Samsung has confirmed that they will be releasing the Galaxy Note 8 in the second half of 2017.
As part of Samsung’s announcement regarding its quarterly results for the quarter ended March 31 on Thursday, they mentioned that it will be releasing a “new flagship smartphone in the second half [of 2017],” in its press release. This looks pretty accurate in terms of the regular launch timeline for the Note series smartphones as Galaxy Note 5 was launched in August 2015 and Galaxy Note 7 was launched in August last year.
It seems like Samsung has decided to stick to its regular launch time frame instead of rushing with its upcoming Galaxy Note 8 smartphone despite the absence of its predecessor device in the market. A relief to many Samsung fans with Samsung bungling on some product safety aspects by pushing for an earlier release of the Galaxy Note 7, which was speculated to be motivated by the desire to get the smartphone into more users’ hands ahead of the release of Apple’s 2016 iPhone models.
Samsung usually goes with the trend of announcing its Note series flagship smartphones ahead of Apple’s smartphones but only make them available much later in the year. With the recent apparent impatience with the Galaxy Note 7’s release thought to have caused faulty batteries to pass through to customers, this can now be deemed a wise move on Samsung’s part not to rush the release of the next Note series flagship.
While there were a lot of speculations that the Note series of smartphones might be killed off by Samsung due to the bad name associated with it, reports have suggested that this might not be done with the device after all. It will be interesting to see how the company will approach the device launch and release this time around.
