Samsung halts production of Galaxy Note 7

Samsung is about to smoke out the smoky Galaxy Note 7, after the phones allegedly developed heating problems, thus exposing consumers to serious hazards. The company lost billions in market shares just months after the glitch was discovered. Samsung received nearly a hundred reports of the Note 7's battery overheating or exploding, and at least 26 reports of the phone causing serious burns on users. Apart from the burns, the phone has caused property damages, most of which have not yet being accounted for.

The Editors at Mirror UK published that Samsung had earlier on tried to play the blame game, by accusing their previous battery supplier of giving them fake batteries. But this changed later, after the company switched to a new supplier and the heating problem still persisted. It was soon to be discovered that the flaw was not in the battery, but in the phone itself.

TechRadar argues that Samsung might have been in a hurry to counter Apple's launch of the iPhone 7, and they might have ignored some safety aspects in the Galaxy Note 7. The company is still baffled on the real cause of the overheating flaw till now. But from the look of things, nobody will buy a Galaxy Note smart phone, even if they rebrand it to something else.

More to that, Samsung is risking to tarnish their good name if they don't wipe off all the Note 7's out there in the market. People who had previously bought the Note 7 are asked to return the phones to authorized Samsung outlets, so as to receive a refund or pick other Samsung smartphone models. We hate to see the graceful Galaxy Note 7 go, but who wants to carry a 'hand grenade' in their pocket, in the name of a Galaxy Note smartphone. This move essentially leaves Samsung without any high-end smartphone to battle with the iPhone 7.