A second replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device, deemed safe by the company, has caught fire in the US, US media report.<\/p>\n
Samsung has been forced to issue new models of the smartphone following complaints of faulty batteries.<\/p>\n
A man in Kentucky said he was “scared to death” when he woke to a bedroom full of smoke, local media say.<\/p>\n
It comes after another replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“The phone is supposed to be the replacement, so you would have thought it would be safe,” Michael Klering of Nicholasville, Kentucky, told local broadcaster WKYT.<\/p>\n
He added that his device was not plugged in when it caught fire at his home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s North America technology reporter Dave Lee says Samsung is now facing a “full-blown crisis”, adding that this latest news raises “serious questions over its obligation to protect the public”.<\/p>\n
The Note 7 was subject to a mass recall in September, but Samsung said it had identified and fixed the problem.<\/p>\n
Smoke on a plane<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday a replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane due to fly from Louisville, Kentucky, to Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n A Southwest Airlines spokesperson told the BBC: “A customer reported smoke emitting from an electronic device. All customers and crew deplaned safely via the main cabin door.”<\/p>\n The plane was evacuated before take-off and Samsung said it was investigating the incident.<\/p>\n “We are working with the authorities and Southwest now to recover the device and confirm the cause,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n “Once we have examined the device we will have more information to share.”<\/p>\n Last month the company assured customers that the fixed devices were safe.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A second replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device, deemed safe by the company, has caught fire in the US, US media report. Samsung has been forced to issue new models of the smartphone following complaints of faulty batteries. A man in Kentucky said he was “scared to death” when he woke to a bedroom full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}