Galaxy Note 7 - Found the cause of the explosions, are you curious to know?

December 12, 2016

Found the reason why the Galaxy Note 7s were exploding like fireworks and it shows something bad for Samsung.

The unraveling of the Galaxy Note 7's "gender-fender", seems to have finally brought to light the reason why Samsung's top model suffered such a debacle, causing serious accidents and leading to its eventual withdrawal from the market.

Although it was obvious from the start that the cause of the problems was focused on the battery, a new, and rather final, report shows exactly why this happened.

After they managed to get their hands on a Galaxy Note 7 (not easy since everything was recalled), the engineers of the manufacturing company Instrumental, stripped it completely to find out what was going on (and yes, they had a fire extinguisher next to them just in case).

So they discovered that the battery was so embedded in the device that any expansion due to temperatures (a natural thing), or any pressure on the body of the device, short-circuited (making it touch) elements that should never come into contact - resulting in an explosion.

Mobile phone batteries have the (all-natural) tendency to expand during normal mobile use, due to temperature, or even due to being placed in pockets, bags, etc., or even when the phone is dropped on the ground. This is why manufacturers make sure that there is room for this.

But Samsung, according to Instrumental's report, "used a highly aggressive manufacturing process, eliminating this space in order to make the device as thin as possible and at the same time have as big a battery as possible, in order to be able to compete with the iPhone 7 Plus battery that would appear, but also to be better than older Galaxy models."

The report goes on to say that, most likely, the slightest pressure on the body of the cell phone would eventually bring the positive and negative layers (poles) inside the battery body into contact - something that should never happen - causing it to overheat uncontrollably and catch fire or even explode.

Delving into the design of the smartphone, the technicians concluded that the Galaxy's battery did not have the necessary "roof" as a space on top of it, which is 10% of the total thickness of the device.The Galaxy Note 7 should have had a 0.5mm roof, but it didn't have ANY.

"Such a basic design rule was destroyed that logically it must have been done on purpose," says the Instrumental team, adding, "they made and distributed a dangerous product."

The Galaxy Note 7 fiasco could cost Samsung over 20 billion dollars and reports of this kind will not help regain the public's trust.

Of course, it is worth pointing out that this is not an official report from the company itself, so these results may not be considered official and it may even be said that Instrumental is doing this to promote its own solutions and products in the field.

It remains to be seen what Samsung itself will eventually say on the matter. But either way, such a report shows that in the hunt for the thinnest and best battery life device, as well as in the ruthless competition between companies for market dominance, it is ultimately the consumers who pay the price.

And as the saying goes, "When the buffalo fight in the swamp, the frogs get it".

from Elichord