More of a Galaxy Note 7 caught fire on Wednesday (5), before the takeoff of a flight from the airline Southwest Airlines in the United States. This time, the phone in question was a lot more new, released by Samsung to replace the first wave of smartphones, whose sales have been halted after repeated reports of explosions of the battery.
in Photos obtained by the site The Verge show that the mobile phone, which went by overheating, is of a more recent, and poses questions about how Samsung is dealing with the problem. Sought by Techcrunch, the office of the manufacturer in Brazil has not commented on the theme.
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The information has been confirmed by the airline and by the owner of the Galaxy Note 7, Brian Green. The consumer said that he bought the cell phone in a store of the carrier AT&T on September 21, two days after the Samsung resume their sales. According to him, the icon of the battery on the phone was of green color and the box had the black square on the label, two indicators included by Samsung to identify the devices supposedly risk-free.
Green said that the battery of the Note 7 was at 80% when he hung up the phone, as per the recommendation of the company’s travel – which, in turn, follows the guidelines of the aviation authority of the United States, given the history of problems with the model. As soon as he put the cell phone in your pocket, a smoke started to leave, causing the user to throw the device on the floor.
A thick smoke gray-green color came from within the Galaxy, forcing the crew to evacuate the plane and cancel the flight. A colleague of Green’s reported that, to return to the aircraft to pick up his belongings, he saw that the device had burned the carpet and singed the ground of the plane. The smartphone is under investigation of the department of fire of Louisville, the city where the flight would go.
The incident occurred two months after the launch of the Galaxy Note 7, announced on 2 August. The Note 7 has not even started to be sold in Brazil, due to cases of overheating. Samsung has not yet said when it will hit the stores in the country.
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