Galaxy Note 20 Updates End in 2025 - Here's What We Know

Reviewed by Corey Noles

It's time to pour one out for a legend. Samsung has officially moved the Galaxy Note 20 series from monthly to quarterly security updates, the beginning of the end for what was once the company's crown jewel. The Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra were the final devices to carry the Galaxy Note name, and now they are entering their twilight years with support ending in March or April 2025. If you watched this series evolve from an experimental phablet into a productivity powerhouse, you feel it. An era closing. A good time to ask what, exactly, made the Note so revolutionary.

The end of an era, but not the end of innovation

The Galaxy Note started as an oddball reviewers called "ridiculous" and "unusable" and became the template for the modern flagship. It did not just normalize big screens, it normalized paying premium prices for high end phones built for getting things done.

Its real legacy lives in how we use phones to create and work. The S Pen was more than a stylus. It unlocked precise notes, sketches, and workflows that made the Note essential for pros, students, and creatives. Think Palm Pilot spirit, rebuilt for the smartphone age, integrated so well the pen became the defining feature.

This final update schedule feels symbolic. As the last official Notes fade into history, new shapes are taking over. Foldables, rollables, form factors that sounded wild in 2011 now feel plausible. The Note proved people were ready to rethink what a phone could be, and that lesson still fuels today's experiments.

Samsung is doubling down on foldables and spreading S Pen support across the lineup. The Galaxy S Ultra line carries the Note's look and features, and the Z Fold family pushes productivity in a different direction. In a way, the Note did not die, it split into branches, each keeping a piece of its DNA.

What to Watch: Expect Samsung to keep deepening S Pen integration, with stylus support showing up in more corners of the Galaxy ecosystem. Any large screen with a pen tip owes a nod to the Note.

So here is to the Galaxy Note, the series that dared to be different and changed smartphones for good. Sometimes you predict the future by building it while everyone else rolls their eyes. The Note did not just succeed, it became the industry blueprint. Pour one out, indeed.