The Galaxy S8 May Be The Only Samsung Flagship Smartphone Released Next Year

Samsung’s discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 has had a major impact on the company’s mobile division, as well as on the businesses of component suppliers. It’s clear that a combination of multiple factors has caused the whole Note 7 fiasco and Samsung may need to rethink its whole smartphone strategy.

In the past few years, Samsung’s mobile division released two flagship smartphones per year, the Galaxy S model in H1 and the Galaxy Note in the second half of the year. The company worked hard on bringing innovation with each model in these two series, which means that its development departments must have surely faced tight deadlines.

This could have put enormous pressure on engineers, especially those from the quality assurance department. Some say that if the company had only released one premium smartphone per year, then it would...