On the 29th of October, five years ago, Samsung gave the start to the sales of the first Galaxy Note. It seems a little strange to celebrate the date after the events that ended up putting an end to the short life of the Note 7, but still let’s remember how it all began.
The year is 2010. The smartphones are still in the early days, and are manufactured in small screens. The market wanted to offer small computers that he could fit in virtually all pockets. But a device has attempted to break this pattern.
no, that was Not the Galaxy Note. The first phablet to see the light of day was manufactured by Dell. Called Streak, the device was a failure, but it had sparkle enough to draw the attention of an executive from Samsung.
The 5 inch screen pleased, and he decided to ask a team of research and development of the company to produce a smartphone with a big screen for him. But he made a request to most, that the Streak did not: he wanted a kind of pen to be able to draw on the screen of the phablet.
Without being able to question the boss, the team began to think about how to respond to that request so unusual. At that time, any mobile phone with screen larger than 5 inches was automatically called "brick".
As he received a short period of time, and time was running out, the team decided to choose the least worst among those that were developed and built a prototype, which was presented to the executive. Interestingly enough, he loved it. And, more strange still, he decided to send manufacturing on a large scale.
Then, in 2011, the Galaxy Note was introduced to the world. Despite all the evidence pointing to a failure before the launch, the phablet of 5.3 inch, sold no less than 5 million copies in the first three months. If it was luck or vision of the future, we will never know exactly.
of Course, today, a smartphone of 5 inches is considered normal. Phablets have above 6 inches. But there is still a portion of users that want screens between 4 and 4.5 inches. It will be that, in the future, will be called miniphones?
Finally, the Galaxy Note was followed by five successors since then: the Note II, Note 3, Note 4, Note 5 and, finally, the explosive Note 7. Samsung hinted that there will be a Note 8, so let’s wait to see what happens.
because, after the events of this year, it is possible that a lot of people avoid buying a new phablet of the company. If is that Samsung is not going to lose a lot of consumer trembling with the explosion of any other of their devices – that is happening, but seem to be isolated cases.
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