RIP: Samsung reportedly killing off Galaxy Note line

RIP: Samsung reportedly killing off Galaxy Notation line

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According to sources close to Reuters, the Samsung Galaxy Note line is on its fashion out due to poor high-end smartphone sales, a symptom of the coronavirus pandemic.

The reports says that the top model of the Galaxy S21 line will take a stylus, which will presumably exist the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But it's not articulate whether the phone will send with the S Pen.

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Reuters besides reports that the "next version of Samsung'south foldable telephone volition be uniform with a stylus, which will exist sold separately." This will likely be the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3.

The Note line has always set itself apart as being amidst the best of Samsung'southward yearly offerings. The large-screen telephone boasts the latest fries and camera modules equally well as stylus back up.

Per three sources, Reuters reports that there are no plans at Samsung to develop a Note phone for 2021. The sources asked not to be named every bit the plans are non nevertheless public.

And so what's with this Note 21 rumor?

Strangely, according to Twitter user @CozyPlanes -- who has a rail record of verifiable leaks from the Korean tech manufacture -- Milky way Note 21 development has started.

Withal, that doesn't mean that Samsung will exist standing that development.

EXCLUSIVEGalaxy Note 21 (tentative name) evolution has only started.Dec 1, 2020

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CozyPlanes tweeted concluding month that the 2021 iteration of the Galaxy Note would be its last. It would see a September release, alongside the Z Fold 3. From 2022 onward, the Z Fold serial will be Samsung's new premium flagship line. According to a source to Reuters, the Galaxy Annotation development team has been shifted to the Z Fold line.

Already, Galaxy Z Fold 3 rumors suggest that information technology will have South Pen support. If true, it ways Samsung has made great advancements in materials science to allow a difficult plenty folding brandish that tin can handle pen pressure.

Imad Khan is news editor at Tom's Guide, helping direct the mean solar day's breaking coverage. Prior to working at the site, Imad was a full-time freelancer, with bylines at the New York Times, the Washington Post and ESPN. Outside of work, you can find him sitting blankly in front end of a Word document trying desperately to write the first pages of a new book.