Samsung Announces 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 Smartphone

Samsung’s Galaxy Note line has been famous for a bigness and, loyal to form, a just-announced Galaxy Note 3 smartphone is big.

The shade sizes have been creeping adult somewhat from Note to Note. The initial chronicle from 2011 totalled in during 5.3 inches, followed by a Note II during only over 5.5 inches, followed by a Note 3 during only bashful of 5.7 inches.

While a initial Galaxy Note’s 5.3-inch shade might have seemed diverting in 2011 (back afterwards we said, “As a phone, it’s so vast it’s roughly comical”), currently we’re awash in large-screen Android smartphones where a 5-inch shade is zero shocking.

An roughly comically vast shade nowadays? That would be Samsung’s 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega, a phone I’m guessing I’ll demeanour behind on in late 2015 before writing, “Today we’re awash in large-screen Android smartphones where a 6-inch shade is zero shocking.” Who knows if they’ll even still be Android phones by then.

While Samsung has managed to boost a shade distance in a latest iteration of a Galaxy Note, a association has kept a bezel on possibly side of a phone a same breadth as a Note II. This is a initial of a Galaxy Note handsets to competition a 1080p display, too. The initial dual models sported 720p screens.

Under a hood, reports CNET, there’s a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, 3 gigabytes of RAM, a vast 3,200mAh battery and a 13-megapixel camera.

Samsung has again enclosed a Note’s princely S-Pen stylus as well, earnest that “significant improvements” have been done this time around. An “Action Memo” underline lets we handwrite a person’s phone series and pretension on a practical post-it note-style pad, that is afterwards saved to your contacts, for instance. There’s also a digital scrapbooking underline that lets we round tools of webpages for after viewing, finish with links behind to a strange sites.

Running dual applications corresponding was introduced with a Galaxy Note II; that underline is back, though now we can run a same app in dual windows. The Samsung repute demonstrating a underline pulled adult dual instances of Samsung’s discuss program to drag and dump discuss entries between chats with dual opposite people. There’s also a “box” underline wherein we can use a S-Pen to pull your possess custom-sized window within that to run a second app.

The Galaxy Note 3 will be accessible starting in October. Prices haven’t nonetheless been set by U.S. carriers.