Galaxy Note 7 - Second global recall by Samsung

October 18, 2016

The story of a death foretold. The US Department of Transportation is banning all Galaxy Note 7s from planes!

Attention this is not a joke: Under no circumstances do we advise buying a Galaxy Note 7. If you have such a device, it is advisable to exchange it for another model.The completely different. Yesterday

Such a warning was presented on a well-known American technology website. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is dead! Its eternal memory.

Samsung not only completely stopped sales of the phone "due to security concerns", but also warned its owners that they should turn off their devices immediately! The company, as well as the US Consumer Product Safety Administration, ordered a second (and final) recall of all devices, old and new.

The Department of Transportation, along with the U.S. CAA and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), also announced on Friday, October 14, that all Samsung Galaxy Note 7s will be banned on U.S. airplanes.

"Persons in possession of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices are prohibited from carrying the device on their person, in baggage that goes in the cabin of the aircraft, or in checked carry-on baggage, on any flight in, out of, to, or from the United States. This ban includes any version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 device."

The committee added that they cannot even be shipped by cargo planes! If that's not panic, I don't know what is.

As you can understand, this is the "last nail in the coffin" of the Note 7, which was presented with rave reviews and plenty of irony towards the "boring" iPhone 7.

The nightmare for Samsung is not yet over. The biggest problem is that - according to the New York Times - the company still doesn't know what the real cause is that caused the batteries (old and new) to explode. Its engineers, unfortunately, have not been able to perfectly replicate the accident conditions in the company's labs to come to any firm conclusions.

In the (second) recall above, the problem for Samsung is to convince its customers that they absolutely must return the device for personal security reasons. There are, unfortunately, quite a few stubborn people who want to keep it. The company is giving a 100$ refund to anyone who replaces the device with another Samsung device and 25$ if they prefer another, different brand.

The head of Samsung's mobile division, Dongjin Koh, has publicly apologized for the Note 7 scandal, promising to "find the exact cause of the problem in order to return consumer confidence in the company's products without concerns about their safety," according to the Korea Herald. There are many possibilities of his "resignation" though.

Below we have a list of new incidents with the replaced Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on October 4.

Kentucky resident with respiratory problems hospitalized due to cell phone ignition in his bedroom.
An explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight on October 7.
Woman in Taiwan sees mobile phone smoking in her pocket.
Thirteen-year-old girl in Minnesota gets burned on October 7 by a cell phone ignition.
Virginia resident reports cell phone ignition in bedroom that immediately filled with smoke on October 9.

Following these incidents, Samsung instructed to stop sales of Note 7s anywhere and for owners to deactivate them and request either a refund or a replacement.

"Samsung has received 96 incident reports of battery problems that exploded, 23 of them on replacement devices, since the September 15 recall. It has received 13 reports of burns and 47 reports of property damage all related to the Note 7," says the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Shortly before this, a company official had told a Korean news agency that production had been temporarily halted. "This measure includes a Samsung factory in Vietnam that deals with global shipments," the executive said. The move followed the decision by America's largest carriers (AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile) to stop making the phone available on their networks.

The general verdict is: "Don't use a Galaxy Note 7 for any reason and, if you have one, replace it with a different model as soon as possible."

from Elichord