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摘要

In a live streaming press conference from Seoul, Korea, in late January, Samsung announced that poorly designed and manufactured batteries from two different sources were the reason that some of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones had overheated, occasionally to the point of catching fire or exploding. Last fall, Samsung cancelled production of the Note 7 and recalled all the phones that had been sold or were in the sales channel. The company estimates that to date, approximately 96% of phones globally have been returned through its recall program. Samsung also revealed that it lost approximately $5 billion as a result of the recall and production stoppage.