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Exploding phones

Is Samsung about to go up in flames?

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 12, 2016
The company recalled 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7s equipped with fire-prone batteries.
A woman walks past billboards of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and S7 at a mobile phone shop in Seoul on September 12, 2016. Samsung shares plunged on September 12 after the South Korean electronics giant urged global users to stop using its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to a spate of exploding batteries that raised alarm around the world. 
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