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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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It's a sarcastic response to Radon
My bad. Actually thought i was replying to someone else posting these figures without irony
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You keep using these words. Are they taught in Samsung schill school or something?
Sansung engineering prowess??? No!!
I'm going to place my bet on the fast charging/ wireless charging circuitry that is crammed into an ip68 design. We will see.
No one remembers the GS6 and the fast charging that caused overheat that in turn seized the gyroscope?
That's another kitchen sink feature. Who needs a gyroscope? Useless gimmick.
"Experts believe that Samsung will take this recall as an opportunity to upgrade its credibility". Ha ha ha! Samsung, After Several Days We'll Take Away Your Phone In Case It Kills You.
Performance issues?? I know there were anecdotal reports on this, but strangely, those who actually own the device (myself included) aren't seeing them. Mine honestly runs buttery smooth. I had the S7 EDGE before it and I'd say the Note 7 runs even smoother. I have the European version, though.
The blowing-up thing, however, is definitely something that will (and should) keep people from buying it. I have mine now and I'll be seriously p***** if I had to send it in for a lengthy repair. From experience, phones I had to send in for repairs came back scratched or damaged in other areas.
[doublepost=1472801912][/doublepost]Yes, it sucks, yes, it's Samsung which very few people on this forum like. The fact is: the batteries are very likely standard ones used in a huge number of different phones by different manufacturers. This could happen to any manufacturer, unfortunately. It'd probably be better if this happened to Apple as they'd likely be able to get the batteries changed on-site in Apple Stores, rather than having to send the things in.
Apart from that: the N7 is the single most beautiful phone I've ever used. It's blazingly fast (I honest to god can't confirm the reports about slow performance so far), it has a fantastic camera, fantastic functionality and even Touchwiz looks darn good on it. It's the first phone that I'd, without hesitation, call better than my trusted iPhone 6S Plus, which is just more boring and can't do quite as much. That said, yeah, I'll be seriously p**** if I had to send mine in for a repair. I'd likely return it, to be honest.
And soon they'll realize that they're better off just waiting for a Note 7 replacement (aka next year's iPhone 8) than getting a meh iPhone 7. Speaking of possible recalls, what's up with the iPhone 6 issues?
I still enjoy MR as well. Most of the major anti-apple comments (from those who clearly have no interest in Apple's products beyond hating them) are in the news section, and I think this site does a good job of allowing people to freely express their opinions as long as things are kept civil.
Obviously these discussions would be boring if we all agreed, but yes, the amount of negative Apple comments lately for every single news article on an Apple-centric site has gotten old as well. The rhetoric is always the same no matter what. The fact that this many people have managed to take news of Note 7 batteries exploding and turn it into an opportunity to praise Samsung and bash Apple is a perfect illustration of that.
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lol dude....
I don't think you understand what I'm talking about here. Like you seriously must be high or something...
I was just saying Apple should fix the touch disease phones that's all. Leaving it at that.
Feel free to reply but I can no longer carry on this conversation with you.
And I asked you clearly why you thought they weren't fixing them and then I talked about my own anecdotal track record.
Yes, I'm sure you can't carry on this conversation. Gee, I wonder why
The truth is inconvenient when you're trying to make a point that's not based in fact I guess.
Ahh those Samsung commercials and their advertising arrogance, directly making fun of Apple customers* and their lines. This is schadenfreude for Samsung.It's so just sad to see Samsung still running TV commercials for the Note 7.
* Making fun of a rival company's products is sometimes funny. Making fun of their customers is just zero class.
Tim would probably fire anyone at Apple who even mentions recall. Apple sees a recall the same way Superman sees kryptonite, to be avoided at all costs.
Do you think Samsung would have had a recall for a small amount of phones becoming unresponsive to touch or bending? Samsung recalled because the flaw is quite literally deadly.
I've seen reports of issues with lag and not being as quick as a flagship should be. It's obviously a fantastic device for what it does but tests where it is on par with mid range devices and slower than last years iPhone isn't great to see.
Now this issue with setting on fire? Is not good.
Least they are doing something about it at least. That said this will put a lot of people off buying the note 7 now.
And thats exactly Apple's response to Touch Disease.In other news Samsung is expected to recall the Note 7 while Touch Disease owners are filing class action law suits against Apple
In other news, no "Touch Disease" owners were going to die and they will all get replacement handsets
This just in. Hurricane Samsung Fanboy will spend the next 6 months telling you how great Samsung are for replacing exploding phones and equating them to malfunctioning ones.
Which wont make a difference as the replacements offered are refurbs which have the same problem.
Yes, they will straighten out the bendgate phones that fat people sat on and whined. This is a thing
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-02/samsung-galaxy-note-7-phones-pulled-from-shelves/7810474
Seems the recall is already beginning.
Seems the recall is already beginning.
This is now, what, the 3rd? 4th time you've come back to this thread and tried to equate unresponsive phones to exploding ones? Then, when it's pointed out that these things are in no way equivalent you go silent and come back in an hour and post the same thing again like it never happened. lolworthy
Hmm I didn't know GM makes smartphones. ???
How bout this is disastrous all on its own?
Goes to show -- Don't throw stones at Glass... Duh!
Personally I believe all product faults should have equal response times from all companies.Samsung reports that there were a grand total of 35 phones affected.They halted sales based on that.Seems good enough for me.
On the other hand , its been 10 days and not a hint from Apple regarding TD
Are you saying that Touch Disease is not a serious problem?
Seriously 250 million iPhones later a percentage of failures is pretty expected but I'd like to see your failure rate and margins at that kind of volume. Get over it
That sounds realistic. Well, not really but whatever floats your boat.
"Samsung reports that were 35 phones affected"
"Affected" is a nice word, isn't it. It could apply to, say, unresponsive phones or ones that kill people if you use it carefully. In any case Samsung halted worldwide sales and appear to being doing a complete replacement of all Note 7's? They said it would take them two week to prepare devices (see Abizagal's link above) and I assume it would take less than two weeks to replace 35 phones. No, this is endemic, quite clearly. Samsung Galaxy Notes explode with normal use.
"Are you saying Touch Disease is not a serious problem"
I'm saying that, unlike the Galaxy Note 7 which has had a worldlwide recall due to the fact it explodes with normal use, it won't kill you. Also, that it affects a small number of devices, unlike the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 which, I think I mentioned, has been completely recalled, due to exploding with normal use.