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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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this right here was at is own fault why would anyone down hill mountain biking with any electronic device in his back pocket, i mountain bike a lot even got races coming up is December the mountain biking community heard about this incident. He did like a 35-40 foot jump i think and landed on his iPhone and it exploded on impact this would happen to any electronic device so whats your point?Audi garbage is likely to burn itself down long before anything else will just like Jeep.
https://consumerist.com/2015/01/27/...hicles-because-leaking-fuel-can-lead-to-fire/
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/jeep.htm
And, the New York boy incident was a 1st degree burn not 3rd.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/12/smartphone-fire/amp/
Maybe you're confusing with this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/02/exploding-iphone-leaves-man-with-third-degree-burns/
My work iPhone is an 18 month old iPhone 6. No "disease." None in my agency either.
Plenty of Samsung SGS5s and SGS6s returned for being useless.
And we're dropping Samsung as of Oct 1st.
Hey did you hear that the Note 7 replacements are I've heating too? Oh but that's fake.
Riiiiiiiight.......
https://www.google.com/amp/ventureb...ts-are-completely-unrelated-to-batteries/amp/
Samsung had sold 2.5 million to retailers and carriers.
You're talking about end user resales. A Japanese stock holding firm estimated that of those 2.5 million wholesale sold phones, 1 million had been retailed to end users. The rest were mostly at stores/carriers who had not launched their sales yet.
This is no different than when Apple announces its sales, millions of which are still in the retail channel and not in the hands of end users yet.
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Did something happen?
To use the logic thrown around like a sack of potatoesk, it's not a certified issue until Apple says it is. Could have all been staged. And nice deflection, maybe we'll forget about the 60 note 7 that caught fire.
It's magical
I've heard that Apple boxes are made from grinding up unicorn hooves.
And those are like asbestos!
If you look at the rest of the images, the iPhone got crushed during shipping.
Not a design issue at all. Probably was shipped via UPS (United Package Smashers).
Looks like it started to burn, but curious what stopped it from completely burning up.
http://imgur.com/a/LrhYz
Not a design issue at all. Probably was shipped via UPS (United Package Smashers).
Looks like it started to burn, but curious what stopped it from completely burning up.
http://imgur.com/a/LrhYz
The desperation of some to try to deflect from Samsung's continuing woes is quite entertaining.
I might cancel my cable.
I might cancel my cable.
Honestly, I am actually starting to feel a little sorry for Samsung.
Just a little. The downside of actually having a conscience, I suppose.
There's really no positive spin for a Samsung at this point. I was on a plane last week and when they demanded that anyone with the Note 7 shut the phone off, I overheard chuckling and even two people say they'll never buy a Samsung phone now. The damage of this recall is going to haunt them for years.
You probably heard minors chuckling which is a sign of ignorance since it can happen to any LiPo device. Did you join them?
http://abc13.com/news/students-iphone-explodes-in-his-back-pocket-catches-fire-/1535128/
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Saw on TV news that a iPhone 6+ caught fire in a NJ college students pocket while in class. He said it was turned off at the time. Not as bad the Samsung fiasco but interesting non the less.
I flew southwest two weeks ago and the same chuckling happened when the announcement was made. And the person who was in back of me with a note 7 was saying she is going back to iPhone.
The same chuckling now happening in this forum as deflections about random unverified iPhone issues are being posted.
Yes. Who makes the batteries for these devices? I'd look there before blaming the company whose branding is on the device.
The reality is that any LiPo battery is a risk. The most recent airline guidelines don't even allow you to ship single packaged battery packs by air for this reason. Even dedicated Apple fans are likely to admit that their phone has periodically heated up for no clear reason, or that they have had some sort of battery-related issue. The problem is that (on this forum) there is a strong pro-Apple bias, so many of these issues are simply minimized or forgotten (this is a common cognitive bias).
The reality is that neither iphones, nor any other phone, have had an endemic issue that required they be withdrawn from sale and switched off on flights. The problem is that (on this thread) there is a weak Samsung Defence Squad trying to conflate the tiny chance of potential failure of any Lithium battery with the endemic failure of the Note 7 (this is cognitive dissonance)
Only the ignorant don't think any lithium battery can fail. It's actually not a new issue and has been happening since the 80s with lithium PRAM batteries exploding in early Apple IIgs and 68K Macs.
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/17086-warning-exploding-maxell-pram-batteries/