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- The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra will support the S Pen stylus, the only feature that makes the Note series unique among Android handsets.
- An insider says he can “100% confirm” the phone will support the stylus, without saying whether the S21 Ultra will come with a built-in stylus or just work with the S Pen.
- The move will further blur the lines between the Galaxy S and Note families and might help Samsung phase out the Note in the coming years.
Samsung may owe its tremendous success in the mobile business to the decision to make devices that mimicked the original iPhone. Still, the South Korean giant does have a few accomplishments of its own in the mobile business. The first-gen Galaxy Note is widely seen as the “phablet” that inspired everyone else in the business to keep increasing the display size, even though the Note wasn’t the first Android handset to feature a bigger screen. But as smartphones became more sophisticated, the display got bigger and bigger on all phones. Smartphone vendors discovered they could extend the phone’s screen significantly without increasing the handset’s footprint. It wasn’t long until the Galaxy S came with all-screen displays that matched the Note's screen size. Just like that, the phablet concept disappeared, as all phones had large screens. And, just like that, one of the two iconic features of the Note line evaporated. Androids and iPhones all feature all-screen designs of various sizes, and the Note no longer offers the bigger smartphone display you can buy.
The Note does have a second identifying feature that no other device replicated. And it looks like Samsung is already planning to “kill” the Note.
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Will Samsung finally ‘kill’ the Galaxy Note? originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 06:50:15 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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