Samsung announced a Galaxy Note 3, that takes the S Pen formation to a …
The tenure “phablet” became something of a domicile name during a final integrate of years. Though we’ve seen some plain entries from other companies, Samsung’s Galaxy Note line deserves full credit for popularizing a giganto-phones. Today a association announced a 2013 book of a flagship phablet, a Galaxy Note 3.
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The Note 3 continues a trend we saw with a Note 2, with an even incomparable screen, and even smaller bezels. We’re looking during a 5.7″ display, totalled diagonally, with 1080p (1920 x 1080) resolution. That has it entrance out to about 388 pixels per in. (PPI), that should have calm and images looking significantly crook than a 267 PPI shade on a Note 2.
The Note 3 should have copiousness of horsepower underneath a hood, as it rocks Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor. The LTE chronicle has a quad core processor clocked during 2.3 GHz. The HSPA+ version, meanwhile, rocks a 1.9 GHz octa core CPU. With an abounding 3 GB of RAM rounding out a performance-related specs, this puppy should scream.
The Note 3 has a new soothing textured behind with excellent stitching, stability with a company’s cover theme. The phablet weighs 168 g (5.93 oz.), and is about 12 percent thinner than a Note 2, magnitude during 8.3 mm thick.
The phablet will boat in both 32 GB and 64 GB models, and, staying with Samsung‘s trend, it has a microSD label slot. A 3,200 mAh battery, a 13 MP rear-facing camera (capable of sharpened 4K video) and a 1.9 MP front-facing camera turn out a primary specs.
S Pen
It wouldn’t be a Galaxy Note but a stylus, and an softened chronicle of Samsung‘s S Pen earnings to a party. Here Samsung combined a few software-related goodies, and they all revolve around a underline called Air Command. Tap a S Pen, call adult a Air Command cake menu, and burst true into tasks like jotting discerning memos, grabbing shade calm for later, and multitasking.
That multitasking drew a biggest cheers from Samsung‘s Unpacked event. No longer singular to only using a few apps side-by-side, a Note 3 now lets we run mixed versions of a same app in mixed windows. So we can use Samsung‘s discuss app to have mixed chats open during a same time. You can also open name apps on tip of your primary app. The instance Samsung showed us had a Calculator app opening, to make some discerning calculations, while you’re in a center of a chat.
Software, release
All of those program facilities are, of course, tethered to Samsung‘s TouchWiz UI. Here it’s sitting on tip of Android 4.3. The Galaxy S4 also launched with a (at a time) latest chronicle of Android, and unless Google launches Android 4.4 Kit Kat before a Note launches subsequent month, afterwards it will have a latest chronicle as well. Kudos to Samsung for improving in that dialect during a final year.
The Galaxy Note 3 will be accessible initial in a US and Japan, and will start shipping on Sep 25. We design conduit info and pricing to follow within a entrance weeks, if not sooner.
For some-more on a Note 3, check out the hands-on initial impressions, true from Berlin.
