Sunday, January 22, 2017

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploded due to flaws in the design of batteries and assemblies – TASS

MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. The shortcomings of the design of the batteries and the technological process of Assembly became the cause of the fire smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the report said Samsung.

“the investigation revealed that the cause of the incidents were the shortcomings of the design of the batteries and the technological process of Assembly of the device,” the company said.

As described in Samsumg, the company conducted a special study of gadgets to find out the cause of problems. “Samsung engineers together with experts from independent organizations investigated more than 200 thousand units and 30 thousand batteries, in order to establish the cause of incidents. A thorough check has been hardware and software part of Galaxy Note 7, build processes, quality control and delivery to the points of implementation”, – explained in the company.

the head of the mobile division Samsung Electronics Dongen Koch, whose words are reported, stressed that “the headquarters of Samsung Electronics takes responsibility for not have been able to identify and correct possible problems before the Galaxy Note 7 went on sale”.

“the Company will take all necessary measures to ensure that such a situation is not repeated in future”, – assured the Corporation.

After the incident, the company expanded the set of procedures to control and improve the quality of the devices. “This includes multi-level security Protocol, as well as a check of batteries, consisting of eight items,” said the Corporation. In addition, Samsung has formed a working group on batteries, which included external consultants, academics and researchers. The company expects that this working group will help Samsung “in understanding the safety issues of batteries and innovative developments in this area.”

In September 2016, the company Samsung has announced the mass recall and suspension of sales of Galaxy Note 7 due to the problems detected with rechargeable batteries which could explode. After that, the company said that the defect is resolved, and started to exchange a previously purchased smartphone to a new one. However, as it turned out later, to solve the problem and failed, the battery in the new Galaxy Note 7 continued to ignite. In this regard, Samsung has subsequently announced a complete recall of all devices of this model and stop their production.

In Russia, official sales of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has not started. The Corporation has said it is ready to replace the explosive smartphone received in the framework of the pre-order or purchased outside of the Russian Federation, to other models. Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 also had the opportunity to get full monetary compensation.

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