It’s Official: Refurbished Samsung Galaxy Note 7’s Are Coming!

March 28 02:35 2017 by Alexei Rivera Print This Article

In a short, but relatively informative way, Samsung has just confirmed that returned Galaxy Note 7’s may find home in new refurbished versions of themselves or as rental units – provided local authorizes and sanctions will allow it, among other things like demand.

As part of an environmental strategy press release, the South Korean company says that they’re doing their best to reuse all the components in these ill-fated phones – and if can’t be refurbished will be salvaged for parts, with the remaining rare metals extracted and processed.

	Brand	Device	Launch Date	Launch Price (SRP)	Lowest Price	Processor	Display	Version (At Launch)	Skin	Rear Camera	Front Camera	RAM / ROM / MicroSD	Battery	Telephony	Extra Connectivity	USB OTG / SD Install	Miscellaneous	Updates	Links	Buy Online	UI Smoothness	Antutu Score	Work Battery
	Samsung	Samsung Galaxy Note 7	2016-08-19 (Int.)	39990 (PHP)		2.2Ghz Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 (USA) OR 2.3Ghz Octa-Core Exynos 8890 (Global)	5.7" 2560x1440 Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 5	6.0.1 Android Marshmallow	TouchWiz UI	12MP PDAF OIS LED Flash	5MP	4GB / 64GB / Yes	3500 mAh Non-removable	Single SIM LTE / Dual SIM LTE	NFC	Yes / ???	Water & dust proof, fingerprint scanner, Iris scanner, S Pen stylus, USB Type C Fast Wired & Wireless charging

But yes, that means that – despite a short mention of refurbishing or renting out functional phones – Samsung didn’t specify when or where we’ll see them back in the market. All we know is that if demand is high and our local policies allow it, we might see affordable Note 7’s refurbs in the future.

Whether or not airlines will still ban them for safety is another issue though. As well as, you know, what if even the refurbished ones blow up?

Source: Samsung