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Thousands of Note 7 Phones Still in Use On Verizon, All Non-911 Calls To Be Rerouted To Customer Service (cnet.com)
Thousands of Verizon customers continue to use the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, the carrier said. This despite the widely publicized recalls spurred by battery fire concerns and a software upgrade designed to kill the phone by preventing it from recharging. From a report: "In spite of our best efforts, there are still customers using the recalled phones who have not returned or exchanged their Note 7 to the point of purchase," a Verizon spokeswoman said. "The recalled Note 7s pose a safety risk to our customers and those around them." So now Verizon is fighting fire with fire, so to speak. The carrier plans to reroute all non-911 outgoing calls to its customer service line, and it might bill the holdouts for the full retail cost of the phone.
...sucks to be you. I can feel the waves of hate already. It's as if millions of voices suddenly dialed out, and were silenced.
I use my Note 7 to call my wife at work. She's a 911 operator so it's all good.
You never look at the bright side. That device could fry his nuts and he will not have any children, thus improving the quality of the gene pool for the next generation for millenia to come...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
A second impact!? Let's rename NEO to Angel. It is falling from heaven, after all. If Angels are falling to earth (Adam, Eve, Lilith, et al), I'm going to be less concerned with exploding phones and more concerned with giant mecha, Seele and the human instrumentality project.