There are reports that in a few cases, the battery of Samsung's latest phone, the Galaxy note 7, exploded while charging. Samsung Electronics is expected to announced a recall of all the Note 7 phones it sold since launching the phone last week.
It seems that less than 0.1% of the phones sold include a faulty battery, that can simply be replaced. But Samsung don't wish to appear as if it is delaying anything or hiding anything and rather increase its credibility worldwide.
The Note 7 has a 5.7" 2560x1440 (518 ppi) flexible Super AMOLED dual-edge display - which DisplayMate says is the best performing mobile display ever tested.
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Maybe it was poor wording... I just meant that Samsung can replace all batteries easily as the fault was in the batteries and not in the phone itself (which would have made it more difficult to fix, I think).
I see what you mean now. True, and I wonder why they didn't go for that option. Shouldn't matter to the customer as long as nothing explodes...
"that can simply be replaced"
I guess it's simple when your face isn't covered in battery acid since you had the phone lying on your desk next to you when charging it.
(I don't claim to know whether they really explode that violently but "explode" does sound kind of... severe. The nature of... things exploding)