[pcurve]

wonder what they're going to do with 2.5 million phones they take back. I don't think they would dare sell them as refurb units.

[_Codemonkeyism]

Replace battery, sell them as new is what I bet on. Fishy yes. Compared to taking a 1B$ hit easy for excecutives.

[taspeotis]

> sell them as new

That's what they did for their washing machines that also caught on fire [1].

[1] http://www.samsung.com/au/washingmachinerecall/ "Did Samsung apply the rework to machines prior to sale? "

[bArray]

Have a long line of people take out one battery and put in another. Then carefully repackage the entire lot.