Once Samsung integrated the S-Pen slot into the Galaxy Ultra 22, the Note’s spirit left its body and floated in the liminal region of brands that sometimes get mentioned in passing in marketing ...

In spite of the two lines’ shared DNA, the look and feel of this is 100% Note, right down to the rounded edges. I’d have gone with the Samsung Galaxy S22 Note — or hell, just the Galaxy Note 22.

First, Samsung has no plans to release another Galaxy Note device in 2022. That means that the only flagship-tier Galaxy smartphones next year will be the Galaxy S22 series and the new foldables.

Samsung says it’s improved latency by 70% over the S21 Ultra and even more over the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra — a claim that we look forward to putting to the test.