New Battery Flaw at Fault for Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Incidents

Samsung has permanently stopped production and sales of the Galaxy Note 7, the company is now focusing on retrieving faulty units from owners. The South Korean company is looking to boost sales of its other smartphones, in order to cover some of the Note 7 missed sales.

Even though Samsung might be looking to put the whole Galaxy Note 7 debacle behind it, there are still questions regarding the reasons why those smartphones caught fire even though they were from the replacement batch.

The first recall was caused by a battery flaw that occurred during the manufacturing process. An error in production placed pressure on plates inside battery cells, determining the negative and positive poles to come in contact and thus generate excessive heat. The result was