lithium ion battery pack Halt and catch fire: Samsung scraps the Galaxy Note 7... because it spontaneously combusts

Samsung released the much-anticipated Galaxy Note 7 in less than two months, less than a month after the recall, and has now announced that the new smartphone will be completely scrapped.
The reason seems to be that consumers don't really like to have their smartphones on fire.
This happens more often than you think.
On 2014, an iPhone 5c allegedly caught fire in the owner's back pocket, while a Galaxy S2 exploded near the owner's genitals as early as 2011.
In 2012, a robot bionic robot burned on the pants of a Defcon employee. less than a year later, a similar incident occurred in South Korea's Galaxy Note.
Needless to say, this explains why people were so shocked when a family in Florida found their Jeep swallowed up by flames because their Galaxy Note 7 exploded in the car.
Why is this happening?
The reason is that the cell phone battery is driven by a lithium-ion battery pack and usually contains highly flammable liquids.
To make matters worse, these foods are almost impossible to put out without powder fire extinguishers.
When the battery is on fire, it is usually because they are exposed to nearby heat sources (usually another fire), or because of physical defects in the battery itself, the heat inside the device is out of control.
Hopefully, our handset makers will be more careful when making these basic devices in the future.
No one has been seriously hurt so far, but it should be enough to let you stop putting your phone in your pants pocket.