[PaulRobinson]

I got a flight across Greece a week or so back. It's the first time a named device was singled out as "do not turn on, do not attempt to charge, please identify yourself to cabin staff"-type stuff since the 1990s when there was a bunch of - I think, Gateway - laptops that were known to catch fire, and they were regularly not allowed on flights.

The fact this is a replacement means the product has a major engineering flaw, and is likely to end up meaning the product is scrapped completely.

This could be the end of Samsung. They need to get on this and shut it down within a few days. Good luck to them.

[msl]

> This could be the end of Samsung.

This really could not. Samsung is a gigantic conglomerate. They make everything from power plants to super tankers and weapon systems. They could lose their phone business entirely and still be huge.

[nolok]

It's also not going to kill their phone business, at all.

[DiabloD3]

It won't even end the Galaxy Note product line.

They'll just sweep it under the rug and release the next one in 9 months.