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Galaxy Note 7

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OILFIELDTRASH said:
Serves Samsung right for sealing the battery in. Much cheaper to send battery packs out.
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If the replacement units are also experiencing problems, it may not just be a battery issue, but something to do with the design of the phone as well, in which case a removable battery wouldn't do anything.

It's entirely possible that it is just an issue with the battery itself, but it seems odd that the replacements would also have an issue. One would think that Samsung would have been exceptionally careful about identifying the problem and ensuring that it was fixed.
 
Kazukian said:
They've always been a "fast follower" and with the last generations, IMHO, knocked it out of the park by innovating. They should be able to produce a Note 8 in a couple of months.
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I wonder if Samsung will do that. It could do that (though it would be funny to see Samsung jump three model numbers in a year and a half), but might want to wait just to let the bad taste of the Note 7 get out of customers' mouths.
 
I'm still loving my note 7 replacement. I doubt it will get nougat now tho as I think Sammy is done with this model.
 
Tally up to 5 replacement Notes so far

1 in a Burger King in South Korea
1 in Taiwan
3 in the US, 2 in Kentucky, 1 in Minnesota
 
Another in Virginia

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13218730/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-replacement-fourth-virginia

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Sometimes, in the pursuit of great feats, mankind falters. I am reminded of the 3 brave men who died in the Apollo 1 fire under similar circumstances to what we see here. Much like these 3 brave men as they approached the pad at cape kennedy, these brave Samsung customers did not know what awaited them in those boxes. They knew there was always a risk... but they were brave, and sadly payed the price for their courage. The price of freedom. We could all learn something from them about sacrifice.


RIP Apollo 1 disaster 1967
RIP Note 7 disaster 2016
Hopefully never again.
 
Yeah no. The initial recall I was okay with because mistakes can be made.

This second incidence shows that Samsung didn't properly figure out the problem before slapping out "fixed" units.
 
Kazukian said:
Tally up to 5 replacement Notes so far
1 in a Burger King in South Korea
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Maybe not...
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Alle...o-spend-extra-cash-on-3rd-party-tests_id86136
Samsung reacted by taking the phone and sending it out to the South Korean branch of SGS — a multinational testing and certification company — for independent tests. SGS performed an X-Ray and computerized tomography (CT) scan and concluded that the combustion was not caused by the battery. According to the SGS report, the phone was damaged by a physical strike so strong that it pierced through the back of the case that the device was in.
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I still think that having a non-removable battery on ANY device is stupid, and I hope they stop doing this crap.
 
Samsung should take the Note 7 front design, and combine it with a rear design similar to the Note 4. (That is, return of removable battery... and *ahem* common sense.)

The whole 'thinner/less features/crap 'premium' materials like glass thing was a path I sure as hell never cheerled them to go down.

People have been pushing for these two (seemingly incompatible) things to merge though; thinner devices, but larger batter capacity.

Maybe this is what comes of those two forces meeting at the edge of the limits of both.

That said, I'm not scared of my Note 7 blowing up. Unless they do another recall with a different design, I'm keeping it. There's still nothing else in the smartphone world comes close to the Note 7 for usefulness. I'd sooner not have a smartphone than suffer some iPhone which to me looks and feels like something from 2013. And the pixel phone... LOL you'd have to PAY me to use one of those and even then I'd feel dirty.
 
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At this point, if I had a Note 7, I'd take the SIM out and leave the phone outside on a non-flammable surface until I could visit the carrier store to return it. The risk is still relatively small, but it's hard to feel reassured when there's seemingly a new incident every few hours.
 
I was a bit curious of how fast their turnaround was when the news first broke to when the "replacement" units were in store. Black square on the box or not, I think this whole replacement program didn't actually happen and they just fudge the box and push out a non-affective update to change the battery icon color.

Of course, I'm just speculating.
 
core2slow said:
I was a bit curious of how fast their turnaround was when the news first broke to when the "replacement" units were in store. Black square on the box or not, I think this whole replacement program didn't actually happen and they just fudge the box and push out a non-affective update to change the battery icon color.

Of course, I'm just speculating.
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I'd bet they blamed the Korean battery supplier, shipped replacement models with the Chinese sourced batteries, and there's still the underlying design/engineering problem. Since they told the Chinese consumers to pound sand since they got the units with Chinese sourced batteries, they're reluctant to admit what they did.
 
I am also wondering, just how are the defective phones being shipped anyway?
Would fedex or UPS even allow the remote chance of a phone exploding / catching on fire in one of their planes, or, would they enclose them in some fire resistant safe type of a thing and ship them that way?
 
Elixer said:
I am also wondering, just how are the defective phones being shipped anyway?
Would fedex or UPS even allow the remote chance of a phone exploding / catching on fire in one of their planes, or, would they enclose them in some fire resistant safe type of a thing and ship them that way?
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The shippers are only allowing ground transport of the Note 7's.
 
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