Samsung's Galaxy S24 'Certified Re-Newed' Phones Start at $620

Samsung present cells ‘Certified Re-newed’ Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra phones. The devices are refurbished with caller batteries, “assembled by Samsung engineers,” and sold astatine a discount compared to getting a brand-new Galaxy S25 phone.

The institution is pitching its Certified Re-Newed Galaxy S24 bid arsenic fund and eco-friendly alternatives to the latest Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. They’re cheaper than the caller models, and you’re buying a telephone that would person different been stripped down for parts oregon thrown successful a landfill.

Samsung’s programme takes aged phones (mainly from trade-in programs), replaces the archetypal artillery and immoderate different damaged components with genuine parts, and tests each the features are moving arsenic intended. The phones besides get a caller IMEI number, truthful you don’t person to interest astir bearer blocks and different issues that tin sometimes travel from buying utilized phones. The phones person a one-year warranty, and you tin optionally bargain Samsung Care+ to screen accidental damage, oregon Samsung Care+ with Theft and Loss to screen thefts.

However, the bundle enactment remains identical for the Certified Re-Newed phones. Samsung promised seven years of OS and information updates for the S24 series, and since those phones person been retired for astir a year, there’s six years of enactment left. That’s inactive a agelong clip earlier you person to interest astir missing important information fixes, though.

Pricing and Alternatives

The basal Galaxy S24 is $620 for the 128GB model, oregon $670 for the 256GB retention option. The larger Galaxy S24+ is $800 for 256GB storage, oregon $920 for 512GB storage. Finally, the Galaxy S24 Ultra with an S Pen is $1,020 for 256GB storage, oregon $1,140 for the 512GB option.

Those are bully deals, particularly considering determination are so fewer differences betwixt the S24 and S25 series. The S25 is usually connected merchantability for around $700, and the S25+ is typically around $900. You’re redeeming astir $100 and getting almost the nonstop aforesaid phone.

There’s besides the Galaxy S24 FE to consider, which is Samsung’s existent fund flagship successful the United States. It has a 6.7-inch surface (about the aforesaid arsenic the S24+) and 3 cameras, and adjacent though it started astatine $650 for 128GB storage, it has gone connected merchantability for $500 astatine slightest once.

Unfortunately, the colour options with the Certified Re-Newed phones are limited. The Galaxy S24 and S24+ are lone disposable successful the modular Onyx Black color, and the S24 Ultra is lone sold successful Titanium Black. You’ll person to edifice to cases and skins if you privation flashy colors.

Yesterday’s Galaxy

This isn’t the archetypal clip Samsung has started selling refurbished versions of past year’s phones. Following the merchandise of the Galaxy S24, Samsung added each 3 Galaxy S23 models to its Certified Re-Newed Program. The phones besides had the latest One UI 6.1 update pre-installed, but that’s not imaginable this clip astir with the refurbished S24 phones, since One UI 7 is inactive connected hold.

The prices for the refurbished S23 phones were astir the same, too. The S23 started astatine $619 for 128GB storage, the S23+ started astatine $769 with 128GB storage, and the S24 Ultra started astatine $919 for 128GB storage.

Source: Samsung Newsroom