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if you still have a Samsung Note seven it's time to pick up your replacement Samsung announced that 500,000 note 7 replacement phones arrived in Us stores Wednesday but that only makes up for about half of the phones that were sold so if you don't want a phone to burn a hole in your pocket you better get to the store before they run out of stock samsung said it should have enough replacements for every customer by the end of the month an official recall has been issued for the phone which has a faulty battery that can combust and catch fire or explode Samsung said about 25 percent of note 7 owners in the US have exchanged their devices most people are choosing to get a different type of phone but that means 75% of these problematic phones are still out in the wild Samsung plans to push out a software update that will pop up a Safety Alert on the bad note 7 it tells owners to trade in their devices it'll pop up every time the phone is powered on or charged if you're picking up a new note 7 you can tell you have one with a good battery if there's a blue sticker near the bar code safe models also will show a green colored battery icon on the screen I'm Bridget Carey you can keep it with the hottest tech news at cnet.com slash you