Samsung Electronics announced today that offers phones replacement to the users of the Galaxy Note 7 with international flights from South Korea, after the united States and other countries banned the device in the aircraft.
"We have opened a counter in the Incheon International Airport so that users can change their Galaxy Note 7 for a terminal of another model", said to EFE a spokesman for the company, headquartered in Seoul, without specifying whether this measure will be extended to airports in other countries.
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Samsung opted for the measure after news this weekend that the transport authorities of the united States, Canada, Israel and Japan, in addition to airlines of other countries, banned prohibited to carry on board the plane -even off – the Galaxy Note 7 after several cases of ignition and the consequent withdrawal of the product in the markets.
In the united States, the ban took effect Saturday. "The individuals who own a Samsung Galaxy device Note7 should not carry it with you, or in your hand baggage or in your checked baggage on flights to, from or within the united States," he said in a statement the Department of Transport of that country. The secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, said that the measure was necessary "because even a single incident on board represents a high risk of serious injury, and puts many lives at risk."
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In the case of South Korea, which together with the united States is the country where it is sold over the Galaxy Note 7 since it reached the stores in August, the Ministry of Transport of time not imposed any restriction on the model in national or international flights.
Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics, which initially blamed the fires on defective batteries, began a large-scale investigation to determine the causes of the problem after some of the revised models also burn. The company got to work on the case to "many" engineers "that examine thoroughly the processes of engineering, manufacturing and quality control of the product" to try to find the cause of the fires in the terminals, according to the spokesman.
"we Considered every possibility and we’re working against the clock to get to the bottom of the problem", said the representative of the multinational south Korean, which also cooperates with the swiss company SGS specialized in inspections and quality control of products. In parallel, the South Korean government launched another investigation with the collaboration of Samsung.
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Samsung began selling the phone on August 19. With a value of 940 dollars, the device aimed at the premium segment of the market and intended to compete with the Apple iPhone. But after catching fire several Note 7, the company ordered in September the review of approximately 2.5 million phones, and on Tuesday announced that discontinuaría production to persist the problem.
Samsung estimated operating loss of about 5,400 million dollars between July this year and march next by the fiasco of the Galaxy Note 7. In addition, calculated a negative impact of around 3.100 billion in operating profit of the next two quarters.
Source: Agencies
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