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Is Samsung going to try sell the disastrous Note7 once more?

Written by Matti Robinson @ 17 Nov 2016 12:42 User comments (5)

Is Samsung going to try sell the disastrous Note7 once more?

Samsung's catastrophic failure with the Galaxy Note7 is still vividly present every time we hear about a Galaxy smartphone. However, Samsung has been trying to sway us from remembering the bad and the ugly.
The company has even revealed key features from upcoming Galaxy products to make us look into the future rather than looking back to the misery that was the explosive Note7. Now, though, Korean sources tell that Samsung might be still thinking about reselling the Note7.

What is this madness, you might ask. Well, according to The Inverstor Samsung might be considering selling refurbished – and this time hopefully not exposive – Galaxy Note7s in emerging markets. This could mean sales in the likes of India and Vietnam.

At the moment you should take this industry rumor with at least a grain of salt. After all it would be crazy to bring the phone to the market a third time after two immensely costly failures, right?

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5 user comments

117.11.2016 13:52

Try sell?
You mean "Try to sell"

Explosive not exposive

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 17 Nov 2016 @ 1:53

217.11.2016 21:56

If at first you don't succeed,try, try again (in answer to is sammy gong to resell them)

edit:
thinks to self "i wonder if tb will pick that one up" :p

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 17 Nov 2016 @ 9:57

318.11.2016 12:40

Nice!

Sell a bunch of exploding phones to India! Great idea!

Perhaps it'll reduce their ridiculously sized population.

Sell to China next please.

418.11.2016 21:14

Originally posted by hearme0:
Nice!

Sell a bunch of exploding phones to India! Great idea!

Perhaps it'll reduce their ridiculously sized population.

Sell to China next please.
I think they already tried to sell it in China. Maybe if they made the back cover 2mm deeper they could use a battery that wasn't designed to be made by the highest bidder but which is actually made by the lowest bidder.

530.11.2016 23:05

Not the phones, just the batteries.

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