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iPhone 7 goes up in flames, sets fire to vehicle in Australia

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Now, where have we optically discerned this afore? Oh yeah, a car caught fire to a Florida man’s Jeep where the main culprit was the Samsung Galaxy Note7. In any case, akin to what transpired with the Note7 phones. It appears that these phones are catching fire within the first week or two since activation. But now that the iPhone 7 has already had more than a couple of cases oh fires, perhaps a few more reports of fires and Apple could be facing a kindred fate that Samsung did with the Note7, requiring an ecumenical recall. Mat Jones left his phone under a bunch of habiliments in his car while he went to take a surfing edification. When he returned, he found his car filled with smoke, 7 News reports. The heated phone ignited and smoked the interior to a crisp. “Ash was just emanating from inside the pants which then, once you unwrapped the pants, the phone was just melting inside of it”, Jones told 7 News. The Surf instructor is now left with no phone, or car, which ...

October security patch hitting Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge units in India as well

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Just a few days after Samsung pushed out the latest security update to its Galaxy S7 and S7 edge units in some parts of Europe, the October patch has commenced hitting S7/S7 edge units in India as well. The update weighs in at over 21MB. As is customarily the case with OTA roll-outs, it may take some time for the update to hit your contrivance. Meanwhile, if you feel impatient, you can manually check for the update by heading to your handset's Settings menu.

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro With 6GB of RAM, 6-Inch Display Listed Online Ahead of Launch

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Samsung is all set to launch an incipient smartphone in China on Friday, widely expected to be the Galaxy C9. The company is withal anticipated to launch a variant called the Galaxy C9 Pro. Now, just hours ahead of the launch, the latter phone has been listed on major Chinese online retailer T-Mall. The listing is consummate with price, designations, and images. The smartphone is not yet available to buy. The dual-SIM (Nano+Nano) Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro sports a CNY 3,199 (roughly Rs. 31,700) price tag, and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There are several highlights of the smartphone - such as a 6-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) Amoled exhibit, 6GB of RAM, and a 4000mAh battery with expeditious charging support. The smartphone is listed in Gold and Rose Gold colour variants. The Galaxy C9 Pro is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 653 processor, which was unveiled by Qualcomm at its 4G/5G Summit event in Hong Kong earlier this week, sporting four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.95GH...