Monday, September 5, 2016

Affair of the Galaxy Note 7 will cost Samsung more than $ 700 million – Tabletowo.pl

no one expected such a turn of events. Galaxy Note 7, almost a sure thing for the title of best smartphone of 2016 turned out to be a ticking time bomb. All over the world there were 35 cases of exploding batteries, which Samsung has decided to withdraw from the sale of smartphone and asked customers about the return of already purchased equipment. Large-scale action can cost Koreans more than $ 700 million.

So far, Samsung’s financial results were really great. Both the first and second quarter of 2016 years has brought considerable profits to the producer. It was expected that this trend will continue and by the second half of the year, thanks to Galaxy Note 7. Unfortunately, the affair of exploding batteries effectively will affect the results of the manufacturer.

It is estimated that the problems with the newest flagship Samsung It could lose more than $ 700 million. They contribute to not only the cost of replacement of defective smartphones (2.5 million copies), but also lower sales of Galaxy Note 7. You can not hide the fact that the whole affair had a negative impact on the image of the model, just like this, with easily lying ahead is Gorilla Glass 5.

Interestingly, not all copies of the Galaxy Note 7 are defective. Unfortunately, the happiness they have only Chinese – batteries for their smartphones come from another supplier (ATL). In other cases, it is a subsidiary of Samsung, Samsung SDI. However, in connection with this affair, the Koreans (at least temporarily) abandoned the use of cells of its own production in its latest flagowcu.

Update

Olaf Krynicki , a spokesman for the Polish branch of Samsung, said that all reported in dams shares of the service, copies of Galaxy Note 7 will be replaced with new ones:

Source: the Korea Herald, the Korea Herald, Phone Radar

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