Seoul/New York — Samsung Electronics unveiled its Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone as it battles to regain the market leadership it lost to Apple after the embarrassing withdrawal of its fire-prone Note 7. Boasting some of the largest wrap-around screens ever made, the long-awaited S8 is the South Korean technology company’s first new, premium phone after it permanently halted sales of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in October after a failed recall attempt. The incident cost Samsung $5.5bn in profit and dealt a heavy blow to its reputation. Two versions of the Galaxy S8, internally code-named Dream, were launched at a media event in New York on Wednesday, with 15.75cm (6.2-inch) and 14.73cm (5.8-inch) curved screens. They will go on sale on April 21 in three markets — Canada, South Korea and the US — and roll out to other markets in the following weeks. "We must be bold enough to step into the unknown and humble enough to learn from our mistakes," Koh Dong-jin, the company’s mobile chief, s...
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