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Fire on Plane Caused by Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7

As much as I love the Note 7, it's going back. Last thing I need, besides a house fire, is getting hassled every time I have to get on a plane because of it.
It hasn't made me dislike the Samsung brand, they make great products. It does however give me pause in regards to this particular phone.

The question now is what to replace it with.
I don't care for the iPhone 7 as it doesn't really offer me anything my 6 Plus can't do.
Maybe I just wait for the iPhone 8 or maybe even the Note 8 (if the line survives the media crap storm).
 
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Why are people skeptical because he switched to an iPhone? We have multiple users just here on MacRumors that switch back and forth between IOS and Android just about every time a new phone is released.

If I just had a phone explode in my pocket, no way in hell am I getting the same type that is known that this is a problem. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, I'm a fricken moron.
 
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please recall Apple Inc 's super secret response to:
Antenna Gate
and
Bend Gate

No reason Apple could not have a Battery Gate that would wipe out Tim Cook's whole Cupertino CA Apple Campus 2. Send his new space ship and any remaining stock value to outer space.

Cook & company depends on robust cell phone sales.
 
jeyf said:
please recall Apple Inc 's super secret response to:
Antenna Gate
and
Bend Gate

No reason Apple could not have a Battery Gate that would wipe out Tim Cook's whole Cupertino CA Apple Campus 2. Send his new space ship and any remaining stock value to outer space.

Cook & company depends on robust cell phone sales.
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Please also inform us of any other life endangering future problems Apple may have so we may act accordingly. Any incidents involving a quite possibly botched recall and reissue of millions of phones would be particularly enlightenening.
 
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Kumaran said:
I think all this fake just a propaganda.
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Shill.

Registered 2011. Posted nothing until 2015, then eight anti-Apple / pro-competition posts.

I wonder how many other sleeper accounts this scumbag has sitting dormant?
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HEK said:
Wonder how much they paying for those kind of postings? Could use the extra cash to buy my iPhone 7 Plus. Be a bit of poetic justice to have Samsung help pay for my Apple iPhone. :)
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I could be on the verge of watching my family starve and *still* not be desperate enough to take work as a shill. I can steal from someone to feed my child and pay them back in the future, but I can never remedy misleading others.
 
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Mlrollin91 said:
Well life doesn't go on if your house is burned down with you in it.. But my point being you just seem to be equating broken or busted with exploding. Your phone dies, okay get a new one. Your phone blows up and causes 3rd degree burn and then accept another one that might do the same thing. But to each their own.
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"to each their own."

Yes, to each their own. Don't worry about how I handle my life.
 
jeyf said:
No reason Apple could not have a Battery Gate that would wipe out Tim Cook's whole Cupertino CA Apple Campus 2.
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You've never worked in manufacturing / operations apparently.

Proper quality control minimizes the chances of something like that happening, in all aspects of QC including design, sourcing, managing vendor compliance, sample testing, etc. You're supposed to pay closer attention to the stuff that can hurt people.

Does Apple do "proper quality control"? I can't say since I don't work for them. Presumably with their skill in the other aspects of supply chain management they've got this one covered as well.

So yes, there's a reason Apple could avoid a battery gate. If they do what they ought to be doing.
 
jeyf said:
No reason Apple could not have a Battery Gate that would wipe out Tim Cook's whole Cupertino CA Apple Campus 2. Send his new space ship and any remaining stock value to outer space.

Cook & company depends on robust cell phone sales.
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Apple tends not to rush to beat competitors like Samsung, causing issues in potentially dangerous situations. In fact most people complain about taking so long to release new/updated products.
 
linuxcooldude said:
Apple tends not to rush to beat competitors like Samsung, causing issues in potentially dangerous situations. In fact most people complain about taking so long to release new/updated products.
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iPhone 7 series and iOS 10 prove otherwise since they a ton of hardware and software issues. Many are returning their iPhone 7 series and going back to iPhone 6S series and iOS 9.3.5 that's still signed but when Apple stops signing it you're SOL.
 
FFR said:
These aren't individual unrelated cases.
It's a massive recall and now the safe note 7s are exploding. The CSPCA chief called it. Design flaw.

I call bs on you owning an iPhone 7.
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You are joking right? Are you that sad and pathetic that you don't believe people own Apple devices because they don't suck Apples bits.
Would you like me to resolve your insecurity with photographic proof?

Also their have been 2 or 3 incidents of a million replacements blowing up. Hardly proof to claim they ALL have a problem.
 
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mi7chy said:
iPhone 7 series and iOS 10 prove otherwise since they a ton of hardware and software issues. Many are returning their iPhone 7 series and going back to iPhone 6S series and iOS 9.3.5 that's still signed but when Apple stops signing it you're SOL.
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I am talking about potentially life threatening complications, not software bugs or hardware issues. Imagine your phone catches fire when your refueling your car, not a situation I'd like to be in.
 
deeddawg said:
Shill.

Registered 2011. Posted nothing until 2015, then eight anti-Apple / pro-competition posts.

I wonder how many other sleeper accounts this scumbag has sitting dormant?
[doublepost=1475773694][/doublepost]

I could be on the verge of watching my family starve and *still* not be desperate enough to take work as a shill. I can steal from someone to feed my child and pay them back in the future, but I can never remedy misleading others.
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It was just a fleeting thought, consider me slapped up side of head. Just repeating it myself sent a chill down my spine...shill for Samsung. Ugggghhh....what was I thinking?
 
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Reading all these quasi-hysterical comments concerning a extremely rare incident would be quite hysterical if it were not so sad to watch. What has happened to us, people, that our society has become so pussified and everyone has become a drama queen over something so incredibly rare?
 
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mrmiagi said:
Reading all these quasi-hysterical comments concerning a extremely rare incident would be quite hysterical if it were not so ***** sad to watch. What has happened to us, people, that our society has become so pussified and everyone has become a drama queen over something so incredibly rare?
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But that is the thing...It's not that rare.

When looking at all the other fires on other phones, they are rare. "One offs" here and there.

Then you get the Note 7. They had just as many as all the other phones catching on fire put together and then some, in a much shorter period. That's proving the rarity isn't there as some people would like to allude to. hence the recall.

Now, even after the recall you have "fixed" phones doing it as well. You can't ignore even 1 "fixed" phone catching on fire because the precedent has already been set that these phones have something wrong with them that cause them to catch fire at an exponentially higher rate than any other phone around.

A note 7 catching fire isn't a "one off" situation.

Being careful with life and limb on not carrying a ticking time bomb that is ready to go off whenever is not being "pussified", it's being smart and proactive.
 
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mrmiagi said:
Reading all these quasi-hysterical comments concerning a extremely rare incident would be quite hysterical if it were not so sad to watch. What has happened to us, people, that our society has become so pussified and everyone has become a drama queen over something so incredibly rare?
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Perhaps our brain's have been damaged by watching presidential election for past year.

Or lead in our drinking water is taking it's toll.
 
deeddawg said:
You've never worked in manufacturing / operations apparently.

Proper quality control minimizes the chances of something like that happening, in all aspects of QC including design, sourcing, managing vendor compliance, sample testing, etc. You're supposed to pay closer attention to the stuff that can hurt people.

Does Apple do "proper quality control"? I can't say since I don't work for them. Presumably with their skill in the other aspects of supply chain management they've got this one covered as well.

So yes, there's a reason Apple could avoid a battery gate. If they do what they ought to be doing.
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Poor Samsung. Quality fade is supposed to happen after the product launch, not before.
 
HEK said:
It was just a fleeting thought, consider me slapped up side of head. Just repeating it myself sent a chill down my spine...shill for Samsung. Ugggghhh....what was I thinking?
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LOL. I think the thought of it is punishment enough. :D
 
So a lab test on the Note 7 has shown the battery catches fire when pressure is applied.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-7-burst-flames-pressure-applied-battery.html

Could it be that the cause of the battery explosions is actually due to the chassis of the device being too small for the battery to accommodate expansion resulting in pressure being applied to the battery, thus resulting in the smoke and catching of fire.
 
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So does anyone know if there have been other cases of replacements "exploding"? I don't really want to wade through 20+ pages to find out if that has been posted ;)
 
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