Samsung Galaxy Note 22 rumor just got killed — but there’s good news

Samsung Galaxy Note 22 rumor merely got killed — but there'south practiced news

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Another nail appears to have been hammered into the bury of the Samsung Galaxy Note line, with prominent leaker Ice Universe claiming that "Note is over, but it's not over. South becomes Note!"

If Ice Universe is correct, we'd take that to mean that the features of the Galaxy Notation volition be integrated into the Galaxy S series, as seen already with S Pen back up for the Milky way S21 Ultra. And that'due south a positive move.

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Why? Well, while I like the Notation phones, I do feel the Galaxy Due south-series' Ultra versions renders them a tad moot. And for ease of pick, I'd much rather Samsung has ane do-everything phone a year, rather than ii with minor differences.

For the past few months, the Samsung Galaxy Notation line had been looking dead for all intents and purposes. Merely a brace of rumors — again from Ice Universe — appeared to give it the buss of life recently. The kickoff claimed that someone had seen "evidence of the being of the adjacent-generation Galaxy Note," while the second had supposedly seen a frame intended for the Note 22.

I took those earlier rumors with a hefty dollop of salted skepticism, every bit I could see no reason why Samsung would bring back the Note phones when it now has foldable devices flying the Galaxy flagship flag.

I've already written nigh how I'thousand sad at what's basically the decease of the Galaxy Notation, and I exercise hope Samsung does indeed find some mode of keeping the DNA of its stylus-toting phone in time to come Galaxy phones. I see no reason why a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra couldn't have an Due south Pen compartment.

Only while Samsung hasn't firmly closed the door on the Galaxy Note line, information technology has said in no uncertain terms we won't get a Note phone this year, every bit it's concentrating on foldable phones, and appears to be doing so for the foreseeable.

At present, I have my own concerns about the Samsung Milky way Z Fold 3, and non only because it has a fiddly name; information technology's likewise beefy and expensive. But it's nonetheless a absurd bit of tech, even impressing non-techy people who see information technology in action. So I can understand why Samsung would want to focus on building out its foldable phones rather than work on what are effectively Galaxy South-series phones but with added extras and a beautifully boxy design.

If time to come Samsung foldables can trim the phone downwards a little and integrate an Due south Pen holder into the chassis, I think in that location'll be some Notation fans who'll wipe the mournful tears from their optics and glance furtively at such a folding device. Later all, as impressive equally Note displays are, they can't deliver the expansive screens that Fold phones have.

All that being said, I'd not place a huge bet on the Note never making a comeback; I can totally see Samsung coming up with some anniversary version of the Note a few years downwardly the line. Simply time will tell. And in the meantime we have phones like the Google Pixel 6 to look frontwards to, an Android phone I'm peculiarly excited about.

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