

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 served as Samsung's flagship smartphone model, positioned above the 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 is a discontinued line of high-end Android phablets and smartphones developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics.
