Samsung Canada has recently announced that it is deactivating the service for the remaining Samsung Note 7 devices in Canada market. Canadian consumers will be able to return or exchange their Note 7 devices, which secures nearly 90 percent of the devices brought into the market.
According to Slash Gear, Samsung Canada's move compels owners to surrender their Samsung Note 7. This isn't actually news as Australian carriers have been doing it already. The devices will be ceased to operate as smartphones and will be downgraded to being an offline notepads, media players and mirrors.
Functional limitations on the Samsung Note 7 devices include battery charge limitation around 60 percent like other countries that has implemented the same restriction and it will also disable Bluetooth and Wi-fi. News Wire reports that this takes effect as early as Dec. 12, 2016 and effective Dec. 15, users will not be able to connect to any Canadian mobile networks to use date, make calls and send text messages.
Samsung strongly suggests that users who are still using the Samsung Note 7 to go back to the stores where the device were purchased between Dec. 7 and Dec. 15 to make a refund or exchange units. Samsung continues to notify users regarding this with a push notification about the network deactivation.
In the event of giving away or selling the Samsung Note 7, the company reminds these owners that this action is deemed illegal. "As a recalled product, Note7 device owners are legally prohibited from selling or even giving away the recalled device. We would like to remind customers that they need to return their Note7 device," reads Samsung post on its website.
Samsung is headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul and a South Korean multinational conglomerate company. It has several subsidiaries and associated businesses where most of these are united under Samsung brand. Lee Byung-chul founded the company in 1938.
