Samsung’s making sure the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 won’t explode

[Guest Chris Smith]

Samsung on Monday announced the results of its Galaxy Note 7 investigation. The South Korean giant blamed the phone’s batteries, saying that two independent battery issues caused overheating and explosions before and after the first recall. The subliminal messages were pretty clear, though. Samsung did not take appropriate steps to ensure the batteries would not become a safety threat. The company acknowledged that it’s taking “responsibility for our failure to ultimately identify and verify the issues for battery design before launch of the Note 7.”

 

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