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A Samsung Note 7 handset is pictured next to its charred battery after catching fire during a test at the Applied Energy Hub battery laboratory in Singapore. The company has now suspended production of the phone. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

Samsung’s smartphone recall crisis has deepened after South Korean media said the tech giant had suspended production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 model amid reports that replacement devices had caught fire.

Citing an unnamed source at a Samsung supplier, the news agency Yonhap said the company on Monday decided to halt production of the smartphone, one of the most advanced and expensive products of its kind on the market.

The unprecedented halt in production is another blow to Samsung, which last month announced the global recall of at least 2.5m Galaxy Note 7 smartphones due to faulty batteries that caused some of the phones to emit smoke or catch fire.

Social media images of photographs of charred Note 7 phones have only added to the humiliation felt by Samsung, an iconic South Korean firm that has built a reputation for innovation and quality since entering the consumer electronics market in the late 1960s.

Two US mobile carriers have said they will stop issuing new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after recent reports of replacement devices emitting smoke or bursting into flames.

In one incident, passengers were evacuated from a Southwest Airlines flight in Kentucky earlier this week after a replacement Note 7 started smoldering and making “popping noises” soon after its owner boarded the plane.

AT&T said on Sunday it would stop exchanging new Note 7 smartphones due to reports of fires from replacement devices that Samsung said contained safe batteries.

T-Mobile said it was temporarily halting sales and exchanges of new Note 7s. South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom, said it was monitoring the situation, while KT Corp, the country’s No.2 carrier, said it had taken no action on new Note 7 sales or exchanges.

“This measure includes a Samsung plant in Vietnam that is responsible for global shipments (of the Galaxy Note 7),” Yonhap quoted the source as saying.

Samsung has yet to comment on the Yonhap report.

The latest problem with the Note 7 will frustrate Samsung’s attempts to repair its battered reputation and result in severe financial penalties, with some analysts predicting that the worst recall crisis in the firm’s history could cost it US$5bn in revenues.

“I thought the Note 7 matter was coming to an end, but it’s becoming an issue again,” said CJ Heo, a fund manager at Alpha Asset Management. Heo said he expected Samsung to recover from short-term damage to its reputation, but added that the recall crisis would hit fourth-quarter sales of the Note 7.

Despite the recall, Samsung said last week that its third-quarter profit rose 6 percent to about $7bn on total sales of $43.9bn, thanks to income from Samsung’s other products.

The company sold 76m smartphones in the second quarter of 2016, most of them lower-priced models.

 

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21 minutes ago, Tasso said:

They should just get rid of the Note 7 altogether because I highly doubt that anyone would want to buy it at this point laughcry1

Move on to the Note 8 and make sure that this one doesn't explode laughcry1 

Get rid of the whole Note brand name tbh. 

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Just delete it fat the Note brand and make it part of the S series jj4 

 

Call it Galaxy S8 ++ or Galaxy S8 XL or Galaxy S8 Business or something jj4 

 

After this the Note brand is too damaged to keep it in my opinion jj4 

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Samsung has withdrawn all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from sale globally after a spate of fires involving “safe” replacements.

In a statement issued late on Monday, Samsung said consumers with original Note 7 devices or replacements they obtained after the recall should turn off the power and seek a refund or exchange them for different phones.

South Korean authorities said they had found a new product defect in the Note 7 – Samsung’s most popular smartphone – and also asked consumers to power them down or to exchange them. The statement did not identify the defect.

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1 hour ago, Jony said:

Samsung has withdrawn all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from sale globally after a spate of fires involving “safe” replacements.

In a statement issued late on Monday, Samsung said consumers with original Note 7 devices or replacements they obtained after the recall should turn off the power and seek a refund or exchange them for different phones.

South Korean authorities said they had found a new product defect in the Note 7 – Samsung’s most popular smartphone – and also asked consumers to power them down or to exchange them. The statement did not identify the defect.

Finally clap3 

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9 hours ago, Tasso said:

More like the other way around but nice try ny1 

 

Apple doesn't sell 100 dollar phones tho aretha1 Their lower end models are the main reason for the high marketshare 

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12 minutes ago, Jony said:

Apple doesn't sell 100 dollar phones tho aretha1 Their lower end models are the main reason for the high marketshare 

So what aretha1 

It's not like Apple couldn't do the same, they just choose not to aretha1 

They even tried it with the iPhone 5c but kinda failed aretha1

 

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10 minutes ago, Tasso said:

So what aretha1 

It's not like Apple couldn't do the same, they just choose not to aretha1 

They even tried it with the iPhone 5c but kinda failed aretha1

 

So you cannot really compare the two aretha1 

It'd be more proper to compare Galaxy S & Note vs iPhone but unfortunately I cannot find the figures aretha1

The 5C price wasn't even considered mid-range, they just replaced the 5 with it when they released the 5S and it cost $549 off contract aretha1 

But anyway Apple's market share in many markets such as the US, UK, Australia, Japan is higher than Samsung's aretha1 

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7 minutes ago, Jony said:

So you cannot really compare the two aretha1 

It'd be more proper to compare Galaxy S & Note vs iPhone but unfortunately I cannot find the figures aretha1

The 5C price wasn't even considered mid-range, they just replaced the 5 with it when they released the 5S and it cost $549 off contract aretha1 

But anyway Apple's market share in many markets such as the US, UK, Australia, Japan is higher than Samsung's aretha1 

US:

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According to figures from the quarter ending June 2016, Samsung maintained its overall market share lead with 35 percent. Apple, however, was hot on its heels as a return to growth in the U.S. boosted its market share 1.3 percentage points year over year to nearly 32 percent.

 

https://www.wirelessweek.com/data-focus/2016/08/samsung-apple-dominate-us-market-share-lg-gaining

It keeps changing tho aretha1

Australia:

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In the smartphone space, Android has enjoyed overall dominance in terms of total unit sales for some time in Australia. In the past three months that trend has continued to the point where Samsung alone has taken over Apple as the most dominant single mobile phone brand. 

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP41683616

I'll give you Japan aretha1 Not sure about the UK tho aretha1

Anyways, being global>> aretha1 

jj2

 

 

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Tasso said:

US:

https://www.wirelessweek.com/data-focus/2016/08/samsung-apple-dominate-us-market-share-lg-gaining

It keeps changing tho aretha1

Australia:

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP41683616

I'll give you Japan aretha1 Not sure about the UK tho aretha1

Anyways, being global>> aretha1 

jj2

 

 

 

 

 

Clock me about the US, I was stuck in Q1 cry9 Wait for Q3 and Q4 numbers tho and Apple will #RISE again eve1 

 

Cackling at this tho! Combined sales of the iPhone 6s/6s Plus totalled 15.1%, making this the top selling device in the quarter, while the Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 edge accounted for 14.1% of smartphone sales eve1 A 7 month old phone outselling a brand new flagship eve1 (at the time)

 

 

The link you provided for Australia tho shows the opposite dead4 

 

Table 1: Top 5 Smartphone Vendor Share in Australia 2016Q2

 

Vendor

2016Q1

2016Q2

Apple

48.4%

40.4%

Samsung

31.4%

32.9%

Alcatel

4.3%

5.4%

Huawei

3.0%

3.6%

ZTE

2.2%

3.5%

 

 

 

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They should just get rid of the Note 7 altogether because I highly doubt that anyone would want to buy it at this point Move on to the Note 8 and make sure that this one doesn't explode  

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Get rid of the whole Note brand name tbh. 


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