How many Galaxy Note 7 replacement exploded this week? – lagranepoca

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1 – The Saturday, October 8, a Galaxy Note 7 replaced the 27 of September exploded in the handbag of a woman in Taiwan.

2 – Friday, October 7, one of the terminals caught fire in the hands of a teenager in Minnesota, united States. ABC News published a report the next day showing the phone scorched. This Galaxy Note 7 was replaced on the 21st of September.

3 – The most known case is probably the plane that had to be evacuated of emergency last October 5 before take-off due to a Galaxy Note 7-replacement fire. The flight 994 Southwest Airlines Louisville to Baltimore. The smartphone was in the pocket of its owner, and was a unit replacement.

4 – In the early morning of Monday to Tuesday 4 October, a couple in Kentucky woke up at 4:00 by a strange sound coming from a Note 7, the room was covered with smoke. The smartphone, replaced a week before, he was burning up. One of them ended up in the hospital with acute bronchitis. According to The Verge, Samsung knew about the case and decided not to communicate it publicly.

Samsung has not materialized yet on the actions to take in these new cases to Note 7 of replacement, nor has it been expressed in relation to each one of them, but issued a statement on the website of the united States which ensures that they are working as quickly as possible to determine the causes of the fire in at least one of the cases:

"Samsung understands the concerns that our customers must be feeling after reports that raise doubts and questions about the replacement units of our Note 7.

we Continue to act as quickly as possible to investigate the reported case and determine its causes. We will share the results as soon as possible.

We kept in constant contact with the CPSC throughout this process.

If we come to the conclusion that the security issue still exists, we will work with the CPSC to take immediate action and resolve the situation.

we Want to assure our customers that we take very seriously every report and appreciate your patience while we work as quickly as possible throughout this process."

By the time the airlines continue asking travelers to turn off their Note 7 before you start the flight, not the load inside the aircraft and the main operators of the united States are returning the money to those who have purchased one of these terminals, regardless if it is the original or the replacement.

But the balance is convincing and the situation is getting more complicated for Samsung, considering that he has spent weeks running a plan to make recall the smartphones fault, that the replacement have the same problem only has a solution: removing all the units of this model on the market, as soon as possible, cancel the production of the final form and exchange it for the Galaxy S7.

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