No my dear, we must reserve a date for them to come over and exchange our phones. And if you are late to book, the reserved date can take up to the end of November. So we don't really have a choice other than to live with the 60% for weeks.
Before spouting nonsense, if you do not know how a lithium battery works, I suggest you don't spread false threats around here. There are no large explosive elements in the phone or we would have to surrender the phone immediately.
The battery starts to get fat and the elements inside starts to leak like how we see with our previous phones when they are overcharged for too long. If it comes into contact with other elements, it might catch fire and will burn through the phone.
However, total reports of this happening is still less than 100. If you actually bothered to calculate, that is 100 divided by 2.2 million users times 100% giving you 0.000045% chance of it happening to you. The risk is so slim that not even Singapore has a report of it happening for the total of 3 months since the device launch.
Don't bother explaining it to people who have been infected by paranoia and mass hysteria. They put on blinkers when they speak, not realizing that millions of other products in the world use Li-Ion batteries too. To them, only Samsung has this revolutionary new battery that's suddenly combusting in the millions, so the Note 7 is evil while everything else is a saint.
I have said before in earlier posts that:
1. The incident rate is actually, statistically, still extremely low when you compare it to the number of phones sold and used (which you've mentioned).
2. Many other phones by other manufacturers have also caught fire (I even gave links and examples).
3. We don't really have much clue how those who have seen their phones combust, have actually used their phones before it went up in flames.
I conceded that, yes, the battery design is probably flawed to a certain extent, but you also do have to note (lol) that Samsung has actively tried to replicate the problem in their labs and
they cannot do so. This suggests that the flawed design itself is a contributing factor, but that there are variable catalysts out there that trigger the combustion.
So yes, return your phones and get your refunds, because Samsung is being a bit of a dick about the whole thing too by forcing the 60% update on everyone so quickly. But FFS, go get some common sense before making apocalyptic prophecies.
And really, if you're really so afraid of the Note 7, then I suggest you go back to using nothing more than corded home phones (because yes, even cordless home phones use *gasp* Li-Ion batteries!).
