Thanks to the folks at Uniqfind, you’ll soon be able to make your iPhone look like an exploded Samsung Galaxy Note 7. We’re not sure it’s the best way to spend $25, but we suspect some iPhone fanboys will take some perverse pleasure in needling Samsung fanboys with the makeover. Uniqfind’s marketing the skin — …
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Into a barrage of damaging headlines comes a rare bright spot for Samsung, whose fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 has been nothing short of disastrous. A J.D. Power study published Thursday found that Samsung phones rank highest in overall satisfaction among AT&T and Sprint customers. T-Mobile and Verizon customers liked Apple iPhones best. Drawing on that study and a companion study, …
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Several owners of the now-recalled Galaxy Note 7 are accusing Samsung of ignoring their demands that the company pay for property damage caused when their handsets exploded and started fires, according to the UK-based Guardian. One customer, John Barwick of Illinois, said that fire damage in his bedroom totals over $9,000, but that Samsung repeatedly failed to return his calls, …
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Huawei, like Apple, is one of the only phone brands that makes its own processors. And its latest one, the Kirin 960, looks to be a winner. Announced at a Shanghai press conference earlier today, a phone powered by the Kirin 960 wa put to the test against an iPhone 7 and a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Android Central reports. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is no more 1:34 Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 nightmare continues. US law firm McCuneWright says it has filed a lawsuit regarding the recall of the Note 7. The plaintiffs in the case claim that due to the recall, they were left without phones for weeks. The suit seeks reimbursement of cell phone …
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If you somehow missed two global Galaxy Note 7 recalls, the photos of exploded phones on the nightly news, the text messages from your carrier and the push notifications being sent direct to your phone — all telling you to power off the device and return it — you’ll now have another option for ditching your Note 7 before you …
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Samsung is so serious about getting Galaxy Note 7 phones out of customers’ hands, the company has apparently opened an exchange booth in South Korea’s Incheon airport (the international outlet for its capital city, Seoul). There, Samsung reportedly swaps out Note 7 phones — which Samsung has now stopped producing following major flaws that have led to some units exploding …
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Samsung apparently has only itself to blame. The dangerous batteries used in its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 devices were tested by the company in-house, Samsung confirmed Monday. “Samsung has been testing Galaxy devices including the Galaxy Note7 for CTIA certification aligning with mobile carriers’ requirements in North America through [a] CTIA certified internal testing lab since February 2009,” the company …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is no longer flight ready. A group of US regulators on Friday banned of the device from all flights to, from or within the country, describing the phone as a “forbidden hazardous material” under federal regulations. The ban, which goes into effect on Saturday at noon Eastern Time, is a significant expansion of a previous …
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Here’s how much the Galaxy Note 7 debacle is costing Samsung: About $3 billion. The South Korean company on Thursday said discontinuing its device, which it recalled for a second time this week for battery issues, will hurt its operating profit in the mid-3 trillion won range from the fourth quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2017. That’s …
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