Sorry, OP here. I've been living in a cave the past week. What's the deal with Samsung catching fire, what was at fault?
Poor lithium ion cell design. 30+ incidents of Note 7 phones going explodey. No other samsung phone is affected. Voluntary but highly recommended recall in effect. Samsung are going to gimp the faulty handsets with OTA updates that limit their total battery charge to speed up the process. Replacements already being issued to customers.
I work at a major distributor that buys 10s of millions $ worth of samshits a year and this recall is a massive pain in our behinds.
>>56679175
Samsung fucked up in a big way and now they have no other choice but recalling all devices. They are shitting their pants as every incident will fuck up their shaky image.
And yes, it's very real, otherwise Samsung wouldn't have acted that quickly. They know exactly just how terrifyingly bad they messed this one up.
Now wait for the samshit defense force qho will say that exploding phones dont even matter but lack of 3.5mm jack is one of the greatest sin because apple
As others said above the batteries are defective but now it's now an official recall.
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2016/Samsung-Recalls-Galaxy-Note7-Smartphones/
A week ago it was only a "return program" with Samsung trying to quietly brush it under the carpet and the dozens of phones having their batteries fail was not going to be kept silent.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/return-galaxy-note-7-explodes-171631284.html
Note the "Product Exchange Program" which many sites erroneously call a "recall" as the CPSC wasn't involved. Today the site now says of course pic related "Safety Recall".
http://www.samsung.com/us/note7recall/
>>56679484
That's because the explodey phones are being recalled and will be fixed. Apple is not fixing the headphone jack issue at all.
This would be obvious if you weren't such a raging homosexual.