Slashdot Mirror
Florida Man Sues Samsung, Says Galaxy Note 7 Exploded (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Samsung Electronics Co was sued on Friday by a Florida man who said he suffered severe burns after his Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploded in his front pants pocket. The lawsuit by Jonathan Strobel may be the first in the United States by a Samsung phone user against the South Korean company over a battery defect linked to the Note 7. It was filed one day after Samsung recalled about 1 million Note 7s sold in the United States. Samsung has received 92 reports of batteries overheating in the United States, including 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage, U.S. safety regulators said. "We don't comment on pending litigation," Samsung spokeswoman Danielle Meister Cohen said in an email. "We are urging all Note 7 owners to power their device down and exchange it immediately." Strobel, 28, of Boca Raton, said he was in a Costco store in Palm Beach Gardens on Sept. 9 when his Note 7 exploded. He said the phone burned directly through his pants, resulting in severe burns on his right leg.
This is like the lawsuit against McDonald's for hot coffee. If you spill hot coffee on yourself, that's your problem, and you shouldn't make excuses or try to hold someone else responsible. He may win, but this is exactly like the ridiculous lawsuit against McDonald's for hot coffee. I'm tired of ridiculous and frivolous lawsuits, and this is a fine example of one such lawsuit.
Knowing Florida Man, that's not the only thing that's exploded in his pants.
He withdrew the suit because the Samsung had a phone jack. Priorities people, priorities!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Is an exploded Galaxy Note 7 worth more or less than a regular one?
Asking for a friend with a business idea.
-linux... they can't *give* that shit away.
Here are their claims:
- You will be fine if you don't leave it charging overnight
- They will have replacement handsets sometime in the next few weeks.
The first claim is false according to many sources including Samsung. As for the second, they are supposed to have replacements by the 21st but hey that's just a schedule. No one sticks to those apparently.
It's FLORIDA MAN !!!
sério eu achei que essa merda pedófila tinha ido embora de verdade dessa vez.
quando é que o pedro vai parar de enfiar morfina no felipe quando ele está dormindo? talvez quando ele concordar em estuprar criança como aquele padre viciado em lsd do são pedro.
Bottom line is that I'd already decided I don't want another Galaxy smartphone, though my overall feelings are mixed. This battery fiasco is liable to make my wants moot vis a vis buying anything from Samsung. In accord with the brokenness of today's stock market, the overreactions and spasms of the stock price may destroy the company. Stock price is just a matter of opinion, and it's usually stupid opinion, especially when it's a computer's. What matters is the visibility of the fiasco, and this one is way too visible.
Now about my own experiences... It was mostly the mismatch between international support and national marketing that made my Galaxy so unpleasant to own. In theory Samsung is an international company and support in English should be a sine qua non, the natural basis since Korean is not a widely used language. In practice, the local business partners handle most of the sales and are the direct customers Samsung is dealing with. The result in my case was a localized model that can't even be clearly identified in terms of the original Samsung model that had English manuals, and of course the local-origin software wrapped into the Android-OS level can't be touched and never had English support to obscure. The almost inevitable result was that my purchase-time hopes of falling back on English were almost inevitably blocked, creating anger and frustration that are only compounded when I scour the English manuals and discover things that are close without cigars...
The quality of the English manuals from Samsung was quite good, and I'm convinced that they understand the importance of support, but if you try to get support for a localized model, their response (in accord with the bean counters' orders) is "You need to ask your local carrier." My local carrier? Such a buffoon I don't want to give them the free publicity of a mention. (The rise of Trump has proven once again that there is no such thing as bad publicity, eh?)
Rather a shame. In many ways a good phone, but I've decided "No thanks" on a second. About the only hardware brand that I've had repeatedly good experiences with these days is Huawei, even though their stuff may have commie back doors in it. Also it might be my lack of any expectations of English support, so I wasn't disappointed, but mostly because their devices haven't needed much support. (One of them did get replaced due to a bad switch, but it was free warranty work and I was given a loaner immediately.)
By the way, the topic is target rich, and I hope we see some actually funny comments this time around... (Too fresh a topic as I write.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
That "Halt and catch fire" is only an expression, and not supposed to mean that the phone should literally explode and burn.
Keep minimum safe distance of 1 foot from body
Finally, a reasonable use for the Selfie Stick!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Florida Man Strikes Again!
Samsung did a worldwide recall of Notes on September 2 warning of exploding batteries. His claim is that his exploded September 9th.
You can see the game he's playing from his lawyers FALSE claim: ""Unfortunately for my client the recall came too late.""
Trying to make a play on the date the US Consumer Product Safety Commission became involved. (September 14th) and ignoring the previous recall notice.
'Unfortunately my client ignored the first recall and maybe he would have ignored the second one too... but we'll never know because it exploded'..... that would be a truer statement.
This is a nuisance lawsuit to make money off his own mistake.
the iphones no longer have headphone jacks — and the samsungs explode in yer pants..!
bleah
That's what she said
I don't get it. He filed the lawsuit one day after the recall was announced, but the phone didn't blow up until Sept. 9th? I bought one on Sept. 1st, and the worldwide recall was announced officially on Sept. 2.
I think I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that the phone "exploding" is hyperbole by either the plaintiff or the press. Moreover, didn't the initial reports stipulate that the batteries overheated during charging? It's difficult to believe that a phone not connected to anything spontaneously detonated in a pants pocket. The trial might be really entertaining, but Samsung will probably settle out of court.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
user experience
I have not seen a single bit of evidence to support the word "explode" being used in context with the Samsung battery problems. I certainly believe they melt, catch fire, even burst into flames... but *explode*???
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
hasn't Florida Man been punished enough already?
"I need to get a (protective) bubble,"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
My Phone Exploded! It was big enough an explosion to level a city block! BOOM! The government people suspected a small nuclear device. It was a phone! All of those Samsung phones are bad bad bad! Don't use any of them ever again. Don't just replace the battery, the whole phone is bad! The other guys phones are good good good! It sure is a good thing that the other guys don't use lithium ion batteries in their phones! Next up: Kim Jon Un putting Samsung phones on North Korean long range missiles; other nations worried.
Dear designers:
When Apple had the "courage" to remove headphone jacks to force the sale of expensive bluetooth earbuds, they did so in a way that is pissing people off and losing them business.
Your interpretation of that into "Be salesy! Encourage bluetooth device for listening by making phone courageously explode!" was very poor and might lose you *A LOT OF FUTURE BUSINESS*. Learn to translate the copying of business models. /humor