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Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 with Android 7.0 Nougat gets Wi-Fi certification

July 23, 2025

The Wi-Fi alliance has just certified what is believed to be the refurbishedGalaxy Note 7. The Samsung Electronics device, which features model number SM-N935S, also looks like it will relaunch runningAndroid 7.0 Nougat.

The Galaxy Note 7 was originally released last August with Android Marshmallow before being cancelled in October afterbattery issuescaused some of the units to catch fire. Welearned in Marchthat Samsung would sell refurbished modelssomewherefollowingrumorswhich started in February.

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We still don’t know when or where the Note 7 will go on back on sale (though the US and Canada has been ruled out), or for how much, thoughSam Mobilesuggests the “S” part of the model code indicates that the device is bound for Samung’s home nation, South Korea.

Meanwhile,Galaxy Club NLalso discovered that the Wi-Fi alliance certified a device with model number SM-N930F. This is one of the original Note 7 models, which has raised questions as to why the phone would be getting an update based on Nougat. It’s speculated that this may be one last patch to brick remaining active devices, but we don’t know for certain — it could be nothing.

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