{"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