Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Explodes while Charging in China

Earlier this month, Samsung launched its latest flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 7 and is already on sale in most of the Western markets. While in India, the pre-orders began from this week whereas in China, the company is yet to launch. After a huge success of Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge, now the Galaxy Note 7 also been a hit. With the huge demand, the company is also said to postpone the launch in few countries.

In the China, world’s largest smartphone market, the device will be officially launched tomorrow. While rest of the world got just a 4GB RAM variant with 64GB of storage, the Chinese variant will sport 6GB of RAM with 128GB of built-in storage. But prior to the official launch in China, one unit of the Galaxy Note 7 is exploded. From the below images we can see that the user is using the Micro USB to USB Type-C converter for charging that might be the reason for the incident.

While the charging port looks good in the images, the left edge of the device along with display are totally damaged. Even the transparent snap-on case is melted. Apart from the images, there is no other information available about this incident. From the last weeks, we have been seeing similar incident coming out from China. While in India, the Xiaomi Mi 4 was caught on fire while charging and later the Xiaomi Mi 4 & Mi 4C also caused similar destructions.

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