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Frankly, why take a chance? Made from parts salvaged from returned and unsold Galaxy Note 7 handsets , the Fan Edition has a somewhat smaller mAh battery compared to the mAh cell that was used to power up the Galaxy Note 7.
The battery on a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that was still being used by its owner as recently as a month ago, shows signs of swelling. Look, it's really a moot issue at this point. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was launched last year and the Galaxy Note 9 will be unveiled two weeks from tomorrow. If you still happen to own a Galaxy Note 7, you really should turn it into Samsung.
As recently as April, the company said that returned units can be exchanged for another Samsung, or a refund based on the terms of the expanded Note 7 recall. Now is the time to look ahead instead of looking back. Consumer Product Safety Commission and in partnership with carriers and retailers. Since the affected devices can overheat and pose a safety risk, we are asking consumers with a Galaxy Note7 to power it down and contact the carrier or retail outlet where they purchased their device. Consumers who have a Galaxy Note7 device can exchange their phone for another Samsung smartphone, or receive a refund, under the terms of the expanded U.
Note7 Refund and Exchange Program.
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According to a Wall Street Journal report , Samsung had misdiagnosed the problem when issuing the first recall. In October, Samsung expanded its recall and stopped Note 7 production entirely. After the October recall, very few additional details were released. Instead, Samsung concentrated on making sure people weren't still using the Note 7, even resorting to pushing out updates to all Note 7 phones to brick the devices.
Those scooter issues were largely blamed on low-cost batteries —ones that likely had internal flaws and impurities that caused short circuits—that were churned out to meet demand for a hot craze. For smartphone users, that energy density helps give tiny devices long battery life; the Note 7's 3,mAh battery was built to get through a full day.
But every smartphone has a lithium-ion battery inside it, and the Note 7 presented wildcards that stoked speculation. Samsung said it explored any potential problems involving system software, manufacturing, and Note 7 hardware during its months-long investigation. They tested with the phone's iris-scanning feature turned on and off, downloaded third-party apps to see if that had any effect, and tested to see if USB-C charging played a role. But all those tests checked out, according to Samsung and independent researchers.
Plus, those components are practically the same in any phone. As long as a battery is designed to be fast-charged, it should pose no additional danger. Whatever perfect storm of power-management failures could have occurred, they shouldn't have caused the battery to explode.
Safe lithium-ion batteries have features that mitigate disaster in these types of situations, but short circuits and internal battery damage are harder to defend against.
According to Samsung's Koh, the company doesn't just intend to make its own batteries safer. As part of its new safety procedures, Samsung will safety-test batteries at every point in the manufacturing process.
They'll also train employees at every level of the supply chain. As for its own phones, the company is designing a new compartment to give batteries more space inside the phone and combat damage from physical drops.
Koh finished the event by saying that Samsung will share its lessons with the entire industry to improve overall lithium-ion battery safety. Well, it wasn't the stylus.
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