What just happened? At that place have been plenty of signs that Samsung is set to impale off the Galaxy Note series, and we may have simply got the strongest indication to appointment. It's only been discovered that the Korean behemothic hasn't renewed the Galaxy Notation trademark, signaling what could be the cease for the long-running series.

GalaxyClub noticed that Samsung has recently renewed the trademarks for many of its phones, including the Milky way South, Galaxy Z, Galaxy M, and Galaxy A series, but ane noticeable absentee was the Milky way Annotation.

Nosotros already know that there isn't going to be a new Galaxy Note this year, which would presumably have been the Milky way Note 21. Samsung executive Koh Dong-jin dorsum in March told shareholders that it could be a "brunt" to release two flagships in a year, and the chip crunch likely played a role in the decision.

The missing Note trademark doesn't confirm the line'due south demise, but it's certainly an ominous sign for the device that helped popularized the word "phablet." The writing was on the wall when reports last year claimed that Samsung would be bringing Southward-Pen compatibility, the Note'due south virtually distinctive feature, to other devices. That was confirmed with the release of the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Milky way Z Fold3, though neither has a defended Southward-Pen slot.

In that location'due south ever the gamble that Samsung will bring back a revamped Note series erstwhile in the hereafter, possibly later 2022, but with the company putting such a focus on foldable devices, information technology'south looking more like the Galaxy Note 20/Notation twenty Ultra volition forever exist known as the series' concluding.

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