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'Safe' Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes in China (cnet.com)
Rahil Bhagat, writing for CNET: The tendency of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire has led to the company's global recall of around 2.5 million of the phones, to be replaced with new, safe units. Samsung could have another problem on its hands, though, as a Chinese man says a brand new Note 7 exploded on him, Bloomberg reported. Samsung had previously said Chinese models of the phone were safe as they use a different battery than Note 7 devices sold in the rest of the world. Hu Renjie, 25, claimed his brand new Note 7, bought over the weekend from JD.com, exploded while charging, burning two of his fingers and damaging a MacBook Pro. Hu said that a representative from Samsung paid him a visit concerning this incident and asked for the smouldering corpse of his phone to perform an autopsy, but he refused.
Hey look it blew up my macbook and burnt my finger. But no I won't give you the device so you can do a check to see what's wrong, if it was actually caused by the battery or if I intentionally rigged it to try and get you to buy me a new macbook.
This smells fishy.
Aren't reports suppose to use this word when describing events?
Life is too short and too important to { take seriously | use windows }.
What's to say a local supplier didn't import models from out-of-country?
Ha ha, in fact, Samsung, and Korea techs companies have history tied with Russian/E.European professionals/scientists. They transformed from low quality outsourcing for Japanese to hightech country with Russian "helps".
Why would you want to give up your piece of evidence to the very company that will try anything to hide any problem the device may have?
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More likely has to do the updated macOS platform. Here's a snippet of the code:
if (self.usb.vendor == 'Samsung') {
self.usb.amp = 1000;
self.usb.volt = 1000;
}
I was expecting this to happen sooner or later, and now we'll see the media reaction to it.
There are just too many factors concerning possible smartphone explosions in this generation (faulty USB Type C cables, more power going into charging making any shoddy accessory a potential cause for thermal runaways)... and now that the press knows these stories sell, they'll bank on them more heavily creating a warped sense that these things started happening now.
Reports so far have been incredibly superficial, with no previous investigation and not many details about investigations whether the allegations are true or not.
Just weird to see how things changed this fast in the past few months.
Why would you want to give up your piece of evidence to the very company that will try anything to hide any problem the device may have?
Is that a serious question? Because any company would just be foolish to believe you and replace alleged damage without proof. Hey MS, your Xbox blew up and destroyed my $10k tv. Give me a new one. You can't possibly not see how that would be a problem.
They are in the middle of the largest and most widely-publicized recall in the history of cell phones. I think we are a tad past the point of "trying anything to hide problems," don't you?
Proof? They visited him, easy enough to see if it blew up or not.
A Samsung representative visited him soon afterward and asked to take away the phone, he said, but he declined the offer
No, this phone was supposed to be "safe".
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http://imgur.com/LYppQjZ
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Since he just bought it, I'm curious to see if it is an old, returned phone that somebody shipped to China to alter and resell. Hopefully the Samsung rep was at least allowed to get the serial number.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
It's hard to have complete faith in this report because technically if you accidentally crush a phone with a lithium battery or you somehow manage to punch a hole into it, there's always the risk of it exploding or catching on fire. Samsung likely wants the phone to ensure they're not being blamed for something they are not responsible for. With the number of Samsung 7 owners in China having one or two explode from consumer mis-use or accidents isn't entirely surprising. I recall a few years ago a student blew himself up with an ipod after he accidentally put a screwdriver through the battery trying to fix it.
That won't stop the media from reporting it as fact because no one really reads past the headline. It's kind of shameful for Cnet to even report on this since the previous case was external issues and this story is little more than that.
My Samsung SG S5 was the last Galaxy to have a user removable battery and will be the last Galaxy that I buy. Even today's top of the line phones only last about 4 hours when under heavy load like video calls and 3D gaming. And there's the fact that every charge cycles reduces the battery's capacity. The extra 1mm that having a permanent battery may shave off the thickness is not worth it. Never mind the fact that nearly everyone that drops $800 for a phone puts it in a fat protective case totally negating the slim argument.
So am I alone in taking pleasure from watching Samsung have to recall millions of phones for this idiotic move? I hope this serves as a reminder to Samsung that this was a terrible trade off for us consumers. And I hope it costs them more than the "planned obsolescence" will bring then in future profits.
I don't see the contradiction. Then again, I'm nowhere near China.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
>"'Safe' Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes in China."
Catching fire is not "exploding", it is "burning". But I know that is not sensationalist enough.
I think we are missing the main point here... an Apple product was damaged. Only a billion to go.
Modern Shopping.
1975: I'd like a red phone please. Do you have one?
2016: I'd like a phone that won't kill me or burn down my house please. Do you have one?
'spose someone tried the user-applied fix to give it a headphone jack?
I beamed my crew down to the 3rd planet.
Matt, there is no 3rd planet.
(sobbing) Don't you think that I know that?