[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Electronics plans to debut the Galaxy Note 8 on Aug. 23, The Bell reported on July 12.
A Samsung executive also told The Investor that the bigger-screen phone will be unveiled later next month in New York but declined to confirm the Aug. 23 date.
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According to sources, Samsung recently decided to advance the Note launch to start the phone sales from September globally. The earlier launch comes amid growing speculations that Apple’s iPhone 8 release could be delayed due to supply constraints of some parts such as chips and displays.
While launching its flagship S phone early in the year, Samsung has unveiled a Note phone in September usually at the IFA trade show in Berlin in response to a new iPhone that comes out in the latter half of the year.
The new Note phablet, the successor of the ill-fated Note 7 last year, is expected to come with the English version of Samsung’s artificial intelligence assistant Bixby and an upgraded stylus S-Pen that supports translation functions.
The phone is likely to have a 6.3-inch display screen that compares with the 6.2-inch screen of the S8 Plus.
By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldcorp.com)