Pressure from pro-environment organizations such as Greenpeace and others have compelled Samsung to recycle some of the usable parts of the recalled Galaxy Note 7 handsets stocked in the warehouse. For this reason, the company is expected to release refurbished handsets of Note 7 this year which will lead to a fierce competition when Note 8 release this fall.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Comes Back

Millions of expensive and non-recyclable Galaxy Note 7 in Samsung's warehouse has concerned pro-environment organizations and seek for the company's outlined plan to the leftover handsets. As a result, company has decided to scrap some useful parts and extract metal in an eco-friendly way before putting them to trash. 

Furthermore, Samsung is also planning to refurbished unspecified number of Galaxy Note 7 or even convert them into rental phones. In a nutshell, the handset that was reported by Mashable as an "explosive failure" isn't dead yet, and is up for grab within the year (release date will be determined).

However, since Samsung is about to release Galaxy S8 this spring and Galaxy Note this fall, the refurbished Galaxy Note 7 will not be launch in international markets in order to avoid distraction. On the other hand, other components of Note 7 such as camera modules and semiconductors will be used as test sample for production purposes.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Deviates from Galaxy Note 7

Since Samsung wants to make sure that Galaxy Note 8 won't follow the fiery fate of Note 7, the smartphone's new design could tell the big difference of the two. According to BGR, an unconfirmed design leak that was posted in Slashleaks showed an impressive design with 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display (with options QHD+ 2K or UHD 4K resolution) and powerful specs include Snapdragon 835 or Exynos 9000-series, 6GB of RAM coupled with up to 256 internal storage and a micro SDXC card support.