Samsung Galaxy Note
 Galaxy Note logo from 2015 to 2020, without the Samsung logo | |
 Galaxy Note 20 (left) and Note 20 Ultra (right), the series' last models | |
| Manufacturer | Samsung Electronics |
|---|---|
Product family | Samsung Galaxy |
| Type | Smartphones Tablet computers |
| Released | 29 October 2011 |
| Discontinued | December 2021 |
| Android | |
| Samsung Exynos (2011–2020) Qualcomm Snapdragon (2011–2014, 2016–2020) | |
| Input | Touchscreen Stylus |
| Predecessor | Samsung Omnia Series |
| Successor | Samsung Galaxy S series (succeeded by "Ultra" editions since Galaxy S22) (phablets) Samsung Galaxy Tab S series (succeeded by Galaxy Tab S3) (tablet computers) |
| Related | Samsung Galaxy S series Samsung Galaxy Tab Samsung Galaxy Tab S series Samsung Galaxy Z series Samsung Galaxy Watch series |
The Samsung Galaxy Note series is a discontinued line of high-end flagship Android-based phablets manufactured, developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The line was primarily oriented towards pen computing; all Galaxy Note models shipped with a stylus pen, called the S Pen, and incorporate a pressure-sensitive Wacom digitizer. All Galaxy Note models also include software features that are oriented towards the stylus and the devices' large screens, such as note-taking, digital scrapbooking apps, tooltips, and split-screen multitasking. The line served as Samsung's flagship smartphone model, positioned and slotted above the Galaxy S series, and was part of the wider Samsung Galaxy series of Android computing devices.
The Galaxy Note smartphone series is noteworthy for being considered the first commercially successful examples of "phablets"—a class of smartphones with large screens that are intended to straddle the functionality of a traditional tablet with that of a phone, and having helped accelerate the trend of bigger screened smartphones becoming the norm around the mid 2010s. Samsung sold over 50 million Galaxy Note devices between September 2011 and October 2013.
In August 2021, TM Roh, Samsung's president and head of mobile communications, announced that no new Galaxy Note device would be unveiled at their 2021 launch event, which would instead focus on new foldable phones. "Instead of unveiling a new Galaxy Note this time around, we will further broaden beloved Note features to more Samsung Galaxy devices," he added. Elements of the Note series would later be integrated into certain models of the Galaxy S series since the Galaxy S21 under "Ultra" editions, with the Galaxy S22 Ultra being the first to include an S Pen.