Last month a report from South Korea claimed that Samsung was getting ready to offer refurbished Galaxy Note7 units this summer, following last year’s recalls.
Today this has been confirmed by the company itself, through a news release that focuses on how it’s going to “recycle” the giant pile of returned Note7 units that it has in its possession.
The first step in that process is refurbishing units or renting them (whatever that may mean). The second step involves detaching salvageable components from the phones, in order to reuse them. And third, if all else fails, “processes such…