Tech: Updated OP: Samsung Galaxy Replacement catches fire on Plane

Adonis

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Southwest Airlines flight 944 from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated this morning while still at the gate because of a smoking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. All passengers and crew exited the plane via the main cabin door and no injuries were reported, a Southwest Airlines spokesperson told The Verge.

More worryingly, the phone in question was a replacement Galaxy Note 7, one that was deemed to be safe by Samsung. The Verge spoke to Brian Green, owner of the Note 7, on the phone earlier today and he confirmed that he had picked up the new phone at an AT&T store on September 21st. A photograph of the box shows the black square symbol that indicates a replacement Note 7 and Green said it had a green battery icon.

UPDATE:
Samsung is looking into overheating replacement Galaxy phones.

monsterLd

Damn... our cabin crew advised to turn these phones off on our flight at the weekend

WalkingOnCharts

Adonis

Samsung tried to blame it on the battery company but maybe the battery company isn't at fault. Maybe Samsung is at fault.

Haus

WOW

Samsung sis... wyd?

Same Ol' Mistakes

Samsung is a mess lately

Haus

Mess, the phone was powered off too

these are hazardous waste

Pixel

DancingShoes

nuclear

Samsung please remove All note 7 from all shelves and move one to the note 8 and focus on S8. This phone is a total disaster and it doesn't look good.

Jackson

Wow, wyd Samsung?

Can't_M!ss_This

This is just crazy. It won't be long until somebody gets seriously hurt.

The fact that some people have refused to return their original Note 7's for a replacement is gross. The fact anybody used an Android phone at all is heartbreaking. I wish I were rich so I just give everybody an iPhone and we would all be safe and could iMessage and FaceTime

Funhouse

****, I was still planning to get this phone once all the problems were solved, but if this keeps happening that's obviously not gonna happen. It sucks because there is literally no phone on the market right now that I would even want to spend my money on besides this one, but I also don't want to keep my current phone another year because I've had it for 3 years already.

liberalmusiclover

The replacement?

Su-Barbie-A

BOOM, clAP, the sound of my Samsung.
The fire goes on and on and on and on.

Damien M

They need to cancel the rollout of the Note 7 entirely and focus on next year's devices.

Reza

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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This

This is just crazy. It won't be long until somebody gets seriously hurt.

The fact that some people have refused to return their original Note 7's for a replacement is gross. The fact anybody used an Android phone at all is heartbreaking. I wish I were rich so I just give everybody an iPhone and we would all be safe and could iMessage and FaceTime

There are way more android phones than iphones in the world though

the fact that iPhone users think they are "smarter" yet salivate over the next gen phones when they add one small feature is the real joke

Jimmy kimmel has a whole set of videos where he shows people the current gen phones and tells them its the next gen phones and they say how they are so much better

its all psychology and apple has you guys hooked. sad!

iLays

They need to give it up. If it can still catch fire when it's turned off

It's safe to say once it's turned on for a first time that it exploding can happen at any given moment

KasioKas

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Originally posted by Reza

There are way more android phones than iphones in the world though

the fact that iPhone users think they are "smarter" yet salivate over the next gen phones when they add one small feature is the real joke Jimmy kimmel has a whole set of videos where he shows people the current gen phones and tells them its the next gen phones and they say how they are so much better its all psychology and apple has you guys hooked. sad!

Dd true.

OT: Samsung you ****** up just move on to the next tbh.

vuelve88

Mess at Samsung's self-sabotage.

Even though I have an iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Macbook Pro, I'm rooting for Google's Pixel phone to pull through now. I'm not a fan of Apple's "courage" logic of removing features to sell more accessories.