Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

WSJ ^ | Oct. 11, 2016 | Jonathan Cheng and Eun-Young Jeong

[TigerLikesRooster]

Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

Move halts production and sale of defective premium phone; investors digest possibility smartphone giant could abandon Galaxy Note series

By Jonathan Cheng and Eun-Young Jeong

Updated Oct. 11, 2016 7:23 a.m. ET

SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it would permanently discontinue production and sales of its embattled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, pulling the plug on a premium product whose botched recall has brought headaches to consumers and inflicted damage on the Samsung brand.

Samsung said in a filing with South Korean regulators that it would permanently cease production and sales of the device, following a string of reported incidents in which supposedly safe replacements of the premium smartphone overheated and in some cases caught fire.

“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.

[Hostage]

The FAA had to issue a warning because ONE PERSON reported their Samsung phone had caught on fire on an airliner.

The FAA did not BAN Samsung phones, there merely issued a warning because they had to.

I have my doubts but you apparently believe whatever you read on the internet.

[minnesota_bound]

Is that the Samsung “7” washer?......
The wash cycle ends with a bang!

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Samsung phones are banned by 3 airlines. Look 'em up. (One is Qantas. Since I fly to Australia, this does affect me.)

Samsung washing machines have exploded. Research. Since I may be buying a new machine, I decided to review such reports versus units sold. You know, standard test engineering stuff. Didn't like what I saw.

You can research. Or not.

[Hostage]

The FAA did not BAN.

Airlines are free to set their own policy.

Airlines also force women not wearing Hijabs to change seats when Muslims insist. Insane.

To hell with airlines! What they do has no bearing on the truth.

Provide evidence BEYOND DOUBT that Samsung washing machines explode. Don’t merely post a nonsense link. Show how the report analyzes that Samsung’s design was the certain cause. Again, provide it BEYOND DOUBT. You won’t because you can’t.

[minnesota_bound]

St. Jude warns batteries in up to 350,000 defibrillators worldwide could short circuit and fail
http://www.startribune.com/st-jude-warns-batteries-in-up-to-350-000-defibrillators-worldwide-could-short-circuit-and-fail/396660831/

I wonder if they are Samsung batteries.....

[Hostage]

“This is the same thing that is happening with LG top-loading washers. The high-speed spin cycle seems to break the brackets holding the drum in place, and boom!”

http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=888467

It wasn’t an explosion. If it was anything defective, it was a mechanical failure during a high spin cycle that made a loud noise. But the court case is shoddy, so it’s not confirmed as an actual event.

What is an actual event is that Good Morning America and other moronic leftist media producers are pushing the ‘Samsung blows up’ theme.

It has nothing to do with Samsung phones. It has to do with idiots on national cable media smearing a good company because they are successful against a progressive company known as Apple which manufactures all their crap in China.

And you fell for it.

[Swordmaker]

Ping for the Android list.

[Swordmaker]

If Apple wins, it opens the precedent for any large corporation to sue any company, large or small, claiming “patent infringement”.

Samsung's business model was and still is to copy successful products of innovators and flood the market with knock off copies as quickly as possible until forced to stop. They did this to Pioneer in stereo receivers with exact look alikes down to the knob placement and designs, Dyson vacuum cleaners, and Apple phones, even duplicating the packaging of the phones and tablets, the design of the charging cables, the charging bricks, and even the icons! The evidence was a 125 page Samsung internal memo from upper management to their design engineers explicitly instructing them exactly what changes had to be made to their Galaxy phone to make it just like the iPhone to be a successful product, down to detailed changes on each screen! That's why Apple sued. . . on dozens of infringed patents which Korean American Judge Lucy Koh, in the interests of simplifying the trial, cut to just six.

The Cult of Mac used a tongue-in-cheek approach to Samsung's claim that "they were not copying Apple" by showing Apple's product photos side by side with Samsung's copies:

[Swordmaker]

I bought a new washer and dryer of theirs and within a few years the washer stopped working. It was just out of warranty so they offered to fix it for almost what a new one would cost.

Might be a good thing. Now Samsung top loading washers are exploding too, destroying laundry rooms and garages! LOL!

[Swordmaker]

The FAA had to issue a warning because ONE PERSON reported their Samsung phone had caught on fire on an airliner.

It is MORE than one fire from a Samsung phone, Hostage, and not just in the US. There have been fires here and in Singapore and in China.

This is NOT Industrial sabotage. Samsung has identified a manufacturing error combined with a battery supplier's out of spec battery as the primary culprit, with a design flaw in the original design also possibly being part of the problem because of the replacements also overheating, although not exploding. The manufacturing error was putting too much pressure on a small number of out-of-spec batteries supplied by one battery supplier which damaged the internals of those batteries which caused the phones to overheat and explode under charge. The design flaw may be at fault in those which overheated and caught fire at other times which included those replacement phones with fully in spec batteries. . . but "industrial sabotage" has been ruled out.

[stormhill]

Now you’re pulling my leg

[Swordmaker]

It has nothing to do with Samsung phones. It has to do with idiots on national cable media smearing a good company because they are successful against a progressive company known as Apple which manufactures all their crap in China.

Samsung also contracts much of the phone manufacturing in China, Hostage. Samsung is listed among the largest contract customers of FoxConn, the Apple contract assembler in China. Just because they are a Korean based company does not limit Samsung's manufacturing to Korea.

FoxConn also manufacture's for LG and other Korean based companies under contract.

[Hostage]

Disagree with that you described.

Samsung is simply being congenial and looking for things to use for damage control. They are confused now because they don’t know what to do.

Two weeks back Samsung issued a report that of the millions of Note 7s that were shipped, only 26 had been reported to overheat or explode and of those 26, the claims turned out to be fake or suspicious.

The airline incident was from a person known to be shady. And the phone in question was of a replacement phone with the ‘design flaw’ addressed.

Samsung would not put out a second series of phones without having thoroughly tested them. Their aim was to stop the damage to their brand.

Now they are confused and shaken but that’s only for now. When the story is fully investigated there will be hell to pay. Enough said.

Given what I know and WITNESSED regarding the effects of vandalism and corporate sabotage in two different locations and two different stores in relation to all Windows phone products on display and where Android and Apple phones in the same display area were untouched, I am not surprised to see a flagship product of Samsung, a product that had received stellar reviews, be attacked viciously, especially as its chief competitor is headed by a reprehensible progressive and as such, receives protection from all quarters.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3493672/samsung-galaxy-note-7-are-fake-stories-of-explosions-emerging/

http://pocketnow.com/2016/09/22/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-reports-hoax-count

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/09/samsung-claims-26-fake-reports-note-7-fire-incidents.html

Now there are media morons pushing a false ‘exploding’ washing machine mischaracterization. It is all too obvious what could be happening here.

[Hostage]

> “Samsung also contracts much of the phone manufacturing in China...”

So does the chief queer from the Rotten Apple numbnuts.

[Swordmaker]

Provide evidence BEYOND DOUBT that Samsung washing machines explode. Don’t merely post a nonsense link. Show how the report analyzes that Samsung’s design was the certain cause. Again, provide it BEYOND DOUBT. You won’t because you can’t.

Excuse me, Hostage, I certainly can, because the very first definititon of EXPLODE in Merriam Websters Dictionary is ": to suddenly break apart in a violent way with parts flying outward" which meets the exact description of what happens with the Samsung Top Loading Washing Machine that tears through walls violently when it breaks apart violently enough to do that kind of damage to a laundry room or a garage, spewing parts. That is a mechanical explosion. An explosion does NOT require fire or chemicals to be involved.

Here is an image of one of the Samsung washers after the explosion:

Another one, note the firefighter's boot and pant leg in the bottom of the photo:

And a third one:

How about another one, this one with a hole through the wall into the kitchen!

Do you want more, or will you concede that Samsung top loading washing machines violently explode?

[Swordmaker]

Now you’re pulling my leg

Nope, not at all. Fact.

[Hostage]

Do I want more? Yes, provide the links and the background on the person making the report.

Anyone can set fire to anything.

If such an explosion had been the result of a Samsung design, the CPSC would have issued an outright BAN and not a mere warning.

And Samsung lawyers knowing the tremendous liability that such would entail would have advised to immediately recall the product rather than to say to set on a gentler cycle.

You are a well-known lover of Apple shit. Go sit in it and leave the thread to those that eschew lies including your embrace of perversion.

Apple is going down. A little more than 6 more years and they are done under the current queer they march to.

[Hostage]

He’s a known hater of anything that competes against his cheerleading of the queer progressive that runs Apple.

It is all too obvious that Samsung is a target for a hit by the same type of progressive thugs that are assaulting Trump supporters nationwide. Apple is their queer flag and they can’t stand competition against it.

[Swordmaker]

Two weeks back Samsung issued a report that of the millions of Note 7s that were shipped, only 26 had been reported to overheat or explode and of those 26, the claims turned out to be fake or suspicious.

That's a big fat lie, Hostage, as have most of your comments in this thread!

Samsung itself reported they had more than that to the CPSC! Why are you lying and making up facturds to protect your favored company when they've already admitted the problem to the government?

Just three weeks after the August 19th release date of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the number of overheating and exploded devices in the US alone was over 70, not counting the rest of the world. Including those in Canada, Korea, Australia, and the UK, it was approaching 200. Here's a report from EndGadget dated September 13th reporting the dire nature of the situation. YOU ARE MAKING UP YOUR CLAIMS!

Over 70 Galaxy Note 7 phones have overheated in the US alone
By Mariella Moon — EndGadget — 09.13.16

When Samsung first issued an official statement about the Galaxy Note 7's battery issue, the company said there were 35 cases of phones overheating from around the globe. Well, we're way past that number now. According to the Canadian government, the company has received over 70 reports in the US alone. See, Samsung teamed up with Health Canada to help it get the recall ball rolling in the country. In an effort to convince consumers to return their shiny new phones that might suddenly explode, the government agency added that tidbit in the report.

Those 70-plus cases include a few high-profile ones you may have seen in the news lately. A man in Florida said his Jeep Cherokee went up in flames after a Note 7 exploded inside, while a six-year-old boy from Brooklyn suffered burns when a Note 7 blew up in his hands. Although 70 cases may not seem like that many, the Consumer Product Safety Commission already issued an official warning asking people to stop using the device. Various airlines all over the globe also banned passengers from using the phone on their planes.

Two days later, it was up to 92 in the US with 26 actual injuries to individuals and 55 with property damage which had been reported to the US Government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, at which point the CPSC made the recall official and mandatory . These are FACTS, easily checked, but you apparently prefer to obfuscate and lie.

You post links to stories planted by Samsung from before the Sh!t hit the fan on the Note 7, such as your first link from September 9th, claiming the "Exploding Note 7 stories are fake!" but we all know now they are NOT.

I will grant you that there may be some frauds trying to claim fires where there were none, but that is not the majority of the cases as YOU are trying to imply. Your other links certainly do not make that case. Give it up.

[Hostage]

> “That’s a big fat lie, Hostage, as have most of your comments in this thread!”

Read the links but of course, you won’t because to you, any company that turns out a better product than your precious queer company must be a LIAR!

Go take a bath. You stink up this joint.