In a reminder of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, a Florida resident’s Apple AirPod (right bud)caught fire and exploded, the media reported.
A week after Apple said it is looking into incidents of iPhone 8 batteries swelling and phones being left split apart, the first such case has been reported in the US.
A Best Buy employee posted on Reddit to report that his store had received a bulging iPhone 8 as a return.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Friday its third-quarter operating profit is expected to have nearly tripled compared to the previous year
Samsung did not announce the performance estimates of each business division, although the chip business is anticipated to have played a key role in the record-beating report
The giant conglomerate was forced to discontinue the smartphone -- originally intended to compete with Apple’s iPhone -- after a chaotic recall that saw replacement devices also catching fire
The call from the South Korean company, the world’s largest smartphone maker, comes after US authorities urged users to switch the Galaxy Note 7 off and not to use or charge it during a flight