{"id":22844,"date":"2016-09-03T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22844"},"modified":"2016-09-03T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:53:47","slug":"samsung-galaxy-note-7-phone-catch-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/03\/samsung-galaxy-note-7-phone-catch-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Exploding Smart Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many of them, but so far at least 35.  Here&#8217;s what it looks like after the fact:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HQQOiilJwJ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2015\/10\/24\/samsung-galaxy-s4-review\/\">I&#8217;m not a big fan of Samsung smart phones. The version of the operating system they put on your phone takes a HUGE AMOUNT of your storage space, so you are left with almost nothing<\/a>.  There is no apparent reason for that, and no apparent fix.  So, generally, I would NEVER recommend a Samsung smartphone.  Also, the company does not stand by their product, at least in some cases. We had to return a Samsung smart phone numerous times, and after realizing that ALL the replacements they were sending us were reconditioned (and broken) begged for a different model. They told us to screw off.<\/p>\n<p>So, for me, this is a bit of schadenfreude vis-a-vis Samsung, but I feel badly for the people who ended up with the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/samsung-halts-galaxy-note-7-shipments-phones-catching-fire\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=DT:%20Brief%20Daily%202016-09-03&#038;utm_term=DT%20Newsletter%20-%20Daily%20Subscribers\">Here is more info on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones that catch fire, and what to do about returning yours to Samsung for a replacement. <\/a>Don&#8217;t expect them to actually replace the phone with one that doesn&#8217;t catch fire.  They might, but I personally wouldn&#8217;t count on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many of them, but so far at least 35. Here&#8217;s what it looks like after the fact: As you may know, I&#8217;m not a big fan of Samsung smart phones. The version of the operating system they put on your phone takes a HUGE AMOUNT of your storage space, so you are left with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/03\/samsung-galaxy-note-7-phone-catch-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Exploding Smart Phone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2074,2075,2076,2077,2078,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Ws","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}