[ghshephard]

Samsung has issued a forcible recall for all the devices. This was not one of the recalled device, it's a new model without the original flaw. This must have been something different.

Which begs the question - given the hundreds of millions of smartphones with out there - how many, even without a manufacturing flaw, end up smoking/catching fire? 1 in a million? 1 in 10 million?

[simonh]

Either it's a new flaw, or their fix failed to adequately address the original flaw. There was a report of someone in China having a replacement Note 7 burn out on them as well[0], so this is not an isolated incident for the 'fixed' phones.

[0] http://bgr.com/2016/09/27/note-7-recall-china-samsung-fire-e...