14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung continues to conduct the recall of its latest flagship, the Galaxy Note 7, as the company prepares to restart sales in certain markets. Samsung has just announced that over 1 million people are now using Note 7 units with safe batteries, according to Reuters.
However, Samsung still has a long way to go before it recalls all of the 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 units that it sold globally. The South Korean company has recently announced that 60% of the units sold in the US and Korea have already been replaced, and sales are expected to resume on October 1 in the phone maker's home country and on October 28 in Europe.
According to the company, the safe batteries aren't vulnerable to overheating or catching fire, but a recent report showed that a Note 7 unit did catch fire just 24 hours after it was replaced. Other users have complained about their replaced Note 7 units losing battery while charging or even getting so hot that they couldn't be used during phone calls.
Samsung will resume sales on October 1 in South Korea
Samsung has said that it is currently investigating the reports and that it will issue a statement later. To be fair, the company did receive a number of false reports of Galaxy Note 7 units catching fire before they could be registered in the recall program.
The replaced Galaxy Note 7 units have the same battery supplier as the ones that were sold in China and weren't included in the recall process.
The first country where sales are expected to resume is South Korea. Recently, 16,000 new Galaxy Note 7 units were put into service, according to Yonhap News. Korea's main mobile carriers, SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp, resumed activating Note 7 units sold in pre-orders last month.
A smartphone retailer from the country said that about 20,000 units are expected to be sold on the first day the Note 7 is made available again - October 1.