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10-25-2016, 12:50 PM
The smoke still hasn’t cleared from Samsung’s Note7 debacle, and along come new reports that Galaxy S7 Edge phones are also catching fire.
There are two recent incidents to go on. PhoneArena (http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-S7-edge-explodes-while-charging_id86908) says someone from a “big U.S. wireless carrier” contacted the site about a Galaxy S7 Edge that exploded while charging overnight using Samsung’s official charger.-
Another S7 Edge user in Canada posted pictures (https://plus.google.com/photos/112058252689143287934/album/6343620894893282865?authkey=CKm5jrLym6qbSQ&sqid=106871664362991636382&ssid=3f1ce6e0-b3b5-4c54-878e-714f97887d47) of his phone, which he said “burst into flames” while driving. He said he tossed the phone out the window of his car and then covered it with snow to extinguish it.-
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There are two recent incidents to go on. PhoneArena (http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-S7-edge-explodes-while-charging_id86908) says someone from a “big U.S. wireless carrier” contacted the site about a Galaxy S7 Edge that exploded while charging overnight using Samsung’s official charger.-
Another S7 Edge user in Canada posted pictures (https://plus.google.com/photos/112058252689143287934/album/6343620894893282865?authkey=CKm5jrLym6qbSQ&sqid=106871664362991636382&ssid=3f1ce6e0-b3b5-4c54-878e-714f97887d47) of his phone, which he said “burst into flames” while driving. He said he tossed the phone out the window of his car and then covered it with snow to extinguish it.-
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