Samsung launches Galaxy Note 8 hoping to extinguish Note 7 memories
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3029R)
South Korean firm adds dual cameras and infinity screen to stylus-equipped big smartphone flagship to make amends for fire-prone predecessor
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 8, the most important big smartphone in the company's history, is launching in New York today, hoping to right the wrongs of last year's "exploding" Note 7 and tempt people away from rivals with a new dual-camera system and massive "infinity display".
The Note 8 looks to rekindle Samsung's dominance of the so-called "phablet" category, which the company invented with 2011's original Galaxy Note, featuring the same winning formula that made its predecessors a success until the Note 7 debacle: big screen, big specs, long battery life and an advanced stylus to "get things done".
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