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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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In other news, Samsung in generous effort to create better relations with Kim Jung Il, is shipping thousands of Note 7 phones to North Korea.
Nailed it. MR, the safe haven of the anti Apple troll. This place is just a joke. Go to idownload, much more information, a lot less click bait and trolls.
Thank you. I'll add this to my RSS (he said, showing his age) feeds take a look at the comments and forums.
It's simple, most are kids and balance of rest have never manufactured anything in their lives. Nor comprehend that to date no one has or is expected to become injured by a failing touch screen, but could be injured or even killed with an exploding battery.
You don't get to end the discussion. Not sure where you got that sense of entitlement from.
I still enjoy coming to MR, but the anti-Apple pro-Samsung crowd is starting to annoy me. I don't know why so many people that hate Apple sign up for an Apple-centric forum in the first place. They should go somewhere else if they want to rag on Apple.
Too much of a hassle to start a fire for warmth. Direct body heaters are preferred.
https://empireherald.com/texas-woma...om-wearing-earbuds-while-iphone-was-charging/
If you bothered to read the article, it would've said that she purchased a third-party, not Made for iPhone charger. Just give up on the anti-Apple attitude. This is an Apple forum.
This. Plus "isolated incident = complete halt on sales and very probably global recall" in the mind of an Android fanboy closing in on 2000 posts on an Apple site (or at least it used to be an Apple site)
Hard to say. Probably pennies
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/24/samsung-fined-for-fake-reviews-rival-htc-corp.html
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/04/17/samsung-fake-web-reviews/
(In before "That's from 2013!!!!")
Could just drop the "N" from his name.Sure my friend. Probably time to make a new schilling account. This one is compromised
Meh. I think calling this article click-bait is stretching the term almost beyond recognition. Click-bait is more for those "local authorities don't want you to know..." (conveniently faded off right before any useful nouns) or "Scandalous pictures of (famous person) - you won't believe #3!", or any headline that non-sarcastically includes the words, "this one weird trick". Those are all intended to get you to click on an article that is not only useless, but also rarely delivers on the promise made by the headline.
What we have here is an article about major competitor to Apple having a problem with a device that has been touted as major competition for one of Apple's devices. Moreover, there have been reports in the past (whether they turned out to be true or not) of similar problems happening to Apple devices. This article is, to some extent, interesting and relevant. Most interesting all month? No. Most relevant? No. But it certainly makes it over the bar into a higher class of article than actual "click-bait".
Overusing words beyond far beyond their meaning waters down the meaning of the words themselves and of the conversation containing them. A substantial problem in current society (e.g. the propensity for people/organizations/situations to be unreasonably compared to Hitler is so common that there's even a name for it).
It gets a bit better once new phone is shipping. Then you get the millions of how do I do this questions. Right now we are in that prerelease lull. Rumors are out, announce date set, everyone has little to chat about so the brand wars start.
Apples style is to wait until it`s advised it will loose in a court of law, then launch an extended warranty that is biased towards Apple, not the customer; wash, rinse & repeat. Samsung has certainly gone up in my estimation putting the customer first, not the stock holder...
Q-6
Know how to change the general direction of articles on this site? Don't click on the ones that don't interest you (instead of clicking on them to complain that you don't like them). Fewer page impressions equals less revenue from the ads attached to those articles. After a while (if everyone does the same) they'll get nudged in the direction of less coverage of those topics and more coverage of topics you like better.
Wouldn't putting the consumer first involve not shipping exploding batteries? More importantly, wouldn't putting the consumer first involve, you know, actually recalling the devices they know to be faulty, which they have not yet done?
It seems worse this year though. Far more people getting all righteously indignant over products that haven't seen the light of day yet, rather than anticipating what might ship. Haters gonna hate.
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I wonder what Samsung's budget is for "word of mouth" advertising.
They haven't recalled. By Samsung's own (Almost certainly understated) measure 0.1% percent of Note 7's are at risk of such catastrophic failure that they will explode, potentially while in use.
Good luck with that next to your face. No doubt you'd publicly thank them for your new tan.
So very very much this! I bet "SamsungRumors" is a pretty lonely place these days, what with all of their loyal fans having come over here.
How is two incidents not isolated and more than two is isolated. Plus, why are you boys mad when I'm agreeing that the warming feature is nice to have with winter approaching? I'm been using original Apples since the 80s so I'm your elder.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...lleged-electrocution-from-charging-iphone-4s-
http://www.cultofmac.com/235737/app...an-was-electrocuted-to-death-by-her-iphone-5/