Does Everything with The Samsung Name Catch Fire? S8

LMaverick-au on 29/03/2017 - 08:04
Last edited 29/03/2017 - 17:43

It seems that anything with the name Samsung is prone to catching fire including its stores.

The latest is a Samsung store after a fire started in the storeroom full of S8 handsets.

Samsung are also releasing refurbished note 7's for those that live life on the edge. These may be marketed under the name "hellfire" or "IED".

"A Samsung store has caught fire in Singapore just a day before the company is due to unveil its new flagship smartphone."

"Just last month, one of the factories that manufactured the faulty Note7 batteries caught fire in China."

"This most recent fiery incident to strike Samsung happened Tuesday at a storeroom of the Samsung Experience Store in the AMK Hub Singapore, Channel News Asia reports."

Samsung store catches fire day before Galaxy S8 launch

Edit: Clearly Samsung fanbois have no sense of humour.

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Comments

  • Baebs on 29/03/2017 - 08:22
    +4

    /r/Titlegore

    • AlienC on 29/03/2017 - 08:32
      +1

      I liked it.

    • 0p on 31/03/2017 - 02:31
      -1

      More like /0/Titlegore
      Amaright???

  • indium on 29/03/2017 - 08:43

    Not sure if trying to be funny or slanderous.

      • try2bhelpful on 29/03/2017 - 08:58
        +9

        The meaninng was known, stop being pedantic - or do it with humour rather than "preaching" yourself.

  • try2bhelpful on 29/03/2017 - 09:02

    This could just be really bad luck given they are launching the s8 tomorrow - they don't know what caused the store fire yet. If it is to do with the batteries on the S8 then Samsung is in deep doo doo.

    • Maverick-au on 29/03/2017 - 09:41
      -6

      This could just be really bad luck given they are launching the s8 tomorrow - they don't know what caused the store fire yet. If it is to do with the batteries on the S8 then Samsung is in deep doo doo.

      Where there is smoke there is fire. A fire starts in a storeroom full of new Samsung S8 handsets… A month after their note 7 battery factory goes up in flames.

      Not to mention exploding washing machines in the USA, fire prone ones in Australia and the rest of the world and the list of Samsung failures goes on and on.

      • try2bhelpful on 29/03/2017 - 11:28

        I agree that Samsung has a really crap record at the moment, and the whole washing machine debacle was incredibly poorly handled, but I'm not going to jump the gun until the fire has been investigated and the issue confirmed. Shops catch fire everyday and it is, usually, poor wiring, or someone's cigarette butt, or solvent covered cleaning rags, etc. However, as I indicated, if it is the batteries they are in trouble.

        • Maverick-au on 29/03/2017 - 13:32
          -1

          but I'm not going to jump the gun until the fire has been investigated and the issue confirmed.

          I never said the S8 was the cause, I pointed out that it was a Samsung shop that caught fire and that it also had stock of the new S8 which is days from release.

          Unfortunately Samsung fanbois have shown themselves to have zero sense of humour. Clearly went up in flames like their Samsung products.

        • indium on 29/03/2017 - 16:07
          +1

          @Maverick-au: I didn't read anywhere that said the store had s8 stock. The launch/announcement is tomorrow but release still weeks away so unlikely to have any stock

        • Maverick-au on 29/03/2017 - 16:31
          -1

          @phew:

          I didn't read anywhere that said the store had s8 stock. The launch/announcement is tomorrow but release still weeks away so unlikely to have any stock

          Samsung is running an S8 experience event at Korean, some Asian stores and probably other countries as well. This starts on the 1st of April.

          Don't you think if the store had no S8 handsets that Samsung would have made that clear? Maybe it was Note 7's waiting to be returned?

  • Diji1 on 29/03/2017 - 09:59
    +2

    Does Anything with The Samsung Name Catch Fire?

    Yes. They're even having a fire sale of Note 7 handsets at the moment!

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/samsung_galaxy_note…

    • try2bhelpful on 29/03/2017 - 13:56
      +1

      Got to admit, depending on the price, I would be tempted. This was the phone I hung out for last year and if they have really sorted out the battery issues it would be a good phone to have. However, they would need to have a good return policy in place if the battery issues raised their heads again. This is an interesting move by Samsung.

      • Maverick-au on 29/03/2017 - 15:32

        Got to admit, depending on the price, I would be tempted.

        The problem is that Samsung's name is badly affected and will the airlines allow this to be carried after imposing a total ban?

        • try2bhelpful on 29/03/2017 - 17:46
          +1

          A good question and one I await the answer for. However, given the number of phones I have lying around the house I could probably take an alternative one overseas with me; if necessary. I don't think Samsung would take the risk of releasing them unless they were really sure on the batteries. This does, however, raise the whole issue of battery technology for these devices. People don't throw their phone away when they drop them so there is probably a reasonable number wandering around with phones with damaged batteries - and not just Samsung phones. The real answer is a quick way of reliably testing devices to determine the dodgy ones from the functioning ones. We can then apply it to the ones that risk being packed with explosives as well, so we can do away with the current insanity that a few, out of the millions, causes wholesale disruption.

  • HeWhoKnows on 30/03/2017 - 11:01

    All the more reason to keep your Samsung Galaxy S5

  • taki on 31/03/2017 - 10:50

    Apple usually follows the Samsung lead. Amazon's Fire TV director gets poached by Apple.
    Expect Apple Fire TVs & other (Chinese) Fireworks.

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