{"id":12288,"date":"2016-10-06T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:18:17","slug":"a-replacement-galaxy-note-7-has-exploded-at-an-american-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/a-replacement-galaxy-note-7-has-exploded-at-an-american-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"A Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Has Exploded At An American Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Samsung just can&#8217;t seem to catch a break. Following an global recall of the new Galaxy Note 7 after their <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2016\/09\/07\/samsung-are-recalling-the-galaxy-note-7-following-exploding-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">batteries where catching fire<\/a>, the new Galaxy is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>A flight on Southwestern Airlines needed to be evacuated because of a smoking Galaxy Note 7<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12290\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Exploding-Note-7-1024x719.png\" alt=\"exploding-note-7\" width=\"592\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Exploding-Note-7-1024x719.png 1024w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Exploding-Note-7-300x211.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Exploding-Note-7-768x539.png 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Exploding-Note-7.png 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A flight from Louisville to Baltimore had to be evacuated at the gate after there where reports of smoke near the plane. What&#8217;s even more concerning is that it was a replacement Note 7 which had been deemed safe by Samsung. Brian Green, the owner of the smartphone, stated that he powered down the phone before takeoff when it started smoking.<\/p>\n<p>He then dropped the phone onto the floor where he noticed a\u00a0&#8220;thick grey-green angry smoke&#8221; emerging from the device. It isn&#8217;t yet certain that the phone malfunctioned for the same reason that previous Note 7s where catching fire, but nonetheless this isn&#8217;t good news for Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung just can&#8217;t seem to catch a break. Following an global recall of the new Galaxy Note 7 after their batteries where catching fire, the new Galaxy is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons. A flight on Southwestern Airlines needed to be evacuated because of a smoking Galaxy Note 7 &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/a-replacement-galaxy-note-7-has-exploded-at-an-american-airport\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1343,1344],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-10.16.49-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12291,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions\/12291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}