Long story short? Yep, it was the batteries. Both lines of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 – the first one, released by Samsung SDI, and the second one by Amperex Technology – had faults in them. The first batches’ batteries defect was a design flaw in the upper right corner, which caused the positive and negative electrodes to touch, which created heat inside the accumulator. The second batch were incorrectly welded, with their welding penetrating the insulation around the batteries, which, again, caused the electrodes to touch and created heat. This explanation is very, very ...

Samsung will hold a press release at 23 January, during which the company will officially present the reasons for a Note 7 fiasco. People are not content to wait, though, and an early report from the Wall Street Journal already informs us about the causes.First one was, indeed, a faulty battery. Samsung had two companies producing batteries for them – Samsung SDI and Amperex Technology, the latter a Chinese company operating in Hong-Kong. The first defective batteries were from the Samsung SDI batch. When they were proven to be faulty, Samsung quickly called the phones having these ...

Samsung Galaxy S4 is technically one of the best smartphones in the world. The device has a quad-core CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T and modern Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of DDR3 memory. TouchWiz overlay introduces many additional features based on the use smartphone using gestures. Specifications of Samsung Galaxy S4Body Dimensions 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm (5.38 x 2.75 x 0.31 in)Weight 130 g (4.59 oz)SIM Micro-SIMDisplay Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colorsSize 5.0 inches (~72.3% screen-to-body ratio)Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~441 ppi pixel density)Multitouch ...

Galaxy S7 Active characterized by armored and waterproof case Samsung Galaxy S7 Active no different than “normal” Galaxy S7: has the same 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display, Snapdragon 820 processor, 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of data. Active S7 is equipped with a battery with a capacity of 4000 mAh, which is about the 1000 mAh more than a normal S7. Galaxy S7 Active is available only in the US AT&T network. Key Features of Samsung Galaxy s7 activeDisplay Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colorsSize 5.1 inches (~64.3% screen-to-body ratio)Resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels ...

As reported a few days ago, South Korean prosecution has requested a warrant for arrest of Jay Y. Lee, a vice-chairman and acting chief of Samsung. Today, the warrant was rejected by the Seoul Central District Court on account of ”difficulty to acknowledge the necessity and substantiality of an arrest”. The case of suspected bribery of the government by Jay Y. Lee and Choi Soon-sil, an aide to the president of South Korea, is ongoing.Sim-unlock.net is a system that offers unlocking sim locks of any phone model. We guarantee the lowest prices and shortest waiting time. If you are ...

Samsung S5570 Galaxy Mini running Android 2.2 + TouchWiz and Samsung LCD/TFT 3.14 inches and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The device features a 3.1 Mp camera and GPS. The phone is equipped with the Swype function, so the writing on it is a real pleasure. If someone particularly do not like to use your fingers to “write SMS” can always do it by voice. Some of interesting parameters of Your Samsung S5570 Galaxy MiniBody Dimensions 110.4 x 60.8 x 12.1 mm (4.35 x 2.39 x 0.48 in) Weight 105 g (3.70 oz) SIM Mini-SIM Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors Size ...

Verizon has been hitting the US Note 7 phones hard. Recently the provider has released an update which made it impossible to charge the phone. Despite this (how?), ”thousands” of dangerous Note 7’s are reportedly still at large. Next update will be even more severe, as it will block any outgoing calls from the US Note 7 phones – the only numbers that will still be available will be 911 and Verizon’s customer service. It is still possible for you US users to return your phones with no upgrade fee and a $100 bill credit, but not for much longer.Sim-unlock.net is ...

140.14 x 72.20 x 7.30mm – these are the (allegedly) exact dimensions of the upcoming Galaxy S8 superstar phone, making it a bit wider and thinner, but also shorter, than Galaxy S7. The difference in width is probably caused by the phone’s increased screen size, 5.7′ instead of 5.1′. According to the rumour, Samsung has severely diminished the size of the phone’s bezel, as well as top and bottom. There is a reason as to why these renders may not be real – they show no sign of an USB Type-C port, which were present in earlier leaks and rumours. Make of it ...

Sex, corruption and Korean smartphones. Okay, there is no sex involved, that was cheap – made you look, though, huh? Anyway, back to the point. Long story short, Koreans has been investigating Samsung for some time now, suspecting the company of wiring $36 million to two foundations led by one Choi Soon-sil, a friend of Jay Y Lee, the de facto chairman of Samsung (his father, the actual chairman, has been struck with a heart attack in 2014 and have not made full recovery since then). The money was, reportedly, supposed to be used to secure shady deals with the Korean government. ...

According to one @Ricciolo1, a source of a considerable number of legitimate leaks, the phone is already finished and will be shown, but only to a handful of chosen people, during the February MWC 2017. Its official reveal is to take place on March 29; it is scheduled for release by the end of April. Galaxy S8’s price is to cost around $849. Long story short, we have to wait a few months more, but it will be (probably) worth it.Sim-unlock.net is a system that offers unlocking sim locks of any phone model. We guarantee the lowest prices and shortest waiting time. If you are interested, ...