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I wouldn't trust what The Verge states and would wait for official statements before drawing any conclusions,the NYT probably hasn't got inside information. It's alleging and not stating as fact.
Have you ever felt a RC car battery when it's being fast charged? You can barely hold it, as it's so damn hot!
I was real peeved to "have" to go back to my iPhone 7+ but now I'm happy I did. Really don't have to worry about anything especially with all my idevices syncing. I suppose if I actually needed a more powerful device (feature wise that is) then I wouldn't be as happy as I am but for my usage the iPhone gets the job done and nicely so. Like the camera upgrade the speed and the General smoothness of everything. It's really a shame Samsung let this happen as there is no doubt I would've initially stayed with the Note
I have not, but that sounds super dangerous. My phone did not get that hot, but damn that seems like a problem.
I really hate that Samsung couldn't get the problems resolved with the note 7. It's really a great phone. I love my iPhone, but the note 7 was really nice. Not sure what I will get to replace it, I might go back to my note 3, and wait to see if they resolve the problems. The note isn't my main phone, so I will be fine.
Well, just got back from the store and said goodbye to my Note 7.
But, on the plus side I was able to keep my S7, they told me I could get any other phone, didn't have to be Samsung, and they would honor the BOGO. Unfortunately, it could only for a phone that was available at the time of the BOGO, which meant no iPhone 7, no V20, and no Pixel if they get it (which 3 other reps at the store said they'd heard rumors they were going to carry it, just weren't sure when). So I got myself a regular sized iPhone 6S. Felt weird getting that phone again, but now I'll have a big and small iPhone and a big and small android, and I was able to keep my freebie S7, Gear S2 and Tab. My other option would've been to return everything and get 2 cheap lg phones so AT&T would cover my termination fees from t-mobile. That would've been $350 for both phones, instead I'm paying $550 and keeping my freebies.
Also, kinda ironic I'm getting all these Samsung goodies for free while Apple is the one getting my money.
But, on the plus side I was able to keep my S7, they told me I could get any other phone, didn't have to be Samsung, and they would honor the BOGO. Unfortunately, it could only for a phone that was available at the time of the BOGO, which meant no iPhone 7, no V20, and no Pixel if they get it (which 3 other reps at the store said they'd heard rumors they were going to carry it, just weren't sure when). So I got myself a regular sized iPhone 6S. Felt weird getting that phone again, but now I'll have a big and small iPhone and a big and small android, and I was able to keep my freebie S7, Gear S2 and Tab. My other option would've been to return everything and get 2 cheap lg phones so AT&T would cover my termination fees from t-mobile. That would've been $350 for both phones, instead I'm paying $550 and keeping my freebies.
Also, kinda ironic I'm getting all these Samsung goodies for free while Apple is the one getting my money.
Well, just got back from the store and said goodbye to my Note 7.
But, on the plus side I was able to keep my S7, they told me I could get any other phone, didn't have to be Samsung, and they would honor the BOGO. Unfortunately, it could only for a phone that was available at the time of the BOGO, which meant no iPhone 7, no V20, and no Pixel if they get it (which 3 other reps at the store said they'd heard rumors they were going to carry it, just weren't sure when). So I got myself a regular sized iPhone 6S. Felt weird getting that phone again, but now I'll have a big and small iPhone and a big and small android, and I was able to keep my freebie S7, Gear S2 and Tab. My other option would've been to return everything and get 2 cheap lg phones so AT&T would cover my termination fees from t-mobile. That would've been $350 for both phones, instead I'm paying $550 and keeping my freebies.
Also, kinda ironic I'm getting all these Samsung goodies for free while Apple is the one getting my money.
I ended up with 2 256GB SD cards, a gear fit 2, a gear VR, and $400 in target gift cards when all was said and done. Don't feel a damn bit bad about it either. Apple ended up getting my money as well.
I'm having a little chuckle here after following this conversation. For so long you were pretty staunchly planted in the Android camp (and I understand you still prefer it in so many ways) while I was generally the polar opposite, living immersed in the Apple world, for the most part. Yet here we are, you rocking an iPhone and an Apple Watch while I've packed mine up and moved firmly back into Android, pairing it with an Android Wear watch. Hell, I even own a tablet/convertible running Windows 10. Must be some signs of the upcoming apocalypse.
Lol, yep yep. But you may not have known me before, as I used to be staunchly in the iOS camp. I went from Windows Mobile to the iPhone when it first came out and never looked back, well until iOS started to stop keeping up. I was loyal to Apple up to and including the iPhone 5, then after that I would have stints on and off. As for the AW, I'd say it's a pretty solid meh. I cannot believe an Apple product, a finished product truly has such awful battery life, wow. I'm still playing with it and seeing what it can do, but I'm not super impressed in the least. But there really are not many alternatives, really zero alternatives if you want something nice like SS. I truly am bummed I won't be able to use something like the Gear S3 with Apple's walled garden.
But yeah it's pretty funny how we all go back and forth to some degree. It really makes us look ridiculous when we fight each other one month, then the next month are allies.
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Yeah you get used to whatever you own, warts and all. Now that I've been forced to the 7+ due to a lack of any other decent phone I am actually really really liking it. I can deal with the oversimplification on a phone, and even welcome it at times, although I'd NEVER go back to iOS on a tablet.
But enough thread jacking from me!!
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Yeah I can't complain, I ended up with $672 visa card, Gear VR, 256gb memory card and a gear 2 fit. All of those sources are aware and told me to keep them. I did go through a lot of hassle switching phones and having to deal with all this, plus I suppose you could say we took a risk as well. I'll look at it as the advancement of my reward from the class action lawsuit that is inevitable in 5 or 6 years.
It was only a matter of time and now the CPSC officially make it a second recall ...
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It's official — two days after Samsung canceled the phone, it's been recalled (again) in the United States.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a second recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, affecting both old and new replacement models. Significantly, the CPSC statement now tells us exactly how many battery fire reports have been reported in the new Note 7 with the green battery icon.
From the CPSC statement (emphasis ours):
Samsung has received 96 reports of batteries in Note7 phones overheating in the U.S., including 23 new reports since the September 15 recall announcement. Samsung has received 13 reports of burns and 47 reports of property damage associated with Note7 phones.
http://m.androidcentral.com/cpsc-is...call-23-new-fires-involving-replacement-notes
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It's official — two days after Samsung canceled the phone, it's been recalled (again) in the United States.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a second recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, affecting both old and new replacement models. Significantly, the CPSC statement now tells us exactly how many battery fire reports have been reported in the new Note 7 with the green battery icon.
From the CPSC statement (emphasis ours):
Samsung has received 96 reports of batteries in Note7 phones overheating in the U.S., including 23 new reports since the September 15 recall announcement. Samsung has received 13 reports of burns and 47 reports of property damage associated with Note7 phones.
http://m.androidcentral.com/cpsc-is...call-23-new-fires-involving-replacement-notes
I'd like to know maybe a reporter could find out How is Samsung Compensating people who have Suffered Burns and actual Property damage like a Desk ?
I personally through Sprint was refunded $800 for my Note 7 and after 10 years with Sprint I was leaving when as an apology they Gifted me an iPhone 7 Plus 128GB. So this whole Note 7 saga has benefitted me at least.
Unless there is a official report from Samsung, some on here will call this a baseless rumor.
23 new reports, that's what about 5.7 exploding note 7 a week.
What I find strange, it seems as though the replacement galaxy note 7's are exploding at a much faster rate than the original recalled galaxy note 7's.
Thankfully this is as official as you can get because its the CPSC and the incidents reported to them will be from Samsung and we can assume are ones they (samsung) have fully acknowledged and investigated as genuine reports.
But yes ... some will still cry fowl.
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The reality is, if Samsung's own claims that it could not isolate the exact cause and the most 'revised' hypothesis on the issue it could offer is that essentially too much was packed into a tight space, then that would in fact mean 'potentially' every single Note 7 device could falter.
[Potential] being the word.
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Huh, something doesn't add up with those numbers. The original recall reported 90 incidents in the US. Now with the second recall they are reporting a total of 96. So that is actually only 6 new incidents with the replacement phones. Meaning the "23 since September 15" number must include the v1 and v2 numbers together. Well, either way, 6 or 23, it was 1 too many. RIP Note 7. I really hope Samsung releases a new Note of some sort in 2017.
Yeah that is what I was thinking. If in fact it's too much stuff packed into one space, then at some point every phone was overheat and explode. They can't take that risked, and if that is truly the case. It was a design flaw that would take months to fix, if not next year. Maybe they thought the bandaid of using a difference source would help, but it appears they were wrong.
The idea that it was a design flaw, and Samsung did not want to acknowledge that. It makes a bit uneasy. Just like Apple taking forever to acknowledge there was a design flaw in the iPhone 4 with antennagate. Also bend gate was pretty big too, and it took modifying the inside structure to fix. Even then they did not acknowledge it was an issue if I remember correctly.
The difference here is that the potential danger that could result from this. Antenna gate hurt no one, but bend gate could have on an extreme level. The Note sounds like it's a ticking time bomb.
Yeah that is what I was thinking. If in fact it's too much stuff packed into one space, then at some point every phone was overheat and explode. They can't take that risked, and if that is truly the case. It was a design flaw that would take months to fix, if not next year. Maybe they thought the bandaid of using a difference source would help, but it appears they were wrong.
The idea that it was a design flaw, and Samsung did not want to acknowledge that. It makes a bit uneasy. Just like Apple taking forever to acknowledge there was a design flaw in the iPhone 4 with antennagate. Also bend gate was pretty big too, and it took modifying the inside structure to fix. Even then they did not acknowledge it was an issue if I remember correctly.
The difference here is that the potential danger that could result from this. Antenna gate hurt no one, but bend gate could have on an extreme level. The Note sounds like it's a ticking time bomb.
I don't believe the packed reason at all. There are phones out there that are packed even tighter. The S7 Edge is packed much tighter than the Note 7 was with a larger battery and smaller chassis.
I have no idea, but I don't buy the battery either. They tried a new, and they use a completely different battery in China, and they were exploding too. I don't know what he issue is, and I don't think Samsung does either.
Check out some of the Note 7 prices
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...TR0.TRC0.H0.Xnote+7.TRS0&_nkw=note+7&_sacat=0
If people are really paying these prices I may sit on this for awhile
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...TR0.TRC0.H0.Xnote+7.TRS0&_nkw=note+7&_sacat=0
If people are really paying these prices I may sit on this for awhile
"In related news, beginning today (October 13) at 3PM Eastern, the expanded recall means customers have a new incentive to stick with a Samsung Galaxy phone when they return the Note 7. Samsung is offering “Up to a $100 total bill credit for a customer who exchanges a Note7 for any Samsung smartphone.” If you don’t want another Samsung phone, the original $25 bill credit is still available for those who simply get a refund or pick up any other phone."
Perhaps i'll buy one, wait for it to catch fire and then sue the seller for selling me a deadly product
Saw your name and thought to myself what is someone born in 1995 doing with a Galaxy Note or iPhone Plus, then realised, its 2016, 1995 means 21. Us 90s Kids aint kids no more
Lol, anyway, I was going to upgrade from my 2yrld Note 4 to Note7, I think the next best phone is an S7 Edge, otherwise LG V20 or Google Pixel XL, if you want Android.
Personally I was close to ordering a S7 Edge, but now I want to see the V20 when it gets down here, as well as Huawei Mate 9, I may just wait until the Note 8 at this rate.
Yeah mean me? I hope not as I stated in my posts news or statements would have to come from Samsung OR official safety bodies, the CPSC are an official safety body!
It seems to just be politics though, stating they need to be recalled so if any more damage anything or anyone they can't sue Samsung. Considering it's been splashed over international mainstream news for the week it's hard to not know you are supposed to return the Note 7.
Although it's not mandatory, so how much would it be worth in a few years?? I mean people pay money for celebrity snotty tissues and empty drinks bottles.
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