A six-year-old boy in Brooklyn, New York, was hospitalised with burns after a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploded in his hand, while on the same day a faulty Note 7 caused a Jeep in Saint Petersberg, Florida to burst into flames.
The Brooklyn boy was using the Note 7 – which has been subject to a product recall due to exploding batteries – at home in East Flatbush with his grandmother on Sunday (11th September).
“The child was watching videos on the phone when the battery exploded,” Linda Lewis, the boy’s grandmother, told The New York Post. “It set off alarms in my house.”
The boy was taken to the Downstate Medical Center to be treated for burns to his body.
“He is home now,” Lewis added. “He doesn’t want to see or go near any phones. He’s been crying to his mother.”
Meanwhile, a thousand or so miles south, down in Florida, an exploding Note 7 caused Nathan Dornacher’s Jeep to erupt into flames (pictured above). Dornacher left the phone to charge in his vehicle while he took a desk he had just bought into his house.
“We were planning on grabbing the dog and Bonnie and heading to PetCo.,” Dornacher wrote on Facebook (now deleted, via The Express). “I head back out to the car to grab my phone which was on the charger (me and Lydia always fight over the house charger) go to open the door and see flames inside.”
Samsung has advised any Note 7 owner who has not yet returned the smartphone to turn the device off immediately and exchange it for a non-exploding alternative.
