Samsung formally kills off the Galaxy Note model, however the stylus stays

Samsung is formally killing off the Galaxy Note… model title. The information was confirmed by Samsung’s smartphone chief Roh Tae-moon, who informed reporters at Mobile World Congress 2022 that “Galaxy Note will come out as Ultra” going ahead, referring to Samsung’s just lately launched Galaxy S22 Ultra, via Dailian.

The information isn’t precisely a shock. Samsung hasn’t launched a Galaxy Note machine for the reason that Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra have been launched in 2020. And this yr’s Galaxy S22 Ultra, which featured the return of an built-in stylus, is a Galaxy Note machine in every part however title.

The convergence of the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note traces of merchandise has been fated for years. When Samsung first launched the Galaxy Note over a decade in the past — all the best way again in October 2011 — with a large (for the time) 5.3-inch display screen, it towered over contemporaries, just like the 4.3-inch display screen Galaxy S II or the three.5-inch iPhone 4S.

But as time went on, big-screen smartphones grew to become much less of a novelty for energy customers and extra the business commonplace. The Galaxy S7 in 2016 had a 5.1-inch show and was practically the scale of the unique Note. By 2017, the biggest Galaxy S8 Plus mannequin was all however similar in dimension and form to the Galaxy Note 8 that adopted it later that yr, with the long-lasting S-Pen stylus more and more serving as the one key differentiator between the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note lineups.

The Note was key in serving to to popularize large smartphones, nevertheless it wasn’t all slam dunks for Samsung. The Galaxy Note 7, particularly, stands out as one of many largest client electronics disasters in current reminiscence, with the initially lauded machine rapidly recalled after which canceled completely on account of security issues over faulty batteries.

And whereas Samsung would ultimately convey again the Note model after the Note 7 debacle, it might have already been too late. Foldable gadgets — just like the Galaxy Z Fold — have been already on the horizon and would quickly steal the Note’s thunder as Samsung’s new platform for experimenting with even larger screens. Caught between the more and more related Galaxy S collection and the even bigger and extra futuristic Z Fold lineup, there simply wasn’t a lot room left for the Note to face out by itself.

The finish of the Galaxy Note model is unquestionably the tip of an period, though the blow has been considerably softened by the truth that the Note is in some ways extra alive than ever within the type of the Galaxy S22 Ultra (and the next Note-like gadgets that Tae-moon appears to be hinting will comply with in future years.) And the Note’s impression can’t be overstated: that Samsung’s “normal” flagships now are nearly indistinguishable from a Galaxy Note is a testomony to the defunct model’s energy in popularizing larger display screen sizes.

The Galaxy Note is useless, lengthy stay the Galaxy Note.