Chinese smartphone market Xiaomi on Tuesday launched two large screen handsets which are seen as fresh options for consumers looking for a replacement for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 after a production halt over safety concerns.
Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said on Monday it has imposed ban on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on all of their flights amid safety concerns about the smartphone.
Airline passengers who try to carry Samsung Electronics Co. Note 7 smartphones on flights will have them confiscated and may face fines under an emergency U.S. order that significantly expands restrictions on the devices linked to almost 100 incidents of overheating and fires.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Friday said it expected to take a hit to its operating profit of about $3 billion over the next two quarters due to the discontinuation of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
Samsung's engineers are still unable to pinpoint exactly what causes its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to explode, it has been revealed.
Samsung should make earnest efforts in follow-up work to recall Galaxy Note 7 smartphones and protect the legitimate rights of Chinese consumers, an official with China's top market watchdog said Wednesday.
Apple is investigating a number of reports that iPhones have started to explode or catch fire, following issues with overheating lithium-ion batteries.
In Vietnam, owners of Galaxy Note 7, the latest smartphone produced by South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics, are able to return the phones for a refund.
Samsung has filed a plan with China's consumer quality watchdog to recall 190,984 Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold on the Chinese mainland, due to an overheating problem.
Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it has decided to temporarily halt the global sales and exchange of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones following reported cases of the replacement phones catching fire or overheating.
Samsung Electronics has temporarily halted the production of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, some of which caught fire again even after replacement, Yonhap news agency reported Monday citing an official of Samsung's subcontractor.
Samsung Electronics saw its third-quarter revenue fall following a global recall of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones for a fire hazard of batteries, the company said on Friday.
Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday it has got back more than 60 percent of recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in South Korea and the United States, suggesting it is making progress in its attempts to recover from the crisis.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it was delaying the start of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sales in South Korea by three days to Oct. 1, a move it says is needed for speedy completion of the ongoing recall in the country.
U.S. carrier Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) has begun taking orders for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, after having stopped sales of the device earlier due to fire-prone batteries.
Samsung Electronics Co tried on Monday to ease Chinese consumers' concerns over the safety of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after two more reports of fires involving the product.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Monday a Galaxy Note 7 phone a Chinese user claimed caught on fire was damaged by external heating, seeking to assure customers in the world's top smartphone market the devices being sold there are safe.
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