Samsung may be adjusting its shipments of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to carriers and retailers, but no one in the US or UK may take them.In addition to AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon have now stopped sales of the Note 7. All units, whether recalled or replaced, may be exchanged for other phones, CNET reported. Even Best Buy has done and offered the same.Across the pond, EE ...
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Can’t we just fast-forward to March 2017, when the purportedly game-changing Galaxy S8 will arrive to silence haters, restore Samsung’s reputation, and turn the Galaxy Note 7 into a long-forgotten nightmare?Unfortunately for the world’s most popular (still) smartphone vendor, it’s never that easy. And if the increasingly likely prospect of a second global recall materializes, the Korean tech giant may need more than a few months to play the scandal down.While the circumstances of
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Update: The Verge has confirmed that AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have followed suit with the same terms as Sprint’s exchange offer.Even the utmost devotion to a long-beloved, long-respected brand has its limit, and if the CPSC concludes a “safe-to-use” new Galaxy Note 7 was indeed to blame for
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At least one Galaxy Note 7 in the US, given as a replacement for a recalled device, is in the process of being exchanged for a new unit by Samsung.The Wall Street Journal received a statement from the company saying that multiple reports of overheating new Note 7 units do “not pose a safety concern.” The issues have affected US and
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Recalling every potentially faulty Galaxy Note 7 unit around the world certainly took guts, as Samsung yielded to a “heartbreaking” direct financial loss of at least $1 billion, not to mention indirect hits to the company’s market value, brand recognition and, possibly, even its long-term product roadmap.But apparently, the ...
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The deadline to file for a refund for a recalled phone in South Korea was on Monday. The government said that the deadline came too early.The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards has yet to approve Samsung’s recall plan moving forward as it tries to whittle down risks of a battery exploding in someone’s hands. It wants to chaebol to spend more time publicizing consumers’ options.“We need more measures to actively inform consumers. It appears that ...
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In the US, many carriers are already working on updating every Galaxy Note 7’s battery icon, exchanging old, explosion prone and, most importantly, recalled Note 7 units with new ones and, for some, selling new units to consumers at large.For Canada, the pace of the ...
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It’s the story that keeps on smoking.One day after the Federal Aviation Administration advised commercial airline passengers to essentially keep their recalled Galaxy Note 7 turned off in the skies, Samsung released a press statement acknowledging the FAA’s release.“We are aware of the Federal Aviation Administration statement about the Galaxy Note7,” the statement reads in part. “We plan to expedite new shipments of Galaxy Note7 starting from this week ...
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In its flurry of software updates, Apple supposedly fixed one problem and caused another one. A big one. Big enough to warrant drastic measures to fix it.According to MacRumors, the company is now offering free exchanges for iPad Pro 9.7 owners who had their tablets bricked by installing the iOS 9.3.2 update. Some of those owners reported seeing an “Error 56” dialog, followed by a prompt to plug the tablet into ...
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Google realizes that Gmail addresses aren’t for everyone. But even if your digital mail lives on someone else’s server, Google would still like little more than for you at least to be accessing it through its Gmail app. That’s led to developments like the “Gmailify” service we saw debut earlier this year, where Google worked to implement a number of Gmail-like features for users connecting to external Yahoo or Outlook email accounts. Today Google’s got some fresh news about how Gmail’s ...
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