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Samsung is Hoping To Rekindle Note Brand Name Next Year (techcrunch.com)
Samsung is stepping up its brand damage limitation efforts in the wake of the flaming battery disaster of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone by offering owners of the recalled device in South Korea the ability to upgrade to a Galaxy S8 or Note 8 device next year if they trade in their Note 7 for a Galaxy S7 now. TechCrunch adds:The offer implies Samsung is not in fact intending to retire the Note brand name for good, despite it now being associated with smoldering batteries and exploding smartphones. A cause for the battery overheating problem, which affected some replacement Note 7 devices as well as a number of original devices, has yet to be conclusively identified by the company. Users in its home country who opt for the upgrade program will only need to pay half the price of a Galaxy S7 in order to exchange to an S8 or Note 8 next year -- so they're being offered next year's flagship Samsung phablet at around half price. The company is presumably hoping brand loyalty to the Note can begin at home, although it's possible it might extent the offer to other markets.
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"Rekindle" is a curious word choice to use when talking about a tablet ;)
Or ejectable.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Hopefully they'll do just that with the Note 8. I prefer removable batteries and it's a feature I miss on more recent phone.
Wait, what do you mean they're not selling it to the South Korean Army as a new Hand Grenade line?
A better idea would be to sell it to the North Korean Army and wait for hilarity to ensue
The name "Note" is strongly linked to the burning batteries, even more than "Samsung". So they're trying to make everyone forget about the battery disaster by using again the name "Note" on a new - hopefully not burning - phone? That's a big mistake. They should swallow the bad year 2016 and start with a complete new brand name next year.
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It doesn't give you a removable battery, but the SamSung Galaxy Note S7 XP III+ gives you removable arms.
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Hopefully they'll do just that with the Note 8.
Sorry, a removable battery would allow you to only replace the battery instead of having to buy a new phone. That's can't be allowed.
Best phone I've ever owned. Amazing camera and blazing fast. Need to add external storage, and a removable battery (although you can replace the 'sealed' battery with little effort).
Indeed. But, more to the point, it will take a Herculean effort to untarnish the Galaxy Notes name. I do not think Samsung will succeed.
I have a Note 5. Replacing the battery is fairly simple even though it's 'non-removable'. I'd imagine the others are the same.
"Or ejectable."
It gets you ejected from a plane quite nicely.
I've been a happy Note owner for years, 3 different versions but when the specs on the Note 7 came out I saw it as a loser, too thin, too little battery life and I have to use mine on many flights. I've now had to show multiple flight attendants and gate agents that "no, this is a Note 6, not a Note 7." Sorry, next upgrade will be an LG for me and the Note is dead to me.
Nice try, troll.
There is no Samsung Galaxy Note 6. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7's predecessor was the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.
Samsung skipped version 6 in order to align the S line and the Note line. Previously, the S line (as in Samsung Galaxy S7 and its variants) was one version ahead of the Note.
I'm not sure using the term "re-kindle" is the best choice of words.
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Herculean effort
If by herculean effort you mean just wait a year and let people's short attention span do the work for you then sure, but you're doing Hercules a great disservice.
I'm not sure they can save this. Consumers have short memories, but Ford isn't selling Pintos, irrespective of root cause.
the number for Hell is a default setting in the directory, but hey, unique feature!
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
The best relation cost x benefit for phones right now I think is a Galaxy S4 whit CyanogeMod (I currently own an S3 with CM, but recently "made" an S4 for a sister, that made me think in "make" one for myself: used S4s are so affordable [and new batteries too!])
People don't seem to have a short attention span when it comes to colossal screw-ups. See: Apple's "you're holding it wrong"
Or do people around here just remember Apple's colossal screw-ups and give everyone else a pass, like some kind of golf handicap?
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I am hoping Samsung will have to release an amazing loss leader version of the Note brand in order to improve their reputation again. In this case the consumers win big time. I'm hoping they finally bump up the device size a little and go with a 4000+ mAh battery for starters.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Samsung has made a lot of good phones and then one bad one.. It would be pretty ridiculous to think they couldn't go back to making good phones again, doesn't matter what it is called. I will buy the next Note simply because I need a phone with a stylus and no one else seems to be able to make one.
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I agree. WTF? Who pays some losers to make posts to dis the Notes? It reminds me of those BS web pages that people get paid pennies to crank out which contain frivolous, crappy content just to get page hits.
BS, the average news retention of todays consumers is a couple of months. there will be a small impact on the next gen
and nothing on the one after.
By next year, people will have no memory of these things, which is both sensible (a tiny %age of people had a real problem,
however hype has taken over) and terrible (companies need to learn from this, in the areas of treating their customers
with enough care and respect).
The big thing that can be taken away from this is that Samsung do seem capable of turning the boat around and reacting
correctly (full recall) even though it took them a little while. This is something rarely seen these days.
Sony still have a burning laptop battery issue, their third in the last ten years, which they are doing their best to avoid (and
for some reason doesnt seem to be all over the front pages of every news outlet, or result in laptops being banned from
flights..)
Apple are happily making people replace (and the consumers cost) phones with fault touch screens, because 'apple'.
My guess is different. Samsung PR did show how they were unable to handle such a disastrous crisis. They just keep going the same way.
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I really hope that Samsung does not kill the Note line. That would leave me desperate for another manufacturer to bring out an equivalent.
I remember going out of my way to spend over US$3,000 on a Windows laptop with a screen the rotated so it was over the keyboard and had a digitiser that allowed my to take handwritten notes. When it was new, it had a useful battery life of over 10 hours and it took it to every meeting. It was amazing that I no longer had to carry, or produce, any paperwork when traveling. Being able to take my notes and use handwriting recognition to turn them into something that I could share with colleagues made me more productive. Filling in the many forms that I used in my job on that screen was a pleasure. Being in a minority with this doesn't bother me at all.
I've had a few Android phones and a couple of those were Notes. In fact, I'm still using a Note 4 and have no interest in replacing it. Having a removable battery and SDcard support is important to me and Samsung dropped both in the Note 5... Right now, my two year old Note 4 can be made as good as new by simply putting in a new battery. For much more than a quick note, I find using the on screen keyboards annoying and will just take a handwritten note or use handwriting recognition. They only time typing is my preferred input method is when I'm using a full size (real) keyboard.
I also have a Note tablet that I use for a lot of personal notes. It is used for my morning web browsing and it great for reading books, pdfs and office documents because it has a high resolution screen and weighs very little.
See: Apple's "you're holding it wrong"
I saw:
Number of iPhone 5 pre-orders in the first 24 hours 2,000,000
Number of iPhone 4s pre-orders in the first 24 hours 1,000,000
Number of iPhone 4 pre-orders in the first 24 hours 600,000 -- this one was being held wrong.
iPhone-5-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Five-Million
iPhone-4S-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Four-Million
iPhone-4-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-1-7-Million --- this one was being held wrong.
Based on your example of Apple's holding it wrong, Samsung just created themselves a license to print money. People here aren't unfairly treating anyone, you're just not realising how a major scandal has almost zero influence on a product released a year later. You're also forgetting that the Note is probably the single best Phablet in the Android ecosystem, and Android people won't jump-ship to the iPhone. They'll just wait until the Note 8 comes out with their new 100% less incendiary incidents feature, and then buy like good consumers do.