Samsung’s \u00a0investigation into what caused a number of Galaxy Note 7s to catch fire has concluded that the batteries caused the devices to explode, a reported said.<\/p>\n
The company will officially announce the results of the prove on January 23, revealing the exact faults that led to the huge recall.<\/p>\n
Samsung will announce further measures that they will be taking to avoid a repeat of the safety failures in any future devices.<\/p>\n
The phone’s batteries were suspected to be the issue in October as the company began research into the explosions.<\/p>\n
Samsung cut its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in October, stopping production of the device a day after it halted global sales of the product.<\/p>\n
Lithium batteries are used in a range of consumer electronic devices, favored by manufacturers because they are lightweight and pack much more energy into a small space than other power cells.<\/span><\/p>\n Koh Dong-jin, Samsung’s mobile president told reporters in Seoul: ‘The flaw in the manufacturing process resulted in the negative electrodes and the positive electrodes coming together.’<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samsung’s \u00a0investigation into what caused a number of Galaxy Note 7s to catch fire has concluded that the batteries caused the devices to explode, a reported said. The company will officially announce the results of the prove on January 23, revealing the exact faults that led to the huge recall. Samsung will announce further measures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":96561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n