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Samsung Permanently Discontinues Galaxy Note 7 (twitter.com)
After the replacement units of Galaxy Note 7 also started to catch fire, Samsung is now permanently discontinuing its latest flagship smartphone (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternate source), the company said today. The news comes a day after Samsung halted sales of Note 7 once again and began asking users to return the device. So far nearly 50 incidents of Note 7 causing fires have been reported. More importantly, many people have been physically injured with their new Galaxy phone catching fire. WSJ reports: Samsung said in a filing with South Korean regulators on Tuesday that it would permanently cease sales of the device, a day after it announced a temporary halt to production of the smartphones. "Taking our customer's safety as our highest priority, we have decided to halt sales and production of the Galaxy Note 7," the company said. The move comes on a day when Samsung shares tumbled 8%, its biggest one-day decline in eight years, amid increasing pressure after a new string of reported smartphone fires in the U.S.
Ok I admit that I use iOS devices more than android. But why the hate towards Samsung with the good riddance.
I would much rather see them fix the phone so it's users will have a nice safe phone. Vs what it would be now a possibility exploding collectors item. That in 20 years you can sell to a collector for about a grand.
Samsung has been pushing the quality of Android phones. They are no longer cheap Apple rip offs but their own phone market. Where Apple has to take notice and the competition impress their phone as well.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
What happens to people who bought it on contract? Say there is no other phone from that carrier you want, you still have 23 months of contract left and didn't really get any use out of the first month anyway...
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Now, Samsung, kindly go back to producing 10 and 12 inch tablets with proper S Pen support and Miracast.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
And yet the most recent bit of information on Samsung's own website is this release which is the one quoted in the previous story. Their investor relations site doesn't contain any references to a permanent end of production either.
So are these stories reporting new facts and Samsung just hasn't updated its websites yet, or are they misunderstanding the earlier release, inferring the word "permanent" when it wasn't in the original information?
I'm doubtful that "heads will roll". The manufacturing process is a risky one and higher ups usually accept a level of risk. As for the problem itself, last I heard it was a defect in the entire process. The case itself shrinks and expands with usage. The battery wasn't sized properly. The pressure fitting can produce jagged edges from the expanding and contacting. Additionally the positive and negative ends are incredibly close on the battery. So the idea I've heard is that the expanding and contacting case eventually produces jagged edges on the pressure plate which cause shorts in the battery. Again that's just what I've heard, but it sounds like a failure from the ground up.
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For small pocket devices WE HAVE EXCEEDED PEAK LI-ON BATTERY AREA and especially LENGTH. Samsung should retool the G7 to contain two or three smaller 'proven' Lion battery packages with separate charging circuits. It is possible that a manufacturing variance ultimately related to area is fooling the charge circuit and making these more susceptible to overcharge. There is also physical stress, another trigger. Batteries should not straddle the middle of the device where the most butt-pocket deformation will occur.
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