{"id":193214,"date":"2017-01-05T04:26:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=193214"},"modified":"2017-01-06T01:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T23:34:41","slug":"exploding-galaxy-note-7-probe-released-soon-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/193214-exploding-galaxy-note-7-probe-released-soon-samsung.html","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Galaxy Note 7 probe releasing &#8220;soon&#8221; \u2013 Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung America president Tim Baxter has promised that the results of an investigation into the Galaxy Note 7 would be released &#8220;soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at CES 2017, Baxter said it has been a challenging year for Samsung, adding that they are working to find out what exactly happened with the smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch of the Note 7 in August 2016, buyers reported that the device would suddenly heat up and catch alight.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations pointed to a defect in the battery from a supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung recalled the Note 7 and issued replacements which used a battery from a different supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after this, users reported that their replacement Note 7 phones were catching fire spontaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung then issued a full recall and stopped selling the device.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/190702-why-the-galaxy-note-7-kept-exploding-report.html\">Why the Galaxy Note 7 kept exploding &#8211; Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung America president Tim Baxter has promised that the results of an investigation into the Galaxy Note 7 will be released &#8220;soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":178139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[40278,645,38384,40424],"class_list":["post-193214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-ces-2017","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-note-7","tag-tim-baxter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193250,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193214\/revisions\/193250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}