For as long as anyone can remember, the Galaxy Note has held an almost unassailable position as the king of Android phablets. However, a strange leak from Evan Blass suggests that Samsung's days of dominating this segment by default may be coming to an end.

The image above you see is very clearly a Motorola-branded device, with the company's trademark clock and weather widgets front and center, and a hole-punched camera cutout fixed in the upper left corner like some Motorola One models. And the silver and black stylus on the right side appears to have a relatively blunt tip, indicating that it probably won't match the 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity of the S Pen.

This may suggest that this as-yet-unnamed Motorola phablet is intended as a budget or mid-range device rather than a bona fide Galaxy Note 10 or Note 10 Lite competitor. And in that segment, Motorola will indeed have some competition - only from the likes of LG, whose Stylo handsets are commonly offered on discount wireless carriers like Boost, T-Mobile's Metro and Cricket.

As Blass points out, this phone will be Motorola's first with a stylus since they started making Android devices in the first place. While that is somewhat exciting, it doesn't necessarily lock in sales in all regions, let alone the United States. Motorola already sells a number of devices, like the Motorola One Macro, exclusively in Europe, Asia, and South America, so it's possible that this phablet will suffer a similar fate.

That's all we know about this unexpected and mysterious Moto phone; more will be revealed at Mobile World Congress 2020, which opens on February 24. There, we'll likely hear about the next line of the popular and inexpensive Moto G and Moto E. Stay tuned.