Samsung Seeks to Recycle Galaxy Note7

After bursting batteries and continuous stringent safety checks and tests, the company has now come out with a solution to put together a program to recommission the thousands of un-sold Galaxy Note 7s that were recalled, in order to breed new life into the devices. Samsung has already detailed its 8-point safety check for testing batteries, and you can rest assured that Samsung will run any refurbished Note7s through every single one of them, probably twice. That includes rooting the device to disable OTA update application packages before rolling back to an earlier software build.

Samsung has confirmed that their work has paid off in the form of Bixby. It’s also possible the refurbished phones will launch with a different name, the spokesperson said. According to the reports, the Note 7 exploded while it is charging, there are also some witnesses said that other similar devices also exploding even it is not connected to any charger, causing property damages and physical injuries to the users. However, those phones too showed a tendency to burst into flames.

Samsung Gear VR is now up for a grab with just $35 – a 66 percent off from its regular price. Now, Samsung has made its decision. But the explosive shitstorm that resulted from the Note 7 debacle was so bad it’s nearly unthinkable that Samsung would even consider marketing the phones again, even if they are “refurbished”. Today Reuters catches up that news. This isn’t going to be a global rollout like the phone’s original release.

It’s great to see Samsung finally do the right thing.

Both Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus will be touting either the Snapdragon 835 or Exynos 8895 chipsets, resulting in greater performance and higher efficiency metric.

Curved OLED displays (similar to the gentle curvature of the Galaxy Note 7) will be used on both Galaxy S models for the first time. In addition to refurbished phones, Samsung also laid out plans for how to recycle and process components from those devices.

Though Samsung is expected to hold onto headphone jack, unlike Apple, the company might launch new earphones replacing the white rubber ones bundled in predecessors.