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Samsung Electronics, which has recalled millions of units of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, will refurbish them and sell them 30 percent discounted price in South Korea beginning Friday, July 7, 2017.
The Galaxy Note 7 faced several instances of battery fires and was banned in aircraft last year when it was launched, forcing the mobile giant to recall them. Now Samsung wants to resell them with replaced batteries manufactured by different makers.
Samsung said in a statement that 400,000 phones, dubbed the Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition, will be put on sale in its home country priced at 699,600 won ($611), which is 30 percent lower than the Note 7’s original launch price.
The new units meant for sale are from recalled, unsealed Galaxy Note 7 handsets and making use of some unused Note 7 components, said the company. Since the battery was the main problem, the replaced battery will have a lower capacity than those of the original Note 7s, but have passed new safety measures, it said.
To recall, Samsung faced unprecedented criticism over a higher capacity battery that was used in its highly advertised Galaxy Note 7 when it was launched in October last year.
Within two months, amid several instances of the smartphone catching fire from its batteries, Samsung had to recall all the units that had cost the world’s biggest smartphone maker by volume a staggering amount of $5 billion and damaged its reputation, though its next launch Galaxy S8 was smooth and successful.
Samsung will decide soon whether to sell the refurbished Note 7s in other markets, but not in India and the United States, where it faced legal ban.
Here are the features or specs of Samsung Galaxy Note 7:
| NETWORK | Technology | GSM / HSPA / LTE |
|---|
| LAUNCH | Announced | 2016, August. Released 2016, September |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Discontinued |
| BODY | Dimensions | 153.5 x 73.9 x 7.9 mm (6.04 x 2.91 x 0.31 in) |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 169 g (5.96 oz) | |
| Build | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 back panel | |
| SIM | Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) | |
| – IP68 certified – dust/water proof over 1.5 meter and 30 minutes – Stylus – Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified) |
| DISPLAY | Type | Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 5.7 inches (~78.0% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 1440 x 2560 pixels (~518 ppi pixel density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes | |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 | |
| – HDR10 compliant – Always-on display – TouchWiz UI |
| PLATFORM | OS | Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | Exynos 8890 Octa | |
| CPU | Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz Mongoose & 4×1.6 GHz Cortex-A53) | |
| GPU | Mali-T880 MP12 |
| MEMORY | Card slot | microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) – single-SIM model microSD, up to 256 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual-SIM model |
|---|---|---|
| Internal | 64 GB, 4 GB RAM |
| CAMERA | Primary | 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm, phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED flash, check quality |
|---|---|---|
| Features | 1/2.5″ sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama | |
| Video | 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps, HDR, dual-video rec., check quality | |
| Secondary | 5 MP, f/1.7, 22mm, dual video call, Auto HDR |
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
|---|---|---|
| Loudspeaker | Yes | |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| – 24-bit/192kHz audio – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
| COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | 4.2, A2DP, EDR, LE | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO | |
| NFC | Yes | |
| Radio | No | |
| USB | 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector |
| FEATURES | Sensors | Iris scanner, fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2 |
|---|---|---|
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| Java | No | |
| – Fast battery charging – Qi wireless charging (market dependent) – ANT+ support – S-Voice natural language commands and dictation – MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.265 player – MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player – Photo/video editor – Document editor |
| TESTS | Performance | Basemark OS II 2.0: 2676 / Basemark X: 32648 |
|---|---|---|
| Display | Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal), 4.247 (sunlight) | |
| Camera | Photo / Video | |
| Loudspeaker | Voice 69dB / Noise 69dB / Ring 72dB | |
| Audio quality | Noise -92.8dB / Crosstalk -92.9dB | |
| MISC | Colors | Blue Coral, Gold Platinum, Silver Titanium, Black Onyx |
|---|---|---|
| SAR EU | 0.25 W/kg (head) 1.28 W/kg (body) | |
| Price | About 850 EUR |
