When Samsung unveiled the Milky Way Note seven smartphone dorsum inward August, with its much-lauded battery life, the South Korean theatre looked similar it was on happen of the game -- until the phones started exploding making people to start seeing the telephone every bit a potential explosive.
Initially, the tech giant cited "battery jail cellular telephone issues" every bit the displace of the explosions inward September as well as provided a replacement which was deemed rubber merely all didn't larn good every bit the replacement every bit good started bursting into flames. since then, consumers accept been worried on the displace of the fault since Samsung hasn't been able to grade a clear contention later the final remember that fifty-fifty came with a $100 reward.
Although, Samsung has announced a permanent halt to production of the troubled smartphone on Tuesday. Many consumers accept been left wondering if they are rubber with Lithium ion batteries. Here's what you lot ask to know:
What is a lithium-ion battery?
Batteries are containers that tin convert chemic unloosen energy to electrical unloosen energy through the transfer of electrons from the negative plate -- or anode -- at 1 halt of the battery to the cathode -- or positive plate at the other end.
But traditional batteries accept a express number of units of convertible chemic energy. The divergence with the lithium-ion battery is that it is rechargeable -- a game-changer inward tech innovation.
Steve Levine, writer of The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World explained that it "triggered this whole electronics revolution starting inward the commencement of 1990s until today. It has enabled the iPhone, medical devices, wearables, iPads, our sparse laptops -- all of that is because of the lithium-ion battery.
"Lithium is the lightest metallic inward the basis which is why they purpose it merely it is every bit good extremely volatile, Almost every laptop on the planet, virtually every smartphone is a criterion formulation which is cobalt-oxide as well as lithium. But as well as therefore in that location are competing formulations."
Samsung won't live the lastly to accept exploding batteries
So why create closed to Phones explode?
Levine says speculation with researchers suggests that the battery manufacturing procedure could live the source of the smartphone fires, merely ultimately no 1 knows. And the lack of data creates consumer anxiety which could ripple out to the wider electronics industries.
"It potentially tarnishes all the manufacturers," said Levine. "How create nosotros know that Apple or the novel Google telephone is non going to accept the same problem?"
However, closed to experts tell the fact the high-end telephone has been discontinued points towards a blueprint flaw.
"The discontinuation signals that the rootage of the problems does non prevarication inward the production errors, merely perchance inward the production design," TuanAnh Nguyen, a query analyst at Canalys told CNNMoney.
Could manufacturing live the problem?
This is past times non the firstly fourth dimension lithium-ion batteries accept hitting the headlines.
Although the Samsung phone's battery is unlike to those inward airliners, Boeing faced similar issues with lithium-ion batteries inward their Dreamliner aircraft. Their entire global fleet was grounded inward 2013 later multiple instances of overheating batteries inward Boston as well as Tokyo.
Investigations past times the National Transportation Safety Board determined that manufacturing defects as well as allegedly unsatisfactory oversight of the manufacturing of the batteries past times both the FAA as well as Boeing were the rootage causes of the incidents.
At to the lowest degree 2 fatal cargo jet crashes are believed past times investigating regime to accept been caused past times fires on board every bit a lawsuit of these lithium-ion batteries. In 2010, a Boeing 747 crashed inward Dubai, killing 2 crew members spell an Asiana Airlines 747 crashed off Republic of Korea the next year, every bit good killing 2 crew members.
Are consumers inward danger?
No, according to Levine, who says consumers are non at immediate adventure from phones inward their pockets blowing up.
He said: "We know correct straightaway that the work has been confined to this 1 model... that it hasn't been something that has risen chronically, at to the lowest degree inward whatsoever other Samsung device, [or] at whatsoever other manufacturer.
"So the quick response is that [consumers] shouldn't live concerned merely that doesn't hateful they won't be."
Source: CNN
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