Samsung is likely to announce the investigation report on January 23
Samsung has reportedly concluded battery as cause for its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone explosions. Earlier reports indicated that aggressive design language seeking to pack a larger battery in smaller dimension could have been the cause.
Samsung is likely to announce the results of its investigation on January 23, a day before it announces fourth quarter financial results. According to Reuters, Samsung's mobile business chief Koh Dong-jin will detail the company's findings and measures taken to ensure similar battery explosions are not repeated with future devices.
Samsung announced Galaxy Note 7 at a global event on August 2 and the device started catching fire just days after being available in select markets. Samsung recalled over 2.5 million Galaxy Note7 smartphones and issued replacement devices with safe batteries marked in green colour. Initially, Samsung identified battery manufacturing as the cause of explosion before permanently discontinuing the device.
Samsung is poised to announce record profit in its fourth quarter earnings, but the company had to face operating losses in the tunes of $5.2 billion. Samsung had recently confirmed that it will look into everything from hardware design to software and has even hired third-party firms to look into the probe.
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that, "Samsung was able to replicate the fires during its investigation and that the cause for the fires could not be explained by hardware design or software-related matters."
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