Generally speaking, the best time to buy a smartphone, if you are looking for the maximum combination of features and hardware at the lowest possible price, is right before the release of its follow-up device. A good example is the powerful, big-screen Galaxy Note II handset. The Sprint Galaxy Note II 4G mobile phone which delivers a large 5.55 inch high resolution display was recently slashed in price to only $19 on contract at the Amazon Wireless store online. This came at the same time that rumors were swirling about an upcoming Galaxy Note III phablet release.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II is available for a reduced sale price now starting at .
Just one of many Galaxy Note III release date rumormongers is Dustin Earley of AndroidAndMe, who has confidently stated that the official unveiling of the upcoming Samsung phablet will take place on September 6 at the annual IFA Trade Show in Berlin, Germany. He is not alone in that prediction, and whether that release date comes to pass for the Galaxy Note III or not, the drastically reduced retail price at Amazon for the Sprint Galaxy Note II makes an already bestselling and flagship smartphone even more attractive to mobile handset shoppers.
Easily the most popular features on the Galaxy Note II are the large high resolution display, split screen support and powerful quad core processor. You can actually divide your display into two smaller screens, and use them independently. Watch a movie on one half of the large touchscreen, while composing an e-mail on the other, or perform any other pair of independent activities. But the true productivity-enhancement feature of the Multi-Window split screen support comes when you integrate your activities between the two smaller displays, moving back and forth between the two, dragging and dropping content and performing other activities.
The phone has been popular from the start, when it arrived in October of last year. Following in the mammoth footprints of the original Galaxy Note smartphone, the handset delivers a beautiful and massive display, but is slim in stature. The Galaxy Note II for Sprint measures 0.37 inches (9.3 mm) in thickness, while still delivering a large 5.55 inch Super AMOLED screen with True HD 720 by 1,280 pixel resolution. That display is aligned in a 16 to 9 aspect ratio, the perfect format for viewing True HD recorded videos and movies.
On the Sprint network, the first 4G LTE system by that company in the United States, you can expect up to 15.0 hours of talk time from a full battery charge, and the phone is powered by a Samsung Exynos 4 system-on-a-chip. The quad core CPU has been clocked at 1.6 GHz, a quad core GPU is also on board, as is a generous 2.0 GB of RAM memory and 16 GB of data storage space. Samsung has included a microSD slot for storage expansion, and the main camera is a rear facing 8.0 megapixel shooter with the capability of recording video in 1,080P HD resolution and 30 frames per second.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at .
