Samsung Galaxy Note series

Samsung Galaxy Note
ManufacturerSamsung Electronics
TypePhablet, Smartphone
Release dateOctober 1, 2011 (2011-10-01) (Debut Launch)
DiscontinuedJanuary 14, 2021 (2021-01-14) (Welcome To The Everyday Epic)
Operating systemAndroid
InputTouch screen, Stylus
PredecessorSamsung Omnia Series
SuccessorSamsung Galaxy S series
RelatedSamsung Galaxy Fold
Galaxy Note release timeline
2011Samsung Galaxy Note 1
2012Samsung Galaxy Note 2
2013Samsung Galaxy Note 3
2014Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
2015Samsung Galaxy Note 5
2016Samsung Galaxy Note 7/FE
2017Samsung Galaxy Note 8
2018Samsung Galaxy Note 9
2019Samsung Galaxy Note 10
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
2020Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite
Samsung Galaxy Note 20
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra
Logo from 2011 to 2013
Logo from 2013 to 2015
The Samsung Galaxy Note logo until 2015; a different font was used for "Samsung" beginning with the release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in 2013

The Samsung Galaxy Note series was a[1] line of high-end flagship Android phablets and smartphones developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics (Although still produced as the Ultra edition of the Galaxy S series since the Samsung Galaxy S22). The line is primarily oriented towards pen computing; all Galaxy Note models shipped with a stylus pen, called the S Pen, and incorporate a pressure-sensitive Wacom digitizer. All Galaxy Note models also include software features that are oriented towards the stylus and the devices' large screens, such as note-taking, digital scrapbooking apps, tooltips, and split-screen multitasking. The line served as Samsung's flagship smartphone model, positioned above the Galaxy S series.

The Galaxy Note smartphone series is noteworthy for being considered the first commercially successful examples of "phablets"—a class of smartphones with large screens that are intended to straddle the functionality of a traditional tablet with that of a phone, and having helped accelerate the trend of bigger screened smartphones becoming the norm around the mid 2010s. Samsung sold over 50 million Galaxy Note devices between September 2011 and October 2013. 10 million units of the Galaxy Note 3 have been sold within its first 2 months, 30 million were of the Note II, while the original Galaxy Note sold around 10 million units worldwide.

In August 2021, TM Roh, Samsung's president and Head of Mobile Communications, announced that no new Galaxy Note device would be unveiled at their 2021 launch event, which would instead focus on new foldable phones. "Instead of unveiling a new Galaxy Note this time around, we will further broaden beloved Note features to more Samsung Galaxy devices," he added.[2]

  1. ^ "[MWC 2022] 노태문 사장 "갤럭시노트, 앞으로 '울트라'로 나온다"" (in Korean). 28 February 2022.
  2. ^ Swider, Matt (26 July 2021). "Samsung Galaxy Note 21 is being replaced by the Galaxy Z Fold 3, exec confirms". TechRadar. Retrieved 12 August 2021.