In the wake of Samsung’s worst month ever, the world’s top smartphone maker is offering an upgrade program\u00a0to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea. In an attempt to retain customers, Galaxy Note 7 owners who trade in their recalled device for a Galaxy S7 phone\u00a0can trade up for a Galaxy S8 or Note 8 smartphone launching next year.<\/p>\n
Not only is Samsung only getting creative to retain its customers, it also means they are not giving up on the Note line of phones altogether despite a miserable month of explosions<\/a>, faulty replacements<\/a> and\u00a0flight bans<\/a>\u00a0caused by their flagship device.<\/p>\n Since Note 7 sales have been permanently halted, the company is offering refunds or exchanges for a Galaxy S7 smartphone and offered financial incentives to users in varying amounts, depending on the market.<\/p>\n South Korean users in the upgrade program will need to pay half the price of a Galaxy S7 device before exchanging to the S8 or the Note 8.\u00a0Samsung\u00a0said the availability of similar programs in other countries will depend on the situation in each market.<\/p>\n The Note 7’s collapse has cost Samsung $5.4 billion as well as ongoing\u00a0legal troubles. Reuters reported that as many at\u00a0527 lawsuits have been filed against Samsung seeking compensation of 500,000 won ($442.61) per person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the wake of Samsung’s worst month ever, the world’s top smartphone maker is offering an upgrade program\u00a0to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea. In an attempt to retain customers, Galaxy Note 7 owners who trade in their recalled device for a Galaxy S7 phone\u00a0can trade up for a Galaxy S8 or Note 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76166,"featured_media":74136,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-74134","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74134"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=74134"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=74134"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=74134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}