Samsung Galaxy Note 8 📱is a careful comeback for the world’s 🌍 best phablet

Between the explosions, the recalls and its subsequent afterlife as airport PA system fodder, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the Galaxy Note 7 was a very good phone.

And in spite of some momentary speculation that the company might dump the Note altogether, it was pretty clear to Samsung from the outset that the name it had spent a half-dozen years building up was too valuable to abandon.

With the arrival of the Note 8, the phablet is now a full inch larger in screen size than the original model, a decision made, in part, to keep the device bigger (if only slightly) than the recently introduced Galaxy S8+.

I still find it tough to write legibly (to be fair, I have the same problem with pen and paper, as my third-grade teacher would tell you), and there are few scenarios in which I find it a superior input method to touchscreen typing.

The fact that Samsung didn't take any sort of perceivable hit in the wake of the Note 7 disaster wasn't so much a testament to the company's marketing ability (that still leaves something to be desired) - it was a reminder of just how much of the company's bottom line depends on its components business.

UCJ, UNILORIN.