The case Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is the pinnacle of an industry ill – International Business Times Italia

the Explosion, and billions of dollars lost in the stock market. And an image to rebuild, especially for that line, the Galaxy Note, which some years ago introduced us to the concept of "phablet", a smartphone large size in order to work also on the move, but without a laptop. Samsung is paying the approach a bit clumsy of the whole industry compared to the lithium-ion batteries; you continue to push the limits of what you can do by putting at risk the health of all consumers.

Could it be HTC or Sony or Motorola. It could be even Apple, the queen of the "famolo thin". But it has happened to Samsung, who now has to deal with a launch that define disastrous is an understatement.

What would happen if you Galaxy Note 7 had used battery removable instead of glued, as it has become fashionable for years? It would be simply enough to notify the users to remove from the body and the battery as faulty: no alarms, no explosions (ok, maybe some) and no crisis hysterics of the media. The south Korean company would then, probably, decided to replace those batteries, or the consumers, though a few patients, they could fix everything with a new drive, which can cost up to 30 euro.

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but no. Samsung, like many manufacturers of smartphones, tablets and laptops, has decided to glue the battery of the Galaxy Note (and Galaxy S7 and S6 and his tablet) to the rest of the components. The result was only one: jumped the battery, jumped the entire device. You could not do is look at your phone, you paid 700 euro or more, catch the fire: the screen is unrecognizable and, unfortunately, some burn in the hand (in cases where no will was talking on the phone).

Galaxy Note 7 is water resistant. But not to the excessive heating of the batteries, faulty, could cause a small explosion REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

WHY do BATTERIES EXPLODE?

we Come to the crux of the matter: because a battery can explode? The explosion is the result of the excessive overheating of the unit. The heat is generated when the two opposites, one positive and the other negative, come into contact. To avoid this, therefore, the manufacturers incorporate a separator to ensure that do not touch each other, and to prevent overheating.

In the case of the Galaxy Note 7, as reported by Bloomberg, for an error of production has produced batteries with a strong pressure on the plates inside of the cells. This situation has made easier the contact between the positive pole and the negative pole thus causing, in many cases, an explosion.

Kyle Wiens knows it well. Is the ceo of iFixit, a company that in recent years has achieved popularity because it unmounts and remounts the smartphone and the tablet, showing the world all the secrets of the iPhone and the Samsung (but not only) to turn. His words, published in an article on Wired, are clear: "the obsession of The industry for products that are smaller require a battery smaller and smaller. Then you are moving towards lithium polymers batteries. These batteries are incredibly delicate and are caught in a flexible shell like a sheet of paper. This reduces the size, making the batteries easier to integrate. But it means essentially the include a device to fire hazard in aluminum foil".

The remains of the device if the battery explodes REUTERS

An industry to a certain extent sick: a better smartphone nice, functional, or safe. We will always try millimeter of less, those ten grams less than the previous generation, and then be able to shout to the media that it is "the lightest ever". It happened to Samsung, but it could happen to another company.

The fact that it happened to one of the "big" in the industry, the largest producer in the world for the number of smartphones shipped, ago yes that this news has had an eco media is of absolute importance. Bad for the company, perhaps too attached, especially the u.s. media, but a little bit if you’re looking for.

CHASING APPLE

a couple of years, Samsung has decided to offer its Galaxy Notes of the turn in advance. The first generations were launched on the market around September; the presentation took place at IFA in Berlin, which is traditionally held at the beginning of the month. From 2015, instead, the leadership has wanted to anticipate Apple’s all; he wanted consumers to know before the quality of its devices, we can safely say "no" to the new "melafonini". the The result was having to run. Running after that, only a few months before around April, has launched on the market Galaxy S6 and S6 edge (2015) or samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 the edge (this year). And run when you’re producing a mobile device, the battery is a bargain so delicate, it can mean hitting an error in the production of which you may not anticipate the aspect ratio.

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sooner or later had to happen. You have to get burned, literally this time, to understand the extent of the problem. the The scapegoat, the one who takes all the attention and all the blame, this time Samsung. That his case can serve as a lesson for those producers that focuses on the batteries glued to the case (luckily still many, such as LG, rely on batteries removable). In the meantime, the company has announced they have stopped the production of Galaxy Note 7. For Italian users there is a full refund (and god forbid).

If not for the image, if not for the safety of consumers, billions of dollars lost in these months will certainly reflect the leadership in south korea.