Originally published October 13 at 12:24 a.m. PT. Update at 7:53 a.m. PT: To include additional details about the bill credit offer. The Consumer Product Safety Commission issues an official recall notice, and Samsung throws in a $100 credit to encourage people to turn in their phones. Samsung really, really wants you to turn in your Galaxy Note 7. The Korean electronics titan said it will give $100 in credit at "carrier or retail outlets" to customers who turn in their Note 7 for another Samsung phone, starting Thursday afternoon.
Mobile phones have become lifelines to refugees, A vendor sells SIM cards and phones to people living in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, With help from Greek solar company Entec, students from Edinburgh University designed and built a solar charging station in a Lesvos refugee camp, Water and a mobile phone: Two essentials for survival as a refugee, Three men charge their phones in a camp near Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, Rabee Abo Tarah, who lives in an switcheasy iglass iphone xs bumper case - black abandoned hotel in Athens, shows a selfie he took on the notoriously perilous boat trip from Turkey to Greece, The former hotel now houses about 400 refugees..
Strung-together charging strips provide power inside a building at Athens' port Piraeus. Social and messaging apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp, are essential tools. Masood Qahar, of Afghanistan, shows his badge from NATO's International Security Assistance Force. Migrants often carry multiple SIM cards to use across different cell networks. Music can cross borders, and remind people of home. What would you grab in an emergency? USB drives store refugees' important documents, as well as family photos and other mementos.
You'll hear many languages and dialects in refugee camps, making mobile translation apps an essential tool, External battery packs can charge phones when outlets and charging stations aren't available, Marches and protests, and opportunities for housing in Athens are often organized online and through social switcheasy iglass iphone xs bumper case - black media, Power strips linked together and fed by extension cords, outside a camp on Lesvos, The Red Cross built a phone charging station for a refugee camp in Greece, A tangle of power strips..
There's no electricity in the refugee camp in Calais, France. A makeshift shop lets people charge their phones via a gas-powered generator. The Freiland youth-culture center in Potsdam, Germany, includes an internet cafe. Kamil Shamal, a 16-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, holds his basic Samsung phone. He doesn't want his face photographed. Firas Alshater is a YouTube star in Germany. He uses a Canon Vixia Mini to record videos that use humor to break down social barriers. Google donated 22 Chromebooks to a refugee shelter in Berlin. Residents use them to learn German, look for jobs and communicate with family and friends back home.
