• Fire breaks out at Chinese factory that makes Samsung Note 7 batteries
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[quote]A fire broke out in a Chinese factory that makes batteries for Samsung’s explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on Wednesday morning. Samsung SDI Co., a supplier of batteries to the Galaxy Note 7, said a “minor fire” broke out in the plant in suburban Tianjin’s Wuqing district but was quickly put out. No one was injured in the incident, news portal Sina.com.cn reported. The reason for the blaze was not immediately clear, the report said, but Tianjin’s firefighting authority said the materials that caught fire were lithium-ion batteries and some semi-manufactured battery products. A total of 19 fire engines and more than 110 firemen were sent to the scene after the fire was reported at 6am, according to a statement the authority posted on its official Weibo microblog at about 3pm. Photos circulated on Chinese social media showed plumes of black smoke rising from a factory that users said was operated by Samsung SDI. Local environmental protection officials arrived around 4pm to monitor air quality for possible pollution, Sina.com.cn said. Shin Yong-doo, a Samsung SDI spokesperson, told Bloomberg that the fire occurred at a waste depository and not a production facility. It did not affect production, Shin said.[/quote] [url]http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2069166/fire-breaks-out-chinese-factory-makes-samsung-note-7-batteries[/url] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/samsung-sdi-batteries-fire-idUSL4N1FT3BX[/url]
It keeps happening
The jokes for this one just write themselves.
the fire broke out at a waste deposit facility so essentially the trashcan they tossed all those notes into
[QUOTE] a “minor fire” quickly put out [/QUOTE] Oh okay, No big deal. [QUOTE]A total of 19 fire engines and more than 110 firemen were sent plumes of black smoke rising from a factory [/QUOTE] Sometimes It's funny to see how PR downplays event's so it doesn't look so bad on them.
I hope the whole Note 7 disaster makes phones without a changeable battery less common.
[QUOTE=AkujiTheSniper;51795162]I hope the whole Note 7 disaster makes phones without a changeable battery less common.[/QUOTE] *Pffft. Do you really think people learn?
[QUOTE=AkujiTheSniper;51795162]I hope the whole Note 7 disaster makes phones without a changeable battery less common.[/QUOTE] That wasn't the cause of the problem, the original iPhone didn't have an easily changeable battery either.
[QUOTE=MarcusSmith;51795186]*Pffft. Do you really think people learn?[/QUOTE] I mean, [URL="http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14331316/samsung-galaxy-note-7-recall-investigation-findings-cause"]Samsung seems to have learned and is actually growing from their mistakes[/URL]: [video=youtube;Iu18CykEH9o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu18CykEH9o[/video]
[QUOTE=Plaster;51795210]That wasn't the cause of the problem, the original iPhone didn't have an easily changeable battery either.[/QUOTE] It wasn't the cause of the problem but it blocked an easy and cheaper solution.
They should recall the factory
[QUOTE=Plaster;51795210]That wasn't the cause of the problem, the original iPhone didn't have an easily changeable battery either.[/QUOTE] It would've made it easy to just replace the battery instead of having to return the whole phone :weeb: Also means they can focus a little less on capacity, since the battery can easily be replaced once it starts showing wear, and glorious aftermarket extended batteries & covers.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51795241]It wasn't the cause of the problem but it blocked an easy and cheaper solution.[/QUOTE] What, cheaper? In what way is designing the back of the phone being openable and manufacturing a probably nonstandard sized battery cheaper? Making the battery swappable doesn't make a phone safer.
[QUOTE=Plaster;51795302]What, cheaper? In what way is designing the back of the phone being openable and manufacturing a probably nonstandard sized battery cheaper? Making the battery swappable doesn't make a phone safer.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure the batteries were manufactured specifically for the Note 7 so that point is pretty moot. Cheaper solution because, as Van-man said, they could have rectified this with new batteries sent to customers.
[QUOTE=Van-man;51795292]It would've made it easy to just replace the battery instead of having to return the whole phone :weeb: Also means they can focus a little less on capacity, since the battery can easily be replaced once it starts showing wear, and glorious aftermarket extended batteries & covers.[/QUOTE] When my phone battery started dying too quickly after just a few months I had to give them my entire phone, they said it's for making sure that i wont come back asking to replace some other possible defects. I don't know if its the same case for everyone but that's what happened in my case.
If you deal with enough delicate chemicals (lithium is insanely flammable) in a factory, things like this inevitably happen.
[QUOTE=Plaster;51795210]That wasn't the cause of the problem, the original iPhone didn't have an easily changeable battery either.[/QUOTE] that's an Apple thing. That kind of design carries over all the way to their software, too. Just take a gander at how many personalization / customization avenues you have on the iPhone, then compare it to an entirely stock Android phone. Other companies do it, sure, but keeping people from replacing their shit is Apple's shtick. I blame them for causing the thin craze seen in most phones being released nowadays
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;51795059]Oh okay, No big deal. Sometimes It's funny to see how PR downplays event's so it doesn't look so bad on them.[/QUOTE] A minor fire at a LITHIUM ION BATTERY PLANT. Of course they're gonna send everyone. If it got worse imagine how quickly that could get out of hand
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