Samsung stops Note7 shipments on reports of battery fires

Yesterday I published a rather exhaustive review of Samsung's new Galaxy Note7 smartphone, in which I mostly gushed over the device. I called it a "fabulous phone with few flaws." But it looks like I may have been wrong on at least one account. Some Note7 units may have a serious fault: Exploding batteries. [ Related: Note7 iris scanner not quite ready for prime time (video) ]News broke early Wednesday morning that Samsung had ceased shipments of the Note7 in its home country of South Korea