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Samsung To Reveal This Month What Caused the Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone To Catch Fire - Report (reuters.com)
One of the biggest mysteries of 2016 will come to an end sometime this month. Samsung will make public the results of its months-long investigation into what caused several Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to turn into flames later this month, according to a report on Reuters. From the report: The South Korean firm said in October it was examining all aspects of the phone, suggesting there may be a combination of factors that contributed to one of the costliest product safety failures in tech history. Samsung has also previously noted that it was working with several third-party sources and experts to figure out what could have caused the error. A popular theory among many is that Samsung attempted to further slim the form factor of the Galaxy Note 7, which resulted in the battery to be held too tightly within the device -- which in turn, caused the layers of lithium cobalt oxide and graphite to touch.
This month? You mean they're still catching fire? I thought they deactivated the last of them in 2016.
Did someone set us up the bomb?
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An unexpected surplus of oxidation.
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I'm more interested in finding out why my Note 7 caught fire last month!
Excessive heat
I'm not convinced they actually know what caused it, nor that they're capable of understanding it. After all, they already claimed to have solved it once, but their understanding proved faulty. What's certain is that the public and the authorities need a good plausible explanation (whether true or not) so they can feel safe and begin to trust Samsung again.
If Samsung didn't know from their internal engineers within 2 weeks of the problem, they have a shitty engineering/QC organization.
"Samsung has also previously noted that it was working with several third-party sources and experts to figure out what could have caused the error"
Overheating and bursting into flames is hardly an "error."
It's better that they are studying the situation rather than saying, "Meh, we'll simply not do that again" without really coming to an understanding of what they actually did that went wrong. I feel like that's what manufacturers frequently do. That being said, I hate the thin form factor as my hand wraps around the phone in such a way that it accidentally touches the screen sometimes.
I will read the comments to the second, as they will not be all speculation.
What's up with this 'thinner' obsession?
Everybody I know uses either a fat battery-cover to have more power or an armored cover to protect the slim phones.
And as for tablets, I prefer the fat toddler-covers which allow a much more relaxed grip on these ultra-thin tablets.
Does anybody have any idea outside of a hidden agenda that is *NOT* in the general public's best interests why they would wait to reveal this information if they have already found out what was causing it?
As near or far as I can figure, if they know the cause already, they should publicly release a statement right away which explains it, apologize profusely for what happened, and clarify that they are taking measures to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future. Full stop. Move on, instead of dwelling on it or keeping the issue as an ongoing one for even one hour longer than it could otherwise take to be over.
Honestly, all waiting does is unnecessarily heighten the drama of the situation. Or do they think that this is some sort of reality TV show and adding suspense will be good for the ratings?
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"A popular theory among many is that Samsung attempted to further slim the form factor of the Galaxy Note 7"
This popular theory came from a private company that disassembled a single unit and came up with the speculation just to promote their own company, yet it has been spread by the tech press irresponsibly as a specialist opinnion.
Though the theory is plausible, it has no substance. So it' s a good thing that an official statement will be coming out soon.
they'll annonce that they sell the note 7 as a devboard (but without the batteries) for 70$.
Let's see - they set themselves on fire, are banned from planes... Yep, Samsung must've declared a jihad against Apple.
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We can expect further hot products from Samsung. If a company is on fire, Samsung is. The public is burning with anticipation for more explosive products from an organization unique in its capabilities to rekindle buyers' enthusiasm.
It was the battery! Nothing to see here, move along...
only problem is, they didn't put the "light forest on fire as signal" command in the manual. next time....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Did Samsung build a time machine? How can they tell us "what caused to phones to catch fire later this month?"
Also does this time machine use batteries? Do they, or did they, catch fire at some point in the past, present or future?
I heard they're going to throw a Note 7 and a Takata airbag into the large hadron collider to see if they form a black hole of crappy Asian engineering standards that sucks in all the money around it.
my phone....Oppo Find 7, which doesn't have that problem BECAUSE I CAN REMOVE THE BATTERY.
HINT HINT.
My son bought himself one of these. Nice UI for an Android device, it wasn't the TouchWiz. My fears of a glass back came true, when he was switching from a case and dropped it two feet onto his desk. The entire back was shattered.
Fortunately, the phone was already recalled. Who's stupid enough to make a handheld computer with a glass back?
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and it's not because they've somehow managed to trick hundreds of millions of people into buying something they don't want. Or that they've hypnotized their customers into wanting whatever Apple happens to make.
Apple is successful because they make what their customers want and their customers have lots of money--it's that simple. It's pretty much the same formula that every other company that's ever been successful has followed.
Those contractor prisons know how to make use of the population in battery production. The fires are actually caused by spontaneous human combustion.
By God, you're right! A mobile phone is not entirely unlike a nuclear power plant at all!
And their starting this whole "slimmer = better" race.
1. Slimmer phones are harder to hold, and almost impossible to hold with your shoulder when you just need both hands for a moment.
2. Slimmer phones have smaller batteries and less battery life.
3. Slimmer phones push phone makers to go with fixed batteries and to remove SD slots.
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What I want....
A thicker phone...with a large removable battery. And if you really want to make me happy, give me three mico-SD card slots and a RAID option. And guess what, thicker phones don't bend a.k.a. iPhone 6 Plus and are less likely to go up in smoke like the Note 7.
Well, we are talking about the Note 7. They've been known to create lots of heat too...