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Samsung has announced plans to sell its Galaxy Note7 devices in some markets after refurbishing them. They could also be used as rental phones, both where applicable.

Samsung Electronics will finally get rid of the Galaxy Note7 device that caused it no end of problems last year, when several phones combusted.

An iPhone 6 Plus belonging to a resident of Queensland started emitting smoke after the device exploded as he was handing it over for repair at a shop earlier this week.

Public memory is short and people probably do not have the Samsung Galaxy Note7 disaster at the forefront of their thoughts these days.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a smaller capacity battery than the ill-fated Note7 which literally went down in flames.

South Korea has announced that it will increase the safety requirements for lithium-ion batteries in the wake of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 incidents.

Despite its claims of testing more than 200,000 Galaxy Note7 devices, 30,000 batteries and using people from its own units and two other outfits, in the end Samsung Electronics still does not know the "root cause" of the issues it faced.

Samsung's official investigation into its Galaxy Note7 device, which began to explode and catch fire a month after release, has found that it was due to the irregular size of some batteries while others had manufacturing defects, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

The issues with Samsung's Galaxy Note7 device that led to it exploding and catching fire have been found to be caused by the battery, Reuters reports, quoting "a person familiar with the matter".

Samsung Electronics will this month release the results of a probe into the Galaxy Note7 devices that spontaneously combusted after release last year, according to a report in the JoongAnd Ilbo newspaper.

Engineers from the manufacturing technology company Instrumental have reported that the Samsung Galaxy Note7 exploded because the battery was packed too tightly inside the body of the device.

Samsung Electronics appears to be putting the cart ahead of the horse by starting to talk about its next mobile device, rather than tell the world why the Galaxy Note7 started spontaneously combusting.

Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace has questioned what Samsung plans to do with the remaining manufactured Galaxy Note7 devices, after production was halted due to fears of explosions.

Memories of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 fiasco are fading for the moment but people appear to have used the episode for inspiration when it came to Halloween costumes.

Samsung Electronics has taken a battering from the recall and subsequent cessation of production of its Galaxy Note7 device and this is reflected in its results for the third quarter.

The owner of a Samsung Galaxy Note7 who turned it in and obtained a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in exchange appears to be dogged by bad luck: the replacement phone exploded while it was charging.

A survey of 1020 US consumers who own a Samsung phone has found that 40% will never buy a phone of the same brand again.

After the first reports of Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones catching fire came in, company executives decided, based on lab reports that showed a bulge in batteries supplied by Samsung SDI, that it was the cause and ordered a recall.

Some owners of faulty Samsung Galaxy Note7s are furious that the South Korean electronics giant has refused to cover the costs of fire damage, caused when their devices combusted.

The US Department of Transportation has issued an emergency order banning all airline passengers in the country from carrying Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices.