In October, to stop selling Samsung Galaxy Note 7 around the world and launching a massive revocable campaign, Samsung Corporation launched an investigation to find out the true cause of new smartphones explosion . As planned, at the end, Samsung has completed the investigation, but is not yet ready to share its findings with the public.
Today it became known that Samsung has found out the exact cause of the problems with the Galaxy Note 7 battery, which cost the company about $ 5 billion in costs and lost profits. Samsung will send a detailed report on the results of an internal investigation by an independent testing laboratories Korea Testing Laboratory a UL. But publicly articulate the causes battery explosion 7 Galaxy Note Samsung is not yet in a hurry. By the way, before Samsung has promised to publish the results of the investigation before the end of the year.
In early December, Instrumental our experts voiced his version of the causes of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 explosion . They believe that the cause of the explosion was an ill-conceived arrangement of parts inside the smartphone. Due to the short distance the components put pressure on the battery, which is why it blew up. To avoid problems it was possible to install the battery with a smaller capacity or increasing the thickness of the smartphone body.
Recall, Samsung initially blamed Galaxy Note 7 explosions to defective batteries. But when new batteries ignited , Samsung began looking for the exact cause. At the same time the company began to look for a new supplier of batteries that will not be prone to explosions. This supplier may be LG Chem, a subsidiary of the South Korean giant LG. Samsung starts to install the battery production LG Chem in the second half of next year.