Burning Samsung Galaxy S7 Cell Phones

[edlee]

I suspect that some of the Samsung Galaxy S7 cell phones are igniting because the LiPo batteries are expanding and being punctured and short-circuited by pointy soldering points or board edges. The same problem will probably not happen to Pandora and Pyra computers, because there are multiple hard and thick plastic barriers between the battery and the internal electronics. The cell phone batteries are probably just thin plastic bags that are more easily punctured. The double capacity LiPo batteries for my OQO computer all bulged out of their cases and became unusable. Perhaps cell phones should use NiMH batteries which do not seem to have this bulging problem that LiPo batteries do.

 

[Wally]

So tell us what your opinions / point is already!

 

[edlee]

I already did.

 

[Yoyobuae]

Perhaps cell phones should use NiMH batteries which do not seem to have this bulging problem that LiPo batteries do.

I'm sure that people which are always running out of battery charge on their cell phones would probably disagree.

Better solution would be for manufacturers to stop racing each other for the title of thinnest device in the market (cell phones are so huge in the other two dimensions anyways, so what's they point of them being so thin?). Then maybe they could have a separate battery compartment, which could also be user replaceable:

 

[TrashyMG]

Samsung should sell them to Amazon for their next Fire line of phones. It's been false advertisement on Amazon's part for a while now.

 

[ekianjo]

Its the note 7 not s7.

 

[Eight Bit]

Hmm, I wonder if there's room in the case for some big capacitors for hot swapping the battery... *Grin*

 

[Klumpen]

 

[sulu]

So there are 2.5 million perfectly working Exynos 8 SoCs going to show up on some landfill in the near future?