“Melbourne man Tham Hui, who is visiting Perth on business, said in a Reddit post his new Note 7 exploded yesterday morning while it was plugged in and charging,” Nick Sas reports for The West Australian.
“Mr Hui said the explosion charred the hotel room bed sheet and the carpet ‘when I whacked it (the phone) down to the floor,’ with the hotel providing him with a $1800 damage bill,” Sas reports. “‘(I) burnt one of my finger while doing that too,’ he said.”
“The explosion is understood to be the first in Australia, after Samsung last week revealed the Note 7 battery had been exploding whilst on charge,” Sas reports. “On Friday it said there had been 35 cases worldwide. This morning the South Korean electronics maker confirmed it would recall the more than 50,000 devices already sold in Australia…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If it’s not an iPhone, it’s an incendiary device cobbled together by a South Korean dishwasher maker.
Get a real iPhone.
SEE ALSO:
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Apple stock up, may benefit from beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy devices – September 2, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung to recall 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 units over exploding batteries – September 2, 2016
Samsung may be forced to recall Galaxy Note 7 over exploding batteries – September 1, 2016
Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 shipments due to battery explosions – August 31, 2016
Ben Bajarin: ‘Samsung will be out of the smartphone business within five years’ – November 2, 2015
Apple’s iPhone can soon reap 100 percent of world’s smartphone profits – November 17, 2015
Apple’s iPhone owns 94% of smartphone industry’s profits – November 16, 2015
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline – February 26, 2015
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
iPhone users earn significantly more than those who settle for Android phones – October 8, 2014
Yet more proof that Android is for poor people – June 27, 2014
More proof that Android is for poor people – May 13, 2014
Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Al” for the heads up.]
“Let’s quickly get our phone out before apple, regardless of our loyal users well being”
– Scamscum executive
I’m sure when Scamscum was hoping for explosive sales this wasn’t what they had in mind. Nice that Fandroid get what’s coming to them.
“Scamscum” is 100% appropriate spelling of the company’s name – that just says it all!
Fact of the day: There are at least 50000 idiots in Australia.
Be careful about giving Samsung too much crap about this one… If a supplier unexpectedly produces a bad component for those guys, the same type of thing could happen to Apple as well. Let’s keep the potential crowing to a minimum.
A great many fans of Apple products here and elsewhere have complained vehemently about the company’s lengthy product-release cycle. Clearly, and as Samsung has shown, it is better to invest the extra time to test a product–and its vendor-supplied components–against all manner of unintended and unforeseen consequences. Haste always makes waste.
” Let’s keep the potential crowing to a minimum.” Sorry, but absolutely NOT. Had dinner with a high school friend last week (51st class reunion), who berated me loudly for owning a POS iPhone 6s Plus . . . the Israeli security hack fixed in 9.3.5 being the reason. Well, well, well. E-mailed him links to this story about his soon-to-explode Scamdung phone. Can’t wait to hear back.
If Apple fans go easy on Samsung over an issue like that, do you seriously imagine that if Apple ever released a product with a serious flaw, the press would say that as Apple fans were kind to Samsung, we won’t make too much of a fuss about this issue?
I would point to the examples of the iPhone 4 antenna issue and people bending iPhone 6. Neither product was changed as a result of the massive onslaught of bad publicity, but the press still had a fie;d day making the maximum possible fuss about it, even though both issues were nonsense.
Well I think this experience is all about showing the difference between Apple and Scamscum in that regard. Apple most likely takes the time to find problems like this whereas SlapdashScam plays the odds, and this time lost. At this point it has to be foremost in Apple’s mind not to have any missteps, it’s not worth a hasty release schedule. A single misstep can have devastating results as I hope it does to the Seoul-sucking slavish copier’s reputation (as if it could be any worse).
QA: Quality Assurance.
Samsung DIDN’T. 💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥
Why?
The batteries exploding are made by another Samsung division, fyi
But that one time the iPhone would lose reception under certain circumstances so …. even?
So the next time your in a hurry for Apple to update there devices think first what maybe the consequences. I think I would rather have Apple make it right and take a little more time then have there devices catch fire and have to go through returning my device and waiting for a replacement.
My god – the grammar.
“…. next time you’re…”, “…update their…”, “what may be…”.
And that was just the first sentence. Are you going out of your way to do this? Seriously – are you?
Relaxe, you’re high schewl grammar teecher ain’t watchin’. 😉
I was going to say something here, but didn’t want to be labeled with a “Grammar Nazi” tag. This post just HAS to be a joke. Nobody could have missed THAT much junior high school English. (And don’t forget the “then” substitution for “than”!)
Their washing machines are much more reliable.
Actually they are not.
I also have a Samsung TV that has a 2 inch wide vertical red strip….started just after warranty ran out.
Samsung is training a global army of IT doofuses to act as suicide bombers.
The pain grows:
Samsung’s huge recall of its exploding phones could cost it $1 billion
The authorities need to immediately ban Samsung phones in public places. I don’t want some exploding Samdouche sitting next to me on a plane or a train.
Who do you think makes the batterys for iphone you bunch of morons!!!.. Samsung . Forum full of fukin tossers.
Nice talk, crikey. Do you french your mother with that mouth?
No, samsung does not make apple’s batteries. Samsung stamps about 40-45% of their processors, but this generation TSMC has more of that business. Apple’s batteries are designed and built by their own subsidiary with panasonic and sony parts that are custom made to spec. they make their own battery controllers and cell connectors. And, since you’re an ill informed person, samsung doesn’t design or build their own batteries… they buy off the shelf parts, which is the issue in this case.
Under a contract which specs a higher level of quality.
Wrong mate, Sunwoda makes their batteries. As far as I know, Samsung doesn’t make anything for the iPhone except a few processors. Fewer and fewer every year
A) Apple designs their own batteries. They then hire out to have them manufactured to spec.
B) Samsung stopped manufacturing batteries for Apple in 2012.
C) Recent battery manufacturers for Apple include:
– Amperex Technology
– Tianjin Lishen Battery
– Simplo
– Desai
– Sunwoda
– LiPol Battery Co., Ltd
Let’s see. Widespread reports of exploding batteries during charge. A massive recall, also widely reported. And then this guy continues to use the Korean IED. He deserves to fot the damage bill himself, for being an idiot.
A) Apple designs their own batteries. They then hire out to have them manufactured to spec.
B) Samsung stopped manufacturing batteries for Apple in 2012.
C) Recent battery manufacturers for Apple include:
– Amperex Technology
– Tianjin Lishen Battery
– Simplo
– Desai
– Sunwoda
– LiPol Battery Co., Ltd
My comment on Samsung washing machines was tongue in cheek. Jeez, do I have highlight the sarcasm?
You have to give credit to Samsung since they didn’t copy Apple this time to come up with this original new explosive feature, HAHAHA!!!