Samsung has actually postponed deliveries of its Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea over reports of blowing up batteries.

Reuters on Thursday reported that the technology huge validated it has actually stopped deliveries to South Korea’s leading 3 mobile providers while it performs quality assurance tests. Samsung did not right away react to PCMag’s demand for remark, and the business did not discuss to Reuters the issue it’s aiming to deal with, or whether markets beyond South Korea will be impacted.

“This is some significant buzz-kill for Samsung, specifically offered all the hard-earned enjoyment that items like the Note 7 have actually been gathering recently,”IDC expert Bryan Ma informed Reuters.”The pending Apple launch puts even more pressure for them to include this rapidly. The timing of this could not have actually been even worse.”

The hold-up follows a minimum of 2 Note 7 users in current days have actually asserted their phones blew up while charging. Business Korea on Wednesday reported that a user on the popular Korean social networks service Kakao Story today published pictures of a burnt Note 7, and recommended a third-party battery charger might in fact be to blame.