Samsung Reveals Galaxy Note 7 Manufacturing Flaws, Comes Up With New 8-Point Battery Safety Check
Caroline SorianoSamsung has been involved in a huge fiasco last year that almost cost its name. The battery explosions from its devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has left a traumatic experience to its users, causing a decline in its sale and even recalling every single device. As a powerful move of preventing such things from happening again, Samsung "has implemented a new eight-step testing process" for its batteries.
Here's what Samsung's new 8-point battery check looks like. It includes enhancements to 5 existing processes and 3 new safety tests. #Note7 pic.twitter.com/sKcEBOEiyJ
— Michael Josh (@michaeljosh) January 23, 2017
Samsung mobile devices work on lithium ion batteries and this is the subject of the testing process. It has also established a battery advisory board which is composed of academics from Berkeley, Cambridge, and Stanford. This committee is dedicated not only for its phablets or mobile phones but also for all the Samsung products that use lithium ion batteries.
The Korean brand's executed battery safety check involves several methods such as "durability testing, visual inspection, x-rays, charge and discharge tests, tests of total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), disassembling tests, accelerated usage tests, and open circuit voltage tests." (via The Verge)
Actually, some of the tests such as the circuit voltages have been performed on previous devices, but this time, Samsung explained that those have been "enhanced." Meanwhile, some tests are quite new such as the TVOC test, the accelerated usage tests, and the charge and discharge tests. The charge and discharge tests literally mean testing the batteries while charging and while it is draining. This test is a huge part of the post-analyses performed by Samsung and its paid third-party firms to check on its defective phones.
Way back in 2016, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has had its debut in August but things went sour only after few months. After several battery explosions from the first version of Note 7, all devices were recalled. However, instead of accepting defeat, the Korean brand has found ways on how to turn things around.
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