A couple of stumbling blocks for Samsung, but the Korean manufacturing giant has been patching things up since the fire prone Galaxy Note 7 came into existence. Recently, Samsung has issued a global recall involving 2.5 million units of the Galaxy Note 7, after multiple reports and incidents of the phablet catching fire or exploding.
The explosions and fires were due to batteries made by Samsung SDI, which happened to be the main supplier for the Note 7 batteries. Samsung did react quick in order to curb the crisis. Nearly a month has passed since the global recall, and Samsung has seemed to make pretty decent progress. According to the company, more than 1 million people are now using safe non-fire prone Galaxy Note 7’s.
Meanwhile, there has been numerous reports of Note 7 explosions in China, though Samsung has dismissed claims that the Chinese variants of the Note 7 are packing fire prone batteries as well. In fact, the company has released a statement to major news outlet Reuters, “Currently, the brand new Note 7 products that have been swapped in overseas markets are using identical batteries to those that were supplied and used for the Chinese version.” Samsung has added that the phone batteries were not the cause of the reported explosions in China after a series of serious investigations.
On the brighter side of things, churning out 1 million safe Galaxy Note 7’s within a month does sound speedy, and we hope that Samsung will complete the mass exchange within the next couple of weeks. What do you think?
Source: Reuters