After months of investigation, Samsung has finally determined that battery faults are to blame for the Galaxy Note 7’s propensity to catch fire, says a new report from Reuters. Many folks speculated that the battery was likely the root cause of the fires but we now know the exact reason the handset was such a fire hazard....
On January 23rd Samsung will admit that "irregularly sized batteries" were to blame for the problem that caused Galaxy Note 7 handsets to explode, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The report details that Samsung hired three independent “quality-control and supply-chain analysis firms” to perform the investigation, and these firms both concluded that two separate faults...
Samsung’s investigation into what caused some Galaxy Note 7s to catch fire has concluded that the battery was the main reason, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters today. The world’s biggest smartphone maker will likely announce the results of the investigation on January 23, a day before it announces detailed fourth-quarter earnings results,...
Several previous owners of faulty Galaxy Note 7 devices are strongly criticizing Samsung, claiming that the South Korean company has not done enough to compensate for the damage caused by their exploding smartphones. In what is now widely known, a problem with the Galaxy Note 7’s lithium ion battery caused some units (96 at last count)...