Samsung might have another smartphone fiasco on its hands as a growing number of customers are complaining their brand new Galaxy S8 appears to have an unusual red tint on the screen.
Numerous owners took to social media to complain about a mysterious red hue on their displays, CNET reports.
A spokesperson for the tech titan has since confirmed the issue, claiming the pinkish tint has nothing to do with hardware and can be fixed by tweaking the phone’s screen settings.
Pictures of the S8 and S8 Plus phones with reddish displays have been posted to Instagram, as well as South Korean tech forums like Ruliweb and Ppomppu, where customers are claiming they can’t fix the issue in settings.
Research analyst Neil Shah has since told CNET the issue could stem from the S8’s ‘Deep Red’ OLED tech, which could purportedly “make the usual whites look reddish” as a result of “software calibration issue[s].”
https://www.cnet.com/news/some-samsung-galaxy-s8-phones-ship-with-red-tinted-screens/