SAN FRANCISCO -- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 holdouts will soon have dead phones. T-Mobile released an update on Wednesday to prevent Note 7 users from charging devices, rendering them useless. AT&T, ...

Samsung's Note 7 was praised at launch but was discontinued following widespread battery issues. The blame was placed on the large battery's compact design and issues with electrodes. Despite the ...

According to Instrumental, the Note 7’s battery was too big for the enclosure it was meant to fit inside. Specifically, the Note 7’s battery didn’t have enough room inside its enclosure to naturally ...

Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that problems with the design and manufacturing of batteries in its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones caused them to overheat and burst into fire. The announcement of ...

Samsung is still reeling from the recent cancellation of the Galaxy Note 7, following a second recall due to a high risk of battery fires. As the company tries to pick up the pieces and regain ...

Samsung "shipped a dangerous product," apparently. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac The Galaxy Note 7’s embarrassing tendency to catch fire might have been caused by Samsung’s decision to cram the ...

Samsung has pinned the blame on its exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones on two separate problems with the handsets’ lithum-ion batteries — one problem affecting the first units the company released, and a ...

That’s one hot device. A June 6 clip on the platform has reignited buzz about the infamous Galaxy Note 7, the smartphone so dangerous, it’s banned from the skies due to the possibility of its battery ...

Some years ago, The Powers That Be declared it mandatory that new smartphone generations arrive every single year, even when there's not much to update. Companies often angle for strategic launch ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS>, which has urged users of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone to turn them in due to fire-prone batteries, said it will perform a software update in ...

The fire ignited at Samsung SDI’s factory in Tianjin, China, earlier today. It has since been extinguished without any significant impact on the building’s operations. No casualties have been reported ...