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Samsung has officially called it quits on the Galaxy Note 7 today, ending production entirely and telling carriers to stop selling the model for good. Things started going bad back in early September, with some Note 7 units shipping with defective batteries that were prone setting on fire. While a recall was swiftly put into place and replacement units did start going out to customers, things began spiralling out of control when these newer units also began starting fires due to battery issues.
At this point, Samsung has deemed it best to just throw in the towel with this smartphone. As Bloomberg points out, this move has also caused Samsung shares to drop by almost ten percent, lowering the company's market value by around $17 billion. On top of that, Oculus has also removed Note 7 support for the GearVR headset.
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After replacement units began shipping with battery defects, it seems that Samsung executives were scrambling to try and avoid any further damage to their reputation. The initial product recall was set to cost Samsung $1 billion but now that the Note 7 is being killed off entirely, that number will likely rise as more devices will need to be recovered and refunds will need to go out.
So far, Samsung has yet to blame anyone in its supply chain for these issues and given that replacement Note 7 units were also having problems, it seems the company may not even fully know why its phones are still exploding.
KitGuru Says: This Galaxy Note 7 fiasco may end up having a long lasting effect on Samsung and its position in the smartphone market. It will certainly be interesting to see how this affects plans for next year, whether it be with the Galaxy S8 or the Note 8.
Makes you wonder if the replacement units sent out by Samsung to people that there were a few bad eggs in the group that found a way to make the replacements start on fire just to be a holes. But on a serious note I think Samsung changed out the battery just before release to give it better Battery life and look better on the spec sheet at least that is the rumor around the internet most say that the battery that was supposed to go into the phone was scrapped and if it would have been used in the phone everything would have been fine but just slightly less battery life. I guess the phone was designed for the slightly smaller battery and as such was slightly to big for the space in the phone so when the battery would get warm it would expand a bit and with less space to expand it would push out on the ends of the battery and with repeated charging cycles the battery would fail.
This is the cost of getting phones thinner and thinner there is less space to put the hardware inside. I think we are getting to the limit of just how thin our phones can get before we have problems like this. Just my Theory anyways.
you can only make these batteries so thin, its either you make them under-powered and end up with a dead battery in half an hour, or you end up with a little bomb. maybe they’ll stop forcing thinner and thinner phones on us.