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Samsung is to unveil the follow-up to its exploding Galaxy Note 7, expected to be called the Galaxy Note 8, on 23 August.
The South Korean electronics firm posted to Twitter a “save the date” for the unveiling of the Note 8 at one of the company’s “Unpacked” events, complete with a gif showing a representation of the new design.
Save the date! August 23, 2017 #DoBiggerThingshttps://t.co/uSEvuV1QKN pic.twitter.com/9lbxtDtm0l
— Samsung Electronics (@Samsung) July 20, 2017
The Note 8 is expected to take the design of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, which feature curved screens and minimal bezels both on the sides and at the top and bottom of the devices, to the next extreme.
The Note series has typically been the biggest of the top-end Samsung devices, with the Note 7 having a 5.7in screen with a 16:9 ratio, making it 0.2in bigger on the diagonal than last year’s 5.5in Galaxy S7 Edge. The Galaxy S8+ features a 6.2in screen with a longer screen format than previous Samsung devices, which means the Note 7 could have a screen even larger than that.
The Note series originally defined the large-screens smartphone “phablet” category in 2011, a device formfactor that has slowly moved from a niche product to the mainstream, with the majority of smartphones available with screens larger than 5in on the diagonal, and many larger than 5.5in, which was long considered gigantic.
But the Note 8 has some catching up to do. The Galaxy Note 7 launched to critical acclaim which didn’t foresee issues with the battery design that caused overheating and the phones to catch on fire. Samsung did not one, but two recalls as it attempted to fix the issues and resell the devices, but the problems forced it to be discontinued.
The company released results of an investigation that blamed flaws in design and production of batteries supplied by two battery makers. The recalls and brand damage limitation cost Samsung billions of pounds.
At the beginning of July, Samsung took reclaimed Note 7 devices and repackaged them with a smaller, safer battery to sell in limited quantities within South Korea as the Galaxy Note Fan Edition as a part of its efforts to minimise waste. Those efforts also include recycling recalled Note 7 handsets for materials.
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