I posted a link yesterday in another thread where it said s8 production may halt if Samsung can't determine cause of note 7 blowing up. Which makes sense because they should not need another fiasco next year. Hopefully they figure it all out.
Why keep producing S7 and S7 Edge devices if there is a chance they may explode?
Because whatever landmine got planted in the Note 7 didn't affect the S7 or S7 Edge... if it had, we would have heard about this way back in February after a couple hundred went ba-boom.
Samsung merges design elements from their previous models into the newer ones... S6 - Note 5 - S7 - Note 7 -... if there was a design error in the Note 7 that caused this, then there is a pretty good chance that they could have carried it over to the S8. Samsung has to isolate the root cause and eliminate the chances of it reoccuring in the S line... or the only story about the S8 we'll hear on launch is "No one is sure, not even Samsung, if this will catch fire likethe Note 7 did"
That'll do wonders for those sales figures.
Meh. We'll see. It's 1 "report" . It could happen, I am not betting on it though ..
If people would stop fishing for answers by quoting ever single unofficial report from unofficial "sources" we, the people, would be thinking straight. Yet we go out of our way, buying into ANYTHING we read out there and bring in here as a quoted source with clickable link.
If you hadn't figured it out yet these sites are designed to confuse the masses.
I could create a webpage right now and call it whatever and create a "story" about anything related to Note 7, someone would read it, post the link in here and guess what? More confusion.
I'm not getting it. If they merged design elements from previous models, then wouldn't the Note 7 have many of the same design elements of the S7 Edge?
And how do we know the S8 isn't a completely different design language? That's what I mean about way too much baseless speculation.
Going back to the Note 4 has made me realize not a fan of curved displays and prefer the Note 4 display over the Note 7. I really detest the curve on the Edge. It IMO makes no sense distorting a viewing surface.
They did merge S7 elements into the Note 7 line... camera, waterproofing, SD slot, etc. Sammy has been doing a 6 month tick/tock between the S and Note lines for going back several generations. The best predictor of future behavior is past performance. Now, the S8 might have some major 'toss the table' sort of design like they did between the S5 and S6, but that's purely speculative.
What isn't speculative, though, is that the S8 is stepping to the plate down two strikes if Samsung doesn't a) find the root cause and b) be fully open in sharing that root cause and its remedy to the public.
I can't figure out why everyone is so hell bent on the Note line failing. When it first came out, everyone had their fun laughing at it, and look what it turned in to. A HUGE money maker for Samsung. Then they have this fiasco, and everyone immediately jumps back on board the "failing Note train". Give it a rest. How about we sit back and wait and see instead of grasping so desperately at straws that simply are not there?