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Samsung is not killing the Galaxy Note phone Brandi yet believe it or not we may actually see a Galaxy Note 8 next year how do we know because Samsung issued a statement offering South Korean customers the opportunity to trade up to a note 8 next year if they turn in their potentially dangerous note 7 now for a galaxy s7 the offer was reported by Reuters Samsung has not announced any sort of trade and offer for customers of other countries but this announcement shows that Samsung may not completely abandoned the Note brand even after the epically embarrassing disaster of needing to recall the note 7 phone twice and halt production because it was prone to catching fire so what Samsung's motto gonna be buy a Galaxy Note 8 this time it won't blow up but if Samsung expects the Note line to continue to be successful it needs to be transparent and what went wrong and Samsung needs to reassure customers that future phones won't also spontaneously combust the problem is Samsung still doesn't even know what was causing the batteries to overheat the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung is still trying to figure out what went wrong with the phones and it's causing the company to delay work on its upcoming Galaxy s8 flagship phone by two weeks that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash