There is a report somewhere which details how the case is simply too small for the battery size. A part of the battery gets pinched and a connector apparently dissolves.
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Fire on Plane Caused by Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7
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There is a report somewhere which details how the case is simply too small for the battery size. A part of the battery gets pinched and a connector apparently dissolves.
A fiasco is when a company makes a defective product and then doesn't own up to it. Samsung is not on that list. I can think of a few other companies who are.
Energy storage in thinner and thinner products is a pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Round 2 probably came later with the capacitor plague in the mid-2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
No he said any Samsung DEVICE. Not any thing that has a single Samsung component. Can you read at all?
Why is it an isolated incident when it happens to an iPhone but not an isolated incident when it happens to a replacement Samsung phone?
The information we have now is that Samsung pressured the suppliers to deliver early and clearly skipped over checking their work.
So they weren't victims in this, they voluntarily and knowingly rushed their product to market to get a leg up on the competition and now they will pay the price of doing it.
This isn't bad for everyone it's bad for Samsung and their costumers who shouldn't stay costumers after this fiasco is over.
No iPhone, no other phone at all, had a design so fundamentally flawed that millions of units had to be recalled. So, context. Context is why.
And where have I argued this? Also not all one million of them have blown up have they, so I think 'fundamentally flawed design' is rather pushing the facts there.
I am arguing the 'fact' plenty of products have failed or had safety recalls and no 'brand tarnishing' occored.
Wow, maybe Samsung should stick to making washing machines
Their washing machines explode, too. Google "U.S. warns Samsung washing machine owners after explosion reports".
What?! When's the last time Apple did a recall on their devices because they explode? When's the last time there was a documented manufacturing issue which caused Apple devices to set on fire?
You're mistaking isolated incidents with manufacturing defects. If you stab a battery, it will go pop. That's the nature of the beast with lithium. If it sets on fire when you leave it to charge, that's very different.
Why are you being so defensive anyway? I'm gobsmacked people are taking Samsung's side on this.
Why? They put their profits BEFORE the lives and safety of their customers. If anything, this should be telling of the values of such a company, ran by a family of wealthy oligarchs.
It's disgusting and shameful. I would never put my trust in the products of a company with values like that.
So when people investigate fires or crimes they should rely on context rather than evidence. Gotcha.
This is beyond fanboyism and brand bashing.
There is an absolute legitimate concern for airline passenger safety if there wasn't before. A stowed device caught fire?
I flew southwest a couple of weeks ago and I asked the crew if they were following Delta's policy of requiring ANY SAMSUNG device be powered off while on board. The crew had relatively no idea of any issues with the Note 7.
I'm sure this incident has woken them to the concerns.
There is an absolute legitimate concern for airline passenger safety if there wasn't before. A stowed device caught fire?
I flew southwest a couple of weeks ago and I asked the crew if they were following Delta's policy of requiring ANY SAMSUNG device be powered off while on board. The crew had relatively no idea of any issues with the Note 7.
I'm sure this incident has woken them to the concerns.
Yes, because Samsung knew their design decisions might lead to safety issues like fires and potential deaths. Get a grip.
Exactly there is so much misinformation on this thread its quite funny.
The batteries at fault were made by SDI part of samsung group. There was an issue with Cathode and anodes making contact thus causing an explosion. It was nothing to do with Wireless charging or fast charging.
Samsung pushed a software update which limited the capacity to 60% or 80% if you changed the toggle. This was a precautionary move BUT ALSO a clever one as many people were stating "well my phone doesn't heat up so im gonna keep it" So by crippling it at a level which cannot be reversed ensures EVERYONE returns there note 7
However
An interesting issue is that Samsung was unable to track exactly which phones had faulty batteries, their IMEI checkers were useless. I had the dual sim model, one imei number said my phone was to be recalled the second said it was good to go.
This leads my on to why it could be possible for a replacement to be faulty.
My replacement was received last Saturday, i have the green battery icon but more importantly i have the black square sticker on the outer box. BUT some receive a box with a printed black square box and others the sticker like mine. Mine was manufactured before the recall thus was still in the shipping channel, those with a printed black box were manufactured after the recall. So if their imei checker is next to useless, without opening the phone (and every phone in the system) how did they know mine and others were actually safe? In the short period from recall to exchange how the hell could they verify every single phone in the shipping channel was safe?
But regards to people harping on about this will tarnish samsung forever is this the new apple is doomed meme people like putting out? I will buy the best product at the time from whomever regardless of previous issues, by your reckoning, tesla should be out of business as well as Volkswagon and BP but they seem to be going strong. Uber cause nothing but grief for existing taxi systems in cities and the public back the local cabbies out of "solidarity" and then proceed to book an uber because its cheaper and faster.
However as i stated in an email to Samsung head of Uk division, the phone exploding is unfortunate and can happen to any manufacture but the piss poor way they handled the exchange in the UK as well as for Dual dim owners was a downright embarrassment and that alone did make me think twice and was going to put the device on ebay.
No they shouldn't.Wow, maybe Samsung should stick to making washing machines
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/28/news/samsung-cpsc-washing-machine-explosion-reports/
As everyone knows, if you need to smoke on a plane, you do it in the rest room. Fail, Galaxy Note 7, FAIL. /smh
If there is true concern then we should all be worried about lithium ion batteries in general. There is a reason that we're asked if our package contains any Li-Ion batteries when we drop a package off at the post office. And why retailers are required to slap a strict warning label on all air shipments containing Li-Ion batteries.
Except the Note 7 is expensive as the iPhone 7 Plus. Also, no, people DON'T have short memories because Apple critics always bring up the iPhone 4 antenna gate from 6 years ago.
Wow, maybe Samsung should stick to making washing machines
As someone who has been dealing with a 6 year old Samsung Fridge undergoing repairs over the month, I can safely say...um...no.
Right around the point where you pulled the standard Google links with "B....B...But Iphones have issues too" defence. Perhaps the Apple brand wasn't tarnished because they did not have fundamental issue? Perhaps having to recall 2.5 million phones is not the same thing at all? You think?