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Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 2

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Samsung officially announced the next generation of its popular oversized smartphone the Galaxy Note at an event held in Berlin, Germany. The Galaxy Note 2 is seen as an overall improvement over the niche-making Galaxy Note.

The Galaxy Note 2 now sports a slightly larger touchscreen  at 5.5 inches. The first gen Galaxy Note had a 5.3 inch touchscreen.  But even with the slightly larger screen, the Galaxy Note 2 has gotten thinner at 9.4mm and also taller. The reason is that the new screen has also gotten taller and wider with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The Super AMOLED screen has a resolution of 720p. [Read more…]

Samsung To Release Galaxy Note 10.1

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was a new product by Samsung that was first shown during the Mobile World Congress held last February. The Galaxy Note 10.1 was a mashup of a device – bringing together the Galaxy Tab with the S-Pen stylus that was one of the major innovations of the Galaxy Note.

Unfortunately, it did not get a lot of excited reception from the people who saw it, mainly because some of the specifications were a little suspect. First, it only has a relatively vanilla 1.4Ghz dual core processor and a 1280 x 800 pixel display resolution. These were specs that was unimpressive, to say the least and it became immediately unattractive when Apple release the New Ipad and its far superior hardware. [Read more…]