Samsung gives away Galaxy Note 8 Smartphones to air passengers
Mobile phone giant, Samsung, has given away about 200 of its newly launched Galaxy Note 8 Smartphones to passengers travelling in a flight from Madrid to A Coruna, Galicia.
The tech giant embarked on the initiative to regain the trust of its customers following the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle of last year after multiple reports of the phone exploding.
It would be recalled that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone was deemed unsafe to be carried on aeroplanes across the world because of its battery cell problem.
The freely distributed smartphones were reportedly accompanied by a note in Spanish which when translated, said, “A year ago we asked you to turn it off, we welcome you today on board”.
Samsung made several changes in its manufacturing process as well as inspection protocol to ensure the safety of its batteries after what TechCrunch states to be the biggest consumer electronics disaster in recent years with the Note 7 fiasco.
The company invited third-party authorities to investigate the cause of the problem and instituted an eight-point safety check for future phones apart from repeated promises to do better.
Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 8 in August, 2017 globally before launching it in the Indian market on 11 September.
The flagship smartphone by the company sports a 6.3-inch QHD+ display, a 64-bit Exynos 8895 octa-core processor chipset with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage.
The Galaxy Note 8 is also Samsung’s first smartphone to feature a dual camera set-up at the rear with portrait mode and dual optical image stabilization (OIS).
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