Samsung issued recall-over-exploding-battery-issue-4875/”>a recall for the Galaxy Note 7 due to the defective battery exploding and catching fire.
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The CPSC says there were 92 reports of the battery on the Note 7 overheating.
In recent weeks, since the phone first launched and was sold to customers, Samsung has received 92 reports of batteries overheating in the United States alone.
Will South Korean tech giant and smartphone maker, Samsung, release the Galaxy S8 sooner as some kind of move to minimize the damage done by the Galaxy Note 7?
As far as the major specs are concerned, the Galaxy S8 is expected to be carrying a Samsung-made Exynos 8895 processor, which everyone thinks would reach speeds of up to 3 GHz.
The US CPSC is advising those still in possession of the device to power them down and not to charge.
Another interesting rumour is that the name for the new batch of Note 7s will be changed in order to avoid customer confusion. The severity of the situation forced the American civil aviation body, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to ban Galaxy Notes 7 on commercial flights. At that point, Samsung said it would offer replacement Note 7 devices once the commission had approved them.
It is illegal to sell the phone second hand.
A shocking revelation is that according to data from Apteligent, despite warnings, Note 7 owners are still using the phones.
People who bought the phone did so to get the best possible quality and service, he said, adding that the handling of the recall “kind of seems like a strike on both counts”. With this “hotfix” the South Korean juggernaut expects to prevent the overheating flaw that many devices have experienced -and which has also caused sudden explosions and deflagrations-.
The IMEI is also located on the back of the phone, near the bottom.
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Aside from the financial impact of the 10-country, 2.5 million-unit recall, it is unclear whether the battery debacle will affect Galaxy’s standing as the world’s best-selling Android line.
