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Pixel and Pixel XL phones are taking longer to get to buyers than estimated earlier due to order numbers that exceeded expectations.
A month after announcing it would no longer build its own phones, BlackBerry unveils its first licensed model, built by TCL in China.
Worse, its mobile division operating profit fell 96% to $88M in Q3 from $2.09B a year ago following the Note7 recall due to battery fires.
The 347,000 postpaid net adds for Q2 is double Q1's 173,000 postpaid net adds and five times the 62,000 postpaid net adds of Q2 in 2015.
In South Korea, some Note7 owners filed a class action lawsuit over the phones, while some Galaxy S7 Edge fires are being reported elsewhere.
With Note7 fires popping up, Samsung guessed on the cause before being certain, dooming the model with a second recall.
T-Mobile added 851,000 postpaid phone customers in the quarter, plus 684,000 prepaid customers, bolstering its Q3 results.
In its first-ever smartphone, Kodak goes back to its photo roots by including a quality camera and a retro camera-like design.
The two companies are in deep merger discussions and a deal could either arrive in days or completely fall apart, according to reports.
Q3 revenue and net profit were also down, due substantially to the sale of some local landline operations in the quarter.
Samsung expects the Note7 recall nightmare to have an additional $3.1 billion financial impact in 4Q 2016 and 1Q 2017, on top of a $2.6B charge in Q3.
Sprint will start LG V20 preorders Oct. 21, while T-Mobile and Verizon confirm they will also offer the phone.