Samsung is wrongly recalling older Galaxy smartphones as Note 7’s

Samsung has been struggling to collect all shipped units from its recently discontinued Galaxy Note 7 lineup, but it turns out the phone-maker might’ve been recalling the wrong devices all along. Yesterday, Redditor Dominicedcel shared a screenshot of a safety warning he received from Samsung, kindly prompting him to turn off his Note 7 and “surrender” the device to one of the designated stores or carriers. While that’s hardly surprising given the South Korean giant has been running special exchange programs for some time now, there’s one problem – Dominicedcel owns a three-year-old Note 4. The confusion is only partially Samsung’s fault though. Unlike your ordinary Android user, Dominicedcel has opted to flash the Note 7 ROM…
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