https://qz.com/1069348/review-should-you-get-the-samsung-galaxy-note-8-probably/

Last year, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 7, which I called the best large phone on the market. Many other reviewers liked it, too. But not too long after it went on sale, reports came in that the devices had been catching fire, and within months, Samsung issued a global recall of the over 4 million phones it had sold so far.

Samsung recovered quickly from the Note debacle—even as the company’s head was accused and later convicted of corruption—producing the fine Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones in April. But many have been fans of the Note line of devices, with their larger screens and S Pen styluses, that have long set them apart in the market, and so would likely have been waiting on tenterhooks for a new Note that would live up to past models—and hopefully not explode.