Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 scandal is already having repercussions for the company financially, but it’s also now set to impact upcoming phones such as the Galaxy S8, which is now expected to be delayed.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a member of the Galaxy S8 development team has stated to expect the phone to be delayed by two weeks as “engineers work to get to the bottom of the Note 7’s overheating problem”.
Samsung clearly wants to make sure the problem is solved before it creates a new phone in a currently unaffected line.
Predictable delays
That is likely to have an effect on when the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Edge are released, but whether it will push back the announcement is currently unclear.
We had expected the Galaxy S8 announcement to come right before Mobile World Congress 2017, which runs from February 27 next year.
Samsung has already been hit hard by the Galaxy Note 7 – one report suggests it’s set to cost the company a whole $1 billion – so it won’t want the problem to spread to its flagship line as well.
Sourse: techradar.com
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So I still have my 2nd note 7 in my possession but turned of as the verizon store would not take it back last week..what should I do?Now V says yes bring it back last week the guy didn’t even want to touch it and told me unless I upgraded to another phone I had to go through Samsung.I doubt they’ll turn it back on but for all the aggravation triple billing for upgrading I’m madder at V right now than Sammy.I love the note 7 but I don’t think it was a hoax I did at first and still wonder about the guy on the plane with his I phone already in hand to take a picture of his exploding note?
Such BS. As I’ve said before, the Note 7 battery fire is a hoax. Anyone who knows how product launches work, will know that everything will be in place well before they even announce it to the public, so a delay makes no sense. They don’t even have a problem anyway, the fires were a hoax.
So what are you saying in essence? Samsung note 7 didnt have battery problem or they cut corners. Or samsung deliberately killed the note 7 as a publicity stunt?