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It goes without saying that the bigger the number of exploding phones, the more worrying the whole thing gets, and today Samsung’s getting all the attention. Again. With a different phone.
A Samsung Galaxy S6 exploded onboard a China Airlines flight earlier this month, filling the cabin with smoke and causing injuries to the man who was holding it. The flight, identified as CI027, was heading to Taipei, when a Galaxy S6 burst into flames, leading to small burns to the owner, who quickly threw it to the ground
Flight attendants managed to stop the fire quite quickly, and nobody else was injured, but the cabin was filled with smoke, which obviously can’t make you feel safe, especially mid-flight.
Samsung remaining tightlipped
Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council has already started an investigation, but stated in a press release that the aircraft landed at Taoyuan International Airport safely at 2014 and everyone on board was safe.
“After receiving the notification, Aviation Safety Council (ASC) sent the investigators for flight crew and cabin crew interviews, and removed the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder), and FDR (Flight Data Recorder). The event is identified as an aviation occurrence according to Aviation Occurrence Investigation Act, and with reference to ICAO Annex 13. The Investigator-In-Charge and investigation team has been assigned to this investigation,” the ASC said.
Samsung hasn’t yet issued a statement on this, but the company is certainly looking into this case, so expect more information to emerge in the coming weeks.
As for the causes of the fire, nothing is certain at the moment, but what’s important to note (no pun intended) is that the Samsung Galaxy S6 isn’t suffering from a widespread battery issue as it was confirmed in the case of the Note 7. Most likely, this was caused by physical damage or other factors, but this remains to be determined by the involved parties.
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HMD Global, the company formed by ex Nokia executives licensed the Nokia handset brand from Microsoft on Thursday, and have reportedly already signed and sealed partnerships with Google and phone manufacturer Foxconn.
But will nostalgia help re-establish the Nokia brand as a going concern, or are the glory days of being the world’s leading phone manufacturer well and truly in the past?
Arto Nummela, the head of HMD Global thinks not. “Consumers may be carrying different smartphones now, but are they really in love and loyal to those brands?… We want to be one of the key competitive players in the smartphone business.”
The original Nokia phone business was bought by Microsoft in 2014 and was used to launch the now dead Windows based Lumia phone range. Microsoft however culled the brand in 2015 after a series of disappointing results showed that its peak, the Windows range of phones only accounted for 2% of smartphone market share.
The Nokia brand itself lived on as a maker of old school ‘dumb’ phones mainly in Asian markets and Eastern Europe.
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Nokia, like Blackberry, Yahoo and other former tech giants found itself on the backfoot when it missed the initial land grab for first generation smartphones, and then did not manage to pick up market share with its own hybrid smartphone operating systems. The decision to then hitch its horses to Microsoft’s unpopular (if technically brilliant) smart phone OS brought the company to its knees before Microsoft bought the brand out and replaced the Nokia logo with Windows Phone.
HMD has now however resurrected the brand, and has exclusive rights to use the Nokia logo on mobile phones and tablets for at least the next decade.
While Nokia itself as a company is an independent entity from HMD and will have no financial stake in the new range of Nokia mobile devices, HMD will pay royalties to Nokia.
Time will tell if Nokia will once again become synonymous with mobile phones people want to own in the future, or whether they should remain as pleasant memories.
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