Yep and makes sense. They compromised quality control procedures and failed to sample production with test runs each time a batch was produced- this would shave several days for that many batteries. That is the only way something so basic and standard procedure can fail like this. Pressing layers too much it compromise the chemical field integrity of the anode and cathode layers (they Smashburgered' them) and not correct it.
On top of that, they ran the production teams ragged. Another red flag that is a No-No with critical component production.
I don't buy it.
It was, what, 10 days earlier than the Note 5?
I'm sure it wasn't "well, let's take a chance with these bad batteries. we have to ship before the iPhone!" Indications are that all the "normal parties" had the same amount of testing time as they would for any other device.
This was, unfortunately, just a case of a major issue not being caught during normal testing. There is no way to say that having three more months of testing would have caught the issue either. After all, a million users of the phone put exponentially more "testing time" into the phone than Samsung could put in in a year.
Who cares what launch say is...what matters is release day.
The release date of the Note 7 was august 19th. Note 5 august 21st. This year the 21st falls on a Sunday...unless bloomberg is faulting Samsung for not delivering on a Sunday? Otherwise there's a "zero" business day difference. If you are picky,at worst it is a two calendar day jump. personally,I would call it the same time frame.
Bloomberg is making a big deal over ten days,but...the Note 5 was released like TWO MONTHS before the note 4.
The rest of the article sounds all doom and gloom but no real new information, just rehashing stuff