From the Seattle Times' "Flight to Seattle evacuated after passenger’s Samsung Galaxy phone ignites" posted Tuesday:
A passenger’s cellphone caught on fire inside the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight from New Orleans to Seattle that had landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Monday evening.
It was a Samsung Galaxy A21, according to Perry Cooper, a spokesman for the Port of Seattle.
“After much digging, I can tell you that the phone was burned beyond recognition,” Cooper said in an email. “However, during an interview with one of our Port of Seattle Police officers, the passenger volunteered the phone was a Samsung Galaxy A21. Again, we could not confirm it by looking at the remains of the device.”
The crew on Flight 751 extinguished the fire with a battery containment bag, but smoke forced the deployment of evacuation slides, a spokesperson for Alaska Airlines told KOMO-TV.
My take: Reminds me of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which caught fire so often the U.S. Department of Transportation briefly stopped passengers from bringing them on board. Another reason to stick with Apple.
Jus’ sayin’.
Samsung’s next Watch runs Android Wear, and Google’s next chip will include Google’s Tensor in a Samsung-made SoC Exynos.
That combo, Google + Samsung, still can’t compete with Apple, can’t match the quality nor the performance, nor ecosystem, nor……
Not in phones, tablets, or wearables.
If Samsung is not Google’s production foundry, then will Android fork as Samsung and Google compete?
Lots to think about in Android world going forward.
Yesterday Samsung announced $151B on Semi capex through 2030. That’s clearly in response to TSMC’s $100B capex announced in April 2021. (And to WW semi shortage.)
Samsung and Google get it. They’re way behind.
But still slow to respond and quality and and and.