The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was released August 19th, 2016. The characteristic advertised the most was its impressive battery life: up to 9 hours. However, since its release, there was been 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage. This has to do with the defective batteries. A video has gone viral online of a car completely in flames after a man was charging his Note in the car. Another man received second-degree burns on his leg after his phone exploded in his back pocket. While in the air, a battery caught fire onboard a Delta flight. Needless to say, people are being encouraged to take in their Notes.
The author doesn't really take a stance. She just simply states the facts, which lets the reader decipher things for themselves. The article was published September 17th, very recently. This is important because it shows how relevant the issue is, and how many people need to take action now. Before reading this article, I had no idea that these phones were catching on fire. The article is intended to warn Note 7 users of the dangers of their phones and hopefully keep as many people safe as possible. This article is important because not only does it serve as a sort of public service announcement, it also shows how technology can be very dangerous. This can be related in a way to the Radium Girls of the early 1900s. They were told to paint watches with radium, which eventually led to radiation sickness. The companies, just trying to make money, didn't do anything about the consequences. Both the Note 7s and these watches hurt people.
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I know this sounds extreme, but as I was reading this, I kept thinking if attacks would happen with help of these phones. Phones can be taken anywhere. It worries me, especially on airplanes, if one of these phones were to blow up.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting article! I think whatever Samsung is doing they should fix it and make it more safe like Iphones.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that Samsung should be recalled and work on a way to improve it. For now, people should get a phone that's safer.
ReplyDeleteI think Apple is very lucky that is is all happening around the release of the iPhone 7. To be honest, if it came out that this whole thing was some sort of sabotage, I wouldn't be completely shocked. Not only is this happening right when Apple is coming out with a new phone, its a phone that a lot of people are calling not worth the money because of things like the head phone jack being removed. Samsung is loosing a lot of money because of this, and a lot of people are switching to Apple because their phones don't explode. I'm not saying that Apple did do this, I just think they're really lucky.
ReplyDeleteHow did Samsung not figure this out prior to the release of the Note? If this is happening as frequently as the article made it out to be, I find it hard to believe that Samsung is really making safety testing a priority. I am not sure if I feel confident in Samsung's future products. It is really worrying to think about what other disasters could be lurking behind the cell phone screen just because a company could not be bothered to properly test and study their product before releasing it.
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