Samsung denies Galaxy Note's discontinuation

There have been rumours going around that Samsung planned to shelve its Galaxy Note series, mostly because there is talk that the upcoming Galaxy S21 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold3 will supposedly support the S Pen. But a new report from South Korea refutes this rumour, with a company official saying there will be a Galaxy Note launch in 2021.

TM Roh, president of Samsung's mobile business, said, "the Galaxy Note experience might be applied to more products," but this doesn't mean that the Galaxy Note line itself will go away. What we have yet to determine is the positioning of the Note series in Samsung's lineup. Will it still be a flagship series, or will it move lower down the ranks? Will Samsung launch three flagships a year?

Source: GSMArena

Samsung steps up the S Pen's game with the Galaxy Note10

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In the early days of the Galaxy Note line, the stylus or the S Pen, as we now know it, was just a stylus. But just like its phones, the S Pen had to evolve. And Samsung's response was to make it seem like a magic wand—on top of it functioning as a stylus. As Engadget calls it, this has been a poorly kept secret. But the S Pen now supports gesture controls, or what Samsung calls Air Actions. It improves on the remote control function of the Note9's S Pen by letting you control the phone with a wave of the stylus.

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