Rumor: Samsung will stop with Galaxy Note series after Note 7 fiasco

Samsung may stop with the Galaxy Note series of smartphones. The name is said to have suffered too much damage from the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco in recent months. Samsung stopped selling and manufacturing the Note 7 this week.

So there will be no Note 8 next year, the Russian site Hi-Tech Mail reports. Samsung has not yet confirmed the information and both sites also seem unsure, making it unknown whether the South Korean electronics maker will continue with this step.

The Note name is said to have suffered a lot of damage from the Note 7 case. Samsung stopped manufacturing and selling the phone this week after it turned out that exchanged phones caught fire. The manufacturer had exchanged the devices, because hundreds of copies of the first version also suffered from flaming batteries. Samsung will destroy the Note 7s it gets back.

The Note 7 had not yet been released in the Benelux and since the Note 5 never came on the market in the Low Countries, the Note 4 from 2014 was the last variant of Samsung’s smartphone series. The series started with the first Galaxy Note from 2011, a phone that broke the lance for large smartphones thanks to its 5.3″ screen and dimensions of 14.7×8.3cm.

First Galaxy Note