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Australia’s mobile phone market — including feature phones and smartphones — is growing by leaps and bounds, with a new report revealing that it has exceeded growth expectations, shipping 2.16 million phones in Q2 2017.

Samsung is refurbishing its Note7 smartphone for sale in South Korea from June, at approx US$266 less than when it launched – and with a smaller battery.

Australian smartphone sales remained flat in the second half of last year despite soaring usage rates, according to a newly released market study.

ANALYSIS The official report, and three independent reports, all place the blame for the Galaxy Note7 fiasco squarely on the 3500mAh Lithium-ion batteries supplied to Samsung Electronics by affiliate Samsung SDI and Amperex Technology.

The Samsung Galaxy Note7 fires have been definitively traced back to the battery – no other issues including Samsung’s design, manufacturing, logistics, software, chargers and more contributed in any way.

The reasons behind the highly publicised recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 will be revealed at a live teleconference at noon (EDST), Monday 23 January.

A "replacement" Samsung Galaxy Note7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane in the US on 5 October. iTWire reported that here.

Samsung’s new Note7 is expected to “take the wind” out of the yet to be released iPhone 7 sales. And why not as it has the highest specifications of any smartphone and supports microSD, is water resistant, has a huge 5.7” beautiful AMOLED screen, and comes with a natty S Pen that is moving closer to a pen on paper experience?

Samsung has skipped number six for its Galaxy Note series and headed straight to seven. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be the bigger sibling to its hugely successful Galaxy S7, Edge, and Active range.