Irish Galaxy Note 7 owners- turn off your phone now!

Samsung has a serious problem with their new Galaxy Note 7- mostly because the handset has been known to go on fire.

This has happened in 35 cases to date, usually when the phone is charging, and caused the company to instigate an unprecedented recall of up to 2.5 million units which may contain the faulty batteries that sometimes ignite.

That process is huge and daunting and is probably going to take a good while to complete, but in the meantime Samsung is urging users to turn off their Note 7 phones and stop using them entirely. Here's the info from Samsung Europe: