Yeah I don't think weve seen a global recall for a smartphone on such a scale ever before have we ?
I guess the fact they havent officially launched in Europe till tomorrow the 2nd September gives them the leeway to suspend sales whilst they investigate, however many pre-order customers will have recieved their devices.
It's certainly not good PR, and marring what should have been an easy launch after the sucessful launches of the S7 & S7e earlier in the year.
Biggest issue will be trying to 'regain' the momentum afterwards.
If there's a global recall, I gotta think this generation of Note is dead. Hard to recover from a global recall.