tripleblaze
Well-known member
My understanding is that they actually don't go Kaboom! They start heating up and expanding and then seeping the insides out and getting very hot and basically creating a fire if you don't notice it in time and it's in an area that has flammable materials.
My phone has been working awesome and I'm holding on to it until I get it replaced with another Note 7. I'm just being careful with it and not placing it anywhere that will spark a fire in the event it does overheat and bulge out.
That's my understanding as well, I have yet to see a situation mentioned where the phone actually EXPLODES as all of the click-bait headlines like to say. Saying EXPLODE creates dramatic images of the phone sending shrapnel flying through the air.