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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.
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