14 DAY TRIAL // Just when we thought that the exploding phone saga is coming to an end, here’s a report from Idaho pointing to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge that caught fire in the middle of the night.
Tony Morgan and his wife Theresa were sleeping in their bedroom when the man’s Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge exploded at 4:30 a.m. June 25, according to a report from Idaho Statesman. The phone was charging using Samsung’s wireless charger, and by the looks of things, it all started from the battery unit, which is believed to have overheated in the typical Galaxy Note 7 fashion.
“It’s like a gun went off inside,” Theresa Morgan, who also has a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, explained. “We thought we saw smoke coming from behind the nightstand so I pulled it out and discovered that it was my phone. The phone was smoldering. I had to grab a towel to remove it because it was also melting and oozing some type of a chemical,” her husband continued.
The man managed to grab the phone and get it outside on the porch, explaining that the device “was oozing black goo and something came out of the battery” with a “pretty bad smell.”
Morgan, who is a software engineer, says neither of the two Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge units in the house ever experienced a problem. The explosion, however, destroyed the charger and left big burn marks on the nightstand.
Samsung pays $944 in damages
It goes without saying that this is quite an extreme way to wake up in the middle of the night, and the couple says that if the phone was charging upstairs, it could have burned down the house. His parents were sleeping in the second-floor bedroom, he says.
While you’d expect damages in such incidents to reach thousands of dollars, Samsung actually paid $944 to the Idaho man in order to cover the cost of the phone with Verizon and the amount left on his contract. Furthermore, Samsung offered to repair his nightstand after the explosion destroyed it.
For what it’s worth, the couple says they no longer want to stick with Samsung for their mobile phones, despite the fact they like the phones. They are now looking into Google’s Pixel XL and this is clearly the safer way to go, as not a single incident involving overheating was reported with Google’s smartphone.
