The Samsung Galaxy Note 21 probably won’t land until August 2021, but we’re already hearing about it.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 21 family has a huge question mark hanging over it, and it could end up being one of the biggest pieces of tech news of the year: Samsung’s own CEO has said the next Note phone could be canceled, with plans to release one in 2022 but not 2021. Usually, the Note series follows the S line roughly six months after the latter’s launch, but while the Samsung Galaxy S21 series dropped as per usual, we might not end up seeing the Note 21 at all. There are a few reasons this could be the case, which we’ll explore below, but it follows months of speculation that the Samsung Galaxy Note line had been canceled, a persevering idea not helped by the fact the Galaxy S21 Ultra was confirmed to support the company’s S Pen stylus. So people have been building the Note 21’s coffin for a long while. Samsung hasn’t canceled the whole Note line, despite speculation suggesting as such, and it may just be the 2021 entry. We could very well see a Note 22 in 2022, according to the company. And we may still see stylus-toting Samsung phones in 2021 — the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 FE, a budget version of the Note 20, has been rumored, and word is the Galaxy Z Fold 3 could pack an S Pen too, as could the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3. If the Samsung Galaxy Note 21 has been canceled, why have we listed loads of leaks and rumors on it below? Well, it’s not certain the smartphone won’t appear and there’s equal chance some of these details will apply to the Galaxy Note 22 (if that’s what the next phone is called). If a Galaxy Note 21 does happen, expect to pay a high premium for the handset. The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 started at $999 / £849 / AU$1,199. In recent years Samsung has always announced new Note models in early August and shipped them roughly two weeks later, so the same again is possible for the Note 21. While Samsung is hosting an event on August 11 to announce various products, the Galaxy Note 21 isn’t thought to be among them. At this point, we’re not expecting to see the Note 21 at all. Samsung’s CEO has heavily suggested the company won’t be providing a new Galaxy Note phone in 2021. DJ Koh, Samsung’s CEO, said “It is not that we do not release new products. The timing may vary, but next year we are preparing to continue to do so.» Koh told Bloomberg, “Note series is positioned as a high-end model in our business portfolio.
