After reports of exploding batteries in the newly launched Galaxy Note 7 came in from South Korea, Samsung was forced to delay shipments of the smartphone until further testing could take place.
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There have been several reports of exploding batteries in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and where there is smoke, there tends to be fire.
Today, however, it looks as though a wide-scale recall may actual be coming for the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that have already been delivered to retailers or are already in the hands of customers.
The delays in shipments will surely have a negative impact on Galaxy Note 7 sales, despite the high number of pre-orders that the model recorded.
The stoppage of Galaxy Note 7 deliveries to the three mobile carriers – SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. – began earlier this week, according to officials at the mobile carriers. Apparently, there’s another reason: Samsung added another quality control test. Supply constraint is one problem but we’ve been hearing others like a battery explosion and that S-Pen still getting stuck. Samsung heads have reportedly put these plans in motion with the ideology that, ‘Since the cause of the problem is a faulty part, we need to apologize to the consumers and compensate, and rebuild the trust’. Samsung has not commented yet on the cause of the Note 7 explosions. It did not say if those phones are different from the ones sold in South Korea. Samsung Electronics closed Thursday at 1,587,000 won ($1,418.23), down 33,000 won or 2.04 percent, from yesterday. Rival Apple Inc is expected to unveil its new phones next week.
Samsung began selling the Galaxy Note 7 on August 19 in 10 countries worldwide.
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Yonhap News Agency in Korea reported the news, which Samsung confirmed to Reuters. We’ll know more as time goes on.
