Analysts ask: Did Samsung cut corners in shipping Note7 replacements?
Smoke billowing from what appears to be a replacement Samsung Galaxy Note7 caused the evacuation on Wednesday of a Southwest jet on the ground in Louisville. No one was injured.
Samsung is trying to retrieve the Note7 to verify whether it is indeed a replacement unit. Meanwhile, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other federal authorities are conducting investigations.
If it is indeed a replacement Note7, Samsung will face some tough questions about whether it cut corners in offering replacement Note7 devices to customers that Samsung had deemed safe, analysts said today.
"This is a huge blow for Samsung as it basically invalidates everything they have done thus far and makes people not trust what is in store," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies.
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