Samsung finally confirmed what Galaxy Note fans have dreaded, the Note brand is canceled, as the company focuses on foldable flagships.
Samsung didn’t have the guts to admit that it planned to kill the Galaxy Note about a year ago when it announced there wouldn’t be a Galaxy Note 21 in 2021. Samsung blamed the components shortage for the lack of Note last year. But now that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 has become a significant success story for the company, and the Galaxy S22 Ultra takes over as the Note’s replacement, Samsung is finally ready to admit it. The Galaxy Note brand is canceled. It’s dead for good. There won’t be any more Note models for the foreseeable future, as Samsung has a clear strategy in place for the coming years. But the S Pen isn’t going anywhere. The writing has been on the wall for several years. Samsung’s Galaxy Note phones had two main advantages over traditional smartphones: They featured much larger displays, and each model came with its own S Pen stylus. But then the “all-screen” smartphones started arriving a few years ago. All of a sudden, every phone had a large display to rival the Galaxy Note’s screen. The bezels shrank significantly, so you didn’t have to buy a Galaxy Note to get the biggest possible screen. In the end, the only thing the Galaxy Note had going for it was the S Pen. Last year, Samsung offered the first clue that it planned to cancel the Galaxy Note when it unveiled the Galaxy S21 series.
