Samsung has permanently stopped production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Reports that Bloomberg Tuesday following a statement from the company. The South Korean manufacturer announced earlier, a temporary stop in production of the Note 7.
The South Korean company was already under pressure to take action in regards to the Note 7. Both the original and the replacement phones have been known to suffer from problems with the battery. So exploded recently, a unit in the middle of a Burger King and caught hold of a replacement Galaxy Note 7 flame in a plane.
soon complaints about Samsung Galaxy Note 7
When Samsung the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, in August, released, soon complaints about problems with the phone. The battery would catch fire or even explode. The South Korean manufacturer had to go through the fabric and announced a recall. 2.5 million Note 7-phones had to be replaced. That cost Samsung a total of approximately $ 1 billion. Also in the replacement smartphones turned out to be the batteries, however, are not always safe.
consumer authorities
the problems got Samsung to deal with different consumer authorities. The U.s. consumer product safety commission warned, for example, users to the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is not more to use. The South Korean watchdog for technology went even further and asked Samsung to stop the sale or exchange of the Note 7-devices. Did the guard dog because he is also in the new aircraft defects had been found.
Samsung plummets in value
Samsung’s shares fell on Tuesday, with eight percent. Therefore, the company is losing more than $ 15 billion of its market value. The technologieproducent are now investigating the cause of the problems with the replacement phones.
Source: Bloomberg
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