The scale of the recall is unprecedented for Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 might be the talk of the town lately, but we’re not here to talk about that smartphone, we’ll talk more about the company’s mid-range offering, the Galaxy A9 Pro.
Analysts have cut their earnings expectations for the South Korean tech giant after it announced on September 2 a recall of Note 7 smartphones from 10 markets due to faulty batteries that caused phones to set on fire.
SAMSUNG has been ordered to recall a million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after a spate of battery fires that has seen the device burn users, blow up a auto – and even been banned from planes.
The agency advised consumers to contact their wireless carrier or a Samsung retail outlet to get a new, free phone with a different battery, a refund or a replacement device. Earlier this month, however, Samsung ordered a global recall of the jumbo phones after its investigation of explosion reports found the rechargeable lithium batteries were at fault.
Earlier this week, United States aviation safety officials told airline passengers to turn the phones off during flights.
But according to another report, Samsung is said to start shipping the new units of Galaxy Note 7 to local stores and Korean distributors from the coming Monday, 19th September.
A week later, the company and the commission issued separate statements that urged consumers to stop using the Note 7. He promises “loyal customers in the Samsung family” that new, less-volatile phones will be available “no later than 21 September”.
The recall came at a particularly bad time for Samsung.
Meanwhile, U.S. aviation safety officials have taken the unusual step of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge the phone during flights, and not to put them in checked bags.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s action follows Samsung’s own attempt to conduct a voluntary recall.
Cops in Port St. Lucie, Florida, said the auto was engulfed after the mobile exploded in the passenger seat.
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One of the worst periods in Samsung’s history is nearly at an end with reports suggesting that the company has isolated the problem which made some Note 7 smartphones explode.
