The speaker is placed at the bottom, while placed on the rear side on the Note 1, 2 and 4. Unlike its predecessor, it is not equipped with an FM radio. On 4 September 2013, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 3, which introduced a more 'premium' design with a plastic leather backing, and a 5.7 inch (145 mm) 1080p display, 3 GB of RAM, new 4K video recording capabilities at 30 frames per second (up to 5 minutes per video availability varies per region), 1080p at twice the framerate (60fps “smooth motion” option), a USB 3.0 connector, an infrared transmitter for use as remote control, a third microphone for noise cancellation, multi-windowing, and expanded stylus pen functionality. 'Instead of unveiling a new Galaxy Note this time around, we will further broaden beloved Note features to more Samsung Galaxy devices,' he added. 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.

10 million units of the Galaxy Note 3 have been sold within its first 2 months, 30 million were of the Note II, while the original Galaxy Note sold around 10 million units worldwide. Samsung sold over 50 million Galaxy Note devices between September 2011 and October 2013. The Galaxy Note smartphones have been considered the first commercially successful examples of ' phablets'-a class of smartphone with large screens that are intended to straddle the functionality of a traditional tablet with that of a phone. The line serves as Samsung's flagship smartphone model, positioned above the Samsung Galaxy S series. 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 is primarily oriented towards pen computing all Galaxy Note models ship with a stylus pen and incorporate a pressure-sensitive Wacom digitizer. The Samsung Galaxy Note series was a series of high-end Android phablets and smartphone developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics.

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