Funny how Samsung users have Note 7s exploding so often, including in their back pockets and then they complain about the phone being recalled. Sounds like some of them are a bit butt-hurt! 
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Samsung Halts Production of Note 7 After Replacement Phones Explode [Updated]
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The entire Note 7 saga is sad. The hardware is overall is a beautiful technical marvel ... apparently with dangerous flaws. In a perfect world, I would rather the Note 7 be a great success. But unfortunately, Samsung is screwing this up in a big way. I'm firmly an Apple fan for now. But I think competition is vital for moving forward. I would much rather see Apple pushed, and pushed hard. This is a free pass. And it puts people at an unacceptable statistical risk; we are never risk free, but this is more than a problem. To quote Trump's favorite word from the 2nd debate: this is a "disaster" in many ways.
We have a pretty strict consumer law, so it's reported here. The US is still the crucial market for them. The Consumer Products Safety Board requires disclosure of these incidents, and in fact, would have demanded that they recall them had they not already done so. I think Samsung may have been hasty in their first hypothesis that it was a batch problem. If so, what are the bad batches? Or is it a deeper problem? Fast-charge? Too crowded with that mini-audio jack?
Samsung should hold a press conference like Jobs did after the iPhone 4 antennae gate unless they still don't know what is causing these issues.
Lol at everyone who was mad at Apple for "not having enough phones available at launch."
At least they took their time, held their QC standards, and just kept plugging away. Or they could have waited a month, increased their launch inventory, and then no one would have gotten their phones in September!
At least they took their time, held their QC standards, and just kept plugging away. Or they could have waited a month, increased their launch inventory, and then no one would have gotten their phones in September!
I think the S7 Edge blows anything Apple ever created clean out of the water.
Apple has been running on fumes since Steve Jobs died. Steve WAS Apple.
This flaw is hurting people and I feel bad about that.
I just hope we can find out what exactly is the cause.
In the mean time I'll speculate. Something inside the phone is causing a pressure point on the battery during charging and / or use. This is in turn piercing the separator. A short develops and the battery has a thermal runaway. The case of the Note has a channel the battery resides in. I think that is a new idea.
I just hope we can find out what exactly is the cause.
In the mean time I'll speculate. Something inside the phone is causing a pressure point on the battery during charging and / or use. This is in turn piercing the separator. A short develops and the battery has a thermal runaway. The case of the Note has a channel the battery resides in. I think that is a new idea.
Those fumes still seem to have Samsung scrambling every year, as with the rush for the Note 7 (whatever happened to the Note 6?
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iPhones also exploding from using the same battery manufacturer.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Repo...air-of-exploding-iPhone-6s-Plus-units_id86399
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Repo...air-of-exploding-iPhone-6s-Plus-units_id86399
You're not replying to what he was saying. You're just attacking Apple for no reason.
It's about why are there Samsung fanboys? Not S7 Edge fanboys.
The S7 Edge does not blow everything Apple ever created out of the water. That's ridiculous. It has Android instead of iOS. Right there is a major blemish for the S7 Edge.
I don't think it's well put at all because it's a huge assumption. Assuming that fans of Apple have not accomplished anything for themselves has no basis and is likely false.
As a fan of anything, whether it be a sports team, a car company, or a company like Apple, often times the fans get to share the "victories" of those entities. There is nothing wrong with this because it ingrains a deeper sense of loyalty and pride in ones own accomplishments that may have led to them being able to purchase such a device as an iPhone, etc.
Relishing in injuries of people or property and casualties of individuals is definitely wrong but I don't think there is anything wrong with being glad that it isn't happening to Apple and the phones we own because it makes us that much happier that we purchased an iPhone over the competition. Assumptions are tricky, facts are much easier.
There's no worldwide recall, cpsc recall, airline ban, nor text messages sent to customers from Apple representatives. Deflections, false equivalencies.
No that's not an official statement from the safety regulatory board or Samsung, that is a network provider temporarily stopping the sales of the device.
?Network provider?
It's Samsung's own website that's not selling them.
Denial to the extreme.
This is like Whack-A-Mole
Every time you think there gone another pops up with some ridiculousness.
SMH
Oh Samsung what have you done...
Had a galaxy S, then a galaxaxy s3, currently an iphone 6s, next phone i guess will be a cheap motorola or a pixel.
Had a galaxy S, then a galaxaxy s3, currently an iphone 6s, next phone i guess will be a cheap motorola or a pixel.
Couldn't have said it better. Don't get me wrong, the newest devices have been good; s6, s7 and A series, but the fact they built the first 5 S series flagship phones out of the flimsiest plastic and still charged more than apple did for phones made of diamond cut aluminium shows just how much Samsung only care about the dollar signs.