Consumers who are in possession of the smartphone, or a replacement model of this, should the phone turn off and not use it, report Samsung Tuesday. The company says to do everything in order to solve the problem.
about 2.5 million copies of the Note 7 had to be recalled after reports that the battery could explode. Meanwhile, multiple reports have emerged about similar problems with the replacement devices. There had to be a American plane to be evacuated after a Note 7 on fire.
The American consumentenwaakhond CPSC says that the verkoopstop “the right decision”, reports the Wall Street Journal. From research on the organization will appear to be or in the USA a recall should be started.
China
In China are in any case more than 190,000 copies of the Note 7 is recalled. That land was excluded from the previous recall, because in the Chinese version of the smartphone, a battery was used that was considered as safe. It probably goes to the same battery in different countries replacement copies was processed.
The U.s. aviation authority FAA has Monday-night re-emphasized that all the copies of the Note 7 during flights need to be turned off. The unit should not be in checked luggage is to be placed.
Monday stopped Samsung already with the production of the embattled smartphone. The delivery of the aircraft in the Netherlands was postponed. Samsung customers in overseas can choose to make their Note 7 in to exchange it for another model.
Reputation
Samsung has not yet said to permanently stop sales of the Galaxy Note 7 and there is still no official recall started. Sources say, however, the South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh that a permanent verkoopstop probably is. After two consecutive series of incidents seems to be the reputation of the device and of Samsung itself in any case is seriously damaged.
the value of The shares of Samsung Electronics fell on Tuesday to nearly 7 percent on the South Korean stock exchange. This lost the company more than 11 billion euros of market value. Also after the first recall, the company got a big tap on the exchange, but the share had since recovered.
reportedly, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 this year, just earlier on the market to better compete with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which last month published.
generally, the Note series is less popular than the Galaxy S series. The Galaxy S7 came already in march on the market and made just for new optimism about the smartphonetak of Samsung. The unit was well received and hit with consumers.
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