Samsung will issue a global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as soon as this weekend after its investigation on explosion claims found batteries were at fault, according to South Korea's Yonhap News.
Samsung Electronics declined to comment on the report on Friday, but said it was conducting the inspection with its partners, it said.
"We will share the findings as soon as possible. Samsung is fully committed to providing the highest quality products to our consumers," the company said in a statement.
Shipments of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone were delayed in South Korea this week for extra quality control testing. The move came after reports that batteries in some of the jumbo smartphones exploded while they were being charged. Samsung launched the latest version of the Note series just two weeks ago.
This is a mess, but luckily Samsung caught it before anyone was injured and will likely replace the affected phones.
but before a certain group of individuals try and kii and cackle. Those phones did it first, and left a man with 3rd degree burns, so tread lightly before you shade