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October 12, 2016

Samsung troubles hard on a phone-obsessed world

  • Pew Research Center says 43 percent of the world's population uses a smartphone. The highest use is in South Korea at 88 percent. Australia is 77 percent and Israel is 74 percent.
    • By BARBARA ORTUTAY
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — Yes, you heard that right. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: “power down and stop using the device.”

    In an age when smartphones have become extensions of ourselves, the last thing we look at before falling asleep and the first thing we grab in the morning, this is all but unthinkable, even at the dinner table, even on the toilet.


     
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