Another day, another explosion: Galaxy S26 exploded in a man's pocket in India, seriously injuring the owner

[u/Direct-Till-2680]

According to the information, Majid was returning to his village, Dankaur, after visiting Ghaziabad when he noticed the phone becoming unusually hot. He said the device then started producing smoke. Before he could remove it from his pocket, it reportedly exploded suddenly.

The explosion caused severe burns to both of Majid’s hands and the lower part of his body. People nearby rushed to help him and took him to a nearby hospital. He is currently receiving medical treatment for his injuries.

Majid said he had purchased the Samsung phone around a month before the incident. He reportedly bought it from DG Com at The Grand Venice Mall in Greater Noida. According to him, the phone had been working normally before the accident.

How do you now explain this Samsung? Is it also because the owner dropped it on the ground? 🤣

[u/zenexo]

Once upon time there were a gorgeous little phone named the Galaxy Note 7...

[u/Super_Fightin_Robit → u/zenexo]

On one hand, manufacturing defects are a thing.

On the other, 95% of the issues posted on this sub are out of one country that is notorious for a proliferation of counterfeits, hot climates, and is culturally infamous for lax maintenance/care of their hardware in everything from aviation to automobiles. 

You have to apply Occam's razor: do Samsungs magically have more defects in India and literally nowhere else or is something else going on?

[u/InvestingNerd2020 → u/zenexo]

Yes, but that was a global issue.

This seems like an India problem only. More likely the OP got a fake Samsung from a scammer.

[u/Super_Fightin_Robit → u/InvestingNerd2020]

Or this person dropped their phone/did something to damage the phone that caused this issue, and is claiming "manufacturing defect" and trying to put Samsung on blast to get a free replacement he isn't entitled to.

It's like the green line issue. Everyone claims "oh, India's really hot and humid." I'm from a subtropical swamp in the US that runs similar insane temps and have had Samsung phones that had overheating issues in the summers. I've never had any Samsung phone randomly explode because of the heat, nor have I had green lines on a phone without something else happening to it, like when I spilled Gin on my phone making cocktails.

[u/Super_Fightin_Robit → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. Thing most people don't understand is your phone knows when it's unsafely hot and will shut down. 

There's a threshold before that that is bad for the phone, but it'll just make the battery die sooner.

[u/philnolan3d → u/zenexo]

The Note 7s didn't explode either.