From CNET: A note connotes something small, a brief comment or a single expression of tone in a piece of music. But the arrival of Samsung's first Galaxy Note was anything but small, playing perfectly into the company's "next big thing" campaign.
It was easy to understand that the Galaxy Note was big -- even the biggest at the time. Since then, though, the positioning of the Note subbrand has continued to shift. And with Samsung's release of the Galaxy Tab S, it's again searching for a defined proposition.
The smartphone that pioneered the phablet category was a polarizing device that set off an arms race -- that is, a contest to see which company could produce phones that did the most to tire one's arms. This resulted in beasts such as the Sony Xperia Z Ultra and Nokia's Lumia 1520. Nowadays, 5-inch-plus phones are so common that we've started to see something of a backlash with devices such as LG's G3 making the case that resolution has become the new battlefront in the war for display supremacy.
Indeed, with the release of the Galaxy Mega, it became clear that the Note was large not for the sake of largeness, but for better accommodating its S Pen input device. Nonetheless, even as Samsung outsized the Note with its own Galaxy Mega, the Note retained an air of being Samsung's top of the line.
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