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Battery fires spread to newer Note 7
- Thread starter Binary_Bark
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What puzzles me, is as much as I'm an Apple ONLY fan - clearly all these devices share hardware vendors and have links to similar manufacturers. So I'm puzzled why the battery is so unstable in the Note 7, yet no other device has the problem. They MUST be using like batteries elsewhere?
Jola
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Well, apparently one of the Note 7 battery producers in China, that make 30% of all Note 7 batteries, also make iPhone batteries.
Samsung, however, has not identified which factories the exploding batteries come from.
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Another worldwide recall then?
CheddarByte
Senior Member
Can we confirm that the phone was from the new batch?
I hate to see this happen, but Samsung had it coming, they've become so much like apple, desperately throwing out a new phone very year regardless if it's ready or not.
I hate to see this happen, but Samsung had it coming, they've become so much like apple, desperately throwing out a new phone very year regardless if it's ready or not.
Acid0
Executive Member
When did they not release a new phone every year?
Apple has two versions of a phone so it is easy to upgrade your existing phone and release a S version.
Samsung has the two different flag ships the normal phone and then based on that the NOTE and so far they have release every year one so it is not just an apple thing.
If you don't release every year you fall behind.
I just think they tried to haste the production and this is the result.
I cant see that if they release the same time as to what Apple release they will gain or loose clients.
You decide long before the release what phone you are waiting for, because Samsung is a week or month later you will not just walk over to Apple and get the phone because you cant wait.
The answer is quality control, yes these things all get made in China, for all we know Apple and Samsung both use batteries coming out the exact same factory but with different QC.
From what I understand the Chinese manufacturers operate on a per batch basis, each batch can be different, for example if you order a batch of goods from them and only have R10000, they will manufacture the product to spec, but according to your R10000 budget. Next week a different client comes along wanting the same product, but willing to pay more than double and spesifically want strickter quality control etc, they manufacture that same product to spec, but using better quality components, better QC etc because they have a bigger budget to work with.
Take 2 Chinese construction companies, task each to build a house for you, the 2 identical houses next to each other. Give the one company a budget of R1 million and the other a budget of R20 million. On face value those houses will look exactly the same, but look at them again in 5, 10 and 20 years, then you'll see which was the 1 million budget and which the 20 million house.