Nintendo Switch battery sourced from Galaxy Note 7 supplier

The company that supplied the exploding batteries in the Galaxy Note 7 will be supplying Nintendo for the Switch console.

[Bathyj]

That's a worry. I read they still don't even know why the batteries exploded.

[Princess_Pilfer]

Because lithium batters explode. You could stab one with a knife and watch it catch fire. If you wrapped a couple of them in duct tape and rigged up a stabby thing you basically have a pipe bomb. A failure in the batterys external or internal structure= exploding phones.

[bouzebbal]

Lol that must be fun to play it in the plane.. Seriously, the note7 fiasco is old now.. They must have had enough time to adjust and switch suppliers

[Princess_Pilfer]

I like how people are disagreeing. Take the battery out of your phone. Stab it. Watch it smoke (at least) if not catch fire. (or just look up a youtube video.) Now what do you think happens to all that energy if there is something containing it for a while but that isn't strong enough to contain it properly? Think dry ice bomb.

Now look up the amount of energy that can be contained in a lithium battery can (on the high end) rival that of compressed hydrogen, which we all know causes big explosions if you set it on fire in a sufficently enclosed space.

The plain and simple truth is that such batteries can easily be put in an enclosed space to release much of their energy into a pressure vessel and that pressure vessel can be coxed into releasing all that energy at once, in the form of an explosion, and that they catch fire if you stab them means they release this energy fairly quickly if you prod them into it so you wouldn't be waiting long. IE, you can do something like wrap them in tape (create a pressure vessel) and rupture them to create an explosion.

[ziggurcat]

@bouze:

In Canada, they banned that phone from getting onto a plane, and were kicking people off of the flight if they had that phone.

[badz149]

Note7 fiasco is old? In my country, every flight starts with the announcement of rectricted access for Note7 owners.

[drunkenspy007]

They do know why. The batteries were in an enclosure that was too tight. The batteries expand and since there was no room to do this, they exploded.

[Reckless_Love]

Glad to see somebody else who actually paid a lick of attention to the situation.

[davand114]

No the manufacturer is the one that had the good batteries. Samsung said the problem was with the Samsung batteries and the way they designed the note 7. The note 7 had batteries from this manufacturer and Samsung manufactured their own batteries. Samsung admitted that they were the ones that made design mistakes with the phones.

[stuna1]

I guess Nintendo can add another game to their mini game collection!

"Hot Potato"

See who's the last person holding the Switch before it explodes!

Although your hospital bills and Insurance premiums are sure to go up lol.

[melrex]

lol

[badz149]

1, 2, BOOM!

[Bathyj]

Well thats good news then. I had a Note 7. Best phone I ever had. Was pissed off about that whole this and had to go back to my Note 4.

[TheUndertaker85]

Samsung claims it's not hardware related.

Go figure. They've also given the go ahead for S8 along with a new note. In other words when you can't find a known issue or even explain it don't. Just release a new one.

It's also ironic that Switch will have specs similar to the aforementioned products.

[mcstorm]

This is the same company thousands of companys use don't see an issue as I can't see them using the note battery in the switch must be a slow news day.

[Fishy Fingers]

Exactly. 10% of all mobile phones use their batteries.

If you own an iPhone for example, you've probably noticed you're not on fire.

[RememberThe357]

I'm not?! Thank God.

[davand114]

Also from Samsung said that the batteries that had the faults were the ones made by samsung.

[Critic4l_Strik3]

Expect exploding Switches...

[alb1899]

Don try so hard. Who cares?
This company makes the battery for a lot of companies.

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

Oh boy...

[Profchaos]

I'm sure they have sorted the issues but a recall is still possible if not

[quent]

Made in china

[stuna1]

No made in Taiwan lol

[Lon3wolf]

Deadmans switch........................ ........

[Pancit_Canton]

No wonder they put the Bomberman on the launch date.

[masterfox]

Oh wow! O_O.

[teo72]

Poof....aaaand it's gone...

[badz149]

More like your fingers are gone

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Oh boy

[shayureppa]

I wonder if we will get news once the Switch launches of... exploding Nintendo Switch.

[plmkoh]

I don't think it will be an issue, the problem was that the supplier's batteries expanded more than normal and when you combined it with Samsung not engineering in enough error space it was a recipe for disaster.

[Aquietguy]

From what I have heard, the problem was the phone. Both batteries from Samsung and this company were having issues.

[Razzer]

Kaboom

[PGRfox]

This company makes TONS of batteries for many devices. Jeesh

[Realplaya]

The first batteries were actually made by a subsidiary of samsung. It was samsung SDI.
Also It was the design of the phone that made the battery explode.
Samsung tried to cram a 3,500mah battery into a 8.9mm phone. The battery was physically too large for the phone, and it caused the phones to explode.The batteries had no room to expand with the heat buildup.

[ziggurcat]

Aren't those the batteries that are exploding?

[badz149]

That's actually the point of this article. Get a grip already

[ziggurcat]

I just asked a question. A simple yes or no would have sufficed. I'm afraid the only one here that needs to "get a grip" appears to be yourself.

[SynestheticRoar]

The horror.

[VersusDMC]

This switch wil self destruct in 5 seconds...

[Tzuno]

Boom :)