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Samsung To Launch Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea On July 7 (yonhapnews.co.kr)
South Korean news agency Yonhap reports: Samsung plans to release the refurbished edition of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 smartphone next month, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the sources, Samsung will release the smartphone under the name the Galaxy Note FE, with a price tag below 700,000 won (US$616). Official sales are slated to start July 7. The South Korean tech giant suspended production and sales of the Galaxy Note 7 last year amid reports that some of the devices caught fire while charging. A probe revealed that the problems were due to the non-removable battery. Accordingly, the refurbished devices will have a smaller battery capacity than the originals, along with the latest software updates.
The "FE" refers to the onboard Fire Extinguisher.
Galaxy Note Fire Extinguisher
Seriously, why are batteries not removable any more?
It, burns......
...and I thought it was for Flaming Edition...
Looks like this was much ado about nothing now that they are just it back on sale with a new name. I'm sure it was done just to make the lawyers happy.
"Flammable Edition" apparently....
After all, it is a Samsung device - their explosive capabilities are given.
Gave Android a bad reputation. A lady once asked me if my Blu Studio 5.0 was one of the Phone that caught fire.
"Now with 50% less burning!"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Fuck Everyone
Last year's model for less bang.
well ok maybe this will remain empty.
Need more cyber
Why no cyber in this story?
Cyber
Cyber
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explosive news!
A probe revealed that the problems were due to the non-removable battery
The probe revealed that the battery was the issue, specifically that the battery did not have enough space and physical protection within the phone case. If I recall there were other manufacturing issues with the battery itself. The cause of the failure was not the inability to remove the battery. This writing shows the bias here that most of us like removable cell phone batteries, but it is not correct to say that this missing desirable feature was the root cause of the failure. It did make fixing the issue more difficult for Samsung (they couldn't just send out new batteries) and by making the battery non-removable Samsung may have also taken the opportunity to put in a physically too large battery, but again the inability to remove the battery was not the root cause. I know it is wishful thinking, but this is supposed to be a technical site. Could we please be more technically accurate?
You may well be right, but from a business perspective, if their last phone was something that caused them untold losses both financial and reputational, wouldn't 'repair' have been one of the things they'd have built into this new phone? Which would mean allowing a battery replacement and letting customers use it as long as they like? Reason companies have removed the replaceable batteries is that it would allow customers who are happy w/ previous versions of the phone to just replace the battery when the phone dies
One of the marketing reasons given, since the above real reason wouldn't fly, was that it enabled the device to be waterproof, which previous phone designs weren't. Uh, usually, if I'm caught in the rain, the phone is in my pocket: I don't get on the phone & start yakking unless I'm either in a building, or in the car. I don't take a shower w/ it, nor do I go swimming w/ it. I do suspect that most people are like me in this aspect, and the percentage of people who would want to wash their phones in that manner are in single figures. So if Apple or Samsung had to come out w/ phones that people could take a swim in, they could have produced niche phones, but left mainstream ones alone.
The real problem is that just as Intel & Microsoft discovered that a good enough past product was the biggest impediment to their newest offering, Apple, Samsung & the others saw that as well, and so decided to make their product non upgradable so that people get forced to buy replacements. If people who were satisfied w/ the iPhone 5s were able to replace the battery whenever it died, they'd never need to upgrade to a 6 or 7 or 8. Likewise w/ Samsung. However, those people would be forced to upgrade if their battery died, they couldn't replace it and the 5s was out of circulation. That's why these phone designs are as rigid as they are.
I'm glad that the right to repair is gaining traction. Sometimes, if I don't need the new features of a new phone, but just a storage upgrade to my existing one or a new battery, I do appreciate not being forced to buy a new phone. In fact, the ones I now have should theoretically last forever, w/ their 128GB storage and all.
We moved july 4 to 7 as 7 is lucky now where is a good place to sit back and view the fireworks.
It should have been here the US, on July 4th.
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Of course at the time they didn't realize it was going to be the explosive hit that it eventually turned out to be
Maybe South Korea could redirect the shipment northbound instead? Just tell the North that it's both a phone AND an exploding cigarette! I'm sure they'll get the joke.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
How long will it be before the flight attendants start asking passengers with Note FE to be turned completely off?
FE? They couldn't go with anything else? Like Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fire Edition?
Samsung placing 'assault tablets' in civilian hands will be seen as a provocation. Will the Norks start to use their stockpile of unmodified Note 7s against the South?
be better?
they should have sent the 7's to NK :)