Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Performing Strong Despite “Expert” Predictions

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4G is a very effective 4G smartphone with large high-resolution screen and tablet-like features. Tablet lovers who hate lugging around a huge tablet as well as toting their cell phone will be happy to know that the Galaxy Note 4G offers the best that a smartphone and tablet have to offer, in one device. But when it was first debuted with its large 5.3 inch display, industry analysts and other supposedly experts with years of experience in the smartphone marketplace said it would never catch on because it was simply too large.

However, Samsung Galaxy Note engineers and designers did an outstanding job in delivering the largest smartphone display found anywhere while also keeping the handset small enough to hold in one hand, and light enough to never be called bulky. The handset didn’t create the Phablet device category, but as sales rocketed through launch date, and the handset still sells extremely well for AT&T, it became the poster child of the phablet definition – part smartphone, part tablet. The handset also delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) wireless capabilities out-of-the-box, and offers unique handwriting recognition technology you can access with the smart stylus S Pen that ships with the Galaxy Note smartphone.

How far has the Galaxy Note 4G Android smartphone come in proving the “expert” naysayers wrong? The handset/tablet is estimated to have sold between 7 million and 10 million units as of June of this year, pretty impressive when you realize that it did not debut in the United States until February. A monster hit for both Samsung and AT&T, multitouch, capacitive gestures by your hand or the integrated S Pen provide multiple note taking, write-to-text and write-to-email applications.

The 5.3 inch display on the Galaxy Note has one of the highest resolutions found on any handset, at 800 x 1,280 pixels. The screen is protected by a scratch resistant layer of Corning Gorilla Glass which also provides glare reduction, and visuals are rendered in over 16 million separate colors. With approximately 25% better talk time than the average 4G smartphone offers from a single charge, the oversized 2,500 mA battery performs well. But even with that extended life cell, the Galaxy Note 4G is slim at 0.38 inches (10 mm). A speedy Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon microchip package is on board, and includes a powerful dual core 1.5 GHz Scorpion CPU and graphics dedicated Adreno 220 chip.

16 GB of built-in storage are present, as is 1.0 GB of RAM system memory, and a microSD slot is provided for storage expansion, supporting cards up to 32 GB in size. The Galaxy Note offers a front facing 2.0 megapixel chat cam and rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder in its camera combo. Video capture runs 1,080P HD resolution, and popular online destinations Facebook, Picasa, YouTube and Twitter have been pre-installed.  You can buy the Samsung Galaxy Note starting at $199 at select retailers.