‘Samsung Galaxy Note 7 did not catch fire due to design or software’

The design and the software were not the reasons that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire relatively often, but it was the battery. Samsung would have concluded that after the investigation. The smartphone maker would like to present the results of the research in a week.

Samsung will also unveil a series of measures next week to prevent the battery of the as-yet-announced Galaxy S8 from catching fire, Reuters news agency reported, citing an anonymous source at the company.

It would have been the battery itself and not, as previous speculations suggested, the design of the phone or the software for the battery. Some analysts speculated that Samsung had kept too little space around the battery, because the manufacturer wanted to put the largest possible battery in the smallest possible housing.

Reuters does not mention what was wrong with the batteries themselves. The batteries came from several suppliers. That has been known for months, because Samsung itself first knows the problems with the batteries of its own chemical branch. Batteries from another manufacturer also appeared to cause problems.

Samsung canceled the release of the Galaxy Note 7 in October on the day it was supposed to be released in the Benelux. In other countries, including homeland South Korea and the United States, the phone has been on sale for some time. The telephone turned out to catch fire relatively often. Since the cancellation, the smartphone maker has been investigating the cause of the problems, but the results have not yet been released.