Yes. It is a phone+tablet (Phablet?). This is the
fastest Android phone available till now with 1.4 GHz Dual Core processor and
1GB RAM. Amazingly beautiful Super AMOLED 5.3"(800 x 1280) screen with 2500 mah battery, 16GB built in storage expandable with additional 32
GB memory card.
The 5.3"
screen is not as big as I assumed it to be in the hand. Looks very slim and
decent. This is the phone for the people
1. Who do not want
to carry a laptop
2. Who do not want
to carry around a tablet in addition to the phone
3. Who does most
of their work with emails, spreadsheets, social media and android apps
4. Who do not mind
the carrying around approximately 1.5x size of Galaxy S2.
5. Who enjoys
convergence to the extent that the phone and tablet are in a single
device.
6. Who would love to use the special features by SPen.
This is definitely
more than a smartphone and size wise less than a tablet. However the hardware
and software are on par (may be more).
I really like the
special functionalities of SPen. There are plenty of things one can imagine to
do with this SPen. Samsung seems to be very serious about their SPen and
released a SDK for developers.
Display, Speed,
Size and SPen are the specialties of this phone. Samsung also promised that they
will be updating the OS to latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) by 2012. Looking at aggressiveness of Samsung it may release it in 1st quarter of 2012. This is available in Bangalore at Rs. 32,500. Samsung showroom (Mantri Mall) was
selling at Rs. 31,900 as promotion offer. Samsung is also providing a designer
cover along with the package.
The only feature
that is futuristic and catching up rapidly is absent in Note is NFC (Near
Field Communication). I think with the commercial focus on this technology this
may come to India in a year, where you do not need to carry your Credit Cards
with you but just tap your phone on NFC scanner to make a payment at shops.
This can also be used to transfer files, photos, music, contacts from one
phone to other as promoted by Nokia Lumia 800. The technology is catching up
very fast. Google Nexus has the NFC antenna in its battery. In future it may be
possible that a non-NFC phone can be converted by just inserting a NFC enable
battery or Memory Card.
There are going to
be rain of smartphones in the 1st half of 2012. If you can wait, you may
consider Galaxy Nexus,
Lumia 900, iPhone 5 etc.
4 comments:
hi sreedhar its very informative review , thanks madhusudhana
Will galaxy note with android ver 2.3 upgraded with the new OS android 4.0 ?? or will samsung launch a new Phone for that ?
@Madhu, Thanks.
@ Rajeev, as I mentioned "Samsung also promised that they will be updating the OS to latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) by 2012." This is for S2 as well as Note.
Here is the list of phones to get ICS update
http://www.engadget.com/updates/which-devices-will-get-ice-cream-sandwich/
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