FAULTY POWERS Why did Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones keep catching on fire?

South Korean tech giant says battery issues brought on a portion of the gadgets to unexpectedly catch fire Samsung was compelled to scrap its Galaxy Note 7 cell phones in 2016 when clientscomplained that they were blasting into flares and aircrafts restricted them over safety fears. It reviewed three million handsets after the perilous deformity showed up within weeks of its fabulous launch in August. The manufacturer launched an unlimited investigation into what was behind the issue that is relied upon to cost the organization an estimate 5.3 billion dollars (£4.3 billion). Worries that the telephones have been exploding surfaced not long after the Galaxy S7 gadget was released Around 700 Samsung engineers completed tests on 200,000 handsets and 30,000 batteries that were charged and drained over several months. Koh Dong-Jin, leader of Samsung gadgets versatile correspondences business told a public interview in Seoul: "We found that both fully assembled devices and batteries exhibited incidents at similar rates to those in the field. “This indicated that the incidents were caused by the battery cell itself and we preceded to focus our investigation on the batteries.” Via The Sun.co.uk