AT&T Considering Halting All Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Sales and Replacements

Analog Kid said:
Yeah, I think that's most of the story here. Stuff happens. Samsung, by all objective measures, really did try to do the right thing when things went bad, but they still didn't seem able to get ahead of events.

I think this should be a lesson to all companies: have a contingency plan for disaster. Planning for disaster is not inviting disaster-- it's a hedge.
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If I ran Samsung, I would cancel the device and do a full recall for refund or store credit. I'd also send out free S7s and eat the cost. This would pay dividends in the long run.
 
AT&T(as well as everyone else selling them) should remove them from display, put them all in the back, only sell them to people who specifically ask for them, warn prospective buyers of the danger and then let natural selection take its course /s
 
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Oh c'mon the people who owned note 7 will ignore all this warning and continue to using it because they believe in Samsung.

You should go to read in note 7 threat everyone in there just sneaking use the note 7 on the plane anyway. They say nobody will recognise the note 7 because it looks all the same as other phone.
 
As someone who has a Note 7, I'm ready to send it back. Verizon unfortunately denied to do so today, even though a press release stated they would. Either way, I'll be getting rid of it soon and getting something less explosive.
 
magbarn said:
I wonder if airlines have a tub of cold saltwater to throw the phones in when they catch fire. I've purposely short circuited big 6 cell 5000mah RC Heli batteries by jamming a piece of metal through them till they caught on fire and then threw them into salt water bath which quickly calms them down. I'd imagine it would work on a wimpy 1 cell lion cell phone battery
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Since when is water used to put out electrical fires?
 
sir1963nz said:
Seriously, if deaths of people were at all a concern to the American people they would have banned the gun long ago, that 14,000 americans murdered by gun each year...... and you wet your collective panties over a hot phone...
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Guess we should also ban automobiles as well since 33,000 Americans are killed by automobiles (not the people who drive them but the automobile itself is killing folks), you know like the guns are, not the people behind them. :rolleyes:
 
now i see it said:
Karma. Samsung is widely regarded as the most corrupt company in the world. They had this coming to them.
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Credence in a just world to the rescue.

No company is deserving this hell more than the Empire of Evil that is Samsung. These are patented gangsters, and it's unbelievably sad to see American people supporting these fraudolent scumbags. Burn in Hell, Samsung.
 
sir1963nz said:
Seriously, if deaths of people were at all a concern to the American people they would have banned the gun long ago, that 14,000 americans murdered by gun each year...... and you wet your collective panties over a hot phone...
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True, even if the highest reports of 100 fires over one million phones is correct, that's about 1 in 10,000.
  • That's less than the chance of dying in a car wreck.
  • It's about five times less chance than dying in a car wreck because you were texting.
  • It's 5,000 times less than the chance that you will be diagnosed with cancer.
Everything is relative.

btrach144 said:
I'll be flying across the ocean on a 6 hour flight in two weeks. A fire midflight would mean 3 hours to turn around or continue onward if one of these things blew up. Not a good feeling.
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Airlines don't bother turning around for in-cabin device battery fires, which are easily extinguished. Flight crew have been trained to handle them for years now, and have done so. It's not that big a deal.

The fact that they even do an announcement to turn them off is ironic, coming from the same airlines that refused for decades to install cargo hold fire extinguishers, because it was officially considered cheaper to pay dead passenger relatives in the case of a rare crash from fire, than to retrofit all the planes.

In-cabin small device fires can be handled. It's the cargo hold ones that cannot.
 
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Samsung should halt not just its vendors. Should leave it to LG or Pixel perhaps.... for Android
 
Rob_2811 said:
They just need to kill this device now, surely nobody wants to buy a Note 7 at this point ?
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You would be surprised. I have a couple of friends who refused to send theirs back until the replacements were available. Even though they thought something was wrong due to them getting hot at times. Said they would just be careful and watch them until the replacements became available because THATS the phone they wanted.
 
Abazigal said:
Since when is water used to put out electtrical fires?
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The FAA endorses water for lithium ion battery fires

The idea is to put out the fire but also as important to cool the battery and prevent the other cells from overheating and exploding too (if only one cell in the battery popped).


People, battery fires on planes are not new. People carry laptops all the time with the same batteries and the flight crews know how to react and put it out. It may be scary but it's not going to crash a plane or anything crazy.

Samsung should just stop producing these though and call it a bust.
 
stulaw11 said:
The FAA endorses water for lithium ion battery fires

The idea is to put out the fire but also as important to cool the battery and prevent the other cells from overheating and exploding too (if only one cell in the battery popped).
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Cool. I was taught to use only foam. I learn something new every day.
 
Aww that sucks for Samsung. They make good products, I wouldn't wish this type of thing on any company. Love them or hate them, this is a bad situation for any company to be in.

And they were on a roll with the tech-blog-echo-chamber. They were all high-fiving each other and Samsungs Galaxy's 7. I hope they all echo-chamber give them a little empathy. They certainly need it.
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Techabstract said:
Samsung is giving out free Galaxy Note 7 when you purchase Samsung washing machine.
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Terrorists would jump all over that deal.
 
sbailey4 said:
Guess we should also ban automobiles as well since 33,000 Americans are killed by automobiles (not the people who drive them but the automobile itself is killing folks), you know like the guns are, not the people behind them. :rolleyes:
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Driving cars will be illegal in 20 years. Self driving cars will reign supreme. So yea, if you can ban something that's a killing machine, it's a smart thing to do.
 
7thson said:
AT&T(as well as everyone else selling them) should remove them from display, put them all in the back, only sell them to people who specifically ask for them, warn prospective buyers of the danger and then let natural selection take its course s/
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worse advice ever. you ask them to put time-bomb in the back waiting to explode and burn AT&T store down before anyone can ask to buy.
 
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