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Samsung Shares Plummet After FAA Warns Passengers of Note 7 Dangers
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The toddler case is new to me. I know about the other explosion cases and thought it was lucky so far that no one was reported hurt yet.
Hope the toddler is fine. Guess it was only a matter of time. Now I understand why Samsung is wiling to go to the extent of trying to deactivate the phones remotely (in France, at least). The situation must be really dire for them to consider such a drastic move.
Hope the toddler is fine. Guess it was only a matter of time. Now I understand why Samsung is wiling to go to the extent of trying to deactivate the phones remotely (in France, at least). The situation must be really dire for them to consider such a drastic move.
This is bad news for longtime iPhone fans like myself. Apple need strong competition to keep them on their toes - case in point the iPhone 7 - a design that is at best phoning it in, at worst outright user-hostile. I am still shaking my head about them restricting the double camera to the plus and removing the headphone jack.
This is not a joke when your safety depends on it. This is what i saw when booking a flight and in the airport they checked what phone i have when i was going through security.
I hope the prices of the Note7 plummets too down to half price. Best bargain of the year if that happens. Fire sale, please? No pun intended. Or if Samsung offers freebies like a free Samsung TV that they did with the S7 edge at Best Buy, a free 256gb memory card again, or free Gear VR. I always see the silver lining to everything.
Plummeting stock, lower sales, negative press = cheaper prices? I hope so! Still want that ticking time bomb Note7. The most maligned and wrongfully perceived smartphone since the iPhone 4. Polarizing like Kobe, LeBron, and Apple. But you can't overlook some of its greatness either. Still the phone I lust with my mind and heart.
+ Beautiful design
+ Beautiful display
+ Great camera
+ Very good battery life
+ Wonderful S-Pen features
Keep the negative smear campaign on the Note7 coming! It really deserves another chance and isn't the worst phone in the world but let the public perception think that way that "it's da bomb." Fools. Still way than a G5, Mi 5, Axon 7, OP3, and several other Androids.
So keep the negativity noise coming! Note7 doesn't deserve some of it just because of a small % of defects. Is it any worse than having a physically sick Hillary or mentally disturbed Trump as POTUS? Might get a great price on this bomb azz phone and with other freebies!
Give it another chance. Everyone deserves a second chance.
This is a matter of testing your faith and Note7 loyalty...
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...you-leaving-note-7-if-so-where-you-going.html
Some can still see brilliance after the "smoke" clears...
Plummeting stock, lower sales, negative press = cheaper prices? I hope so! Still want that ticking time bomb Note7. The most maligned and wrongfully perceived smartphone since the iPhone 4. Polarizing like Kobe, LeBron, and Apple. But you can't overlook some of its greatness either. Still the phone I lust with my mind and heart.
+ Beautiful design
+ Beautiful display
+ Great camera
+ Very good battery life
+ Wonderful S-Pen features
Keep the negative smear campaign on the Note7 coming! It really deserves another chance and isn't the worst phone in the world but let the public perception think that way that "it's da bomb." Fools. Still way than a G5, Mi 5, Axon 7, OP3, and several other Androids.
So keep the negativity noise coming! Note7 doesn't deserve some of it just because of a small % of defects. Is it any worse than having a physically sick Hillary or mentally disturbed Trump as POTUS? Might get a great price on this bomb azz phone and with other freebies!
Give it another chance. Everyone deserves a second chance.
This is a matter of testing your faith and Note7 loyalty...
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...you-leaving-note-7-if-so-where-you-going.html
Some can still see brilliance after the "smoke" clears...
This did not happen because they were rushing to get the phone out before iPhone. This was their scheduled and anticipated launch date for quite some time. It follows the same release schedule as last year's Note 5. http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9144397/samsung-galaxy-note-5-price-release-date-specs-video
Trying to make this sound like some kind of Karmic retribution is really kind of a stretch and a bit childish. If Karma were a "thing" that truly affected businesses, Apple would be in for a world of woe, too, as few, if any corporations have clean hands in all aspects of their existence.
Goodness knows Samsung has a ways to go to stamp out QC issues and improve customer service to be on a par with Apple's reputation. I am not denying that. But the Note 7 was a really beautiful phone and it worked well and was a lot of fun to use. So much so that it has been hard to convince people to stop taking foolish chances with their safety and return it under the recall. My husband who has had a longstanding dislike of Android was won over by it. Friends who love Android loved theirs.
If IPhone 7 and 7 Plus beat Note 7 over something like this, and not for the merits of their own innovative design and reliability and versatility and for being a sheer joy to use, that would be a shame for all consumers and sad for Steve's legacy. It shouldn't be that easy for Apple to win over customers--simply being able to say their phone did not have the bad luck to have a faulty component from a supplier they also used in the past. Apple should work for it and be the best they can be and offer us their true personal best and not rest on the laurels of the reputation Steve built. I think Tim Cook wants it that way as well. The days ahead of reviews and owner commentary in IPhone 7 and 7 Plus will tell us if Apple succeeded at that.
Trying to make this sound like some kind of Karmic retribution is really kind of a stretch and a bit childish. If Karma were a "thing" that truly affected businesses, Apple would be in for a world of woe, too, as few, if any corporations have clean hands in all aspects of their existence.
Goodness knows Samsung has a ways to go to stamp out QC issues and improve customer service to be on a par with Apple's reputation. I am not denying that. But the Note 7 was a really beautiful phone and it worked well and was a lot of fun to use. So much so that it has been hard to convince people to stop taking foolish chances with their safety and return it under the recall. My husband who has had a longstanding dislike of Android was won over by it. Friends who love Android loved theirs.
If IPhone 7 and 7 Plus beat Note 7 over something like this, and not for the merits of their own innovative design and reliability and versatility and for being a sheer joy to use, that would be a shame for all consumers and sad for Steve's legacy. It shouldn't be that easy for Apple to win over customers--simply being able to say their phone did not have the bad luck to have a faulty component from a supplier they also used in the past. Apple should work for it and be the best they can be and offer us their true personal best and not rest on the laurels of the reputation Steve built. I think Tim Cook wants it that way as well. The days ahead of reviews and owner commentary in IPhone 7 and 7 Plus will tell us if Apple succeeded at that.
I get that users will be frustrated with the targeting of features to encourage a more spending without any reason as to why a cheaper device can't have the same hardware. But, the same is true of all the big tech companies. Your response to that shouldn't come from a rival who push the competition further. It should be for you to vote with your wallet. Apple have never designed beyond what is necessary, they refine implementations (and sometimes get it wrong) but they won't throw specs or features at a device just to win market share. That's what Samsung are notorious for.
If you want a decent upgrade, only upgrade every few years. You'd appreciate your purchase much more. This new iPhone comes with 3D Touch, 4K video, dual cameras, Touch ID , much larger screen and other features that a person who has an iPhone 5 from 2012 would be very impressed with. And they would have about 4 or 5 grand in their pocket that you don't if you upgrade every year.
To encourage better and faster growth, upgrade less frequently.
And yet, it's breaking news when there is no headphone jack in the iPhone 7.
The Note 4 is still the greatest Galaxy Note ever made...
Note rankings (minus Note edge)
4 (last great Samsung before Project Zero)
3 (favorite rear back from any Note)
7 (coulda been the greatest, but still great)
5 (step back, no sd slot and removable battery)
2 (ugliest build quality with glossy plastic)
1 (the original that started the term, phablet)
If Samsung slashed the prices to even $200 from all this negative noise, I would take it. That's only $200 more than iPhone SE. Can use the other $200 saved to buy more PS4 games. In my mind, the iPhone 7 v Note7 are nearly equal but I would be getting a better price on the Note7 if Samsung slashed the prices on it.
So for me, I really don't care about the negativity. The iPhone 4 dealt with Antennagate. I didn't deal with that problem since I rarely talked on it and still got a FREE TPU case out of it which was perfect because the 4 was slippery. Whatever -gate doesn't prevent people from enjoying their phone.
Note7 sold about 1M and shipped about 2.5M. I have a 99% chance it won't blow up on me. Because there has too alot more than 24 or 36 incidents to convince me it is a common issue. This Explodegate is probably nomore common than the iPhone 6/6 Plus "Touch Disease."
Just hope Samsung learned their lesson and instead of following Apple's planned obsolescence, pretty fashion accessory iPhones with this style over substance Project Zero superficial nonsense, Samsung returns the Note series back into the PRODUCTIVITY DEVICE it once was. Removable battery, please?
Should save them more cash if there was ever another battery recall. A $30 battery replacement instead of replacing the entire device again. Who knows if this happens to other phones with non removable battery? So don't feel too confident or laugh, Apple fans. This is just an early warning from greed with sealed batteries and planned obsolescence. Karma might come back to haunt you too...
Note rankings (minus Note edge)
4 (last great Samsung before Project Zero)
3 (favorite rear back from any Note)
7 (coulda been the greatest, but still great)
5 (step back, no sd slot and removable battery)
2 (ugliest build quality with glossy plastic)
1 (the original that started the term, phablet)
If Samsung slashed the prices to even $200 from all this negative noise, I would take it. That's only $200 more than iPhone SE. Can use the other $200 saved to buy more PS4 games. In my mind, the iPhone 7 v Note7 are nearly equal but I would be getting a better price on the Note7 if Samsung slashed the prices on it.
So for me, I really don't care about the negativity. The iPhone 4 dealt with Antennagate. I didn't deal with that problem since I rarely talked on it and still got a FREE TPU case out of it which was perfect because the 4 was slippery. Whatever -gate doesn't prevent people from enjoying their phone.
Note7 sold about 1M and shipped about 2.5M. I have a 99% chance it won't blow up on me. Because there has too alot more than 24 or 36 incidents to convince me it is a common issue. This Explodegate is probably nomore common than the iPhone 6/6 Plus "Touch Disease."
Just hope Samsung learned their lesson and instead of following Apple's planned obsolescence, pretty fashion accessory iPhones with this style over substance Project Zero superficial nonsense, Samsung returns the Note series back into the PRODUCTIVITY DEVICE it once was. Removable battery, please?
Should save them more cash if there was ever another battery recall. A $30 battery replacement instead of replacing the entire device again. Who knows if this happens to other phones with non removable battery? So don't feel too confident or laugh, Apple fans. This is just an early warning from greed with sealed batteries and planned obsolescence. Karma might come back to haunt you too...
Samsung only started bringing forward its launch date last year to beat Apple to release, so maybe there's something in it. Remember, Samsung already brought out a new phone in March, and the Note 7 does have a lot of new features to pack into one product. Maybe there was oversight somewhere.
This will end up costing Samsung far more than any obscenely protracted lawsuits with Apple.
By seeing the increasing number of devices that have been affected by this, I would be more worried about anyone who hasn't been made aware of the recall. Over 6 months the failure rate of these devices could be exponentially more than the 35 number touted last week.
By seeing the increasing number of devices that have been affected by this, I would be more worried about anyone who hasn't been made aware of the recall. Over 6 months the failure rate of these devices could be exponentially more than the 35 number touted last week.
Man my friend has one of these and I keep telling him to use an old phone until they can replace and he keeps blowing me off. He has a wife and two kids. I told him you are literally keeping a bomb in your home that sometimes you let your kids play with.
I'm just worried for him and his family. It could never happen to you until it happens to you.
I'm just worried for him and his family. It could never happen to you until it happens to you.
In the interest of accuracy, there was a manufacturing fault that was discovered and corrected for the S7 Active's failure to truly meet its IP68 rating. In response to the scrutiny of Consumer Reports, Samsung's spokesperson said they will honor all warranty claims. However neither Samsung nor AT&T will help customers identify old vs new corrected stock, nor has a recall voluntary or otherwise been issued on the old stuff. Customers on forum threads are pretty angry and frustrated over this half-tailed response, as are many on our forums over the Apple "Touch Disease" problem and Apple's inconsistent response to it. And again, this pertains only to the S7 Active, not the regular S7 or S7 Edge, whose owners report on various forums do hold up after water exposure. None of the listed links pertain specifically to the Note 7.
If it were Apple, it would depend on the media. Some show bias in favor to maintain access to Apple products for reviews and previews. Others show bias against. One must always consider the source in evaluating media commentary.
Yeah hard time on Samsung but they are trying their best to solve the problem
I'm trying to remember what they had over the S7 Edge. They refined the edges of the edge, lol, and moved to Gorilla Glass 5, and refined TouchWiz. I think the culprit could have been making the move to USB-C combined with whatever went wrong with their battery supplier's batch of batteries. I've read so much speculation and a lot of it sounds like it could have happened to any manufacturers. No hard facts yet.
I've read talk over on an Android forum that there was an article about how the delays in getting significant shipments of IPhone 7's out was due to faulty components. Then someone else had a link to an article that quoted someone saying the same manufacturer of the exploding batteries, a Samsung company, also supplied Apple with batteries for the IPhone 7. Who knows...there's so much idle gossip and speculation going on, that's why I hate to see it taking place on an official article on this forum.
Especially that whole Jeep incident is very dodgy according to people who looked into the family and their social media posts.
I'm not trying to be an apologist for Samsung just because I had bought a Note 7. In fact just yesterday my Galaxy S7 burned me on the leg, as I posted on the non IOS portion of the forum. That danged thing runs hot a lot. This time it was likely my user error, overlooking the flashlight being on. But sometimes it runs hotter than I'm used to a phone running when it's not being set up or running an intensive game. Do. Not. Approve.
I just want unbiased and accurate discussion and reporting. Well, as much as we can get of that on a fan-based site.
I can just see Samsung cancelling their Fall ads making fun of Apple removing the headphone jack. Not even Samsung is that bold...
Remember this + (Yes we have a headphone jack)
Yeah you don't see Apple joking about an exploding Note 7 do you?
Karma!
Yeah you don't see Apple joking about an exploding Note 7 do you?
Karma!
This is so bad, they may get rid of the name "Galaxy" and reboot under another brand image.
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Apple has enough character to not kick a man when he is down. There may be a few swipes on keynotes but nothing in formal ads or press releases.Remember this + (Yes we have a headphone jack)
Yeah you don't see Apple joking about an exploding Note 7 do you?
Karma!