cover it. Why would MacRoumors resist such a golden opportunity to get traffic on their articles? You may not realise it, but to them is a business! They are running a very popular site and it would be foolish not to cover it. But I agree with the slow news day part though. It is an A21, therefore no one seem to care much to talk about it.
 
If it was an iPhone, it would be a worldwide news story, class action lawsuits, and batterygate hashtags.
For Samsung, it’s just Tuesday.
This is a very misleading post.

Samsung phones catch fire on plenty of days other than Tuesdays.

Actually on the flip side if it was an iPhone we would ask if there was an aftermarket battery replacement or if the owner uses an aftermarket phone charger

let’s accord the same energy to this scenario too
We just assume that an aftermarket battery for a Samsung device would be a quality improvement.
 
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Kind of overreacting to a small fire. Evacuating passengers using the slides was unnecessary. There are people injured because of that. Thousand of dollars cost to make the plane operational again. Lithium powered devices are common enough that proper training should be given to flight attendants. Is not a bomb…
They followed procedures (they have fireproof bags now to stuff devices in) but the phone was filling the cabin with potentially toxic smoke.

Presumably they were on the ground but not at the gate, hence needing to evacuate via slides.

Lithium battery fires pretty much go until they run out of power. I would expect the battery bags to seal, but that won't help with the smoke already in the cabin.
 
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Wow…here we go again. Why would u just not buy an iPhone? It boggles the mind….I think the reason is that smartphones are so important to people’s lives that they would rather suffer with a galaxy then admit they were wrong about such an important purchase….btw I hate getting that puke green text back.
Are you paying for texsts, if you are not , what is the big deal with the colour? I would understand if your plan did not include unlimited texts, paying extra because if sombody elses chouce is announg
 
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The Galaxy A21 is roughly less than $200. Let me know when Apple starts selling iPhones at that price range.
Maybe the right question is, if it’s feasible selling a smartphone for less than $200 without cutting back on safety. For that price, at least some components are probably inferior. Selling electronics for the lowest price possible means chafing of costs and every possible level in the production and manufacturing process. This will in the end result in incidents like phones catching fire.
 
Wow…here we go again. Why would u just not buy an iPhone? It boggles the mind….I think the reason is that smartphones are so important to people’s lives that they would rather suffer with a galaxy then admit they were wrong about such an important purchase….btw I hate getting that puke green text back.

I'd rather take my chances with a plane full of A21 users than a plane full of people with your attitude.
 
Maybe the right question is, if it’s feasible selling a smartphone for less than $200 without cutting back on safety. For that price, at least some components are probably inferior. Selling electronics for the lowest price possible means chafing of costs and every possible level in the production and manufacturing process. This will in the end result in incidents like phones catching fire.
Samsung has even cheaper handsets for less than $100. Plenty of cheap handsets from many Chinese OEMs as well. How often do you hear anything about them having this issue? Imo price is irrelevant, and only snobbish people thinking that people must buy expensive smartphones.
 
Samsung sucks. Oh wait. I’m not supposed to say that the haters union will censure me. Probably physically deformed battery that seems to be common thread
 
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What will Samsung’s recommendation be:
“Don’t leave your smartphone in the garage over night, leave it outside”
These batteries can cause hazard, whether in a phone or in a car…
True but usually after being deformed compressed, etc. the old Samsung phones (the boom) were from design flaws with the terminals too close together. Pretty sure their on top of that still.
 
Samsung has even cheaper handsets for less than $100. Plenty of cheap handsets from many Chinese OEMs as well. How often do you hear anything about them having this issue? Imo price is irrelevant, and only snobbish people thinking that people must buy expensive smartphones.
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Reasonable conclusions based on first-hand experience can be helpful, but people's opinions about consumer products don't mean anything to me. Their free-range opinions can run... free. :)

My first-hand experience is what matters to me. My Galaxy A20 smartphone is a great device for my purposes... a gorgeous super AMOLED screen, teardrop notch, support for microSD card, headphone jack, and so on... all for $180 (new, no contract). All that before getting into the ability to use it in landscape mode, keyboard, mouse, extended display.... (even though it doesn't support DeX, it is still very flexible)

Nothing that anyone says can alter what I experience day in and day out. Just as my first-hand experiences with iPhones can't alter (and shouldn't) what people who enjoy their iPhones experience.
 
At least the aircraft was on the ground, up in the air, although controllable, I would think it would be scary.

Will be interested to see if anything comes out of this.
 
No.

The story about an iPhone 6 fire on a flight to Hawaii didn't make front page news because it was one tiny isolated incident... kinda like this one about the Samsung A21


Nor did the story about an iPhone 6 that nearly exploded in a 11 year old girl's hand while she was using it


Or the story of an iPhone 6 Plus exploding in a kid's back pocket while he was in class


Or the iPhone 7 that burned up a guy's car



A story about airlines banning Mac laptops did make front page though



I don't even recall seeing MR report on the iPhone XR fire


or iPhone X exploding



though the iPhone 4 fire did make front page, but it didn't happen on a plane.

Are you saying this is not an isolated incident, similar to the Note 7 and that's why it made headlines here?
 
At least the aircraft was on the ground, up in the air, although controllable, I would think it would be scary.

Will be interested to see if anything comes out of this.
I would guess if up in the air, they would just need to open the doors to get some air flow through the cabin to clear the smoke! They could get rid of the phone at the same time! 😂
 
Very bad and very dangerous. Glad that the flight landed safely and incident was not mid air
 
Disney unfortunately renamed Boba Fett’s iconic spacecraft to ‘Firespray’.

Perhaps they should have simply called it ‘The Samsung’…
They renamed Slave One to Firespray. That sounds like a generic name made by a sci name generator. Lol. Renaming the past to keep up with the shifting preferences of the present is hilarious and pathetic.
 
Samsucks [sic] flaming phone! Oh well, lithium batteries occasionally catch on fire, and when they do you can't extinguish the fire very easily. This seems to be a very isolated case. Thankfully it wasn't a set of large lithium batteries on a Boeing airplane going up, or a cargo container full of them.
 
You want them to make one up just to report on it?
Oh cmon now...there are lots of videos showing iphone batteries catching fire and exploding. But they never seem to get on the MR front pages like the hated Samsung does lol

I can post them here if you like?
 
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