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12-05-2016, 12:40 PM
It’s been a while since Samsung has been in the news for its exploding Galaxy Note7 batteries—and we sincerely hope any of our readers who bought one has returned it (http://www.greenbot.com/article/3120357/android/samsung-galaxy-note7-recall-is-official-through-the-consumer-product-safety-commission.html) to the company for a refund—but a team of enterprising engineers and developers who solve problems for a living may have discovered the root cause of the disaster.
Samsung has been mostly mum about the issue since it announced in October that it was suspending production of the popular phablet (more than a month after the first cases-were reported (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3118054/personal-technology/exploding-galaxy-note-7-totals-family-jeep.html)), but all the while Instrumental has been researching the battery boondoggle behind the scenes. What it found (https://www.instrumental.ai/blog/2016/12/1/aggressive-design-caused-samsung-galaxy-note-7-battery-explosions) is that the batteries themselves weren’t faulty; rather, Samsung’s push to make the case as thin as possible likely comprised them:
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Samsung has been mostly mum about the issue since it announced in October that it was suspending production of the popular phablet (more than a month after the first cases-were reported (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3118054/personal-technology/exploding-galaxy-note-7-totals-family-jeep.html)), but all the while Instrumental has been researching the battery boondoggle behind the scenes. What it found (https://www.instrumental.ai/blog/2016/12/1/aggressive-design-caused-samsung-galaxy-note-7-battery-explosions) is that the batteries themselves weren’t faulty; rather, Samsung’s push to make the case as thin as possible likely comprised them:
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