The question is whether that chance increases over time and/or as function of charging cycles. But I guess nobody is eager to find that out by leaving the devices in the wild.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Banned From All U.S. Flights
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They probably are all using their iPhone's to log into Careerbuilder.com to look for other jobs.
I don't know if the x-ray machines are or can be equipped with image analysis. It shouldn't be too difficult to at least automatically identify all devices with similar dimensions to the Note 7.
Good job airlines..
This would be a worry for those who just need a smart phone on them always..... which would included those going on business trips. particularly the boss.. or customers...
However, I don't think all baggage is checked, so some will slip through the cracks...
its similar way how u get get stuff in from overseas by one way, but would be more suspect of checks gong another way.
This would be a worry for those who just need a smart phone on them always..... which would included those going on business trips. particularly the boss.. or customers...
However, I don't think all baggage is checked, so some will slip through the cracks...
its similar way how u get get stuff in from overseas by one way, but would be more suspect of checks gong another way.
Yes that's one question. The failures counted so far have been in an incredibly short time-span. What would the failure rate be in another year if they left them all out there.
One question I have is what Samsung are going to do with all these things when they get them? Piling them into one warehouse seems inadvisable
How do you know Samsung pushed the Note 7 to market before it was ready? They generally release a new one on a 1 year product cycle just like the S7 series. It wouldn't have mattered if it was announced in August or October, the development and manufacturing of the phone would have been finalized.
According to the most recent reports, Samsung still doesn't know what is causing the issue.
If the 1 in 40,000+ are affected stat is true, then the few hundred prototypes Samsung built may have never been affected by the problem.
Apple designed and released a faulty iPhone 4, thankfully it didn't catch fire. These things happen........
(That pic looks familiar....)
I guess, destroy/dismantle them is the only cause of action now... If u store then, then their could likely leak... and we can't let that happen..
Although they only issue happens when charging that's only what we know because we found out.... How do we know there are not other causes of concern we haven't found out yet?
Where several incidents happen, and replacements,.. that is enough...
I guess, destroy/dismantle them is the only cause of action now... If u store then, then their could likely leak... and we can't let that happen..
Although they only issue happens when charging that's only what we know because we found out.... How do we know there are not other causes of concern we haven't found out yet?
Where several incidents happen, and replacements,.. that is enough...
Is there a way to have reported the FAA decision that you would not take as being negative? Do you not think that people reading these forums might actually own one themselves, and thus want to know that this decision has been made? Some might even be about to go on a trip, and the update would be useful. I suppose that you will only be happy if all stories that look negative should just be ignored and not reported?
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You are right. I sent my wife out to the store for party supplies. We are going to put up banners and lights and a piñata and everything. Invite the whole family.
#giveitarest.
How are they going to distinguish between note 7 and other samsung phones?
I think it actually called schadenfreude.
They are cheap because they are not OEM. This does NOT make them "fake." After-market batteries come in varying degrees of quality, from good to horrible. You take the risk that you are getting poor quality when you buy one. But that does not make them fake.
First swegways and now samsung phones. It's not a good list to be on. Battery tech is so dangerous anyway i'm surprised no other phone has had these issues. I hope apple doubles down on avoiding the same battery fate.
Yeap, in the UK if you send your mobile via Royal Mail regardless of make, your package has a hazardous material label stuck on it regardless. The one for potentially explosive device I think?
So when the safety board of America recalls the phones, again, the airlines were bound to ban it for the foreseeable future too, and understandably their are heavy penalties if you ignore bans on items you can't take on board.
What the major problem here is Samsung said the problem was FIXED.
Well, i believe most of those flaming Apple are paid to be here doing it, so its a paycheck either way...
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That's not a headphone jack. It's a firefighter's diagnostic access port.
I remember working in an office where you could smoke at your desk
I remember that, and I remember the first time I was on a US flight where we couldn't smoke. It was an early morning flight, but all the smokers were actually well behaved. Then the head stewardess announced that they had forgotten to bring coffee on board. OMG, I thought there'd actually be a in-flight riot and hijacking from all the caffeine addicts.
Heh. The TSA can't even identify the test bombs, guns and knives that are taken through their X-ray machines today. I think in the last big test in 2015, 67 out of 70 test items got through.
So everyone should sure hope the TSA doesn't waste any of their limited time and effort looking for certain phone models. They're among the least of worries.
Nobody said otherwise. What I said was that there was no need for the FAA to add public scare tactics along with the ban.
Such talk is also worrisome because there's been calls in the past to ban ALL smartphones and tablets in airliners, partly because of past iPhone fires, among other devices.
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I will add that it's heartwarming to see so many people totally believing in US government agencies, and in how much they're only out to protect us.
And so it begins.
As I stated in a previous thread, the Schadenfreude will be short lived once the next "one fire incident" of an iPhone will be used to apply the same rule to those users.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/719587/Apple-iPhone-Explode-Battery
and it's not just one incident over the years, somehow Apple has managed to keep a lid on it.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/08/29/local-man-burned-up-by-apples-response-to-iphone-fire/
http://www.khou.com/news/local/man-describes-how-iphone-6s-catches-fire-while-charging/99231628
plenty more, u can google.
Really? Remember this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-in-dijon-france.2003007/page-2#post-23642994
An article about angry customers at an Apple store.. and you, ranted about them "deserving it." Guess you forgot about that.
Sorry, your favoritest phone in the whole wide world catches fire. Being mad about it isn't going to help.
Oh you can literally feel the butt hurt flowing from certain members because their holy grail, the Note 7, the phone was supposed to utterly annhilate Apple and show how inferior the iPhone 7 is, was a complete business and PR disaster.
Kinda funny, but also annoying because the Note 7 makes the market better.
What a debacle on Samsung's part.