Samsung Electronics unveiled on Monday, which were the defects in the batteries – produced by two different manufacturers – that have caused dangerous fire on your mobile phone model Galaxy Note 7.
In a statement quoted by Reuters, the company said that internal investigations and independent “have concluded that the batteries were the cause of the incident with the Note 7,” a time that had manufacturing defects different caused the short circuit.
The probability that two different vendors had problems with the same mobile phone is likely extremely low and shows that we have reached a tipping point in the technology of batteries of smartphones, said Patrick Moorhead, president of Moor Insights & Strategy.
The Samsung has not revealed the names of the companies who provided the batteries, but these had been identified previously as the Samsung SDI Co Ltd and China Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL). The SDI has already stated that it will invest 120 million euros to increase the security of the products and expects to continue to provide batteries for the Samsung. Already the ATL refuses to comment on the case.
In the same press release, Samsung states that you assume all responsibilities in the problems with the Galaxy Note 7 and ensures that it will not prosecute the vendors.
The current situation is not very different from what we detect initially, when we point the finger to Samsung by a defect in the batteries”, said Park Chul-wan, former director of the Center for Advanced Batteries in the Institute of Technology and Electronics from Korea.
Samsung has already taken steps to prevent this type of situations from happening again, among which, a system of eight-points check battery.
the head of The division of mobile phones, Koh Dong-jin explained that the publication of the report was motivated by the need for the company to "regain the trust" of consumers after a loss of about 6.1 billion won (approximately 4.863 million euros).
In Portugal, the TVI contacted the Meo, Nos and Vodafone to know, after all, what happened to the Galaxy Note 7. The three operators confirmed that the equipment were collected but would not reveal how many equipment were discussed.
Source official from Vodafone said that "all units of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 released by Vodafone Portugal were collected and returned to Samsung. The model will not again be marketed and we do not know the plans of the manufacturer for a reprint of this equipment."
No official confirmation everything seems to indicate that the incident will have caused the premature death of the Galaxy Note 7, that cost millions to the company south Korean. Samsung has suspended sales of the smartphone Galaxy Note 7 at the beginning of September 2016. In Portugal, the equipment was not yet available for sale, but it would get to the stores from the 9th of this month. All equipment provided, until then, were-in the pre-sale.
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