SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean consumers who already bought the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are expected to prefer to replace their Note 7 devices with new ones rather than receive complete refunds because of a longer period for the replacement program, industry officials said Tuesday. Samsung announced a global recall of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Last week, Samsung Electronics announced a historic recall of its Galaxy Note 7 after confirming that some of the phones had faulty batteries. Ironically, on the same day, the electronics giant launched sales of refurbished smartphones in the United States. Experts now anticipate that Samsung’s phablet of concern may [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The mass recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones over faulty batteries is expected to cut Samsung Electronics Co.’s second-half operating profit by about 820 billion won (US$738.2 million), an analyst said Monday. Samsung announced a global recall of the Note 7 smartphones on Friday after some of their [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday announced an unprecedented global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 after several of the phablets caught fire while being charged, promising to offer new replacements to all of the buyers at home and abroad. Samsung apologized for the recall in a news conference in [...]
SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the new Galaxy Note 7 are now anxious that they may have purchased a faulty product. According to industry watchers, at least five cases of exploding Note 7s have been reported on online message boards, including two in Korea, since [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. has halted deliveries of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 phablet to South Korean mobile carriers amid a series of reports at home and abroad that a few of the devices were “exploding” while they were being charged, industry officials said Wednesday. The stoppage of Galaxy Note [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been almost two weeks since the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was released. Yet, the unexpected popularity of the phablet has led to shortages, with many consumers still awaiting their new phones. High demand for the phone has highlighted another issue, where smaller cell phone stores receive fewer [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The first allegations of a Galaxy Note 7 catching on fire came on August 24 in a post on Ppomppu, an online community largely frequented by smartphone users for tips and feedback. The victim said in a post that her “boyfriend’s Galaxy Note 7 exploded while it was charging,” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The highly-anticipated Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s latest flagship phablet, was finally released on Friday. Customers who placed pre-orders for the new phone lined up in front of mobile phone shops across the country to finally get their hands on Samsung’s most recent innovation. The Galaxy Note 7 was met [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Iris scanning is no longer something from the future, or a mundane cliché technology from a sci-fi movie. With Samsung Electronics introducing a form of the technology in its latest flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 7, it’s clear that a new era of personal identification is here. Boasting its [...]