Smoke and rapidly - draining batteries have been cited as a new issue surrounding replacement Galaxy Note 7 handsets identified in the latest production run in Korea . Sales have been resuming sporadically elsewhere in the world, with some U.S. carriers already offering the device once again. However , a Samsung spokesman claimed the isolated incidents related to " mass production issues " , not batteries . Samsung is in the middle of an unprecedented global recall of the handsets , which the US Consumer Product Safety Commission claimed exploded or caught fire due to the battery being slightly too large for the handset .
Smoke and rapidly - draining batteries have been cited as a new issue surrounding replacement Galaxy Note 7 handsets identified in the latest production run in Korea . However , a Samsung spokesman claimed the isolated incidents related to " mass production issues " , not batteries . Samsung is in the middle of an unprecedented global recall of the handsets , which the US Consumer Product Safety Commission claimed exploded or caught fire due to the battery being slightly too large for the handset .