{"id":20364,"date":"2016-10-11T01:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20364"},"modified":"2016-10-11T01:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:17:51","slug":"samsung-pulls-galaxy-note-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20364","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Pulls Galaxy Note 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a big story in the tech world. Samsung, which recently launched its Galaxy Note 7 phone in a blaze of publicity, <a title=\"Samsung to halt sales of Galaxy Note 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-37614770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has halted all sales<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Galaxy Note 7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/gnote7.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxy Note 7\" width=\"524\" height=\"296\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many people will be aware that they had to do a recall after a number of devices caught fire or exploded either during or after charging. Samsung said that they\u2019d traced the fault back to a faulty batch of batteries, and began replacing recalled devices with ones which were apparently safe to use. However, a number of these \u201csafe\u201d phones have also caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>There were around 100 cases in America with the original version, and at least seven incidents have been reported so far with the replacement versions.<\/p>\n<p>This is really going to hurt Samsung. It is quite likely that the Galaxy Note 7 will now never be (re)launched, which could cost them billions. They\u2019ll lose around $10 billion in sales from the US alone. And that\u2019s even before you consider the costs associated with the mass recalls \u2013 which are among the largest in history &#8211; and the damage to their reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who bought one is advised to contact the place they got it from to initiate the return process.<\/p>\n<p>Even before this latest announcement, Note 7s were gradually being banned from flights after at least two instances of smoking units on board causing flights to be abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a big story in the tech world. Samsung, which recently launched its Galaxy Note 7 phone in a blaze of publicity, has halted all sales. Many people will be aware that they had to do a recall after a number of devices caught fire or exploded either during or after charging. Samsung said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}