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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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Another way is for them to get a lot of negative feedback on articles their readers are not happy with. Page clicks is of course the driving force, but not the only way. Also, since the articles have gotten worse, I am assuming more people are clicking and commenting on articles like this. I can't change others behavior and the site is clearly going downhill.
Unless Samsung have only sold a few thousand Note 7's then the problem is potentially a lot larger by their own admission.
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Someone already tried that in this thread and it was pathetic then. I could at least buy he was old enough to have pubes though. You, not so much.
I'll be one of the first to call out blind fanboyism, but good for Samsung? Obviously they're going to have a recall when there's a potential issue with an exploding battery that can cause physical harm to the user. It's not just a freak incident.
Some of the same people praising Samsung flipped their you-know-what when they discovered some iPhones slightly bend.
Some of the same people praising Samsung flipped their you-know-what when they discovered some iPhones slightly bend.
To you and the other guy, I'm personally not here to rag on Apple. I still have mad love for them. Just b/c one doesn't give Apple universal praise on everything and give props to other companies doesn't mean that person shouldn't be on macrumors. I have an iPhone and still visit androidcentral. Nothing wrong with that IMO
So seriously, and be honest (and I'm going to take your post at face value and assume you're telling the truth), what percentage of posters on AndroidCentral are Apple fanboys? How many (it is at least 50/50 in this very thread) Apple fanboys were there to defend Apple when bendgate etc. arose?
Why are you still crying over your toys? Some of us use all brands and criticize them all. I'm not getting the Note 7 because I don't feel they've done enough to deserve my money so I'll wait for the Note 8. As for lithium, it's basic knowledge that it's universally flammable, no company is immune from lithium battery malfunctions and the only solution is to move to a different non-flammable battery technology like metallic sodium. Bendgate and touch disease aren't comparable because they're a result of going cheap to increase profit and the iPhone 6S series fix is proof of it.
There's no recall (yet). If you're the (supposedly) 0.1% with an explosive battery Samsung have neither recalled.nor informed anyone of the potential for injury to you, your family, or your property. Not that you'd know it to read read this thread with the apologists here trying to make they're Good Guy Samsung
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This really harms anything you say after it, just so you know.
So every company using Lithium batteries has to halt sales of their flagship and potentially (at some point, after who knows how many people get hurt) recall it? Garbage
Where exploding phones are a sure-fire sign of investment into solid engineering.
You're doing more harm than good with this nonsense.
Are you really that ignorant? There's a difference between being proactive even though the failure rate is 0.1% and trying to brush it under the rug when the failure rate is much higher and reacting only when there's a class action lawsuit.
How are they being proactive? There is no recall and at least 0.1% of phones in circulation have the potential to maim or kill. You're going to have to explain to me what's proactive about that.
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How many have they sold anyway? 30 million? Cool, only 30,000 potential losses of life, limb or property. Thanks Samsung!!
Do you want someone to read the articles for you?
0.1% failure rate on a less than one month new phone = Samsung acknowledges potential issue and halts shipment to investigate to determine course of action
Compared to bendgate and touchgate that's been going on for two years with higher failure rate, Apple doesn't acknowledge defects, charges customers to replace a defective product with another defective refurb
Again, no company is immune from lithium battery malfunctions.
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/66037216-story
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-after-iphone-catches-fire-mid-flight-n543516
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...Phone-Caught-Fire-In-My-Pocket-303150061.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/cell-phone-catches-fire-in-man-s-pants-719899715724
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Attempt to misdirect or redirect will not work. What you dispute about this? I'm guesstimating the numbers but since Apple sell 10 million iphones in a launch weekend I'm lowballing and saying Samsung have sold 30 million Notes (surely more since I'm never done hearing how super awesome Samsung and the Note are here on Macruimors) in the weeks since it's been launched. You don't dispute the ~0.1% figure so that means while Samsung do nothing to recall phones there are ~30,000 people at risk of loss of life, limb or property. These are the facts. Again, what do you dispute?
bummer..
Following reports of exploding batteries in its latest smartphone,
that's critical failure
I don't keep count of who defends who tbh. At the end of the day, it's not that serious. You get Apple fans on androidcentral. You also get those who hate Samsung. Then you get those who use gadgets by Apple, Samsung, LG, ect and just love discussing tech in general.
You don't have to be an apple fanboy to visit macrumors. This is still a tech site, after all. Some of us love discussing technology, no matter the brand. Apple and Samsung both get bashed around these parts. Does it bother me? Nope. Neither company is sending me a paycheck, so it's not up to me do be the white knight that defends them all cost. That's one thing I never understood about some on here. Why do some of y'all take this so serious? Somebody bashes Apple and some of y'all get so angry like they insulted your mother or something. I just don't get it.
I mean, it's one thing to disagree with an opinion but I've seen some on here get so damn angry over something as insignificant as a Samsung commercial, poking fun at Apple. I just don't get it, probably never will
Failure can occur to any product, how the vendor deals with it is entirely another matter...
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I absolutely agree. What have Samsung done to deal with it? Left tens of thousands of dangerous products on the market while they have a little think about it.
Major websites have reported only that shipments stopped in South Korea. E.g. BGR wrote yesterday:
"A new report from South Korea says the company suspended Galaxy Note 7 shipments to local carriers earlier this week"
And that sales of non-Korean-market models, which use different internals and batteries still continue:
"Meanwhile, it’s important to note that worldwide Galaxy Note 7 sales have not been halted. "
It sounded to me like he was only talking about recalling the affected devices, after the carriers help determine to whom some have been sold.
Doesn't sound like the affected units are still on the market. And tens of thousands of bad units would mean tens of millions have been sold. You must be a real Samsung groupie to claim that this quickly!
I find it interesting you're complaining about people getting upset if someone bashes Apple, yet you never said anything about the people doing the bashing.
I've read both that it's South Korea only phones effected and other reports that say its global. I know there are 2 different models that use different processors depending on where you are. The US phones have Snapdragons in them.
Some reports say that you will not get a new phone or a refund and that the phone will have to be turned in to be fixed. What if you don't have a landline and it's your only phone? I'm not going to be without a phone for a couple weeks as it is sent off to be fixed.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see. It is a great phone and I'm really enjoying it so hopefully we will get answers soon.
