Stakes are high as Samsung launches new Note 8

(Aug 24): The stakes are high for Samsung Electronics Co.’s rollout of the Note 8, after the previous model’s exploding battery fiasco last year.

“None of us will ever forget what happened last year,” Samsung Mobile chief executive DJ Koh told a New York audience today at the phone’s unveiling.

Like the Note 7, which was scrapped and cost the South Korean company an estimated US$6 billion ($8.2 billion), the new smartphone sports a big screen and advanced features to make it a more versatile device compared with Samsung’s main Galaxy S8 flagship product. Like its predecessors, it includes a stylus.

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