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Samsung Permanently Discontinues Galaxy Note 7 (twitter.com)
After the replacement units of Galaxy Note 7 also started to catch fire, Samsung is now permanently discontinuing its latest flagship smartphone (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternate source), the company said today. The news comes a day after Samsung halted sales of Note 7 once again and began asking users to return the device. So far nearly 50 incidents of Note 7 causing fires have been reported. More importantly, many people have been physically injured with their new Galaxy phone catching fire. WSJ reports: Samsung said in a filing with South Korean regulators on Tuesday that it would permanently cease sales of the device, a day after it announced a temporary halt to production of the smartphones. "Taking our customer's safety as our highest priority, we have decided to halt sales and production of the Galaxy Note 7," the company said. The move comes on a day when Samsung shares tumbled 8%, its biggest one-day decline in eight years, amid increasing pressure after a new string of reported smartphone fires in the U.S.
It's not a dupe. The previous story talked about Samsung halting sales of Note 7. The company has since changed its stand on the matter. Please read before commenting.
That in 20 years you can sell to a collector for about a grand.
It costs almost a grand today!!
Kind of funny how people call Apple users "worshippers" and "fanboys" while at the same time pretending Samsung's exploding phones are just a minor problem that people shouldn't make such a fuss about, on the same level as a touch display glitch.
Worshipping Samsung a little too much, perhaps?
if they are unwilling to make a phone with user replaceable battery, serves them right. this could have been so much cheaper for them.
Quality control, firmware responsible for charging - these can be easily changed. I think it has to be a serious design error which cannot be repaired without physically altering the case/PCB. Like a chip which gets hot under certain conditions is located too close to the battery, or something similar.
Get some perspective man.
Samsung's phones are a health hazard. They could kill you.
Apples touch disease, though unnaceptable from a consumer point of view, falls squarely in the domain of "first world problems". They won't kill you. They won't harm you. They'll just cause you a slight annoyance (having to ask Apple for a replacement, which, depending on specifics, they might do for free).
Also, the instances of Apple devices catching fire are extremely rare, and are caused by mishandling the device (like, for example, using some crap charger).
Samsung's instances are caused by a defect that they themselves have already admitted existing. Though they haven't exactly clarified what they've fucked up, leaving people - such as yourself - a thin hope that it might just be a bad batch of batteries, totally ignoring that a) replacing the batteries didn't fix the problem and b) that there are only a handful of battery suppliers, and they supply everyone else.
A manufacturing defect on the batteriez would not just affect Samsung devices, they would affect everyone's devices.
Who are you accusing of hating here? The Wall Street Journal for publishing this article? Samsung for discontinuing the model? Or maybe msmash for submitting the story here?
Is this not a newsworthy topic? Is this not a current red-hot issue in the tech world? Is this not news for nerds?
How is it that you think that this is a political issue, or one driven by hate? Do you think that we should meekly accept phones that explode on us? You accuse others of being fanbois, but I can't think of any excuse to wanting us to remain silent on this issue other than you being a fanboi yourself.
It's totally legitimate to contrast the pooh-poohing of Samsung completely abandoning a flagship product over safety problems with how Slashdot would be reacting if this were Apple
Moderating this as flamebait is silly. Having a user-replaceable battery is a desirable feature, at least for me.