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what a click-bait title! tl;dr: Recalling early based on the assumption that the fault was with one of the batteries' suppliers. Nothing about the root cause issue in this article.
They don't know the root cause.
I expected the article to say what made the phones catch fire.
Defective battery according to CNet: https://www.cnet.com/news/why-is-samsung-galaxy-note-7-explo... Even replacement phones caught fire, they blamed the batteries.
My initial presumption was shoddy batteries+ quick charge 3.0 extra fast charging + hot Qualcomm 820 just to add.
It was first Samsung phone to use quick charge 3.0. If there was a battery defect, rapid charging didn't help.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Defective battery according to CNet: https://www.cnet.com/news/why-is-samsung-galaxy-note-7-explo... Even replacement phones caught fire, they blamed the batteries.
Even this article is inconclusive... There has been no definitive cause. My initial presumption was shoddy batteries+ quick charge 3.0 extra fast charging + hot Qualcomm 820 just to add. It was first Samsung phone to use quick charge 3.0. If there was a battery defect, rapid charging didn't help.
As an avid iPhone user who does want to see Apple succeed. I genuinely feel horrible for Samsung. You can say whatever you want about corporate management at any company but at the bottom of the pole are hard working engineers who put so much time and effort into their work. The team that built the iris scanner must have worked incredibly hard with cutting edge technology to make that work in time. So the whole team…
As in, stop making a 5.5"+ phone with stylus? They definitely won't. They'll just have to come up with a new name because the Note name is tarnished
I imagine that if the managers had delayed the recall and the problem turned out to be as they originally suspected, that would have been their fatal mistake.
i.e. they thought they had enough evidence to damn one battery manufacturer, but the truth was the problem was elsewhere, and they still don't know. Faced with continuing problems and no known cause, if they'd pre-emptively pulled the phone, the hope is that they'd be seen as looking out for their customers.