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.
