Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall and discontinuation

It’s official. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been discontinued.

Over the last two days, there have been news that Samsung stopped the production of the Note 7 while they investigate incidents of replacement units catching fire.

Today, this was on Samsung Malaysia website:

Samsung Galaxy Note7 Pre-Order Owners to get full refund or exchange to another Samsung device
12 October 2016 – With the recent reported cases involving the Samsung Galaxy Note7, Samsung Malaysia Electronics (SME) Sdn. Bhd. urges all pre-order owners of Samsung Galaxy Note7 to power off their devices immediately. Pursuant thereto, the option of refund or exchange to the Samsung Galaxy S7edge will be made available for the pre-order owners provided that they return their current Samsung Galaxy Note7 accordingly.

The pre-order owners will expect to be contacted from 13th October 2016 onwards by Samsung Customer Service, related mobile network operators or participating retail partners respectively on the details of the refund or exchange program.

For further inquiries, kindly contact Samsung Malaysia Careline at 1-800-88-7799. We apologize for any inconveniences caused.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a near perfect device (I don’t like curved edges and I think they are not practical on phones). It is sad to see this “perfect” phone suffering this fate.

RIP, Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Looks like I’ll need to start backup up my stuff and prepare my old Samsung Galaxy Note II. Thank goodness there is microSD slot for both phones.