It is MORE than one fire from a Samsung phone, Hostage, and not just in the US. There have been fires here and in Singapore and in China.
This is NOT Industrial sabotage. Samsung has identified a manufacturing error combined with a battery supplier's out of spec battery as the primary culprit, with a design flaw in the original design also possibly being part of the problem because of the replacements also overheating, although not exploding. The manufacturing error was putting too much pressure on a small number of out-of-spec batteries supplied by one battery supplier which damaged the internals of those batteries which caused the phones to overheat and explode under charge. The design flaw may be at fault in those which overheated and caught fire at other times which included those replacement phones with fully in spec batteries. . . but "industrial sabotage" has been ruled out.
Disagree with that you described.
Samsung is simply being congenial and looking for things to use for damage control. They are confused now because they don’t know what to do.
Two weeks back Samsung issued a report that of the millions of Note 7s that were shipped, only 26 had been reported to overheat or explode and of those 26, the claims turned out to be fake or suspicious.
The airline incident was from a person known to be shady. And the phone in question was of a replacement phone with the ‘design flaw’ addressed.
Samsung would not put out a second series of phones without having thoroughly tested them. Their aim was to stop the damage to their brand.
Now they are confused and shaken but that’s only for now. When the story is fully investigated there will be hell to pay. Enough said.
Given what I know and WITNESSED regarding the effects of vandalism and corporate sabotage in two different locations and two different stores in relation to all Windows phone products on display and where Android and Apple phones in the same display area were untouched, I am not surprised to see a flagship product of Samsung, a product that had received stellar reviews, be attacked viciously, especially as its chief competitor is headed by a reprehensible progressive and as such, receives protection from all quarters.
http://www.inquisitr.com/3493672/samsung-galaxy-note-7-are-fake-stories-of-explosions-emerging/
http://pocketnow.com/2016/09/22/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-reports-hoax-count
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/09/samsung-claims-26-fake-reports-note-7-fire-incidents.html
Now there are media morons pushing a false ‘exploding’ washing machine mischaracterization. It is all too obvious what could be happening here.