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Samsung Electronics doesn't make the batteries - but Samsung SDI do, along with Chinese Amperex Technology (for the third sold in China). My understanding is th
by sho_hn 10y ago
Samsung Electronics doesn't make the batteries - but Samsung SDI do, along with Chinese Amperex Technology (for the third sold in China). My understanding is that both devices with SSDI and with Amperex batteries have caught on fire (IIRC there have been failures inside and outside of China), so maybe a chassis design defect subjecting the batteries to unexpected strain?
Samsung SDI also manufacture iPhone batteries.
- jacquesm 10y ago> so maybe a chassis design defect subjecting the batteries to unexpected strain? It should take more than a little bit of unexpected strain to ignite a consumer electronics device.
- sho_hn 10y agoSure, I'm just saying blaming it on the battery manufacturer becomes a harder sell when two manufacturers are affected, unless Samsung Electronics proscribed the specs so tightly it's their design flaw, or they made the manufacturing equipment, or the batteries' operating environment (i.e. the phone) is a factor. Or SSDI and Amperex could have sold manufacturing tech to each other, I suppose.
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- weinzierl 10y agoStructural design is always a compromise and it's not hat other manufacturers haven't underestimated the forces involved in the past (e.g. bend gate).