“A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded on Sunday. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide,” The Associated Press reports.
“Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press on Monday that she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over during a family gathering at her home. She said she threw the phone away when she realized it had ‘swollen up’ and smoke was coming out,” AP reports. “‘I panicked when I saw the smoke and I had the reflex to throw it away,’ said Bouyirdane, a mother of three in the southwestern French city of Pau.”
“The phone then caught fire and the back blew off,” AP reports. “Her partner quickly extinguished it.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For beleaguered Samsung, the hits just keep on coming!
SEE ALSO:
Beleaguered Samsung recalls 2.8 million washing machines due to risk of explosion – November 4, 2016
IDC survey: 50% of beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phone users upgrading to Apple iPhone – October 28, 2016
Now beleaguered Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge is reportedly catching fire – October 25, 2016
Samsung refusing to pay for property damage caused by its exploding phones – October 22, 2016
No, Apple’s iPhone 7’s are not having the same issue as Samsung’s exploding, fire-causing phones – October 21, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s exploding phone troubles come at an already crucial moment – October 18, 2016
Horror stories from the flight ban of Samsung’s exploding phones – October 17, 2016
Analyst estimates 5-7 million ex-Samsung phone users to switch to Apple iPhone – October 17, 2016
U.S. air passengers who try to take Samsung’s exploding phones onto planes face fines, confiscation, criminal prosecution – October 15, 201
Samsung has no clue why their phones explode, yet they shipped replacements anyway, assuring their customers they were safe – October 14, 2016
United States bans all Samsung Note 7 phones on airline flights – October 14, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung’s cellphone dilemma – October 13, 2016
Exploding Galaxy phones: What did Samsung know and when did they know it? – October 12, 2016
Apple or Android phone makers: Who wins more on Samsung’s Galaxy collapse? – October 12, 2016
People are dumping Samsung’s unsafe, exploding phones and upgrading to Apple’s iPhone – October 12, 2016
Social media users mock beleaguered Samsung’s explosive phones – October 11, 2016
Replacement Galaxy Note 7, deemed ‘safe’ by Samsung, catches fire in Scottish hotel room – October 11, 2016
Samsung axes explosive Galaxy Note 7, shares plummet – October 11, 2016
Drexel Hamilton projects 8 million iPhone unit gain for Apple this year alone due to Samsung’s exploding phones debacle – October 11, 2016
Samsung takes multi-billion-dollar hit to end exploding phones fiasco – October 11, 2016
Beleaguered Samsung permanently ceases Galaxy Note 7 production – October 11, 2016
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TJ” for the heads up.]
The funny part is, apple with the continuous less useful features for more and more and more money, and Samsung battery problems, when the battery problems are over they are going to continue gaining market share while apple still continues to decline, how stupid are the heads at apple. Enjoy the steady decline cook. Idiot.
ahaha…!!! Yes, sure…
And you’re just another one of those “Apple is dead”.
Rambling Clueless Disease much? Go back to your Android Authority home site with your fellow numbskulls.
Samsung sales are literally exploding .
Interesting read here. I never have and never will buy their products.
BOYCOTT THESE DIRTBAGS
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/11/samsungs-laughable-quality-extends-to-exploding-washing-machines-as-the-us-steps-in-forcing-another-recall.html
About time.
The stories about the Galaxy Note 7 were getting stale.
ScamScum should be sued for selling pyrotechnics without a license. 🖖😀⌚️
Hey MDN, can we get a list of all the products Samsung created that self destruct? We have the note and regular s7, the galaxy core, a washing machine, and now this, i thought there were more….
Samsung has already placed their products in the next Mission: Impossible VI. Ethan Hunt receives a phone call on his Samsung Note 8 asking if he would choose to accept the mission.
Then the phone self-destructs in 5 seconds!
Their phones might not be very good but as munitions they’re DIE-NO-MITE! SamSplode – the choice of idiots with a death wish everywhere!