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Samsung Says Over 96% of Galaxy Note7 Phones Returned To Date (venturebeat.com)
Samsung said today that over 96 percent of all Galaxy Note7 phones have been returned following a recall that started in September. From a report: First introduced in August, the latest Note7 smartphone received positive reviews until reports surfaced that some devices caught fire after their batteries exploded. After a "thorough inspection" of its phones, Samsung opted to issue a mandatory recall, but only after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued its own recall notice. Achieving a 96 percent return rate took about four months, but it wasn't all done organically, as Samsung revealed in December that it would issue a software update to permanently disable charging on the outstanding Note7s. Until that point, the company had received 85 percent of affected devices. The FAA said today that DoT has informed airlines that they can stop pre-flight warnings about Galaxy Note7 smartphones.
You'll have to pry my Note 7 from my cold dead h
Waiting to be shipped back once the cool down.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
How could antiquated malfunctioning electronics do anything BUT appreciate in value?
DoT has informed airlines that they can stop pre-flight warnings about Galaxy Note7 smartphones
But do they now have to give pre-flight warnings about not using Samsung washing machines on the plane?
No, that was dropped today as the danger of Samsung Note 7s is now considered common knowledge, the FAA has decided.
Seems you don't have a collector's mindset.
Two easy counter-examples, Cheetahmen II and Action 52 for the NES. The cartridges were both unlicensed and "run-of-the-mill" products in that they were among the crappy NES titles of the time. Action-52 contains lots of crappy games that certainly wouldn't be worth the initial asking price for the cartridge. Today you can have one for ~$240, making it the 25th most expensive NES item. Cheetahmen II wasn't mass produced and only 1500 copies exist, but that can go for $1000.
Still not enough? Here's another list of random crap that's worth a lot today. The Super Soaker Monster XL sold for $500.
I couldn't find a list of things that have been recalled that are now collectible, but I seem to remember a baseball card with a profanity hidden on it being recalled/reprinted and the original is worth a hell of a lot more.
Hard to believe there was no way to fix the phones. I read somewhere it was an issue with the battery. Surely they could have just replaced all the batteries?
Possibly, except the batteries were likely not designed to be easily replaced to start with. They certainly weren't made to be user-replaceable. In new forced-obsolescence style, I'm sure their plan was for customers to just buy a new phone by the time the battery ran out. Replacing the batteries would mean collecting the handsets, keeping track of whose was whose, going through the labor of replacing the battery, and shipping them back to the consumer, all on Samsung's dime.
Just collecting all the phones in a big box and disposing them was probably a more palatable solution.