*** The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Thread ***

smilertoo said:
if they have any sense they'll offer a cost reduced s7 edge to hold onto the customer, they need to think about future sales and take the loss now. If they lose millions of customers to IOS they might not get them back, people will get used to the way their new OS works.
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This to be honest, they need to make the s7 brand as a whole worth while even though the no s7 / edge have been out a few months now.

That said, I literally just heard the radio presenter say Samsung have halted the S7.... and that was it, so now people listening to that station are gonna thing there is nothing left lol. You'd think they would be a bit more careful with how they talk about brands
 
The amount of brand damage this is going to cause is just unprecedented. It might well help Google with the Pixel line that I thought was on a hiding to nothing.
 
I don't want an s7 edge, this phone is much nicer. Just getting a refund and will keep me iphone 6s and get the iphone 7 plus
 
Reading tech news today almost seems Samsung are ready to completely abandon the Note 7 ... I'd be really surprised if they do this and don't just halt Production whilst they fix the issues. Trouble is i guess, by the time it gets back to production, it'd be approaching Galaxy S8 release time and customer's would probably favour that instead. To be fair, I would if it came with the same Pen that the note does.
 
Glad I decided to stick with my note 4 now. I'd really been looking forward to the note 7,
But at the time of release the specs didn't seem a huge improvement so decided to hold fire for a while.

Hopefully Samsung will come up with something new & improved for the next round of upgrades.
 
fez said:
I doubt this will hit them that hard in the long term. I'm not a samsung user so perhaps it would hit a little harder if I was but their other phones are all fine so there is no reason to think that any phones in the future will be dangerous.

You have to imagine that a $17bn loss would mean that they spend a lot of time and money figuring out exactly what caused this and how to make sure it never happens again.
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I posted earlier. The loss of sales is likely to be nothing close to $ 17 billion. I know some are saying they lost $ 1.0-$ 1.5 billion on the first recall but the replacement cost is more likely to bring the actual loss to closer to $ 2.0-$ 2.5 billion. The battery suppliers were Samsung SDI (I recall that Samsung Electronics owns 30% of SDI) and a Chinese Company called Amperex. If the fault is the battery then Samsung Electronics will claim loss back from these two companies (one of which is an associate). I have heard however that the Note's design might have compressed the battery causing the problem. I am not sure where the fault lies as I do not believe this info has been made public by Samsung.

People who have purchased such a high end phone as the Note 7 will also have likely made an investment in apps and clearly, as some have stated, accessories that make them think twice about leaving Android for iOS. Do people agree with that?

I am a Nexus 6 owner and my Pixel XL 32 GB is due to arrive in approx 2 weeks. I would have thought that the Google Pixel will be an unexpected beneficiary of the Note 7's problem (the Pixel launch is in 9 days) or Note 7 owners will look for another Samsung phone.

Thoughts?
 
codec said:
oh my gaaaaaaaad
that narrator is like, so annoyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

on a side note................
Guardian says note 7 now in news as permanently ended.
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With the Note 7 debacle now a fact, I believe Note 7 users are more likely than not going to stay with Android. I think the Google Pixel launch is very fortunate for Google and I believe that Note 7 users will opt for the Pixel in large numbers, esp if Google can quickly line up support from its carriers and put through enough product to meet what I think could be a very large demand. They certainly are putting the marketing muscle behind it with heavy advertising spend.

Of course there are other high end Android alternatives such as the Moto Z and the LG20V but I still believe this battle is Google's to lose.
 
sesevans said:
With the Note 7 debacle now a fact, I believe Note 7 users are more likely than not going to stay with Android. I think the Google Pixel launch is very fortunate for Google and I believe that Note 7 users will opt for the Pixel in large numbers, esp if Google can quickly line up support from its carriers and put through enough product to meet what I think could be a very large demand. They certainly are putting the marketing muscle behind it with heavy advertising spend.

Of course there are other high end Android alternatives such as the Moto Z and the LG20V but I still believe this battle is Google's to lose.
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LGV10 didnt get a UK release and same is expected of the LGV20
 
sesevans said:
With the Note 7 debacle now a fact, I believe Note 7 users are more likely than not going to stay with Android. I think the Google Pixel launch is very fortunate for Google and I believe that Note 7 users will opt for the Pixel in large numbers, esp if Google can quickly line up support from its carriers and put through enough product to meet what I think could be a very large demand. They certainly are putting the marketing muscle behind it with heavy advertising spend.

Of course there are other high end Android alternatives such as the Moto Z and the LG20V but I still believe this battle is Google's to lose.
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Are you being paid by Google? Your post history would suggest its possible. :p
 
Not possibly, but definitely paid by Google :p

I can't see any Note owner moving to the Pixel XL. It might have Android 7.1, but that is the only "spec" plus point. Everything else on the Galaxy is better, and appeals to the kind of buyer looking to buy a Note in the first place.
 
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