Samsung has said the Note 7 recall will cost it more than $5 billion over the next few quarters. The company on Friday also issued a recall for 2.8 million washing machines due to injury risk. The two fiascos have raised questions about Samsung's quality and assurance testing and have dealt a blow to its reputation. To spur more returns, past the current 85 percent level, Samsung will issue a software update that won't let the devices charge beyond 60 percent. Most Galaxy Note 7 users in the US have returned their devices. For those who haven't, Samsung will soon start limiting the device's charging capabilities.
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The new Lifeproof Fre case for the iPhone and 7 Plus ships on November 11 in a variety of colors. Those prices seem a little elevated considering earlier models once started at $80. But on the plus side, with the headphone port gone, you don't have to worry about that little gasket you had to screw into the case to cover the port (or unscrew it to access the port). Lifeproof sent me an early sample, and it's interesting to note how the case channels the sound of the iPhone 7's bottom speaker up to the top of the case and also allows for access to the microphone (some people think the iPhone 7 has two speakers on the bottom but it's really a speaker on one side and a microphone on the other).
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus may be waterproof, but that hasn't stopped Lifeproof from putting out waterproof cases for them, Now that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are waterproof, there wouldn't seem to be as strong a need to put them in a waterproof case, But as Lifeproof, now under the OtterBox umbrella, gets set to ship its next-generation of waterproof cases for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, it's emphasizing its Fre cases' "360-degree protection," which includes a built-in screen protector, Available now for preorder in a variety of colors, Lifeproof's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Fre cases cost $90 and $100, respectively, They are scheduled otterly romantic - otters holding hands iphone case to ship on November 11..
Then the Ara project was abruptly shelved. But now, all three of those men work for Building 8 -- a secretive new division of Facebook. There, they've been joined by an impressive list of heavy hitters that reads like a who's who of the tech world: Motorola, Tesla, Apple and Amazon, in addition to that contingent of Google ex-pats. Rafa Camargo holds up an Ara prototype in 2015. So what, exactly, is this superteam of designers, engineers and manufacturing experts working on? Nobody outside of Menlo Park knows for sure, but the hires -- and at least one under-the-radar acquisition -- seem to indicate two things: it's mobile, and it may be modular.
