The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is now available for your … – CNET in Spanish

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 replacement is now available for your exchange.

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finally, the nightmare of not being able to use your tabléfono Samsung Galaxy Note 7 comes to an end.

cell phones Galaxy Note 7 of replacement can be obtained at the stores of the carriers and retailers in the U.S. beginning Wednesday, September 21.

In total, about 500,000 units will be distributed to redeem for the devices with the faulty batteries, said Samsung. The Note 7 with the battery damaged are likely to explode or ignite due to overheating of its lithium battery.

Tim Baxter, president of Samsung Electronics America, told CNET by email that the company is still urging users to stop using these models potentially dangerous and replace them with a new one. Only 25 percent of consumers have redeemed the Note 7 retired officially on the market on the 15th of September, the company said. To encourage more users to change their mobile phones, Samsung will start to send a notification, which will appear on the home screen of the phone, reminding them to replace the device.

The half a million units which will be distributed by Samsung with the phone (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and U. S. Cellular), and retailers like Best Buy will be approved by the Commission of Consumer Product Safety (CPSC, for its acronym in English). Users will be able to distinguish the units, which will have batteries made by a different manufacturer than the Note 7 of the first wave, because their boxes will have printed a letter “S”, the battery icon will be colored green and added a black frame to the barcode.

If not did you make a copy or transfer your data to the cloud, the SIM card or a microSD card, you must make an appointment with one of the representatives where you will redeem your Note 7 and let them help you. The users who bought the cell phone by Samsung directly must call the 1-844-365-6197 to know the process of replacement.

The people who were not able to buy the phone during the first wave, you’re in luck: this Wednesday, Verizon and Sprint resumed its sales of the Galaxy Note 7 with the battery secure. This fact took place weeks before the rumorada date of October 21, when it also launches the LG V20 in the U.S.