{"id":177885,"date":"2016-09-01T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177885"},"modified":"2016-09-01T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:07:48","slug":"samsung-galaxy-note-7-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/177885-samsung-galaxy-note-7-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Note 7 delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has delayed shipments of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone amid reports of exploding batteries.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-samsung-elec-smartphones-idUSKCN1161BL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a>, Samsung said the delay in shipping the new devices was to allow for quality control testing.<\/p>\n<p>Quality issues for the Note 7 could deal a major blow to Samsung, stated the report, as the company was counting on the smartphone to compete again Apple&#8217;s expected launch of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus in September.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has already experienced a delay in the Note 7&#8217;s arrival, with Samsung stating the local\u00a0launch of the device\u00a0would happen on 23 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The device was originally set to launch in South Africa on\u00a02 September, with the date moved due to &#8220;overwhelming global demand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Samsung<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/177669-samsungs-latest-exynos-chip-integrates-lte-bluetooth-wi-fi-and-gps.html\">Samsung\u2019s latest Exynos chip integrates LTE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/177509-samsung-and-lg-unveil-huge-new-pc-monitors.html\">Samsung and LG unveil huge new PC monitors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has delayed shipments of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone amid reports of exploding batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,645,38384],"class_list":["post-177885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-note-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177887,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177885\/revisions\/177887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}