US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements

Re:US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements by thaumasiotes on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:02AM (#12675330)

> I also hope it breaks the Samsung monopoly over Android and let brands like LG, HTC shine

I have a Nexus S (Samsung), a Nexus 4 (LG), and a Nexus 5 (LG again). As you might guess, I bought those without really bothering to consider who the manufacturer was.

The 5, the most recent one, has failed catastrophically and eaten my data. The 4 is suffering from a swelling battery, and will be thrown away as soon as my OnePlus 3 arrives.

The S, two years older than the 4, is still going strong, although it doesn't seem quite up to the demands of modern android software.

To the extent that a "Samsung monopoly" exists, it's not at all clear to me that breaking it would improve anything.

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Re:US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements by camillomiller on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:51AM (#12675483)

HTC is done... they accepted to make google pixels without any htc branding. It's not something a healthy company could accept

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