And it is that although we do not realize it, time passes and markets are transformed, something that has also happened in the mobile phone segment, where popular models in the past, no longer have the favor of the public. Now is the time to stop and think about what alternatives we have to mobiles that, like the Note, were designed for a more business and professional environment.
Times change, ranges transform
The range of Samsung’s Galaxy Note was launched precisely on the market ten years ago, with a screen that exceeded 5 inches, something that by that 2011 was a huge panel size, used to mobiles with screens of 4 inches or even less in many cases. Those telephones that were called in turn Phablet, the union of the smartphone and the tablet, had a clearly defined market, especially when the pencil, which allowed to control the phone in a simple way, especially to use it like the old PDA, like a large notepad.
Something that made sense until the rest of the phones reached screen sizes equal to or even greater than the Note. There it started the beginning of the end for this type of mobile, which have ended up being diluted with the arrival of folding phones, which, like the Galaxy Z Fold3 now, also have an S Pen stylus to maximize productivity.
What alternatives do we have?
It is evident that the own Samsung has given us a great clue this year, by replacing the presentation of the Samsung Galaxy Note by the Fold, which have already occupied their space in the market and in the window of Samsung launches. Everything seems to indicate that the main alternatives to Samsung’s Note will be precisely the folding mobiles.
And there is already a wide range of phones that can take the place of the Note in the market, not only from Samsung, but also others such as Huawei or Xiaomi, which already have their own alternatives. So actually the concept of mobile created for maximum productivity has not died, but it has been transformedTherefore, we can now consider folding mobile phones in book format as the ones chosen for manufacturers to place them within ranges of business products.
And if we look at the pencil alternatives on the market, there are very few options, and they also do not have enough quality. LG’s Stylo are already history, as is the Korean brand’s smartphone division, and Motorola’s Moto G Pro, although they have a stylus, are not smart, nor does the phone offer anything special beyond that stylus. Therefore, the answer to now what? it is clearly, now is the time for folding mobiles And as in the case of Samsung, with the S Pen, which does offer a clear advantage over what the Note had highlighted at the time, in a much larger screen size.