“A Chinese man reported that a Note 7 smartphone from Samsung Electronics Co. exploded after he bought it this week, raising questions about whether the South Korean company’s problems with battery fires are spreading to newer versions of the premium device,” Bloomberg News reports.
“The 25-year-old customer, Hui Renjie, said his Note 7 exploded Monday morning, less than 24 hours after he got it delivered from e-commerce website JD.com Inc.,” Bloomberg News reports. “He said the incident caused minor injuries to two of his fingers and burned his Apple Inc. MacBook.”
MacDailyNews Take: Anyone who owns an Apple MacBook and a Samsung phone does not understand technology. Why hamstring yourself with a pretend iPhone when the real thing would allow you to have seamless Continuity? It’s nonsensical. Apple needs to do a better job of educating the general public why everyone should want an iPhone to go along with their MacBook and vice versa.
Bloomberg News reports, “A Samsung representative visited him soon afterward and asked to take away the phone, he said, but he declined the offer because he doesn’t trust the company to reveal the reason for the fire, and plans to publicize the issue.”
MacDailyNews Take: Well, he’s not totally clueless. One question: Why buy your fake iPhone from a company that you don’t trust?
Bloomberg News reports, “Samsung has been engulfed in perhaps the worst crisis in its corporate history after Note 7 smartphones began to burst into flames just days after hitting the market in August.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, Karma, we love you! 😘
“Samsung said it had uncovered the cause of the battery fires and that it was certain new phones wouldn’t have the same flaws,” Bloomberg News reports. “The latest China incident however raises the prospect that Samsung has battery problems with Note 7 phones now hitting the market, adding the risk of further recalls and potential brand damage… ‘Samsung’s business in China will only get worse,’ said Greg Roh, an analyst at HMC Investment Securities in Seoul. ‘Samsung may have to sacrifice massive marketing costs in China to win back its customers.'”
MacDailyNews Take: That’ll be an interesting marketing exercise.
We can see the ads now: “Samsung. Our iPhone wannabes don’t blow up and burn down your house anymore. No, really. Trust us. They just suck as usual because our so-called ecosystem is a bunch of half-assed, cobbled-together imitative shit and our OS comes from a third-party that only cares about capturing as much of your personal data as possible. Therefore, the hardware and the OS are not optimized for each other in any meaningful ways as they are throughout with Apple’s iOS-powered iPhone. But, hey: Buy One, Get Three Free!”
Jeep charging a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (left) and a Jeep charging an Apple iPhone (right)
Garage charging a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (left) and a garage charging an Apple iPhone (right)
Listening to Jim Cramer yesterday I was made aware this Samsung phone problem was caused by compressing the battery into their phones. If this is true the this is blatant negligence on samsungs part. As I understand, these batteries are an extremely sensitive component you don’t want to treat in a second hand manner. Wtf, is Samsung that obsessed with the race to be #1 where they ignore the safety of their faithful customers? By all rights, Samsung has earned the title of Scamscum.
BOYCOTT SAMSUNG, aka, SCAMSCUM.
tic tock, tick tock, tick tock ⏰BOOM! 💥🔥 Please, Make a Note 7 times over. Garbage tech from cesspool hacks. GTFO of my country. We have had ENOUGH of your tech pollution.
so, the title of a former post must be updated:
Beleaguered Samsung: 100% of potentially dangerous exploding phones still out there in U.S. and South Korea
In the video associated with this linked article, the “reporter” makes reference to the iPhone 6. Silly cow can’t even get even get that right. What price journalistic accuracy?
This is inly going to get very much worse for SamDung: Tip of the iceberg, anyone?
As a person who owns a bunch of Apple products, I’m disappointed this website has not reported this issue yet. You’d think he’d what in inform his reader.
Apple’s biggest rival is expected to lose between $1 billion and $2 billion due to the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 that started early this month after it was found out that the battery of the international variant has a defect. However, as more incident reports are coming in, analysts are claiming that Samsung could lose more.
$1 Billion in losses estimated last week.
$2 Billion in losses estimated this week.
. . . 📉📉📉💸💸💸
Now even the European airlines are starting to react. Today on a morning flight from London to Germany there was the extra announcement that charging or the use of Samsung Note 7 was not allowed on board that plane. It wasn’t like that 2 days ago on the flight out.
Took them quite a bit to react and draw consequences.
All in all this problem doesn’t seem to go away quickly but it rather seems to spread even more.
Sad saga saunters along….
Soon to be reported, “Ss, Note 7 used “succesfully” in assisted suicide.”
Time for a ban.
With multiple devices involved, it is starting to look like gross negligence on Samsung’s part.
Not sad at all.
Listening to Jim Cramer yesterday I was made aware this Samsung phone problem was caused by compressing the battery into their phones. If this is true the this is blatant negligence on samsungs part. As I understand, these batteries are an extremely sensitive component you don’t want to treat in a second hand manner. Wtf, is Samsung that obsessed with the race to be #1 where they ignore the safety of their faithful customers? By all rights, Samsung has earned the title of Scamscum.
BOYCOTT SAMSUNG, aka, SCAMSCUM.
tic tock, tick tock, tick tock ⏰BOOM! 💥🔥 Please, Make a Note 7 times over. Garbage tech from cesspool hacks. GTFO of my country. We have had ENOUGH of your tech pollution.
I bet that wasn’t a mack book but an asus or some other crappy copy of the mac.
Are you boys above me enjoying your little circle jerk?
so, the title of a former post must be updated:
Beleaguered Samsung: 100% of potentially dangerous exploding phones still out there in U.S. and South Korea
In the video associated with this linked article, the “reporter” makes reference to the iPhone 6. Silly cow can’t even get even get that right. What price journalistic accuracy?
This is inly going to get very much worse for SamDung: Tip of the iceberg, anyone?
Karma’s a bitch, dudes 😀
=:~)
Thar she BLOWS!
maybe scamscum is selling recalled note7 to other markets?
But what about the thousands of people who have iPhone 6’s that Appple refuses to fix.
http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/236341-apple-is-aware-of-iphone-6-touch-disease-but-refuses-to-discuss-it
As a person who owns a bunch of Apple products, I’m disappointed this website has not reported this issue yet. You’d think he’d what in inform his reader.
Down goes Frazier!!!!
According to International Business Times:
Apple’s biggest rival is expected to lose between $1 billion and $2 billion due to the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 that started early this month after it was found out that the battery of the international variant has a defect. However, as more incident reports are coming in, analysts are claiming that Samsung could lose more.
$1 Billion in losses estimated last week.
$2 Billion in losses estimated this week.
. . . 📉📉📉💸💸💸
http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-note-7-burns-fingers-macbook-new-report-despite-safe-status-device-2422618
http://pocketnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/galaxy-note-7-china-fire-1.jpeg
http://pocketnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/galaxy-note-7-china-fire-2.jpeg
Hint: NEVER charge any other device while it is sitting on your MacBook/Pro, not even an iPhone.
In addition to everything else, magnetism and RF radiation from one device to another may affect either one.
That is a very good point. From the pictures and video you can see the outline of where the Galaxy Note 7 was laying on the MacBook.
If you’d like to see a video of this Chinese phone burned and smoking as well as damage it did to the owner’s MacBook, you can view it here:
http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2016/09/27/galaxy-note-7s-may-be-catching-fire-in-china.cnnmoney/
MDN Take – “and our OS comes from a third-party that only cares about capturing as much of your personal data as possible”
. . . and is so bad that Google has to practically give it away.
There, that’s better. 🙂
Well, I guess we’re seeing the THERMAL part of thermonuclear now 🙂
Looks like Samsung can’t catch a break. Now there are reports for exploding Samsung washing machines. What next?
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/28/news/samsung-cpsc-washing-machine-explosion-reports/index.html?sr=twCNN092816samsung-cpsc-washing-machine-explosion-reports0540PMVODtopLink&linkId=29299325
Now even the European airlines are starting to react. Today on a morning flight from London to Germany there was the extra announcement that charging or the use of Samsung Note 7 was not allowed on board that plane. It wasn’t like that 2 days ago on the flight out.
Took them quite a bit to react and draw consequences.
All in all this problem doesn’t seem to go away quickly but it rather seems to spread even more.