Now Galaxy S7 Edge Phones are Exploding Also! Big Trouble for Samsung!

Now Galaxy S7 Edge Phones are Exploding Also! Big Trouble for Samsung!

I rang my mobile provider today (EE) to ask if there was any way they could give me a bit more data. I was only currently on 500mb data plan p/m and that was getting eaten quickly after I watched like 4-5 videos on my phone. So I rang them up to see what they could do for me. One of the things suggested was that they might be able to upgrade me to an S7. So I quickly done a Google search for S7 and the first thing that I saw was this Daily Mail post saying "Another Samsung phone may be in trouble: Shocking pictures show Galaxy S7 Edge owner claims EXPLODED while charging". Yikes!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...ED-charging.html

Apparently, the phone "exploded" while it was left on charge overnight. This was by the same person that handed in their Note 7 after the big recall that Samsung did and they was given the Galaxy S7 Edge instead. And this is not the first time that an S7 Edge is said to have exploded. Some guy in Ohio suffered 3rd degree burns to his legs after his phone overheated while in his trousers pocket who has since sued Samsung according to this Phone Arena post.



And that's not an isolated case, in the new Samsung are being sued left right and center for damages. This has to be a complete legal and PR nightmare for them! As if loosing $5 billion in revenue having to do the recalls wasn't enough. It looks like they will have to also pay out millions in damages to people suing them. And as if that's not enough, up to 40% of people are saying they will NEVER buy another Samsung phone again.

This is insane!

This is just insane that another Samsung flagship model phone is exploding in similar ways to the Note 7. In today's technological market, this should not be happening! Phone manufactures have a very very big budget spend on production, development and testing. And that's exactly what they should be spending their money on. Testing, testing and more testing. But here we see a classic case of phone manufacturers putting profits before peoples safety!

We all know there is a lot of competition out there. Apple with their iPhone 7, now the Google Pixel phone. And other phone manufactures making much cheaper smartphones they have to compete with. So it's obvious they rushed this out instead of spending money on and taking more time to test their phones fully.

I hope this is a lesson to all phone manufacturers out there. To more fully test their phones over a longer period. I mean come on! The fact that so many of these phones are exploding and Samsung didn't pick up on that? Yeah right! I suspect they probably knew that it was going to happen but tried to get it out there and make back as much money as they could from it and "hope" it didn't happen on the scale it did. But that has backfired on them now and they are now heavily paying for that decision.

Do you own a Samsung S7 Edge?

Will you trust it the same now or will you now be very "on edge" about it? (pun intended).

One things for sure, the price of these has dropped phenomenally.

But I'd rather pay more and buy a phone that wont explode next to my head!

How about you?

What do you think about this?