Samsung’s newest high-end handset will launch later than expected, missing next month’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) – the biggest event in the mobile industry calendar, at which the Korean firm has unveiled its Galaxy S-series flagships in recent years.
Earlier today, Samsung announced details of its investigation into the problems that plagued its Galaxy Note7 handset last year, following a series of fires that led to its full global recall of the device. It came as no great surprise that the company “concluded that the batteries had been the cause of the issues”.
The head of Samsung’s mobile division, Koh Dong-jin, said the firm had worked tirelessly to establish the precise cause, and that “the lessons of this incident are deeply reflected in our culture and process” – an implicit assurance to its customers that its future devices will be free of such problems.
