Samsung may truly have a major problem on its hands. A week after this phone exploded in France, a Canadian has had his Samsung smartphone explode. And it wasn’t a Galaxy Not 7. Here’s the details from CTV News:
Amarjit Mann, 34, says he was driving on Sunday morning, when he felt his Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone getting warm in his pocket.
When he pulled over and took the phone out, Mann says it exploded, causing second-degree burns on his hands and third-degree burns on his wrists.
“This is a nightmare for me, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mann told CTV Winnipeg, explaining that he feels lucky he wasn’t holding the phone to his ear when it happened.
“I should’ve lost my eyes, or my cheeks or anything could have happened,” he said.
Mann threw the phone out of his vehicle, which he says helped limit the damage to himself and his car.
While the phone hasn’t been examined by Samsung or anyone else, and we don’t know how the phone was used by the unfortunate person who had it explode on him, this is clearly problematic for Samsung. After all, you don’t hear about any other phone vendor having their phones explode with the frequency that Samsung phones seem to? What’s worse is that some quick research on this blog finds that I covered exploding Samsung smartphones twice in 2013 and 2014. Thus one can say that there might be a systemic problem with Samsung phones that is far from being recent. Not good if you’re Samsung.
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Oh Boy…. Yet Another Samsung Smartphone Has Exploded
Samsung may truly have a major problem on its hands. A week after this phone exploded in France, a Canadian has had his Samsung smartphone explode. And it wasn’t a Galaxy Not 7. Here’s the details from CTV News:
Amarjit Mann, 34, says he was driving on Sunday morning, when he felt his Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone getting warm in his pocket.
When he pulled over and took the phone out, Mann says it exploded, causing second-degree burns on his hands and third-degree burns on his wrists.
“This is a nightmare for me, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mann told CTV Winnipeg, explaining that he feels lucky he wasn’t holding the phone to his ear when it happened.
“I should’ve lost my eyes, or my cheeks or anything could have happened,” he said.
Mann threw the phone out of his vehicle, which he says helped limit the damage to himself and his car.
While the phone hasn’t been examined by Samsung or anyone else, and we don’t know how the phone was used by the unfortunate person who had it explode on him, this is clearly problematic for Samsung. After all, you don’t hear about any other phone vendor having their phones explode with the frequency that Samsung phones seem to? What’s worse is that some quick research on this blog finds that I covered exploding Samsung smartphones twice in 2013 and 2014. Thus one can say that there might be a systemic problem with Samsung phones that is far from being recent. Not good if you’re Samsung.
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