ABC News almost said 'Do Not Buy Samsung Galaxy', but they did not actually say that. The past few days they have been repeating the story about the few cases of Samsung smartphones that cough fire.
Some recent ABC links:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/samsung-note-recall-us-expands-replacement-phones-42769915
http://abc7chicago.com/technology/boy-suffers-2nd-degree-burns-after-samsung-galaxy-note-7-explodes/1509672/

The story is also on other news sources:
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2016/10/12/91935170/

Samsung did announce a recall. But more recent reports sound a lot worse CNET says you can get paid to return your phone.
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-recall-galaxy-note-7-again-consumer-product-safety-100-dollars-credit/



I am greatly appalled by this because I really wanted this phone but safety comes first. I use my stylus everyday and I dont know how I made it without my note for as long as I had in the past.Glad I went with an LG phone. My wife has a 3 year old Samsung and its had issues ever since she got it. Everything is laggy with it. I looked at the properties of the phone with the CPU-Z for android and its running 4.0.4 and has just a single core 800Mhz A7 ARM Cortex. I have already done factory reset to her phone thinking something was causing it to lag out. But even after factory reset, it works fine as a phone, but that single core 800Mhz ARM processor that is in it is so crippled compared to the LG that I have with 1.2Ghz dualcore ARM CPU.

My LG16C has a Android 4.4 running on a Qualcom Snapdragon Dualcore 1.2Ghz and is far quicker to end apps and LOAD apps and boot from shutdown to functional state. She has asked to trade with me and I refuse to trade my phone with her. Not bad for a small cheap LG phone, but not top of the line features etc. http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/2015/05/lg-lucky-l16c-tracfone-android-review.html

I feel kind of guilty TELLING her way back when she bought her Samsung that Samsung is a good brand and I'd go with that one. I didnt expect them to slap a weakling ARM single core into a phone under their brand to fulfill the TracPhone market for low cost phones. Im very happy with my LG16C which I bought as TracPhone inexpensively. I looked into rooting mine to do more with it, but TracPhones flash etc that they did to it has it LOCKED from root access. I only use the TracPhone service of my phone when away from wifi. Otherwise I have the 3G SHUT off to avoid burning my 180MB data plan which goes quickly if not using free wifi networks for web / online app use. Cant beat $6.67 per month for it with the 60 minute for $19.99 for 3 months plan that I keep using. Prior to this I was paying Fairpoint $120 a month for 2 phones.Its nice to save over $100 a month.Quote from: Geek-9pm on October 14, 2016, 01:23:43 AM

ABC News almost said 'Do Not Buy Samsung Galaxy', but they did not actually say that. The past few days they have been repeating the story about the few cases of Samsung smartphones that cough fire.

Glad I went with an LG phone. My wife has a 3 year old Samsung and its had issues ever since she got it. Everything is laggy with it. I looked at the properties of the phone with the CPU-Z for android and its running 4.0.4 and has just a single core 800Mhz A7 ARM Cortex. ...

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I feel kind of guilty telling her way back when she bought her Samsung that Samsung is a good brand and I'd go with that one. I didnt expect them to slap a weakling ARM single core into a phone under their brand to fulfill the TracPhone market for low cost phones. ...

Samsung has received 96 reports of batteries in Note 7 phones overheating in the U.S., including 23 new reports since the recall announcement, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Samsung has received 13 reports of burns and 47 reports of property damage related to the Note 7 phones, the CPSC ...

Once again, every US carrier has halted sales of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and a second recall may be nigh. We're not sure why the new batteries might have caught fire, as Samsung told us they'd be brand-new.