Engineers say safety features got squished out of cramped Samsung Note 7 A teardown analysis of the Samsung Note 7 claims that the ill-fated phablet was doomed by a design flaw that squeezed its battery pack to unsafe pressure levels. Anna Shedletsky, CEO of engineering software developer Instrumental, said her team's teardown analysis of the Note 7 found that the smartphone's tendency to explode …
All common cell chemistries expand when discharged. The cell physical structure and enclosure must be designed with this in mind.
Some types of rechargeable cells even need a stretchable "girdle" to prevent de-lamination One type of large (100Ah-200Ah) pouch cell we designed with used rigid end plates and strapping bands -- the nylon or stainless steel types you find on large crates. If you crimped them on when the cells were fully charged, the pouches would distort on discharge. If you crimped when the cells were discharged, they would drop off at the next full charge.
And another $10 says that there's someone in their marketing department that argued to the ultimate powers that be on this project that the thinness was more important than anything the engineers were "whinging about". And as usual the marketing department won. And as usual a sorry mess ensued.
Ooo look it shiny and new, look it's now 2.45mm instead of 2.46, oooh look at the shinyness.
yes you Journos are as guilty of pointless bullshit this as the manufacturers.
It's like the stupid javascript wars in browsers from a few years ago. Oooh look our browser loads a page 0.05 seconds quicker.
100% agree.
Whats that? You've made a phone that's only 6.4mm thick? Wow... but what about that bulge where the camera is? Does that not count? And why does it need to be so thin anyway?
How about we just say 8mm is plenty thin, no camera bulges, and then as miniaturisation gives you more space, put in a bigger battery so my phone has a chance of lasting two days of use rather than barely one.
My wifes phone died recently and I dug out some old phones to see if any would do as a temp replacement. Among them was my old HTC 7pro. Despite having a much smaller screen than my current Lumia 930, almost twice as thick and an awful lot heavier, I would love to have that form factor back. The full keyboard makes doing writing tasks on the phone so much easier.
Explanation.
I'm in Canada. When I hold my phone up, there's plenty of free space in front of me. Certainly enough room for an extra ~8 mm of phone thickness. Tokyo Metro subway car during rush hour it certainly ain't.
No need for ultra thin phones. Pointless.
You don't need a thicker phone to avoid bendgate, you just need an iPhone.*
*Yes I'm aware that 'bendgate' was originally an iPhone story. I'm also aware that as the story was a complete pile of steaming kangaroo bollocks, the best way to 'avoid' the made-up phenomenon it described was to simply stop believing in conspiracy theories and just buy the product you wanted anyway.
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