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At the start of a flight yesterday, the cabin crew made specific reference to the Samsung device battery issue, concerning it's use in the cabin, not charging it on board and alerting staff if any such device was in hold baggage.
Never heard that before, but was very pleased to hear them covering this in the saftey brief nontheless.
Yes, on a flight on Friday the gate agents prebriefed that Samsung note 7s must be switched off and not charged during flight. That was then repeated by the FAs prior to the safety brief