Over 2.7 Million of 3.06 units sold was collected as per samsung company claimed. This could be a tough situation for Samsung to mitigate. The tech giant is yet to release charge limiting or otherwise damaging updates to its local Note7 users, but those might be coming shorting if numbers don't improve.
The company has also announced the official disconnection or disabling of Note 7 units in New Zealand and Australia for December 15. Also, all samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones was also banned in the USA as well as the Caribbean countries and all others around the world.
St. Luke's Health System says it's banning all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones at its facilities in Idaho.https://t.co/jJ0TjsXuu5 pic.twitter.com/zG7MZSxbXh
— KTVB.COM (@KTVB) December 12, 2016
It had already recalled 2.5 million Note 7s in 10 markets complaining that its lithium-ion battery exploded while charging. As per reported by news.com, samsung has offered financial incentives for people to return the phones, but some of them have decided to keep their smartphones.
Engineers have finally worked out why the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 kept exploding https://t.co/6JAi4laBFG pic.twitter.com/YLw7qil2Mh — Mirror Tech (@MirrorTech) December 6, 2016
In addition, CNET reported that Samsung is going to turn all surviving Note 7s into very expensive bricks. The South Korean electronics giant is realising an update that will deactivate all Note 7 after its recall due to batteries that caught fire.
To further increase participation, to those who retured their smartphones, a software update will be released starting on December 19 and will be distributed within 30 days. The said software will prevent Galaxy Note 7 from charging and will eliminate their ability to work as mobile devices.
