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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.
Of battery fires on different smartphone brands, as a percentage of units sold?
Pretty sure the odd one of any kind ends up with a smoking Li-ion battery.
Is Samsung being unfairly further beat up here because of the laser of media attention on it now?
What do the objective facts say.
I'm genuinely interested cause have a Note 5 in my pocket right now.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
The only relevant stat is how frequently a given model does, and if so, what conditions the phone was subjected to when it occurred. A one-off incident is unfortunate but certainly within the realm of possibility (enter any phone here).
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Bad engineering could never actually happen.
Better head back to your safe space now.
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We need removal battery in phones and not this must be super thin thing that is going on today
I am no Samsung lover, but sorry, that article is BS.
Insinuating that the model is "compromised" because of one freak accident and no other information (such as whether the phone had original battery or has been charged using original charger vs. some cheap fake Chinese special before) it is just sensationalism. There are millions of possible reasons why that could have happened and none related to a manufacturing fault.
I am in France and cheap and unsafe chargers are ubiquitious here, carried even by "serious" stores like Fnac or Boulanger. Normal person has no chance to know what they are buying. So it is well possible that the phone has been charged by a 3rdparty charger before (most people have several chargers at home for the various gizmos these days) and then the battery blew up a bit later.
Or the kid could have dropped the phone, triggering the runaway (shouldn't happen, but not completely impossible).
The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
Too soon, man.
iPhones aren't known to combust
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-i...
I think that you could find reports of any device with l-ion batteries exploding/catching fire.
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<Overlord> N7.
<Samsung_> aww shit. hit. R3.
<Overlord> miss! umm... J5?
<Samsung_> FUCK! another hit. Q9.
<Overlord> miss, ha! S-
<Samsung_> NO! NOT S! ANYTHING BUT S!
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The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
Perhaps isolated. But not all problems are of the infant mortality type. Don't know if you are familiar with the failing electrolytic frrom around 10 years ago. Seems a capacitor manufacturer left out a vial ingredient, and a lot of computers were hit hard when the electrolytics aged too quickly Apple iMacs and Dell were hit pretty hard with this one. Let's hope is is a one-off.
The way I heard it, it was actually a STOLEN electrolyte formula, and the thieving chemists didn't know that they didn't have the complete formula.