When the Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android smartphone/tablet arrived, industry analysts and experts alike generally agreed that the device display caused the handset to be too large. However, Samsung engineers and designers did a great job of making the housing and chassis surrounding the 5.3 inch display as small and light as possible, and the handset can easily be held in one hand while navigated with the other. As one of the first devices to effectively deliver on the new device category “phablet” nomenclature, the Galaxy Note is effectively a 4G capable smartphone with powerful processor and large high-resolution screen, as well as a tablet-like device with large display and handwriting recognition technology.
Buy the Samsun Galaxy Note 4G starting at $199.
Usually, the analysts and so-called experts in a particular consumer-electronics industry can pretty well predict whether a new device will be successful or not, and whether the buying public will embrace the device or reject it. This is one of those rare situations where industry analysts with years of experience in the consumer-electronics field missed the boat in predicting just how popular the large high-resolution screen of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android smartphone would be.
Depending on which sales numbers you accept, globally the Samsung Galaxy Note has sold between 7 million and 10 million units as of June of this year. To say it has been a successful handset for both Samsung and AT&T since the device launch in the United States in February of this year would be an understatement. The smart stylus S Pen accepts multitouch capacitive gestures to deliver native handwriting applications to the handset owner, and the 5.30 inch display has a high-end device resolution of 800 x 1,280 pixels. That screen is protected by a scratch resistant layer of Corning Gorilla Glass, and visuals are rendered in more than 16 million different colors.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4G also delivers approximately 25% better talk time than the average 4G smartphone, at 10.00 hours after a single charge of its oversized 2,500 mA battery. Even with that thicker cell the handset is skinny at 0.38 inches (10 mm). A Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon microchip package is on board, and includes a speedy dual core 1.5 GHz Scorpion central processor and graphics dedicated Adreno 220 GPU.
The handset contains 1.0 GB of RAM system memory and 16 GB of built-in storage, with a microSD slot providing support up to 32 GB. The Galaxy Note offers a front facing 2.0 megapixel chat cam and rear mounted 8.0 megapixel camcorder in the camera combo, and that rear device provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution. Facebook, Picasa, YouTube and Twitter applications have been pre-installed, and Near Field Communications (NFC) support is offered out-of-the-box as well. Buy the Samsun Galaxy Note 4G starting at $199.
