LG Chem currently makes phone batteries for its affiliate LG Electronics and U.S. company Apple Inc.
After a year sans a flagship phone that made headlines for the right reasons, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is in talks with LG Chem Ltd to make it one of its smartphone battery suppliers. This comes after the failure of the Galaxy Note 7.Read more: The Black Pearl Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is Now Official
Samsung Electronics announced the recall of 2.5 million fire-prone Note 7s in early September, a fault that was attributed to a defect in Samsung SDI battery. In October, it pulled the plug on the $882 device after replacement phones using batteries from China's Amperex Technology also caught fire.
LG Chem currently makes phone batteries for its affiliate LG Electronics and U.S. company Apple Inc.
Comments
0 comment