Samsung has halted production and sales of its Note 7 phone worldwide, telling owners to switch them off, amid fears that the devices can catch fire. BREAKING: Samsung Note 7 is officially DEAD, permanently discontinued as replacements of defective Note 7,s are also defective, blowing up. pic.twitter.com/ozxDkQHjTr — WIRED NIGERIA (@WIREDNG) October 11, 2016 Anyone […]
Samsung has halted production and sales of its Note 7 phone worldwide, telling owners to switch them off, amid fears that the devices can catch fire.
BREAKING: Samsung Note 7 is officially DEAD, permanently discontinued as replacements of defective Note 7,s are also defective, blowing up. pic.twitter.com/ozxDkQHjTr
— WIRED NIGERIA (@WIREDNG) October 11, 2016
Anyone who owns an original or replaced device has been urged to stop using it and switch it off following fresh reports of fire damage in some devices.
The company has stopped further sales of the device and said on Tuesday it had reached a “final decision” to halt production of the handset after recently “readjusting production volume for thorough investigation and quality control”.
Samsung formally recalled 2.5 million devices after dozens exploded or caught fire, and was in the process of replacing them.
But there have been multiple reports that the “safe” replacements provided have also overheated, emitted smoke or caught fire.
One user’s replacement device caught fire on his nightstand.
Images of charred Note 7 phones have been posted by users on social media.
One user’s replacement device caught fire on his nightstand in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday.
Shawn Minter said it “sounded like a spaceship about to take-off”, adding the phone was unplugged and had 71% battery charge at the time.
Another replacement Note 7 reportedly ignited inside a Southwest Airlines flight in the United States last Wednesday.
