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Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com)
A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide. From a report on Associated Press: Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press that on Sunday she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over. She said she threw the phone away when she realized it had "swollen up" and smoke was coming out. The phone then caught fire and the back of the handset blew off. Her partner quickly extinguished it.
Is Samsung being unfairly further beat up here because of the laser of media attention on it now?
Yes.
What do the objective facts say.
The public i don't think is privy to much in the way of real stats.
But anecdotally...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.windowscentral.com/...
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...
From which we can objectively say that other phones catch fire too.
And I wouldn't worry about the J5 too much... it looks like a cut down version of the S5. Hardly cutting edge or pushing any boundaries. It came out in June 2015. So 18 months... one handset. People are definitely just attaching it to the samsung hype.