{"id":5606,"date":"2017-01-23T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2017-01-23T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T03:05:25","slug":"samsung-reveal-exactly-what-went-wrong-with-the-note-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/samsung-reveal-exactly-what-went-wrong-with-the-note-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung reveal exactly what went wrong with the Note 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Samsung notes that the root cause of the first fires involving the Galaxy Note 7 was a design flaw in the upper right corner of the battery, leading to short circuits in the “jelly roll” that comprises the Lithium-ion battery. However, in the replacement batch, a manufacturing issue crept in after the initial assessment of the failures, with an ultrasonic welding defect introduced in the second revision of the device pressing on the battery, and forcing a short circuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Samsung estimates that the final tally for the incident will exceed $5 billion in losses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spoiler alert, the batteries were fucked.<\/p>\n

In addition to the announcement of the\u00a0details Samsung are building a new testing lab to further prevent this happening again. Colour me crazy but I would’ve thought that testing batteries to see if they explode because of faulty parts is something a mobile phone manufacturer should’ve been doing from day one. No?<\/p>\n

People have short memories these days but I fear Samsung are going to end up with this looming over their phones for many, many years to come.<\/p>\n

Source: Galaxy Note 7 investigation concludes, pair of issues will cost Samsun<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung notes that the root cause of the first fires involving the Galaxy Note 7 was a design…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}