Apparently, gently suggesting that people return Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that might have been prone to exploding wasn’t a strong enough move.

So now, Samsung, along with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued an official U.S. recall for around 1 million phones. This comes weeks after news that the Note 7’s battery could overheat and catch fire got out, and weeks after the South Korean electronics giant started calling for a voluntary recall of the devices. But not enough people were getting the message, and accidents were still happening. So what took so long?

In IT Blogwatch, we grab a fire exstringuisher.

What’s the deal with the official recall? Jing Cao and Yoolim Lee have the details:

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