The Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s smartphone that had an unfortunate habit of exploding or setting on fire, is now back on sale, reports The Verge.
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In Papua New Guinea, the ICCC conducted inspections in some of the major phone shops to identify shops selling the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Apparently, the Korean agency wants Samsung to order its battery supplier, Chinese manufacturer Amperex Technologies Ltd.to conduct x-ray tests on batteries prior to shipment.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also issued a warning asking travelers not to use or pack their Galaxy Note 7.
The company aims to complete its delivery of 400,000 new phones for replacements by Sunday and go back to normal sales from September 28.
Samsung has announced that 500,000 replacement Galaxy Note 7 handsets have been shipped to United States stores to be made available from September 21. South Korean officials, however, have a few things to say about the Galaxy Note 7 before sales resume.
Samsung hasn’t provided any hints yet about its plans for Android 7.0 update schedules, but it’s not a huge leap to think that the current Galaxy S7 flagships will be in line first.
In Korea, a worker at a convenience store alleged online that their phone exploded but Samsung said the person was now unreachable.
Samsung halted new sales ahead of the recall as it prepared replacement Note 7 devices with safe batteries.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is stepping in on a formal recall. According to sources on Thursday, some 20,000 Note 7 owners returned their old phones to get replacements on September 19 when the exchange program kicked off Korea after the devices were recalled for the battery problem. This was done to make it easier for customers to determine if they had a new version of the smartphone, reports Cnet. The consumer who owned the third Note7 that reportedly caught fire refused to turn it over for inspection. The recall, which affects 1 million phones in the US, was issued because of widely reported instances of Note7 smartphones overheating and even exploding because of a battery problem confirmed by Samsung.
