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Less than 24 hours after Samsung said it hope to have an update on the fiery Hellscape that is the Galaxy

Note 7 disaster McGedengate in the next month, Samsung had an update.

It's done making Galaxy Note Sevens.

Bloomberg ran a piece on Wednesday saying that Samsung is ending production of its

problematic Galaxy Note Seven smartphones.

Bloomberg also called the phone a major headache for Samsung, apparently going for the much coveted

understatement of the month award.

Perhaps we could go with somewhat costly.

According to Bloomberg, Samsung has not said how many new or replacement phones will be affected

by the latest announcement.

Analysts estimated the original recall would cost between $1 billion and $ billion dollars, but that figure will now

certainly rise.

Chung-Chong-Wan, an analyst at Nemura Holdings estimated in a research note

before the company's announcement the the worst case scenario of Samsung

terminating the note 7 would cost the company about $5 billion in operating profit

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