Samsung will release Galaxy Note 8 next year

Samsung continues to make devices in the Note series. This is evident from a new upgrade program that the manufacturer has set up in South Korea. Samsung is giving Note 7 buyers who have traded in their device for an S7 the option to upgrade to an S8 or Note 8.

Samsung previously gave buyers of the Note 7 in South Korea the option to exchange their device for the Galaxy S7 or the S7 edge. Now, according to Reuters, the manufacturer has announced that consumers who have done so will be able to exchange their device for a Galaxy S8 or Note 8 via an upgrade program next year. Customers must then return their S7 and receive the new model for an additional fee.

Customers will have to pay “half of what an S7 costs” for the upgrade to an S8 or Note 8, the news agency writes. Samsung has not yet announced when the devices will be on the market. The Galaxy S8 will probably arrive around March and the new Note will appear in the fall. It is not known whether Samsung will also give buyers of the Galaxy Note 7 the same option in other countries. In the Benelux, such a trade-in program will in any case not come, the Note 7 has not been officially for sale here.

Following the fiasco surrounding the Galaxy Note 7, there were rumors that Samsung would completely stop making devices in the Note series. Samsung stopped production and sales of the Note 7 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.