The Note 7 also comes with an Iris scanner, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, and a USB Type-C port. That said, exploding cellphone batteries can be extremely unsafe, and so it could be wise for Samsung to recall the Note 7 before one of these exploding batteries seriously injures someone.
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Spokeswoman Sophia Kim said Thursday that the delay affects the South Korean market only and is due to additional tests for quality evaluations. If the problem is extensive, then Samsung might have to recall a large number of units, which will once again deliver a crippling blow to the company’s revenue stream and reputation. If Samsung is lucky, than it is just a charge of faulty batteries.
Despite the investigation in South Korea, Samsung went ahead with its scheduled launch Thursday of the Galaxy Note 7 in China.
The company said it is investigating the reports of phones catching fire and exploding.
If you’re a Galaxy Note 7 owner, you may want to keep reading about the news of exploding batteries. The company’s stock is falling rapidly, so it’ll possibly issue an official statement on the matter very soon. Yonhap News said five to six explosions were reported. When asked about it, a Samsung spokesman told ZDNet that “it was discussing the issue of Note 7 internally”. The reports have prompted Samsung to take some precautionary measures, and have results in the delay in the shipments of the device.
“This is some major buzz-kill for Samsung, especially given all of the hard-earned excitement that products like the Note 7 have [sic.] been garnering lately”, Bloomberg quoted IDC analyst Bryan Ma as saying.
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The phone launched in South Korea and other markets on August 19. Samsung has indeed traced the explosions to the battery of the device and is in talks with Verizon and other USA business partners to figure out how to deal with the issue.
