Ignoring the risks, thousands of people still use the Galaxy Note 7 – Digital Look

No matter how many alerts are made about the dangers offered by the Galaxy Note 7, it seems that there will always be people that refuses to drop the unit. In the United States, the mobile operator Verizon reported that "thousands" of these smartphones are still in use, even after the Samsung release an update that nearly killed the Note 7.

"in Spite of our best efforts, there are still consumers (…) that are not returned or exchanged its Note 7 to the point of sale," said a spokesman for the operator to Fortune.

Verizon can have access to the records of each client, so you must know exactly how many people still hold the Note 7 in the activity, even after all the publicity made in respect of the cases of explosion involving the smartphone.

The operator, then, tries new approaches, first by placing these devices in a special mode that will redirect any connection to your service center — unless it is a call to the emergency number 911. Another measure considered by Verizon is to issue an account in the value of the device, which can force their owners to return them, once that Samsung set out to reverse what the people paid for it.

The own Samsung has been trying for months to make the consumers give up the Note 7. In November, has released an update that caused the smartphone to interrupt the charging when the battery reach 60% of capacity, and in Canada users had connections to the cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned off, which prevents them to access the internet or make calls. Then, in December, the Korean went on to prevent the charging of the smartphone, but there are those who have worked around this to keep using the Note 7.

the first wave of The recall of the device was announced in September, but after that the replacements have started to give problem came the second wave, this time in October. At the beginning of November, 85% of Note 7 sold in the us had already been returned, which left a total of 285 thousand units still wandering the country. Today, the amount is over 96%, but why should you multiply that by thousands, you realize that there are a lot of people at risk there.