“Despite initiating a worldwide recall of the Galaxy Note 7, some users continue to carry the ticking time bomb with them,” Omar Sohail reports for wccftech. “However, in extremely rare cases, carrying a volatile smartphone is a blessing in disguise, and a thief had the misfortune of stealing that particular handset, which will probably force him to pursue a new hobby down the line.”
“One thief saw a golden opportunity in a Café located in Hefei, which happens to be the provincial capital, where the owner of the Galaxy Note 7 was dozing off, prompting the thief to make his move,” Sohail reports. “It appears that the thief might not have been dexterous when it comes to telling which smartphone he might have slipped into his pocket, because according to The China Times, the Galaxy Note 7 exploded shortly after he made his getaway.”
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Open season.
Why keepers are fools
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Fandroid aren’t known for their reason, tolerance, genteelness, intelligence or ability to choose correctly.
I wonder how the statistics are affected when their are more than one Note 7s in a home? You know these knuckleheads often travel in pairs
he got his “hot pocket”
Better the thief than the user getting “burned.” Hilarious! Karma is sometimes just so right on the money.
Gives a new meaning to having a “hot phone”. . .
Apple has “Find My iPhone” and Samsung has “Explode My Phone”. Who says Samsung doesn’t innovate.
Yes, the Mission: Impossible “this phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds” innovation.
The iPhone has an App: Find My Phone to locate the thief.
Samsung has an app: Ignite my phone and does an even better job.
He didn’t see the string tided to the pin, when he lifted it. Three seconds later, it exploded.
Must be a Trump voter!
Based on the recent election it’s the liberals who don’t bother to vote who know best how to self-destruct.
In this case, my dear Watson, the smoking gun is the smoking phone.
Karma’s a B!†(#
The thief will probably sue the owner claiming he wouldn’t have gotten injured if the owner had exchanged his phone; by not doing so he caused the injury. 🖖😀⌚️
Yep! A millennial liberal would definitely try to twist their words as much as they can to sue someone for their lack of brain cells.