Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really hope they don't discontinue the line 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
Is it? I would've thought the samsung brand was tarnished more than the note brand.
The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
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#32I 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.
The article suggests that the other option wasn't "delay the recall" but "kill the phone". The fact that "kill the phone" came after "send supposedly safe replacements" is what was fatal, not the early recall. 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…
Re: The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
#33Sent the Note 7 back, and have now got a Note 5 64GB. I like it and will keep using it... but I still miss the Note 7. Am eagerly awaiting the Note 8 or whatever is coming next from Samsung.
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#34According to the article, the mistake was admitting there was a problem and recalling the phones. If that's what Wall Street calls a "mistake", then I don't know what they'd call the engineering problem(s) that caused the fires in the first place.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really hope they don't discontinue the line 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
Is it? I would've thought the samsung brand was tarnished more than the note brand.
Re: The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article suggests that the other option wasn't "delay the recall" but "kill the phone". The fact that "kill the phone" came after "send supposedly safe replacements" is what was fatal, not the early recall. 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…
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy' http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00260
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy' http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00260
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...