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Not even very expensive or difficult to do. A small group of people could coordinate such a thing pretty easily.

You can see a single opinion has taken over the internet where everyone is convinced any Note 7 in existence is a ticking time bomb that can kill you at any moment.

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>You can see a single opinion has taken over the internet where everyone is convinced any Note 7 in existence is a ticking time bomb that can kill you at any moment.

Whereas the truth is?

that out of 2 million devices 97 burned or exploded?

So far.

yeah that's the thing, you extrapolate this over time and gets very bad fairly quickly..

Am I getting this right? We should be OK with 1 in 20,000 odds of a phone exploding in our hands or burning down the house?

Because that's what 97 in 2 million amounts to.

Besides, that's just in the first couple months of release. Can you guarantee that a device run with a known, faulty, battery issue, wont result in more explosion as it gets used for more time?

It's not like "if you switched it on for the first time and it didn't explode it never will".

If anything time (and wear on battery etc) could be a compounding factor...

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