SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics said Monday that tests of more than 200,000 Galaxy Note 7 smartphones found defects in two sets of batteries from two different manufacturers that made ...

As Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 problems take a turn for the worse, customers are facing new fears—and some have even encountered unexpected fees—in their efforts to find a safer smartphone. Now, nervous ...

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Se Young Lee, Sophie Curtis, Steve Robson 23:30, 10 Oct 2016 Updated 09:16, 11 Oct 2016 Samsung has halted all sales of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after new reports of phones catching fire. The company ...

Apple’s rival Samsung Electronics forecast its best quarterly profit in more than three years in the January-March period, Reuters reported Friday. The announcement comes after the company struggled ...

Things were going so well. Samsung had put a rough 18 months in the smartphone market behind it and was back on form. In February it launched the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones, both of ...

Samsung will dispose of all the recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices and not repair, refurbish or resell them, the company has said. On 11 October, the company announced it would ask wireless carriers and ...

Samsung’s smoking phone issue may have just gotten worse. The company announced two weeks ago that about half of all recalled Galaxy Note 7 phones in the U.S. had been replaced—but the recall may not ...

Just two weeks after the launch of the highly-anticipated Galaxy Note 7 phone, Samsung was forced to recall 2.5 million devices worldwide. The drastic move came after several users reported a problem ...

Samsung has confirmed a total halt to production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 phone over safety concerns. Anyone who owns an original or replaced device has been urged to stop using it and switch it ...

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Samsung has suspended production of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a source said on Monday, after reports of fires in replacement devices added to the tech giant's worst ever recall crisis.