There are still Note7s around and Samsung's not having any of it

Legendary Silke

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    Following what has been pushed to handsets in the United States, Samsung is about to disable charging for anyone still holding onto a Note7.

    3 percent is still 3 percent too high for the amount of unreturned Note7s. Seriously, that thing is a safety risk at this point, and, yes, the phone is really nice, but safety is probably even more important than anything else. Besides... they're practically paying you to return it at one point.

    Hopefully anyone reading this isn't reading it using a Note7, because... well... for heaven's sake, get it returned if you really are.
     
    Why are people still using this phone anyways? I get that it can be difficult for people to entirely give up a device that they lock themselves onto, but for fuck's sake this thing is a safety risk.

    I'm curious to know how they can even employ this strategy. What about people who have found their way around to rooting the device or even have custom firmware on it?
     
    Natural Selection will take its course.

    But really, you'd have to be living under a rock if you haven't heard about the Note 7 exploding issue. I wonder if Samsung can just lock all Note 7 firmware? I doubt they can, but there is no other way to warn people. Unless those people are keeping it on purpose because they haven't "experienced any issues" yet.
     
    Yeah...the worst thing about this is that the idiots who haven't returned their phones aren't going to get hurt. It'll be innocent bystanders who are injured by the ISIS-Samsung coproduction.
     
    BadSheep said:
    I dont know too much about technology, but is it possible for Samsung to remove software without an update?
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    They can force updates when your phone is plugged in sometimes I believe. They did something with them in Australia quite early on in the recall process if I remember correctly.
     
    Why do I get the feeling that the Note 7 is going to be the Ford Pinto (or Chevrolet Corvair) of mobile devices?

    I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future (if it hasn't already happened by now), a Ralph Nader-type "consumer advocate" will write a book about unsafe electronic devices with the same idea behind "Unsafe At Any Speed."
     
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