Thinking of upgrading cell phone, currently using Galaxy S3 on Virgin Mobile.
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I see reports of fires from both. Apple iPhone 7 too. Anything with a 7 in it.
My LG K7 has no fire issues.
Does anyone have T-Mobile? If so do you like them?
I've had them since 2010, no problems at all. Been quite happy with them actually.
There have been some reported with the S7 and S7 Edge. Just nowhere near as widespread. Mine gets so hot you can hardly touch it, then it will just randomly do things like it things you're touching stuff, then it shuts down. Even if it never pops I don't expect it to live terribly long with so many extreme heat cycles.
S7 and edge have am SD slot. I don't recommend the phone due to what I mentioned above, though.
What version S7 were you using, do you know? What carrier?
There are many thousands of 5 star reviews for the S7, perhaps it's not normal for your phone to get so hot like that?
I also like the fact it keeps the same Micro USB port all my other stuff uses.
Sealed battery and all metal back (which supposedly can be worked around). This doesn't preclude a 3rd party wireless charging case or adapter, but both of those are somewhat limiting.
I can't really recommend anything else, because I don't know all of the options. I'm just willing to tell you that I think the S7 and S7E have some inherent problems so I can't recommend it. I loved my edge when I got it a few months ago. It's beautiful, camera is fanatstic, battery life is good. But it getting so hot it freaks out and restarts itself on occasion (hot enough that I've actually dipped it in the pool and put it in the fridge a few times) troubles me.
Samsung pay on this model is the absolute shit, though - it has a magnetic field generator built in, so even on older cc machines without the NFC capability (which I run into quite frequently at small businesses) you can still hold it up beside the swipe slot and it makes the machine think a card was swiped through. That's pretty ****ing cool. I've yet to use wireless charging on any of my phones, even though I've had three that were capable, so that isn't as important to me as it is to you - it's up to you to weigh how much in that case.
S7 Edge on Verizon. I've had it since about May, I think. Like I said, it isn't an epidemic like the exploding Note 7, but do some googling and you'll find that I'm not the only one out there. John had the same issue with an S7, don't remember his carrier though. There have been a few reports of iPhone 7 models doing it, too. Huge amount of processing power, Li-ion battery throwing current in and out a lot, Li-ion batteries getting made in much more factories for much less money than five years ago, so damn thin there's nowhere for heat to go. It isn't surprising for these issues to start popping up.
I've had a couple get stupid hot, swell, and even hiss/fizz/flame in RC stuff, so it isn't surprising to me at all. Samsung has also gone to 9V/1.67A charging on the S7 models (from 5V/2A on older stuff) and you can feel a significant warming as it charges.I ain't saying it's gonna explode, I'm just saying I won't be surprised if it does, and I damn sure won't be surprised if it has component failure in far less than two years from the big heat cycles. Maybe it'll be fine, who knows.
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