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Samsung Formally Recalls The Galaxy Note 7 (cnn.com)
While Samsung has recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on September 2 due to faulty batteries, the company has yet to formally recall them with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. That is, until today. CNNMoney reports: While Samsung hammered out its formal recall plan with U.S. regulators, the FAA told airline passengers to turn off the phones when flying due to the safety risk. This week, New York City's transit system followed suit. And the CPSC urged Note 7 owners last week to turn off their phones even though a replacement version had yet to be finalized. Following Thursday's formal recall, the FAA revised its warning. Note 7 owners must not only turn off the device on airplanes, it said, but also protect the power switch "to prevent the phone from being unintentionally activated." The U.S. CPSC tweeted today: "#Recall: 1M @SamsungMobileUS #GalaxyNote7 smartphones; serious burn/fire hazard; Act Now: https://t.co/6v1egZlrRm." The recall could not have happened at a worse time for Samsung, as Apple's iPhone 7 debuts tomorrow.
Does anyone in the government understand statistics rather that just protect their paycheck?
It's like please take out an insurance claim prior to boarding the plane just in case your spontaneously combust.
You do realize all the Chinese replacement batteries that have been replaced of people that have been boarding planes for the past 10 years is like 10,000 times the number of GN7's that have trickled onto the market?
"Sure would be nice if we had a USER REPLACEABLE BATTERY now, wouldn't it?"
This is why I buy nothing but Apple products. We don't even have an Xbox or PlayStation, it's Pippin all the way in this house. Note? Pfff... no thanks. We still use our 4 Newtons. As they die we will replace them with iPad Pros.
It claimed "I do not RECALL that".
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I really don't see what the issue is. This phone is working perfectly fine, and there hasn't been an
This is an extremely remarkable response from Samsung, it shows how they truly believe in their product. Putting their money on the line here seems like the correct thing for them to do here. Thinking long term, I like that. Hate the bloatware, but Samsung phones are damn reliable. I know from personal experience of an S3. An older Moto G 3 is fitting my needs atm.
Why not release an update that bricks them so they have to be returned?
copying Sony
The GN7s that have been burning up have used Korean batteries. Units made with Chinese batteries are fine. Go figure!
Don't forget about the iPhone 4 fires, the iPhone 5c fires, iPhone 6 fires... and antennagate and bendgate :D
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The FAA had previously said they can't ban it till the CPS recalls it. That made little sense to me but I could see why that might be the case. The FAA can't just pass judgement on things they are qualified to pass judgement on. And when does it graduate from anecdotal?
But as you point out, e-bay Replacement Batteries are notorious for not meeting their own specs and deteriorating rapidly. It does make you wonder.
But in this case we had 43 reported fires in a relatively small market in a very short time. The do seem to be bombs.
What I wonder about is why half charing them makes any difference. Half a bomb? they said the mechanism was terminals pressed too close together. SO what difference does the charge level make
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Apparently the recall isn't worldwide. Samsung Japan for instance still has the Galaxy Note 7 on its front page and nary a mention of a recall. Not sure if thats because the phones shipped to Japan don't have the defective batteries or if they aren't pulling anything until forced to.
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How many of these 'issues' you've listed resulted in a full product recall? How many resulted in airlines telling customers not to use them? None. This is clearly a problem on a vastly different scale and only a fanboi would try to gloss over it
Battery problems? Very few, and generally put down to cheap 3rd-party chargers (one user was killed by it) or subjecting it to such force that the phone broke internally. And you always expect some low level of battery problems because that's the nature of mass manufacturing.
'Bendgate' was never a real issue –the phones bent no more or less than any other phone of an equivalent size.
'Antennagate'? Apple changed nothing in the design, the phone kept selling in the same huge numbers, and mysteriously no one was unhappy after the media circus finished. Now, hypocritically, the media is excitedly broadcasting a report that the way you hold your phone changes the reception, e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37323534
but these have a tendency to be inflated by the U.S. when it's a foreign competitor with big sales in the U.S and global markets. This is made out as if there's a serious risk to your life if you buy one of these phones, when in reality it's an extremely small fraction of batteries that have started burning. There's been a trend in these inflated accusations onto foreign manufacturers in the last few years, and I think the purpose is the boost sales of U.S products, and thwart sales of foreign products.
I accidentally my Galaxy Note 7 what should I do...is this dangerous?
Never heard of it.
And isn't it a bit presumptuous for Samsung to call back a whole galaxy?
I mean, I know they are a big company, but still...what ego. They are still lightyears away to have that kind of (gas)cloud.
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That's what you get when you don't test things before selling them.
Except for LiFe, lithium batteries are nothing to be trifled with. Perhaps for the little bit of difference, we should ban Lithium Cobolt and Lipo batteries altogether.
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Soon you should be able to get a factory-refurbished Note 7 at a fire sale price.
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I was going to use mine to start my campfire this weekend. I guess I will have to use matches. Yay! old tech!.
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for the price of samsung note 7 it is already officially released ?
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