[Note 7 Questions & Answers] br0adband:
Try this analogy on for size, some of you might get it, but I have my doubts.

Say I have a gun, let's say a Beretta 92FS, for example. Say the magazine is loaded - that's 15 shells - and there's one in the chamber - that's the 16th shell. Say it's sitting on my desk, not doing much of anything, just sitting there, in reach but not in my hand at that given moment of time.

Is that gun dangerous?

Technically, no, since it's just sitting there it really has pretty much zero/null/void/nada chance that it's just going to suddenly out of the blue start firing off round after round, or even just one round, in that idle state. Some will say "Of course it's dangerous, it's a damned gun, how stupid can you be?" and I'd say again, technically, the gun isn't dangerous.

It can be made dangerous if I pick it up and hold it in the manner in which it's designed to be held for use. I don't even have to fire it to be honest, just holding the weapon itself is - in most countries on Earth - actually an illegal act known as brandishing a weapon if I happen to move my hand in any direction while holding the gun. Such an act is considered to be a threatening gesture even if I was holding it with the gun barrel pointed towards the ground or whatever surface I'm sitting or standing on.

The point? The gun itself isn't dangerous of its own accord.

Contrast that with the Note 7. This device, even in what many would consider to be a completely idle state aka 'sleep' or 'standby' or even powered off by using the device's operating system to issue a shutdown command placing it in a totally powered down state, is exactly the opposite at this point in time because - whether it's powered on and idle or powered off entirely - the Note 7 can potentially (that's the key word here) end up destroying itself and also potentially destroying property or injuring people in the process of it destroying itself.

Right now we - meaning the general public and anyone that's not working inside Samsung on the investigative teams doing their diagnostic work on the Note 7 models being returned as well as the ones they already had from the 1st recall and even before that with the first devices that brought this entire situation into the limelight - don't know what the cause might be, nor do we know when we'll find out.

None of that matters at this point because the worldwide recall of all Note 7 devices has been put into effect by Samsung and most of the countries where Samsung sold the Note 7 stand fully behind Samsung in the recall process and have a reasonable expectation for consumers that purchased the Note 7 will return the devices as requested and get either another product in exchange (not a Note 7 obviously) or get a complete refund of their full purchase price.

Because of this, and factually speaking, if I had that Beretta 92FS fully loaded with 16 rounds in it sitting on my desk right next to a Note 7 - regardless of the Note 7 being powered on and idle in sleep mode or it being powered off entirely - the Note 7 is technically more dangerous to me and my property and potentially other people as well because it potentially could explode and cause a fire I can't stop that spreads and destroys my entire apartment building complex - it's very old, it's made of wood and concrete, it doesn't have a sprinkler system, and because it's old and made of wood that's been in the desert sun for 50+ years now this place will go up in a fire as though it had been doused in gasoline because the wood is so dry.

I don't own a gun, for the record, never have, probably never will, I prefer to do things hand to hand and face to face. ;)

Anyway, it works out like this:

Beretta 92F fully loaded in an idle "powered down" non-used state = nobody has ever been injured by such a thing, no property has been damaged either

Note 7 in either a powered on and idle "sleep" state or powered off completely = physical damage has been done to consumers and property has been damaged (the Note 7, of course, and in some cases the surface the Note 7 was sitting on when it happened, and in some situations the actual "case" on the Note 7 placed there by the consumer was melted during the thermal runaway)

You're welcome to tear this apart as much as you wish, keyboard warriors, that's fine with me but, just make sure you're not brandishing your Note 7 devices because in today's world, that could be seen (seriously) as a terrorist attack. ;)

(yes that last bit there was a joke, if you can't understand humor on any level then I can't help you...)