Samsung Galaxy Note Android smart phone

Samsung Galaxy Note is an Android smart phone produced by Samsung Electronics. Unveiled at IFA Berlin 2011 it was first released in Germany in late October 2011 with other countries following afterwards. The Galaxy Note was distinguished by unusually large form factor later referred to using the term phablet which straddled the size of the average smart phone at the time and that of a small tablet it features a 5.3-inch display and is bundled with a stylus branded as the S Pen which can be used to navigate the device's user interface and write or draw in supported apps.

The Galaxy Note's hardware design is similar to the Samsung Galaxy S II, with a plastic-based construction, a hardware home button and capacitive menu and back keys. It was made available in Carbon Blue Ceramic White and pink colors finishes. The device is 9.7 mm thick with a weight of 178 g. Power and volume keys are located on the horizontal sides of the device, the headphone jack is located on the top, and a compartment for the stylus is located on the bottom corner. The rear cover can be exposed to access the battery compartment, as well as SIM and microSD card slots. The device includes a removable 2500 mAh Li-On battery.

The Galaxy Note features a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED Wide XGA display, with a display resolution of 800 x 1280 285 pixels per inch. It is sized between smart phones such as the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Tab 7.0 tablet this form factor was nicknamed a phablet by the press. The Galaxy Note uses a dual-core Exynos system-on-chip, with two ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores clocked at 1.4 GHz, a Mali-400 MP graphics core and 1 GB of RAM. It includes either 16 or 32 GB of internal storage expandable via a micro SD card. The Galaxy Note includes an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The Galaxy Note II features a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED S-Stripe RGB 3 sub pixels/pixel non-Pen Tile screen with 1280×720 resolution, a 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos CPU, 2 GB RAM, an 8 MP rear camera and 1.9 MP front camera, and a 3,100 mAh battery. It is slightly thinner than its predecessor at 9.4 mm 0.37 inches, albeit also being slightly heavier by 2 grams 0.071 oz. Depending on the specific model, the phone features HSPA+ 21 Mbit/s along with 4G LTE (42.2 Mbit/s DC-HSPA+ for LTE Version). The Galaxy Note II is equipped with Broadcom BCM4334 chipset for the IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz dual-band with maximum rate up to 150 Mbit/s, FM radio tuner and Bluetooth 4.0 + HS support.

The Galaxy Note II was supposed to be available in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB storage capacity variants, each expandable by up to an additional 64 GB with a micro SD card. However, as of 8 January 2013, only the 16 GB and 32 GB versions are available and there has been no release date for or any indication of a 64 GB version of the Note II to be offered.

The Galaxy Note includes a stylus branded as the S Pen, which is stored in a compartment on the lower panel of the phone. The Galaxy Note's display includes an active digitizer by Wacom with 128 levels of pressure sensitivity. The pen can replace the use of a finger in situations where precision is needed, but the device is also bundled with apps designed for use with the stylus. A button on the side of the pen can be used to activate special pen-oriented features and gestures in the system software.