Samsung this week has given life back to the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 as the Note 7 Fan Edition.
The Note 7 is infamous for battery problems that led to smoke, burns, fires, and it being banned on planes. Samsung was forced to recall the phone and later determined two separate flaws involved the battery, one pertaining to design and the other pertaining to manufacturing.
Samsung has decided to scavenge the recalled devices to create a new handset with a new, smaller 3,200mAh battery and its latest software, including the Bixby voice assistant. Samsung is manufacturing only 400,000 Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition handsets, which will be made available exclusively in South Korea.
