Yet another Samsung machine may be running into problems . According to local news reports , a Samsung Galaxy J5 smartphone catch fervour in Pau , France over the weekend .
Lamya Bouyirdane , the phone ’s proprietor , tell the Associated Pressthat she realized something was wrong after she asked her four - year - old son to pick it up . She plain tossed the phone elsewhere after noticing it had “ egotistic up ” and was cough up smoke . The phone then caught fire and the back blew off . Bouyirdane ’s married person was capable to put the firing out before anyone in the kinsfolk — the couple has three modest children — was seriously injured .
Pau : un portable Samsung brûle et explosehttps://t.co/P85Oq2imfnpic.twitter.com/mHynHRWpK0
— Sud Ouest ( @sudouest)November 6 , 2016
“ We ’ll go complain to the police [ on Monday],”Omari say the AFP . “ My son could have lost his script . People must be warn ! ”
The yoke apparently bought the phone in June 2016 and had antecedently brought it to Morocco—“where it was very hot”—with no problems . The Galaxy J5 launched inJuly 2015along with the J7 , and it was pegged as a solidbudgetsmartphone .
Samsung , as you probably know , has been having a grating go of it lately . The company is still dealing with the side effect from its summer of problems with its Note 7 smartphone , which itpermanently killedafterrecalling millions of devicesbecause the phone kept spontaneously collapse into flaming . The company reported it will turn a loss 1000000000 of one dollar bill because of the debacle . Last hebdomad , the companyrecalled2.8 million washables machines because of safety and wound issues .
Update , 11:50 am : Samsung responded to a asking to annotate from Gizmodo :
“ We are unable to annotate on this specific incident until we obtain and thoroughly examine the equipment . client safety remains our high priority and we want to work with any client who has experienced an issue with a Samsung product for investigate the thing and support them . The issues with the Galaxy Note7 are isolate to only that model . ”
[ Associated Press ]
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