95% Of Note 7s In Singapore Returned, Remaining Will Be Disabled

With the various incentives that Samsung has been offering customers to get them to return their Galaxy Note 7 handset, not to mention the danger that comes with owning one of the phones since they seem to be prone to exploding, it isn’t surprising that many users have since returned their handsets.

Over in Singapore, Samsung Singapore has announced that the return rate is at 95%, and for the remaining 5%, they plan on pushing out an update that will effectively kill off the handset. In a statement published by HardwareZone, “As customer safety remains our utmost priority, Samsung Electronics Singapore will be implementing a software update on 28 December 2016, which will restrict all Galaxy Note7’s battery charge to zero percent.”

This sounds like a similar update that carriers and Samsung in the US will be issuing phones in the region. Like we said this effectively kills off the smartphone since you can’t charge it anymore, it just becomes an expensive and dangerous paperweight. Whether or not it will prompt customers to return their handsets remains to be seen, but chances are it will.

In the meantime there have been some disturbing statistics, in which it has been discovered that the number of unreturned Note 7 handsets actually exceeds that of the number of LG V20 handsets in the market. We can only imagine that those numbers would be higher had the Note 7 not run into these issues.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Galaxy Note 7, Samsung