“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit are telling its customers with Galaxy Note 7 phones to shut off their devices before entering a subway station or boarding a train or bus,” Jackie Wattles reports for CNN. “‘.@MTA customers should turn off #Samsung Galaxy Note 7 before entering station or boarding bus due to concerns device’s battery can ignite,’ a tweet from one of MTA’s Twitter handles reads.”
Wattles reports, “The New Jersey Transit said in its warning Tuesday that it’s ‘strongly urging all customers not to use or charge the mobile device on board trains, buses, light rail vehicles or in stations and facilities.'”
MacDailyNews Note: A portion of New Jersey Transit’s warning:
Following safety concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note7, NJ TRANSIT is strongly urging all customers not to use or charge the mobile device on board trains, buses, light rail vehicles or in stations and facilities.
“We are asking our customers who have the Galaxy Note7, to simply turn it off before entering an NJ TRANSIT facility or boarding a vehicle.” said interim Executive Director Dennis Martin. “Because of the uncertainties surrounding this device, we are issuing this precautionary advisory to ensure the safety of all of our customers.”
The Samsung Galaxy Note7 has been the subject of numerous accounts of the batteries bursting into flames. Both Samsung and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission are urging owners to power down these devices and stop charging or using them.
“NJ TRANSIT is urging our customers to do the responsible thing and heed the manufacturer’s advice to power down the Galaxy Note7” said Gardner Tabon, Chief of NJ TRANSIT’s Office of System Safety. “This is especially critical when riding a transit system along with hundreds of thousands of others.”
“The move affects a massive number of people in the New York metropolitan area that rely on public transit. MTA estimates about 5.7 million people on average ride the subway alone on a given weekday,” Wattles reports. “Horror stories have cropped up from customers all over the country, warning that the devices have caused injuries and damage.”
.@MTA customers should turn off #Samsung Galaxy Note 7 before entering station or boarding bus due to concerns device's battery can ignite.
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) September 13, 2016
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, that’ll be great for business. (smirk)
As for those who’ve settled for inferior wares suddenly doing the right thing, don’t bet on it. They don’t seem to have the necessary faculties.
Always remember: If it’s not an iPhone, it’s an explosive portable fire-starter from a South Korean dishwasher maker.
SEE ALSO:
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners are ignoring the explosions, fires and safety warnings – September 15, 2016
Samsung Galaxy S7 phone explodes in teacher’s hands in the middle of busy cafe – September 14, 2016
Samsung phone blows up in car passenger seat, causes huge highway explosion – September 14, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung to issue desperate kludge in attempt to contain the exploding phone crisis – September 13, 2016
Man sues beleaguered Samsung after exploding Galaxy S7 Edge causes massive 3rd degree burns – September 13, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung phone explodes in little boy’s hands, 6-year-old suffers burns – September 12, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung sheds $26 billion in value after massive recall of explosive, dangerous, flawed Galaxy Note 7 – September 12, 2016
FAA warns airline passengers not to use Samsung phones – September 9, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys garage; home condemned due to fire – September 9, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 destroys Florida man’s Jeep – September 8, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 burns down garage; destroys Jeep in another case; airlines now banning potentially deadly device – September 8, 2016
Apple orders more parts for iPhone 7 amid Samsung recalls – September 6, 2016
Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 damages Perth hotel room – September 6, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung blows it in rush to beat Apple iPhone 7 to market – September 6, 2016
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
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
iPhone users smarter, richer than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
Study: Apple iPhone users richer, younger, more productive than other so-called ‘smartphone’ users – June 12, 2009
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “chris renaldi” for the heads up.]
I have a flight coming up and I’m actually worried about somebody’s stupid Samsung phone setting the plane on fire. Flying is terrifying enough without shitty knockoff exploding phones to worry about too.
On my flight from SFO to LHR last week, United requested that all Note 7s be shutdown for the duration of the flight and not put on charge.
I still don’t understand why Samsung has not done a complete recall. They should be contacting owners directly and getting the phones back. It’s only a matter of time until someone dies.
And yet, the TSA confiscates your toothpaste because it is too large and requires that you put your shampoo in a tiny bottle and then in a plastic bag because it might be used to blow up a plane or force the crew to follow your demands to fly you to North Korea.
TSA Agent: “Small bottle of shampoo? Not on my watch!”
http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/152568-bojack-horseman
Just a thought. If Samsung does not do a full recall. That means that there will still be dangerous phones out there after their mini call back.
Samsung does not understand that a none full recall means burning phones for a long time. A long time of bad press.
Just saying.
Meanwhile Tehran has agreed to buy all remaining units directly from Samsung.
So those using Samsung Galaxy phones aren’t allowed on NYC buses? That’s great then! In my experience, most of the Samsung Galaxy users that I have bumped into were some of the most pretentious, smug dickheads I have had the misfortune to ever meet. To add insult to injury, they also seemed to be the type that resides in NYC’s suburbs. The ones from Long Island and Westchester to be precise. The ones from Yonkers tend to look down on the South Bronx because it’s “scary”, and “dirty”. Listen here, you suburban fools: The South Bronx don’t take no crap from you upstaters. We keep it real in the hood, and if you don’t like it, tough. Besides, we ain’t the ones carrying explosive devices in the Big Apple. At least we are smart enough to know quality from garbage. Peace out!
yonkers IS NOT upstate new york.
… Well, it depends upon who you ask. I’d personally call Yonkers part of the New York City metropolitan area.
Check out the map of where iPhones and the classless smartphones are used in NYC.
Sorry, I forgot to include the legend.
An aerial view of New York City. Red dots are iPhones. Green is for Android. Blackberry is that little bit of purple.
Reminds me of that song lyric, “Boom, boom, out go the lights.”
A subway explosion…that’s be fun.
The issue is that an huge percentage of users think that merely turning a cell phone to silent or airplane mode is the same as turning them off. A more specific, mandatory action is required such as all cellular providers must shut down the services to the pertinent phones. It is easy for them to do this – the ID handle for the phone tells them the model they are providing services for and is available to the provider for every cellular user when they sign up and when they connect. Time for the Safety Board to DO ITS JOB.
Yep. They need to BRICK the phones. That would speed up the return process.
The only safe option is to have galaxy 7 owners taken down and tasered before they burn down any more properties.
Hmmm.
“The move affects a massive number of people in the New York metropolitan area that rely on public transit. MTA estimates about 5.7 million people…”
Seeing that Samsung only sold under 3 million note 7’s to begin with… not a huge chance many will be seen on the public transit like the author insinuates.
It only takes one horrendous SamSplode explosion and fire, and that’s one too many.
Samsung shipped only 2.5 million worldwide. Sold around 1.5 million. In US alone it will be even less. …
Is turning them off really going to make a difference? To me, that sounds as stupid and ridiculous as saying “This 80″ TV is heavy. It weighs 300 pounds. Before moving it, please turn it off to avoid hurting your back.” Am I missing something? How does turning it off affect the battery’s likeliness to explode, other than it might not get as hot?
When the batteries are doing their duty (either providing power, or being charged), a chemical reaction occurs in them, where ions of lithium move from anode, through lithium-filled electrolytic fluid, to cathode made of graphite. Depending on the electrical load on the battery (during discharge), or the charging current (during charging), this process may inevitably elevate the temperature. If the battery wasn’t built properly, and to the exact specifications, the barrier between the cathode and anode might become insufficient to provide proper insulation, which then causes short circuit, which significantly increases temperature. As the temperature rises rapidly, the insulation continues to deteriorate, increasing the temperature even more, until the whole thing ignites.
This is a rather oversimplified (and somewhat layman’s) explanation, but the point is that if there is no electrical load on the battery, it remains in a fairly stable chemical state, which is significantly less likely to spontaneously damage the insulation and cause short circuit.
Yes, but if the controller is faulty, then the battery can be receiving or discharging energy even if it’s powered off. Especially if pressure changes.
Good point.
I always wanted my smartphone to also act as my toaster oven. Finally Samsung figured it out. What an innovation! Why can’t Apple be so innovative?
“We are asking our customers”
Yea, that’s going to work.
It is not all negative for Samsung. Terrorists are buying Note 7 in droves.
It’s official the US Federal Government is recalling the Samsung Galaxy Note 7:
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2016/Samsung-Recalls-Galaxy-Note7-Smartphones/
Note the number of times it burned people and caused property damage in the few short months it’s been on sale. As time progresses, these horrific incidences will probably increase exponentially unless Samsung customers stop using this bomb as a phone.
Yep. Just got the alert, it’s in every major paper, every news station, and all over the web. Let’s we these fandroid idiots try to spin this one…
A few short *weeks* actually. The Note 7 was released Aug 19.
I just missed a call from (201) 229-4000, turns out to be Samsung USA Corporate. No voicemail left. I own no Samsung products and also despise them; it wouldn’t have been a friendly conversation had I answered. I suspect it was part of a mass attempt to get their defective POSs of the streets but not seeing anything online about them calling. Anyone else get a call from them?
I personally consider this to be, alongside the formal government level recall, the point where burning Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones become an historic travesty of technology. This will be remembered as a disaster etched into the history books for all eternity, aka ∞. Samsung is defecating in its pants today. Samsung’s reputation is permanently tarnished.
“Children! Let us count using an arithmetic progression!
• 35 Burning Samsung Galaxy Note 7s!
• 70 Burning Samsung Galaxy Note 7s!
• 92 Burning Galaxy Note 7s!!!
. . .
Here is a good example of how dangerous these batteries can be. Granted, its punctured, but the chemical reaction is quite spectacular.
That would ruin the tip of a good knife!