Samsung to gamble by delaying the Galaxy S8 and sticking with the Note brand

Samsung has defied the Note7 debacle to increase its profits by 50%, but there are plenty more challenges to come for its mobile business and elsewhere.
While the profit improvement was provided by other divisions such as components (although presumably not batteries), the performance of the mobile division, if you strip out the Note7 unpleasantness, was also quite healthy.
The 2017 outlook, however, remains complicated. For the whole group there’s the matter of the Korean political corrup