Could Samsung be possibly put in the crosshairs again after its Galaxy Note 7 debacle? A new case seems to suggest so. This time it's not the Note 7 that randomly combusted but another one of its previous flagships, the Galaxy S6 edge.
Exploding Galaxy S6 Edge
One Galaxy S6 edge owner, under the name ReturnThroughAether on Reddit, recently published images showing the damage incurred by the phone in question that had exploded this week.
"Woke up [on the morning of Dec. 20] just in time to get ready for work and looked over to find my phone has exploded. Luckily I don't keep it on my bed, as you can see it scorched my night stand," the Reddit user said.
The owner has already exchanged words with Samsung and AT&T in light of the situation. The owner says that he's "done with [Samsung phones] for a while," and that the handset did not have overheating problems beforehand. Unfortunately, a sizable bulk of travel photos, which presumably wasn't backed up to an alternative storage system, goes down with the exploded device.
Apart from lost photos, a ruined nightstand, and a now-defunct handset, no injuries came off the incident.
Samsung Offers To Replace The Device
Samsung has already reached back to the Galaxy S6 edge owner, offering to ship a replacement unit if the exploded unit is sent to the company. Samsung will also reimburse the owner for the scorched nightstand. These conditions, however, can only go through if ReturnThroughAether sends his ruined device. The user informed Samsung that he intends to retain it, a decision he made after speaking with an attorney.
Samsung's Note 7 fiasco is still one of the biggest faux pas in tech this year. The company, after continuous reports of exploding handsets, has already canceled production of Note 7 handsets, published a public apology, and has put out all the stops to withdraw all Note 7 devices in the wild.
Could Samsung's exploding smartphone problem bleed into its past flagships? Or is this just an example of a freak case? To be fair, the Galaxy S6 edge was released in 2015, and there has been little or no cases of the handset exploding.
It's unclear what caused the phone in question to combust, but the incident certainly doesn't help Samsung's dented consumer loyalty. Its next flagship, the Galaxy S8, stands to do right where the Note 7 failed. The rumor mill for the device continues to churn, and the forthcoming handset hopefully won't be embroiled in the same fate.
