Chitchat Return of Samsung's exploding batteries

[Sammyboy RSS Feed]

An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

Just when everyone thought that the Note 7 was history, we are now hearing other cases of exploding batteries. This time with a Note 4 and Galaxy S7 edge:eek:

I doubt that many Chinese would now consider getting a Samsung .

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/socie...old-girl-china


Exploding Samsung smartphone injures five-year-old girl in China

Family had left Galaxy Note 4 charging beside them overnight while they slept in the same bed

A Samsung that was left charging overnight exploded and injured the face of a five-year old girl.

Feng Lingling from Anshun city in Guizhou province was charging his Samsung Note 4 smartphone on the bedside while his wife and daughter slept on each side of him last Thursday night.

At 4am a loud bang woke them up. The explosion burned Feng’s hair and the hands and face of his daughter, who was sleeping closest to the phone at that time, according to the daily Guizhou Dushi Bao.

The girl is unable to eat or speak due to the burns and may have permanent scars.

“This is too pathetic,” Feng’s wife said. She said her daughter had trouble sleeping due to the pain.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced a worldwide recall of its Galaxy Note 7 last October after there were reports of the phone’s battery overheating and exploding. Earlier this month, a photo of a badly burnt Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone posted by a university student from Henan province went viral online.

According to Feng, a Samsung staff member sent to check his phone after the accident told him that his phone battery was bogus.

Samsung said in a statement after the incident: “We would like to express our deepest concern to the injured. At the moment, we are communicating with the customer to find out the cause of the problem.” But the statement made no mention of the battery, according to Guizhou Dushi Bao.

Feng said he bought the phone from retail chain Fei Li Da for 2699 yuan (US$350), and that he had never taken the battery out.

A Fei Li Da spokesman said the phone sold to Feng was sourced directly from Samsung.

“We are victims, too,” the spokesman said, adding that the chain paid 10,000 yuan to Feng’s family in compensation.

The local market supervision bureau said an initial investigation of the incident showed that the chain store had a license and appeared to be a legitimate Samsung distributor.


http://www.scmp.com/news/china/socie...phone-explodes


Chinese student’s Samsung phone explodes, setting bed on fire

Photos of a university student’s badly burnt Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone have caused a stir on Chinese social media after she shared them online, saying the device exploded while she was charging it.

The student from the Henan North China Water Conservancy and Hydropower University in Zhengzhou, central Henan province, said she left the phone charging on her bed in her dormitory on Saturday night, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

The device, which she said she owned for less than half a year, blew up around 6am and her bedsheets caught fire, according to the report.


The smoke from the explosion filled her dorm, the student said.

She shared photos of the exploded smartphone and her burnt bedsheets on her Weibo account, tagging multiple official Samsung Weibo accounts in her post, asking for advice on how she should handle the damaged device.

Her post was widely circulated by other Chinese internet users and the hashtag that translates as #SamsungS7AlsoSelfExplodes has been viewed 1.5 million times on Sina Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter.

Samsung said it was handling the incident but could not reveal details about it, the newspaper report said.

With rising tensions between China and South Korea over the latter’s plan to deploy an American Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system, many Chinese citizens have begun boycotting South Korean products, including Samsung’s smartphones.

Online, in response to the Henan student’s predicament, a Weibo user joked: “The US THAAD system was actually installed in Samsung devices.”

Samsung’s phones – including the Galaxy S7 Edge – have come under fire in recent months after multiple reports worldwide of explosions caused by the devices’ batteries overheating.

Even so, the Galaxy S7 Edge won the Best Smartphone award at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last week.

Late last month, the South Korean electronics maker released a commercial in a bid to reassure consumers that its devices were safe, saying that its safety tests for its new devices were the “toughest ever”.

Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 is set to be released on March 29.


Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com.