Sssh. No, don't worry. This only affects a small number of devices and Samsung are just taking the reputationally and financially ruinous step of recalling every phone globally because... um, reasons. Carry on, citizen.
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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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Sssh. No, don't worry. This only affects a small number of devices and Samsung are just taking the reputationally and financially ruinous step of recalling every phone globally because... um, reasons. Carry on, citizen.
A good rule of thumb is to always read the source article.
That reporter was speculating about a full recall, when the quotes from the Samsung spokesperson said no such thing. Samsung said:
"Products installed with the problematic battery account for less than 0.1 percent of the entire volume sold. The problem can be simply resolved by changing the battery, but we'll come up with convincing measures for our consumers."
"We don't have any intention to delay (the announcement) or hide (the result of investigation). The decision will be made in consideration of maximum consumer benefit."
Apparently from "maximum consumer benefit", the reporter made this part up all on his own:
His remarks suggested that Samsung may recall all of the Galaxy Note 7 phablets sold at home and abroad.
Maybe it's a translation difference, but I don't think his remarks "suggested" anything of the sort. Sounds more like they're going to give Gear watches or some other gift away with the replacements as extra compensation.
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I don't think you can find that much concentrated irony in the wild, pretty sure it has to be manufactured in those quantities.
Well lets see, shall we, and come back to this. Reports are all over the web (and even in this thread from people trying to buy them) are that Samsung are already completely halting sales. This small run of devices could easily be identified by their serial at the vendor so why take this measure?
Slide to erase all data on this Samsung phone after 10 failed passcode attempts...data protection is enabled.
Fair enough.
The web is terrible information source, because bloggers/reporters are lazy and will repeat old info forever.
Checking closer, it looks like shipments were stopped earlier this week when they didn't know yet what was wrong. So that's old news that was reported before Samsung figured out the problem source, and might be incorrectly repeated now.
Interestingly, it appears that the majority of the units affected were sold in Korea, with a lesser amount making it to other countries.
Yes Li Ion batteries are highly unstable to under and over voltage or internal defects to battery. Hopefully the supplier of these batteries is not also supplying the iPhone 7. Planes have caught fire due to backup batteries as well as cargo. These batteries contain a lot of potential energy, that when released suddenly catch fire and even explode.
I was reading about new Li Ion battery that doesn't do this due to it's construction and chemistry. Hope they can get this new type into overall manufacturing soon.
What's your source on this? Now that they do know what's wrong, don't you think it's rather strange that they would continue not to sell their most expensive flagship?
By the way it was the Samsung official himself who used the word recall, if you check the article
Which doesn't say there definitely will be a recall, but stop well short of saying there won't. I'm not in PR but, as messaging goes, it doesn't exactly inspire customer confidence. Let's hope no-one gets seriously injured while they mull it over.
Actually yes it can. Any device with LI Ion battery has potential to do this unfortunately.Can your iPhone do this?
My comment literally had nothing to do with Apple's customer service... or Samsung's, for that matter. I was merely speculating about the issue being traced back to a supplier that Apple also uses, and not even lightly suggesting that was the case.
How did you interpret my comment as negative at all? Or are you just making points out of nothing for the point of one-upping?
Edit: Nevermind, you just happened to see something neutral/positive about Samsung so you decided to make a point out of something I didn't say just to make Apple seem better by comparison. Got it.
The iPhone's competition is really heating up.
No one can. Tad too obvious.
In other news the former Takata air bag manager was seen leaving the Samsung headquarters muttering to himself.....not again.... Who gonna hire me now.
Exactly correct. Right now anyone else using that supplier's batteries is sweating big time. Hopefully it can be traced to a single lot and or manufacturing date. and the reason uncovered.
Since the phone in question was being charged, not only is the battery suspect. Could also relate to charging circuit in phone, the power adapter, or anything else that might invoke an over voltage condition. Would be interesting to know if other instances were also during charging.
You came to the wrong place. Pick a thread or article - someone will be eager to tell you how much they love their Samsung™ Galaxy®
Oh my gosh, story of my life up in here.....
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No I don't. There will always be small batches of batteries that have problems and more prone to fires. It's not news it's fu****** sensationalism and click bait. That's the internet we have now, I don't have to like it. Less than .1 percent! I realize that's going to be a lot of phones hopefully they can track it better by serial number, but it doesn't need to be front page news on a blog not even related to Samsung.
Most of the people using the term don't even know how it came about, or the Watergate break-in and cover up bringing down the Nixon administration. Just bunch of parrots.
No, it's called click bait. The lowest form of blogging for a buck. MR must be desperate for an advertising dollar. I use ad blocker so they can keep begging. P.S, not a samsung fan at all but these forums have become a joke.
basically this. I think I started coming here in 2002 when it was pretty small. They certainly aren't desperate for money, they have boat loads. Arn is stupid rich. I think they make $200 million a year or something but sold out in the process. 90% of content here is useless clickbait.
To be fair, unlike most of the Samsung (and seemingly almost exclusively Samsung, as opposed to other Android OEMs) stuff that at least seemed somewhat newsworthy. You know what didn't, tacked on to the end of the "article"?
Why is this here?