Telegraph - Samsung Note 7 explodes setting Jeep on fire: How to check your phone is safe?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/12/exploding-samsung-note-7-sets-jeep-on-fire-how-to-check-your-pho/

This article speaks about how the latest edition of the Samsung Note 7 and how it is bursting into flames whilst being in people's pockets and near their bedside tables. Samsung released an official statement saying that the issue seems to be with the phone's battery and that they are withdrawing them all from stores and asking people to return them. In my opinion and the fact of the matter is that Apple and that the moral of this story is to get an iPhone. 

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