The Samsung Galaxy Note 7

[@DI0NY5US]

Had a Note 3, Note 4, and Note 8. Really wish they still made them with removable batts, headphone jacks, and microSD slots; it's a "phablet", you've got the space!

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

basically a note 10 lite (which i own) minus the removable batt. i think it's the last note with a jack and a micro sd.

[@DI0NY5US]

@@der_kluger_gunther8391 Yep. I've moved on to a Pixel 7 Pro. Doesn't have any of those things but it does run GrapheneOS

[@mistywhisp]

​@@der_kluger_gunther8391 the s20 series doesn't have Jack's but do have expandable storage

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

@@DI0NY5US pixel 7 this year are nuts! They did great this time, if only i had money to spend lol.

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

@@mistywhisp we are talking about notes not the s series. Was it the s21 ultra to have the micro sd tho?

[@adrianfernandez7930]

Gives “Arming the Nugget” a whole new meaning

[@ChazCartage]

Big badda boom

[@blakksheep736]

I love this comment.

[@No_Life_Alex]

(csgo announcer voice) bomb has been planted

[@EggKing09]

Arming the nugget, literally arming the bo-i mean nugget

[@Husnain237]

Had the same thought 😂

[@TheGamerMonkeyz]

I remember they literally sent out a box, inside another box, inside a final flameproof box - and a pair of gloves for handling the phone when the recalls happened. It was insane😂

[@Walter.Hartwell.white99.1]

It’s was a handheld bomb 💀

[@AndreVictorGoncalves]

At least Samsung had the guts to take the blame and recall. Meanwhile, Apple would say you are charging it wrong and release an update to stop charging at 80%

[@cartergames3793]

Yo hello gamer monkeyz odd how you stopped making content no?

[@lesleyhaan116]

@@AndreVictorGoncalves Samsung knew there was a battery problem in the note 7 but they still released the the note 7 why because they always want to release there phones before the iPhone that's why the galaxy s always gets released in the beginning of the year and the galaxy note later in the year just a few most before the iPhone realise

[@FixerUK]

I imagine people at the address these were returned to being dressed up like someone out of The Hurt Locker.

[@LosDefinit]

I worked at TMobile when this phone came out. Dealing with the recalls was insane. Each one had to be put in a special bag and specially picked up and the amount of customers that were upset and wanted to keep it anyway was even more surprising. After the second wave they forced updates to all the phones to limit performance so they’d HAVE to bring it in.

[@DrAnimePhD]

DankPod’s gone from screwing around with old iPods to screwing around with bombs.

[@doru9915]

Gen 1-5 na-nos are both.

[@Shredster7]

Guess we need to start calling him DankBombs from now on, huh?

[@nicholashoi3155]

Well guess you could say, the more he f**k around and the more he's ganna find out

[@supahvaporeon]

Its ok, hes aussie, his lineage fought the emu wars and survived. A bomb would be a pleasurable side activity during the hell that is swooping season in 3 months.

[@ImPyroChad]

@@Shredster7 That sounds like an edgy username I would've come up with in 2016 💀

[@mazda9624]

3:30 I remember taking a trip that involved 4 different airports and 8 different planes back in late 2016, and the amount of signage/messages about the Galaxy Note 7 being banned from use on any and *all* airplanes was insane. What a crazy time to be alive.

[@nachiopistachio]

I know of at least one airline (LATAM) who still lists the darn thing in their forbidden items. Just let it go already 🤣

[@thecompanioncube4211]

@@nachiopistachio in cabin fires are one of the most dangerous things that can happen to an airplane, behind I guess like both of your engines falling off

[@nachiopistachio]

@@thecompanioncube4211 and when did I say otherwise? I’m sure keeping the ban around after all these years makes sense since it’s still “just a phone” at first glance

[@adamreid5901]

They had to put special bins at airport terminals so you could throw one out before boarding in Australia once the ban came into place.

[@datachu]

@@thecompanioncube4211 "Please be advised everyone we may be experiencing slight turbulence in a moment, it appears that both of our engines fell off the wings." *Seat belt sign illuminates*

[@Bijoux_DerWunderCatsen]

You can walk with a true swagger, knowing you've got an IED wrapped in a cute kitten phone case in your pocket.

[@yowhat3745]

what a sentence

[@joedingo7022]

@@yowhat3745 truly one of the sentences of all time

[@asakayosapro]

There’s an image floating around on the Internet meme space, of a Note 7 with a wallpaper of a claymore mine stating ‘FRONT TOWARD ENEMY’ Dank humor at its finest.

[@adminribbon4648]

@@yowhat3745 what a profile picture

[@Meban101]

When the Note 7 was released it was by far the greatest phone to ever come out at that moment, tech reviewers all agreed it was the bomb.

[@bezoekers]

It was a great step towards the later S2X Ultra series, which are now easily the best phones ever made.

[@fairsaa7975]

😶​@@bezoekers

[@rampageblizzard]

It blew them away.

[@WatsonDynamite]

It's become a classic piece of tech, a real blast from the past

[@BossCakeTV]

Who

[@rowlit]

I literally remember seeing the first recall signs at costco, the signs saying they were "fixed" and then another sign after saying that there getting recalled again. Good times.

[@LaMereACaniche]

I'm glad you don't figuratively remember, would've changed the whole ordeal.

[@fix0the0spade]

I went on a flight in Oct 2016 and there were signs everywhere, announcements in departures and on the plane that if you had a Galaxy note 7 you either handed it to security or you didn't get on the plane.

[@AndreVictorGoncalves]

At least Samsung had the guts to take the blame and recall. Meanwhile, Apple would say you are charging it wrong and release an update to stop charging at 80%

[@Raprada]

@@AndreVictorGoncalves this is the 4th comment you left that says the exact same thing. Seek help.

[@ivarioni]

​@@Raprada mans counting

[@diluted12]

I worked at a cellular provider when this happened, but luckily ended up on paternity leave during this whole debacle and didn’t have to deal with the headache of the recall 😅

[@quartzofcourse]

Oh I’m so jealous of you. It was a nightmare

[@diybat]

So was I. People would get mad when you suggested they had to return them. There were so many holdouts. When we sent them back we wrapped them in bubble wrap individually and put them in a dangerous goods package. Also when airlines started telling people not to use them they were saying “Samsung 7” and people were repeatedly conflating them with the S7, so it really hurt Samsung sales in general.

[@Thecrazyman809]

@@diybat I bought an S7 in 2018, my mom got really concerned and said "isn't that the one that explodes????"

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

U had to deal with the headache of an infants screams, instead

[@diluted12]

@@diybat my coworkers lovingly named those the “bomb boxes” haha. They had that thick fiberglass looking fireproof padding. He sent me a picture of our back room just wall to wall with those boxes. They sent the last ones back literally the day I came back from my leave 😅

[@sherbertcollins821]

Please PLEASE get a virtual boy

[@robertvalentine9788]

Yes, that’s a good episode idea

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

As a Virtual Boy owner I agree

[@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer]

@@king_aeron there’s a reason he doesn’t download the iPod skinned app (that looks like a classic) instead of buying real ones.

[@AnnaSue81]

ooh

[@noobninja8]

The first red screen VR headset

[@j-bird1778]

I had one of these before. Back then, I kept my phone charging in the living room instead of in my bedroom to keep myself from goofing off on it when I should be sleeping. I woke up one morning and found that the battery had expanded like a balloon and melted the case of the phone.

[@TheBorhork]

I used to sell phones during this era. My Samsung rep came in the store, so me being a smart ass asked her how it felt being in the grenade business. She slammed her hand down on the counter and loudly and firmly said “they are incendiary devices”.

[@TheDiner50]

"They are incendiary devices". I had fucking died but not without first giving the thumbs up to the rep! Died of laughter or shear shock if the rep was serious and angry about it. Hard to tell exactly ho the rep was on the scale from serious - joker. No for real if the story is true what a stand to take as a rep for the product! Calling it a grenade and the rep have to point out was it actually is XD

[@Azik688]

Lol 😂

[@TheBorhork]

@@TheDiner50 she was the best phone rep I ever had. She was fantastic and normally a soft spoken woman. Hearing her get so loud was a shock and hilarious. I was seriously taken aback. She was genuinely good people. When my store was closing, she tried to help me get a job with her. She was awesome and one of the few people I miss from that place.

[@kylesoler4139]

She must have heard the same jokes like a thousand times at that point.

[@TheBorhork]

@@kylesoler4139 you could tell she was sick of it. She took it in stride like a champ, but she was just done for sure.

[@That_Dingus]

I'm glad you're still shooting jabs at modern phones not having headphone jacks. That makes me happy. That's one grudge I'll never let go of.

[@Bobbingtonn]

You just made me check this one i've had a week, i didn't realise it didn't have an aux port

[@grancoast]

I use bluetooth headphones a lot but I really need expandable storage in a phone, so I'm super pissed about the microSD being gone. In 2023 that means you are limited to budget phones or very rarely mid-rangers

[@DefronTheMonkey]

Upgraded from a Xiaomi Mi 8 to a Redmi Note 11 recently. I read about its features and was surprised that it hat both a headphone jack and a microSD slot. But I still didn't buy headphones with wires on them until I actually had the phone in my hands. Even with the advertised headphone jack I was still sceptical.

[@limethatphonecollector1289]

oh no it’s smoking…

[@Tetrini]

@@grancoast theres good mid range phones with both aux and micro sd from samsung, the A series

[@zeph_os]

I've witnessed li-po batteries go up in smoke and flames at combat robotics events, and it's already a hell of an event. I can only imagine the terror of a similar event going off in your pocket or your hand. It's amazing to see relics like these still out and about

[@crazychicken2005]

I have had full sized laptops explode in my face, batts are no joke

[@legorobotics1017]

Same You can never mistake a li-po going up at those events

[@Frank_Pods]

There is a solution, It's called Li-Po Suction

[@dsrocks6905]

The craziest part is, I think those notes had Li-Ion batteries, which are WAY more volatile than Li-Po batteries

[@lreismann9180]

"Yea this is the real fire phone ... Amazon" had me rolling lmao

[@ImagineABear]

I would LOVE to hear you speak on the AT&T Quickfire. It had a proprietary charge port and was a "smartphone". The charge port could be put in backwards and it wasn't meant to, and it caught fire. The QUICKFIRE CAUGHT ON FIRE.

[@osinternals]

it lets you quickly start fires as it's name says

[@MilesProwerTailsFox]

Lmao

[@alexnolasco1339]

Well, you can't sue for misleading marketing

[@FunkyFurret]

Quick”Fire”

[@mjc0961]

I remember this, mostly because I had just bought a Samsung Galaxy S7 right before this story broke. So I had a little panic as I had to double check what model I had bought to make sure I didn't have the fire hazard, and then had to explain that to friends and family who were like "oh no you have a Samsung that's not the one that catches fire is it?"

[@rajder656]

funnily enough i make sure to remind my mom about it because she LOVES samsung phones

[@diybat]

There were loads of people constantly conflating the two or adamantly arguing it was both

[@aseheavyindustries798]

i had an S7 too. probably my favorite phone

[@Yixdy]

​@@rajder656 oh, you're one of those guys, huh?

[@rajder656]

@@Yixdy one of the people that teases their parent?

[@Justinian43]

This phone was one of the greatest Samsung phones ever made, it was so well designed too. Shame about the battery hazard happening

[@NathanPriviated]

Really sad.

[@icepapermario99]

*smasnug

[@GrandNebSmada]

The Note 7 and the s10+ are the best phones Samsung ever made.

[@Justinian43]

@@GrandNebSmada I would add the Note 10+ as well, still own one to this day. Amazing phone

[@griefer5846]

@@GrandNebSmadanah note 8 and s8 had the best upgrades from their previous phones

[@CariHere]

I got the chance to play with a demo model in the store back in 2016 Before the fires started, it was the most amazing phone we had ever seen. So futuristic at the time and so high tech! My stepfather was almost certainly going to purchase one to replace his aging note 4, however the fires started and for obvious reasons that never happened. Still think it was a huge leap forward in smartphone technology for the time and might be underappreciated due to its short life and reputation.

[@SlushysSecret]

Too bad nothing these days will ever be ground breaking because everything new that’s being made is the same old thing or that it no longer surprises me like it did back before Covid

[@painreliever83]

I was working at a well known UK phone retailer at the time of the Note 7 recall, we were offering to either release people from their contracts plus a full refund or exchange for literally any other phone they wanted and some people still held out. We had special fireproof boxes to send them back in as well

[@ViperOfMino]

Maaan, I had this for a week, loved everything about it, and had to trade it in and only could only get either an s7 or an s7 Edge. I went for the S7 Edge and it was a piece of hot garbage, which I'm still salty about to this day lmao.

[@kyleholloway3470]

I've had a big lithium battery go off on me and it was insane. Was actually bloody terrifying.

[@draconiusultamius]

If you're into bot fighting like one of my friends is, they can have massive lipo fires. It's always scary when it happens bc a lipo fire can be quite hard to put out, releases toxic gas, and will explode everywhere if you put water on it!

[@tcg1_qc]

@@draconiusultamius Yeah, if this ever happens with any of my devices I'm throwing it outside as quickly as possible, nothing else you can do

[@sinni800]

A colleague of mine had one burn their hand and he lost all feeling. The hand looks fine now, maybe a bit off color and it is usable, he just feels nothing.

[@qq13563817153]

@@sinni800 that's legitimately horrifying, is there a chance for full recovery for your friend?

[@Yixdy]

Ooooweeee, I've had dozens, I been vaping longer than anyone I know, over a decade now, and way back when I used to open up laptop batteries and cop 18650s out of them. NOT a good move lol

[@darthbucciarati]

I had a Note7, it truly was the best phone ever. The funny thing is that the S7 Edge that I got as a replacement had a verified battery issue that I noticed as soon as I got it. It got hotter than my Note EVER got. Just odd, not saying that it wouldn't have eventually been a problem.

[@dark_viz]

My favourite phone was the S8, really good phone but sometimes the battery would get so hot it'd hurt and could use it as a little mini heater if out in the cold😂 Eventually it broke for an unrelated issue so maybe they made them withstand higher temperatures?

[@aneeshingala]

My S7 edge also got really hot even during normal use. KNEW it was a ticking time bomb, and threw it out.

[@TheRagnel]

@@aneeshingala Meanwhile I still use my S7 Edge and would like the same one with newer components x)

[@DarthCiliatus]

My old s3 got so hot it melted the plastic back by the charging port.

[@itIsI988]

My hands always went numb from the heat that my S7 would put out. The Soc would reach 90c and the battery would reach 45c. I'm assuming the chassis reached the same temperature as well since it was genuinely uncomforatble to hold. It's a shame that most of their new models have done away with the 1440p screens now becuase its replacement has an uglier screen despite costing more than the S7.

[@HalfLife3onSteamPLZ]

*"SMASNUG"* got me on the floor laughing my shits off.

[@Challenges356]

There is a off brand actually called smasnug

[@Cut_17]

𝐥𝐨𝐥😂😂

[@Cut_17]

𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐍𝐔𝐆😂😂😂😂

[@Cut_17]

@@Challenges356𝐬

[@Cut_17]

𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐧𝐮𝐠 😂

[@project-gladiator]

When you said that it was getting warm, I felt a shiver down my spine.

[@HyperVanilo]

Ye, just like every phone with fast charging nowadays

[@bluesillybeard]

@@HyperVanilo except this one's explosive

[@Kyharra]

@@bluesillybeard makes it more fun to use

[@dwaterson21]

I was gonna say, OH FUCK DONT DIE

[@Scnottaken]

Dankpods died on the way back to his home planet

[@F4wk3s]

It was so good, one might say it was the bomb.

[@poble]

it was fire

[@C-Midori]

So SO halal mode.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

🥁

[@dimitri13225]

it was lit

[@CasualG-mer]

This phone blew my mind...literally.

[@michaelreeve-fowkes7100]

Wife was one of the coordinators for the recall for these through roadhound (no shock that Samsung outsources even the recall). She often mentions besides the 15 hour days, she remembers once she was not able to log in remotely one morning and was getting no response from the shop and she was genuinely concerned that the shop would be a crater when she got in. It wasn't, aparently Samsung did a portal update and didn't mention it. She still has all the excel sheets for the recall on her MS surface.

[@Zangamarth]

That sounds like a long, arduous, thankless job. I'm very glad it ended, and I'm sure she was too!

[@siliconhawk]

2010s truly was a different time

[@robotguy4]

I had a Note 7. Well, I guess I had 2 due to the first recall. It was great, as long as you didn't care about the possibility of spontaneous combustion. Samsung (supposedly) spent a lot of time and resources to figure out what was happening with the batteries after the second time. There are pictures of a warehouse filled with charging Note 7s that they set up to figure out what was going on.

[@infernomance]

Something worth keeping in mind is that lithium batteries expand over time (see: the Ipod Nano screen issue), and that makes them less effective and more dangerous. So if the phone was exploding at record rates [In The First Month], think about how dangerous they would be a year or three out. There's a reason Samsung bit the bullet on recalling these things.

[@ponivi]

He would know, have you seen his iPod nano jar?

[@junilog]

this dude collects NA-NOHS, I think he's very familiar with them.

[@Dman199739]

Not me still having a Note 7 years later…..

[@20EsOfficial]

they dont expand over time, they expand due to improper care or if they are worn out.

[@ponivi]

@@20EsOfficial it’s almost as if things wear out over time

[@MurdockCakeLie]

I can’t describe how much I love the fact that this phone, of all things he owns, is the thing he hides away in a metal box for safety purposes.

[@listenbornaby447]

This will be such an artifact one day, it has all you want from a collectible - great quality, great design, great story and very technical and tragic reason to be very rare and increasingly rare

[@rorz999]

Also when you consider how many were recalled and how many exploded, this is only going to get rarer... unless collectors and owners never turn theirs on, more will explode over the years. There are probably a bunch in peoples' drawers that will get thrown out too

[@jakublulek3261]

I think it will became valuable because of meme potential. Lots of things over the years had these qualities but never became collectible or valuable. But Note 7 was a very public failure during the Internet era and Zoomers remember it. Le memes will make it valuable. Really, the worst type of collectible.

[@memesfromtheforsakenworlwi9218]

It also has a chance of self destruction if used💀

[@CAS_Channel_CAS]

0:02 SMASNUG

[@cosmobot8879]

You mean 0:01

[@RZavodilaNF]

@@cosmobot8879your wrong

[@faheemabbas3965]

This literally almost destroyed Samsung’s reputation, i remember when this started happening. Nobody wanted to touch a Samsung for at least a couple of months. I’m honestly a bit surprised Samsung is still doing so well after that, it really was that bad. Pretty sure Apple gained a good amount of sales that year. Some people have a few of the Note 7 that weren’t returned to Samsung during the emergency recall iirc. Samsung sent an update to all Note 7s that prohibited the phone from charging as mentioned in the video.

[@andrewduong2740]

a big thing to consider here is that Samsung isn't some small startup company that was figuring things out; they're a multimillion dollar chaebol that has some of the strongest control over South Korea's economy. There are few excuses. And their other stuff is mostly middle of the pack. Our family's Samsung front loader burnt out a heater filament after just 7 years, and I had to fix a wiring issue last year by knocking a connection with a screwdriver handle. A friend I know who works at Best Buy says Samsung TVs are the ones that get returned the most with problems. That said, it's interesting to see how an appliance maker's side gig got big enough to go toe-to-toe with a trailblazing high-tech electronics company. And for what it's worth they do make some cool looking stuff, and I'd trust their stuff more than any no-name generic crap. While I was researching Samsung when people started making serious comparisons between the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy SIII, I thought it was funny that they also make washing machines, TVs and refrigerators.

[@kieranwright1401]

@@andrewduong2740 they also make war weapons and vehicles as well

[@kelvinminnaar9385]

@@kieranwright1401 "This war was sponsored by Samsung and their all new mk2 cruise missiles"

[@wolfetteplays8894]

As if the ties to a brutal oligarchy wasn’t what destroyed their reputation 🤣

[@idrisasan766]

@@wolfetteplays8894 please Tell us more about this

[@tdata545]

I have the Note 7FE, it really is still to this day the best in-hand feel device. I love the way that thing feels in the hand. It's great.

[@xen84]

I had a Note 7. Never had any issues with it, and I absolutely loved it. I turned it in once they started reducing the max charge level for the device. Didn't hurt that I'd managed to shatter the screen right around the same time.

[@roccogenovese3981]

6:43 you sound like a Tie Fighter from Star Wars 😭😂

[@Not_Navarro]

You have balls! Recorded a review of a Note 7 and without a fire extinguisher nearby!

[@tomcorteil]

I bet there was a lot of things going on behind the scenes. He did say he had it connected to a multimeter and definitely had many precautions.

[@eurogaming1456]

I wouldn't recommend a water-based fire extinguisher. Water and lithium fires are a recipe for disasters. Some foam ones are OK, but ultimately dumping a bucket of sand is a way saver way of dealing with burning electronics

[@californiamaki1595]

I used to work in a Samsung repair center and I remember we had a special box full of sand when these phones were around. Wild times.

[@Nikkerston]

i love the fact that people are actually swapping the dangerous batteries to the ones from the Note FE

[@cabin98]

Yeah, but those exploded, too.

[@murph_31]

@@cabin98 not really the FE was safe

[@forestforce2951]

​@@cabin98 note FE still get One UI 1.0 update in 2019, while Note 7 never, even stuck in original OS version

[@isthisnametaken978]

@@cabin98 You may have gotten Note FE mixed up with recalled Note 7, because those aren't the same. After the original Note 7 batteries started blowing up, Samsung changed the battery's design, but they're still the same size, and still catches fire. At this point the PR is irreparably damaged, so they just discontinued Note 7. With all the discontinued Note 7's they have in stock, they changed their batteries to smaller one and sold them as Note FE.

[@Joshtheweatherman]

From what I heard, the FE's used the same battery out of the S7 Edge.

[@protectorofillinois3]

This phone was HOT - literally.

[@____Andrew____]

By the way, all Samsung's have a history of when they are left at 0% for a long time, the battery will start expanding. This happened to one of my old Samsungs. The back plastic and display were torn off because of the battery expanding on then so make sure to keep the old Samsung charged for a bit.

[@andrewduong2740]

Mrwhostheboss has a comprehensive video on that.

[@____Andrew____]

@@andrewduong2740 yea I saw that video. I originally thought it was just a problem with just my phone before he made that video.

[@shijou2867]

does the newer phones now fixed this? i heard samsung fixed it for newer and future phones

[@ImplyDoods]

@@shijou2867 all phones have this issue idk how they'd fix it though its particularly bad with samsung phones

[@MissFoxification]

@@shijou2867 You shouldn't let any Li chemistry battery go dead flat, let alone remain there.

[@kristabellesumigcay6655]

Oh man, this was during my last year working in telecomms and the whole kerfuffle with the Note 7 was insane! I was receiving daily communications from Samsung about the situation, and luckily, none of the devices we had in our store went up in flames (we had no other place to put them so we stored them on the bottom shelf of one of the safes we kept all of our devices). When we had to ship them back, the packaging they gave us crazy; it was like a flameproof bag, and like three boxes and we had to ship them all separately. Thanks for the blast from the past!

[@squ1dd13]

“blast”… heh

[@WizardTez]

I remember the Note 7 back in 2016. Funny enough, I went through three of them here in the U.S. with Verison because of the situation going on with it. Sad because it was an amazing device at the time and I would have used it till it died. After that Long story short, Verison refunded me, and I bought the original Google Pixel XL. 🤣

[@Aetharn]

Please make a youtube video next time you buy a phone, that way the rest of us save money by not buying a piece of shit phone lmao

[@WizardTez]

@@Aetharn Will do!

[@kobo20202020kobo]

I had the exact them situation. Had two of the “safe” ones because the first one was draining 20% battery with no usage. Then after they got recalled, I got a Pixel XL.

[@VinnyUnion]

Wasn't something else that caught on fire? I'm not sure what it was called but something along the lines with "Samsung Edge".

[@QwoaX]

I changed the name of my S23 Ultra to "Samsung Galaxy Note 7" on Bluetooth to scare thieves away. However, considering what a meme and how rare it is, I don't think that's working anymore...

[@teddysadcat]

This has been my daily driver for well over 5 years as the Fan Edition (with the replaced battery), the fact it was a factory refurb and held up for this long makes me glad it was the first thing I bought with my first ever paycheck

[@GHOSTYsCOMIC]

Ah, the days when you have a choice between a bending phone and an exploding phone . . I know different year and all but it felt like they're from the same era

[@theblah12]

They’re both very much part of the same era of phones when companies were obsessed with the thinness of their devices to the detriment of everything else.

[@chilledburrito]

Nokia 3310 all the way.

[@ItzBrooksFTW]

8:03 it makes a lot of sense amazon is preinstalled because of the built in fire

[@lonely_7891]

1:18

[@Thatonephonekid]

No

[@Thatonephonekid]

Itsbrooks is right

[@RamblinPhoenix]

I had this phone, and I absolutely loved it. (And it was a "safe" version too) I of course returned it, but i was legitimately sad about it. I got an S7, and though that was a flagship, it really felt like a step down.

[@85637787]

still have my original non swapped out blue note 7 with the gold trim! its currently chilling in its original box in a storage container by itself just in case, but it is still to this day my all time favorite smartphone! no phone has lived up to the note 7 for me so far. loved the size, design ui, everything about it! aside from the obvious i really had zero complaints with the phone

[@zachpnw]

Yep I had one of these on release. The only phone I ever pre-ordered. I almost couldn't fly home from out of state because of all of the recall shenanigans

[@rustyudder]

They did explain. The first batch had a weld that put a crease in the battery. The replacement had a corner of the battery itself had the electrodes too close. So they would run away eventually.

[@HD_555]

6:51 foreshadowing and also ''WOAH SMASNUG'' 😂😂😂😂😂

[@5usp3c7]

Bro I remember this story breaking out while I was in middle school. I saw techrax trying to get it to explode, but he couldn't figure out what was causing the phones to blow up.

[@matthewferraro8020]

Didn't he try putting it in a toaster oven?

[@5usp3c7]

@@matthewferraro8020 dude tried everything

[@mrschimmel]

Thanks, I now feel old. I was in collage when this happened

[@therealmistermemer]

He got one of the good ones lmao

[@bmxmaddness5444]

I was in elementary school or early middle school when these were recalled

[@mops515]

"Dankpods takes umbrage with Apple's main competitor" The least surprising line of dialogue ever spoken.

[@heythatsillegal1703]

Will never forget the night I woke up to drink water, look at my phone on fire ,fall asleep, and wake up again immediately because my note 7 was on fire. Good times :]

[@ABOMINATION952]

Note 7 in One UI or Samsung Experience in 2024: 😁 Note 7 in TouchWiz in 2024: 💀

[@moist-liquid9196]

Brings a whole new meaning to “arming the nugget”

[@fuzzywuggzy506]

I'm so glad you got a USB ammeter, I was going to recommend it during the next Nugget Lucky Dip, now you'll be able to see if it trickle-charging the battery to recover it (you can do that with completely dead li-ion batteries as long as they don't go reverse polarity, which they rarely do) or if it's just straight up cooked.

[@vadnegru]

Some devices might get the power but still do nothing.

[@fuzzywuggzy506]

@@vadnegru That's true, but in my experience at least 90% of manky old electronics that constantly draw at least a few milliamps of current will eventually recover. if it draws none something's gone open-circuit and if it draws more than a few amps something's shorted out, more often than not a ceramic cap.

[@candycorn157]

“Smasnug” -Dankpods 2023

[@patoren3gou653]

"Samsung phones never had their own identity until the galaxy edge" Juke: am I a joke to you.

[@idek3867]

I'm so glad I found your channel! I watch it pretty much every night and when I'm bored. Just love your vibe and the simplicity of the videos!!

[@ahzhd423]

I really like the new dankpod era of reviewing different kinds of tech

[@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381]

2:05 Funfact: 112 is the emergency call in Europe, in many countries it's police, fire brigade and ambulance together, and in Germany it's separated, 110 is police and 112 is fire brigade/ambulance, so they've hit the exactly right number 😁

[@NewYorkCitySubwayR160BSiemens]

6:37 Oh, Dangerous! Dangerous!

[@BahManZ1994]

I still have my Tmobile Note 7 to this day, unlocked it the day I got it, then used it on ATT for over 4 years before retiring it. I even got away with taking it on a flight from Arizona to North Dakota a few years ago. I still use mine for media from time to time, just to keep the replaced battery in check. That was the best phone ive ever owned, hands down.

[@MaybeAnnatar]

Fun story! I worked for Samsung as a field sales rep at the time these came out. We were in a district meeting in person that was just a like fun catch up and hang out with your coworker meeting when the reports of the second model catching fire came out. That was a buzzkill

[@Viilmo]

6:26 thats actually pretty genius

[@thewindowisrusty]

I worked for a third party, installing demo Note 7’s at different retailers in the US. At one point, I had 3-4 of these in my closet, ready to install the next week. Bit scary to think what could’ve happened!

[@alexfrideres1198]

you can use the battery out of a S7 edge in the note 7 to basically avoid the whole fire hazard issue, it uses the exact same battery connector and supplies the correct voltages, but you cant really get around the battery nerfing firmware update samsung sent out for the note 7 unless you root the phone and install an officially unsupported version of android, which basically bricks your S-Pen. i think Hugh Jeffries has a good video on it

[@jellybr3ak]

Uh, nope, installed a note fe rom on my note 7 and everything works, even the spen, no problem with the battery too.

[@Yixdy]

​@@jellybr3ak did you even read what that says? Like all the way through?

[@DJBla2e01]

I'm not sure if an S7 Edge battery would work, but a Note FE battery definitely will

[@Retronyx]

You can always get the Note 7 FE

[@RockerFinck]

I really doubt that you can use S7 edge battery. It was 3600mah, while note 7 had a 3500mah cell. And even that was too big for it...

[@MrDave450]

I was a original owner of the Note 7 and honestly I absolutely loved the thing. It was such a great phone and everything about it was absolutely amazing. I miss using it and the S7 Edge I was given as a replacement didn't feel anywhere close to the same. Still using a Samsung to this day and chasing the high I got from that device. S22 Ultra is good but you know I miss my headphone jack and SD Card.

[@chilledburrito]

time to downgrade??

[@dcurry7287]

Galaxy Xcover Pro is definitely a "2016 phone" and would feel like a downgrade to you, but the removable bat tree, headphone jack, SD card, and general toughness make it a ride or die phone for me. I hope the 5G versions are as good, I miss the extra internal storage.

[@samsunkeithley3268]

I had the Note 7. It BLEW my mind and it was so sad to have to turn it in. They put it in a special "explosion resistant" bag at the AT&T store. Shame that they had to do away with the headphone jack.

[@66777jason]

I held onto the second one they gave me. They eventually released an update which limited it to 60 or 70%, and warned you that you needed to give the phone back to the carrier. I held it, until the carrier sent people to my house to collect it. Looking back I was really stupid for doing that.

[@kingjack7740]

The Note 3 was my first Samsung phone and I fell in love with it. Used it to death. Got a Note 5 a few years later; using a Note 8 to this day. These Note phones last a long time and were pretty powerful. The Note 7 at the time it came out, I wanted it so badly because it was my dream phone. I didn't have a lot of money so I was waiting to buy it later, but the news of it exploding made me change my mind lol. I'm glad to have not bought one at launch or I might've suffered the same fate. I hope you really put it away in a fireproof box somewhere safe, dude. The fires these could cause were no joke. /knocks on wood

[@machinegunlament]

Forreal, I had a Note 4, then a Note 5, then a Note 8 and currently have a Note 10+. My Note 8 lasted me a good 5 years until it finally started dropping calls all the time, the rest of the hardware is still pristine. I'm still a Note fanboy because it's the only phone with pen pressure and I used to bus 2+hours a day so I'd always doodle on my phone with the pen :-) I love having a stylus

[@TheGrejp]

I'm glad there are some of us Note 8 enjoyers still left. Mine just turned 5 years old, there are obviously some signs of age but nothing serious. I haven't even changed the battery yet, even though it is noticeably degraded.

[@QWERTYCommander]

I would've still had my Note 8 if it weren't for the fact that unlocked models were affected by the 3G tower shutoff. I still have it lying around in storage though. Amazing phone.

[@lasgio_]

I bought every new note phone each year, but I skipped the note 7 because of low funds. What a blessing that was lol

[@trayner]

Yeah I had iPhone 3g , 4g then saw the note 3 when it came out and havent turned back Samsung is so much better

[@Dankaliciously]

Touching a CRT Monitor and feeling that static feeling is the best.

[@memedew6677]

random but yes

[@kaitlyn__L]

Gotta get in there before the degauss goes off

[@phoenixelysia]

i remember when i had a note 7. never had any issues with the batteries or anything, but still had mine swapped out a few times. was one of the best phones i ever owned, and is what made me switch from an iphone to samsung. later when i got a note 9 i loved it to pieces, have a note 20 rn. hearing that the note is now dead makes me really sad. a phone with a pen is perfect for artists and I'm shocked the niche isn't getting picked up by other brands.

[@shadowpixie01]

LG had the Stylo (in fact, I'm typing on one right now), but it took was discontinued from my understanding. I agree that I'm surprised that I haven't heard of my brands with in-built stylus though.

[@leanderclausen]

S23 Ultra has a stylus. It is practically a "Note 23".

[@tiadaid]

The S22/S23 Ultra is the Note replacement, right down to the S-pen.

[@phoenixelysia]

@@tiadaid yeah, but having the pen is tied to the most expensive model iirc. Once this phone kicks the bucket I'm planning to get another note 9, and when that one dies idk, hopefully there will be another pen phone that's not out of my budget

[@ttuesdayy1]

@@phoenixelysia If it helps, you can get "refurbished" phones from samsung at the end of their cycle, or after the next one drops. I got an S10+ for like, 450, i think, about a year ago. I've been told that they tend to be unsold models rather than refurbs, and mine looked brand new when i got it, but ymmv, of course.

[@jayzworld_2763]

7:08 Apple devices when I use them charging

[@dominichartley5537]

You know a product is a fire risk when instead of it going in the jar with the black spot Nanos, it goes in its own metal box

[@thesistersofbattle]

Had a Note 7. It was the best phone they ever made, ergonomically. I also thought it was a great phone in general. Never had an issue until they forced me to turn it in. They replaced it with an Edge 7 and I realized that day how much I would forever hate curved screens.

[@jakolotl]

I fondly remember my note phones. I had a note 4, loved it to bits. The battery started to act up and refuse to hold any charge over the course of even an hour so I just decided to upgrade. I remember being hyped about the note 7 coming out; I’m glad I held out on getting it because I heard news about these phones catching fire. I got a note 8 after all that and zero issues with it. Seriously my fave kind of phone and I was sad to see the 7 had such a huge problem. Edit: I just remembered how huge the notes were back in the day compared to other smartphones. I repeatedly had to tell people it wasn’t a tab, it was just a phone . I guess having small hands doesn’t help lmao

[@elhijodelcochi]

At my local airport there’s still an audio message that plays on the waiting room about not bringing your note 7 up to the plane lmao, in from Mexico

[@jackkuckhahn3268]

I wanted a note 7 so bad in high school and hilariously my friend who had one on release would defend his phone being super hot by saying "that's how you know the case is cooling it effectively"😅

[@flyntics]

Nah 💀💀💀💀💀

[@SOTP.]

Dont think thats how it works...

[@dubl33_27]

well, my s8+ also gets really hot while charging and I haven't heard about any exploding incidents coming from it.

[@doifraticanini]

My phone is full of water, but I stopped everything just to watch this. This is how entertaining he is

[@cubehead-exists]

Did you fix it?

[@doifraticanini]

​@@cubehead-exists it still has that "moisture detected in port" message but it's fine

[@Haulien]

The Note 7 was one of the best phones on the market. Somehow, Samsung managed to skip all the bad PR with the Note8, though that phone was a bit of a letdown with its smaller battery. Then the Note 9 came out, with an even larger battery than the Note 7, thinner bezels than the Note8, and still with a microsd card and no hole punch its replacements came with. It's one of the few Samsung phones I've owned that hasn't shat itself in less than a year, and it's on the list of one of the best phones I've ever owned.

[@dr.sayandeepdas3406]

I'm typing this comment using my note 9. Phone still butter smooth 😌

[@szadam0673]

Im still using my Note 9 too, best phone I have ever had for sure.

[@nickearnst5383]

Writing this on my Note 9, the decrease in battery life is noticable after 5 years of heavy use, but the phone still runs perfectly with zero stutters.

[@MysteryMii]

And then the Note 10 and 10+ happened and everyone criticized the fragmentation and attempt by Samsung to get Note users to pay more for the 10+, as well as changes like the removal of the headphone jack. Samsung then doubled down on this strategy with the Note 20 and 20 Ultra, everyone once again criticize both phones, and that was the last we saw of the Note line.

[@reaperreaper5098]

@@MysteryMii I mean, it's not really the last we've seen of the Note line. It's just the last time it was called 'Note' and was finally acknowledged that with the Note 5 and newer, they were just Galaxy S phones with Wacom pens, and not weird phones that were simultaneously flagships and testing grounds at the same time.

[@Lefty7788tinkatolli]

Christ, not even Samsung could escape the clutches of 2016.

[@bland9876]

I loved my S7 Edge to the point to where the only reason I don't still use it as my main phone is because it started boot looping at one point. My new phone has some features that I like about it but it also is missing some things and definitely doesn't feel nearly as premium.

[@Gba4mzz]

Been on that too.. s7 edge and the last one is s10+ those 2 is really really got love from me..

[@swissix4947]

Had my S7 untill a year ago. Only replaced it because the scrre had gooten some burn in, and the storage just bbein to small. Battery was still ok for its age.

[@bland9876]

@@swissix4947 screen burn in? Did you use always on display? I turned that crap off immediately.

[@swissix4947]

@@bland9876 I had alwas on display on. But youtube burt itself in. Play and pause symbol and the KZbin logo.

[@nicknyaa]

Man I almost completely forgot about this phone and how much of a huge problem it was! I guess Samsung did a real good job of covering it up or people kept buying Samsung phones afterwards that people didn't care that much. Either way, I appreciate this little history lesson of the phone and thank you for risking your life for us!

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

Samsung always had more than one phone out at a time and none of their other smartphones that were literally the same generation had the exploding battery issue. And Samsung note fans loved the pen and otherwise style of the phone that no one else was doing. I remember some hardcore apple fans trying to make it an ‘every android’ issue and it wasn’t even an ‘every Samsung phone’ issue as a bunch of Samsung Galaxy non-note phones had happily safe owners. It was truly a nightmare for Samsung’s image, but at the same time it wasn’t like the Note 7 was their first smartphone or the only phone they even produced that generation. Most people who regularly bought Samsung phones knew this was a one-product problem amongst an on-going history of products that worked just fine and weren’t exploding.

[@kakhak]

What kind a problem? Only few cached fire from millions. That was outstandingly great phone.

[@Shanboss277]

@@kakhaka 100 is not a few. lmao

[@Codyslx]

​@@Shanboss277 out of millions, 100 is quite literally minuscule.

[@zanderredwine7399]

0:01 SMASNUG

[@dingusboi7045]

00:01

[@zanderredwine7399]

​@@dingusboi7045 😐👍

[@Kromiball]

​@@zanderredwine7399 0:00:01

[@zanderredwine7399]

​@@Kromiball 😐👍

[@jaseaquino]

*S M Λ S N U G*

[@blaqgamin5073]

He said this was the original fire phone.... Amazon 😂

[@TagetesAlkesta]

The display on this phone looks so good. The curved edges make it genuinely look like the screen is flowing off the sides, and even their new flagships don’t look this close to the edge imo. Man Samsung really did fly too close to the sun with this one.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Lithium Ion batteries always kinda weird me out. Especially because it's like Lithium has a will of its own and it WANTS to auto-ignite, and you can't really put it out when it does burn. I have a battery powered string trimmer (or "weedeater" as we call it in the Southeast US), it has an 80 volt Li-Ion battery that's as big as a loaf of bread, it's terrifying

[@peppers515]

Somehow, the concept of watching a video you'd filmed with the note 7, within a video you'd film while I was currently watching, was so fucking funny. Like when you zoomed in on the Hur Duh Six Hunge every time you would normally change headphones. How do you keep being so funny in unique ways?

[@AwkwrdPrtMskrt]

Ah yes, the Galaxy Note C4.

[@plaguedoc1926]

As someone who owned a galaxy S7 for almost a whole decade, they looked gorgeous and ran amazing for a long while

[@dustyodyssey]

I had a galaxy s7 and by year 3 it took literally 12-15 minutes to open google maps, enter an address and start navigation. I literally had to open google maps when I was eating breakfast if I wanted directions to where I was going that day. Factory reset solved nothing. Two of my friends had S7s with the same issue. I cannot fathom how you used that phone for almost 10 years, but good on you that’s how it should be.

[@thewiiguy]

I also have a Galaxy S7 running 6.0.1 and it works perfect or good... ?

[@segarallychampionship702]

1:00 Oh, there's one thing that made an early Android Samsung phone instantly recognizable. That horrible handwriting font that every second Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini owner had set in their TouchWiz.

[@Simplebutsandy]

Late night sausage rolls and late night dankpods. Living the dream.

[@vladlem3491]

Is it good sausage roll?

[@Simplebutsandy]

@@vladlem3491 Pretty good. Not the best I've ever had, but for one that had just been sitting in the fridge all day I can't complain.

[@vladlem3491]

@@Simplebutsandy Man, that's nice to hear. Good night to you, dude.

[@purpleyoshi4347]

I happened to own one of these during the airline ban, which was a very awkward situation considering I worked (still do) as a flight attendant for Aer Lingus. One of our pilots just happened to have a new S7 they were planning to use for emergency purposes and offered to replace my phone with it.

[@videogameman110]

I'm still surprised that it did happen after years of them making phones

[@budgethomas]

Ah yes... the Note 7, I have a fond memory of around 2017 (April). I was going to visit a relative in London, when I get on the plane I hear something about a S7.

[@MisterBurgerBeachball]

Dankpods' excitement over something turning on will always be so fun.

[@papermoon5517]

Smasnug caught me off guard so hard I started laughing uncontrollably.