Let's just hope there are
no more exploding batteries (or court cases!)
Not exact matches
There has been talk that Samsung needed to move
more quickly than usual to introduce a new flagship smartphone this year to make customers forget about the
exploding battery debacle of last summer's Galaxy Note 7.
As
more electric vehicles hit the road and
more wind turbines start spinning, the demand for
batteries and their raw materials will
explode.
The hope is it will be able to store
more energy for its volume and charge faster than lithium - ion
batteries, which take hours to charge fully, wear out after a few hundred charges and can
explode if they overheat.
I don't have statistics to back this up but you're probably
more likely to be hit by a car than having a
battery explode during a jump start.
It's easy to point the finger and laugh at Samsung, especially since their $ 2 billion fiasco comes on the heels of Apple's big launch, but
exploding batteries are a result of us needing / wanting
more juice from our phones and Samsung tried to deliver.
This is the good news following the Note 7 fiasco: Samsung and all the other OEMs are spending considerably
more time improving cooling systems and making sure
batteries can't
explode, so we're much safer now no matter what.
The Pixel 2 complaints come
more than a year after Samsung went through a massive recall of its flagship Galaxy Note7 smartphones, which were the subject of a massive recall due to overheating
batteries that
exploded or caught fire.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has just issued an official recall of over one million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones amid
more than 90 reports of handsets spontaneously
exploding as a result of a faulty
battery.
The «safe» Galaxy Note 7 released after the first recall was still not safe and was faced with
more reports of
exploding batteries.