Galaxy Note FE: H Samsung Electronics will launch the refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea this Friday.
The refurbished devices will be called Galaxy Note Fan Edition, or Galaxy Note FE, and the company estimates that it will sell around 400.000 devices in the country.
The phone uses the unsurpassed and unused components of the Galaxy Note 7, said the Samsung, and that it is an "environmentally friendly" project.
Galaxy Note FE
The Note FE has the same design as Note 7, but will have the UX of the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, which were introduced earlier this year.
It also has a battery in 3.200mAh, less than initial of 3.500mAh of Note 7. It has passed Samsung's eight-point security test that it will perform on all of its devices productthe aftermath of the Note 7 fiasco, the company stressed.
It has the same specifications as the original. It has a dual-sided 5,7-inch QHD display with an octa-core processor and back camera at 12 megapixels. Its front camera is 5 megapixels. It runs on Android 7.0 and has 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and supports external memory up to 256GB. It has IP68 certification for water and dust.
It also has two Bixby features - the Samsung Virtual Assistant released this year - the Bixby Home and the Bixby Reminder.
In Korea, it will be released in black, blue coral, platinum, and titanium.
The company will decide later whether to sell the refurbished phone globally. The theme but it is that too many have lost their trust in the Korean company, and it seems that it will take a long time to restore its reputation in the markets.
However, the company hopes that there will always be those who trust it, and bets on them.
