Re: Another (possible) Note 7 burnt up in Massachusetts
I gotta say, the more I look at the pictures of the phone that was burned, the more I wonder if this is some kind of hoax and someone is trying to cash in on the whole Note 7 thing. First of all, as already stated, the phone in question in this story isn't a Note 7. The images used in this story come from the company's Facebook page linked above, and they clearly say these are pictures of the burned phone, and call it a Note 7 in the Facebook post, so the news station just using some stock photos is out of the question.
There isn't much to get from the picture of the front, but there is some. The phone appears to be in a case, which conveniently covers up certain things that would identify this as not being a Note 7, like the lack of the S-Pen slot. However, it stupidly doesn't cover up the obvious physical Recents, Home and Back button, which clearly ID this as being a member of the Active family. The sorta trapezoid shape and iconography on the Home button show it to be an S6 Active (like in the picture I posted above), as opposed to the oval shape of the home button on the S7 Active with no iconography, which matches the look of the S7 and S7 Edge.
The back tells us a lot more, however. If you compare the image of the burned phone to the image of the Blue Camo S6 Active I posted above, you can clearly tell it's the same phone. The color and design of the Blue Camo matches, the camera placement matches, the speaker look and location matches, the wrap around black with the rivets matches, you can even see the blue "Active key" and volume rocker that exactly matches the image I posted above. What you can't see that's in my image above? The AT&T logo just under the camera and the writing that would clearly ID it as a "Galaxy S6 active" just to the right of the speaker (if looking at it right side up). The burn on the back looks oddly specific, with clearly defined edges (which again conveniently cover up some obvious ID marks), and the rest of the back of the phone looks in fine shape, not like a phone that "exploded". It's also strange how the internals that are visible, which I can't be certain what they are, but it looks to be a portion of an antenna and some other metallic parts, don't really look all the damaged, they are still pretty shiny and stuff, not at all like they were part of an "explosion" of the battery pack.
While it was mentioned in jest, the pictures, especially that of that back, almost do look like something akin to a defibrillator paddle was held to it to burn it, which paramedics would have access to. In the end, I could be wrong and just coming up with nonsense, but I certainly see there enough evidence to at least warrant a closer look. It could just be for whatever reason, someone's S6 Active went up in flames, and the people who discovered it, not knowing much about smartphones, but knowing it was a Samsung, just assumed that it was a Note 7. Whatever the reason behind it, the phone that was burned is clearly not a Note 7. That obviously doesn't mean that there isn't a problem with the Note 7, just that this specific case isn't one.
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