When the number of pre-sales of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has exceeded the number of devices available in the warehouse, the largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world was far from imagining that this would be the least of his problems.
After you have asked guests that shut off the phones with the model Galaxy Note 7, Samsung confirmed during the morning of Tuesday the end of the production of this model, due to the problems that have brought the equipment to use themselves and some batteries to incendiarem during charging. The american newspaper New York Times writes that the production will even stop definitely.
“Reajustámos recently the volume of production to strengthen the research and quality control, but we put the safety of consumers as a top priority and we have taken the final decision to stop the production of Galaxy Note 7″, announces the company in a statement quoted by AFP.
Reuters also said, citing a source close to official, that the brand’s south Korean you can even remove this product definitely market, something that is not yet confirmed.
according To some analysts, and according to early estimates, this decision may cause to Samsung’s losses in the order of 17 billion dollars, about 15.3 billion euros.
The Samsung urges all sellers and transporters of their electronic products that they sell or trade the model of smartphone, that the PUBLIC tested in August in London, before they were well known to their battery problems, and with that the brand’s south Korean had to compete with the most recent product of the opposing Apple, the iPhone 7.
the information that The production of the model would be broken had already been advanced this Monday by the news agency south Korean and is now confirmed by the manufacturer of mobile phones.
Until September 2, the detected cases were limited to 35 equipment, but the number continued to increase and the company announced the withdrawal of 2.5 million units. To date, Samsung has suspended the sales and delayed the launch in Portugal, stipulating a deadline of two weeks for the resolution of the problem.
however, few days later, a new announcement reinforced the request to clients that they replace urgently the templates.
at The same time, several airlines have banned the use of the Samsung Note 7 during flights, for security reasons. The 5 of October comes the report that the passengers of a flight, north american had been evacuated after a Galaxy Note 7 has started to emit smoke inside the plane.
In 2015, Samsung was ranked by Forbes as the 15.Th company the most reliable in the world, a position that should be affected by problems with Galaxy Note 7, a model that became a synonym for "danger" and insecurity for consumers. To find a reference to the Galaxy Note 7 on page Samsung Mobile on Twitter you have to go back until the 30th of August. After that, the publications of the page become less frequent.
Before this announcement, the company was already with the shares falling on the Stock exchange of Seoul, with the value of the company to fall 8,04% – the biggest loss in eight years.
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