Samsung denies report of selling refurbished Galaxy Note 7
South Korean tech giant Samsung has refuted a report that claimed the company plans to sell refurbished units of the Galaxy Note 7 in India. The report had said that Samsung had slightly redesigned the phone and placed a smaller battery to prevent explosions. Samsung released the findings of its internal investigation into the Galaxy Note 7 explosions last month.
If you are a Samsung Galaxy Note fan, you were waiting to hear these words -- Note 7 will be sold in India. Despite all the bad whether it went through before being laid to the grave, Note 7 might come back from the dead; it has to if the company is to minimize losses and environmental penalties incurred in disposal of close to 3 million devices.Update: Samsung has denied that it has any plans to sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7 units in India. "The report on Samsung planning to sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in India is incorrect," said a Samsung India spokesperson, without offering any other details.  Korean website Hankyung  reports the Galaxy Note 7 is due for a resurrection in select places -- Vietnam, India and probably South Korea. Samsung Electronics will finalise the designs by May this year and will go on sale in June (expected). Several changes will be made to the phone.Also Read:  Galaxy Note 7 exploded due to battery, confirms Samsung Samsung initially announced a recall of some 2.5 million Note 7 phones in September and identified the cause of the fire as a manufacturing process problem at one of its suppliers, but new Note 7s with what Samsung said were safe batteries from a different supplier continued to catch fire.But it was only after a complete recall and "in-depth" analysis of the cause did it make out that it was not the battery material, but the way the battery was shaped to fit in the chassis that caused the short circuit.Now, Samsung will be redesigning both the battery and the chassis. The battery is said to be of a lower capacity -- about 3000mAh, and if Samsung is redesigning the chassis, it might not support a dual curved screen. But it will be called refurbished and the price expected should be considerably cheaper.