Samsung mobile phone flipped!A $ 14 million was fined for false waterproof function advertisements

Jimu News reporter Zhang Yang

On June 23, local time, Australian Competitive Regulatory Agency stated that the court ordered the local subsidiary of Samsung Electronics to pay a fine of A $ 14 million (about 64.6 million yuan), because Samsung made a false "waterproof function" promotion for its smartphone for its smartphone Essence

Samsung mobile phone (picture source: Reuters)

According to Reuters, the Australian Competition and Consumer Council (ACCC) stated that from March 2016 to October 2018, Samsung Company put on advertisements on the store and social media, claiming that its mobile phones could be swimming pools or sea water Use.

However, ACCC received hundreds of complaints from users, saying that these smartphones could not be used normally after launching, and even stopped working.

"The waterproof function of these advertisements is an important selling point for the Galaxy mobile phone," said ACCC's chairman Gina Getlet. Advertising, they bought it for the waterproof function. "

Regulatory agencies prosecuted Samsung Australia for the first time in July 2019. The company acknowledged that the buyer misleads the waterproof level of some "Galaxy" series mobile phones.

However, Samsung Australia stated in a statement that there is no such problem in its new models of smartphones.

Samsung Australia stated that Samsung and ACCC have unanimously ruled that since March 2018, Samsung's new smartphone launched in Australia "has waterproof function."

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