Samsung may finally bid farewell to the Galaxy Note series next year. That's according to Korean tech blog The Elec, which suggests that the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and Galaxy Note 20 could be the very last Note-branded devices the company ever ships.
In its place, Samsung may offer an S Pen in the next top-of-the-line Galaxy S device, the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The regular Galaxy S21 and S21 Plus — if Samsung continues with the three-pronged strategy and naming system of the current models — will not feature a stylus. The Galaxy S21 Ultra's codename is said to be "Unbound."
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Samsung may also bring the S Pen to the Galaxy Z Fold 3 — the 2021 iteration of its flagship tablet-style foldable, following the Galaxy Z Fold 2's release in the coming weeks.
It's been suggested by some that Samsung has shied away from offering the S Pen with a foldable device due to concerns over the durability of ultra-thin glass repeatedly being poked and scrawled on. The company will no doubt be looking to bolster the strength of that material to get it to the point where it could reliably withstand abuse from a stylus.
Now, it's worth pointing out that this is far from the first time Samsung has been rumored to sunset the Note series. Last September, when Samsung was in the process of launching the Galaxy Note 10 series, Evan Blass tweeted that the tech giant was actively considering melding the Galaxy S and Note lines together into a single family of first-half-of-the-year devices because their "features overlap so closely."
In this scenario, the Galaxy Z Fold family would then naturally slide in as a replacement for the Note launches that typically dominate the end of the year for Samsung.
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