BEIJING: Samsung will change course and recall more than 190,000 Galaxy Note 7 smart phones in China, officials said, as the South Korean firm announced Tuesday a total halt to production of the device over exploding batteries. Samsung caused anger among Chinese consumers after it excluded the country from an international recall of the phones, claiming that models sold in the Asian giant had used batteries from a different supplier. Samsung’s new smart phone was launched with the expectation of scaling new heights in a highly competitive market. So serious has the problem become with the Galaxy Note 7 and its exploding batteries that some analysts are suggesting Samsung may be forced to take the unprecedented move of scrapping the model completely. That could have devastating consequences given that the large-sized Note series, along with the Galaxy S smart phones, are Samsung’s flagship bearers in the fierce battle with arch-rival Apple’s iPhones for supremacy in the high-end handset segment.

Source: Manila Times October 11, 2016 10:07 UTC