Galaxy Note 7 with updated battery catches fire on plane
As if the news about the recall for Samsungs Note 7 isn't bad enough, it just took another level. A person on a plane noticed his Note 7 replacement catch fire, this was an updated and thus declared 'safe' model.
The plane was still at the gates so everybody boarded the plane safely, no injuries were reported reports the Verge:
Brian Green, owner of the Note 7 confirmed that he had picked up the new phone at an AT&T store on September 21st. A photograph of the box shows the black square symbol that indicates a replacement Note 7 and the owner said it had a green battery icon. The owner (Brian Green) stated he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking. He dropped it on the floor of the plane and a "thick grey-green angry smoke" was pouring out of the device. Green’s colleague went back onto the plane to retrieve some personal belongings and said that the phone had burned through the carpet and scorched the subfloor of the plane. He said the phone was at around 80 percent of battery capacity when the incident occurred and that he only used a wireless charger since receiving the device.
Last week a man in China had a similar issues as reported on Bloomberg. Samsung did not yet have a comment about the incident. We assume they are note amused ;)
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the reports of iphone 7 catching fire are within normal margin, like 1 in a million. The Note 7 is a different case entirely the two cannot be compared.
There seems to be a serious issue somewhere that Samsung desperately needs to address, this oversight will haunt them for years the cost of the issue almost too high to calculate.
Baas seems like Samsung has been Hijacked by the ANC
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You mean waiting for the stuff already on the planet for about a decade?
Most RC batteries easily handle 5C without trouble (e.g. for 3000mAh its 15 AMPs), most top of the line brands even more, not even talking about the chargers which can go up to 400w/50A.
Its not the tech, but Samsungs implementation thats the problem. Or other brands would have the same issues..
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I wonder if second recall will be, it might happen silently, as it will create a massive hit on Samsung front.
Honestly, the Note 7 is dead already, ATT stopped selling it, T-Mobile gonna do the same, in our country the Note 7 won't be sold, it's time to admit defeat, samsung still have an ace with S7E, now they should bring 7.0 faster with grace ux and market the S7E again.. at least until S8 comes and shock us all(for good or bad).