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Samsung Galaxy Note is available to pre-order
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung's phone tablet, or tablet phone, the Galaxy Note will set consumers back £600.
When it tips up, currently unknown as to when, Samsung's Galaxy Note will cost £600 SIM free. Online retailer Clove.co.uk is taking pre-orders for the gadget with this unconfirmed price.
In its blog Clove said, "Please be aware that at this stage the price is unconfirmed, but we have enabled the buy facility with a speculative price to give customers the opportunity to register an interest and reserve a handset."
Samsung revealed the Galaxy Note last week at the IFA show in Berlin. It looks at the device as "a new category of product" with its 5.3in HD Super AMOLED display with 800x1280 resolution. It's either a small tablet or a large phone.
The Galaxy Note will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and be driven by a 1.4GHz dual-core processor. It will also have an 8MP camera, 2MP front facing webcam and a 'Smart Pen' stylus for control and on screen notation. The device will have 16GB of onboard storage that can be expanded via the microSD card slot.
When the Galaxy Note arrives it will be 9.65mm thick and weigh 178g. Samsung also announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7 last week, which it then pulled from the show after legal action from Apple. µ
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To me, the only excuse this screen might have is that its pentile matrix had both 1280x800 green and ***RED*** subpixels and only blue one is of 640x400. By some reason (eye chromatic aberrations i suspect) the lower resolution of blue subpixels is not that noticeable
May be by chance you can suggest if Samsung will present something soon in the vicinity of San Francisco for me to make a macro shot of the screen?
It's not that i am very interested with this phone, specifically after finding it also does not have HDMI or DLNA but i like large phones and very high resolutions. 1920x1200 pentile would be a hit. This way you can make the phone very usable and even mix the phone and the tablet in one single bottle.
Also, having such size phone you must decide if you bring with you your phone or the wallet, noth both, LOL. But seems it also has no NFC chip...
It's very unclear as to what we should understand the new 'super AMOLED HD' to entail, it's said it is pentile but it's unclear in what configuration and what resolution the various pixels are.
It's best to judge it on how it actually looks, and from people seeing the samsung note it looks pretty good. I hear the various tech blog IFA visitors were just really taken when they saw it and certainly didn't notice any issue with the display, the only mention they made is the drawing on the thing to be something they had to get the hang of, one of the reason being that the surface is perceived slippery to the supplied stylus.
Still.. 600 quid aint cheap and I hope for the customers that that's just the first hinted price and not the actual shop price in the end.
Deceiving customers with good looking numbers. Sure it's 1280x800
In fact it has 1280x800 resolution only for green, while for red and blue subpixels it has 640x400 which is less then VGA!!! WOW, ON SUCH HUGE SCREEN having PPI for red/blue less then in the first iPhone circa 2007. Though total amount of subpixels is here the same as in qHD screens but you definitely will see terrible pixelation on red, yellow & orange, where PPI is ... 142 !!! I do not see why anyone who will buy this overpriced sh@t when at the end of the year there will be plenty true 720p phones.
Epic fail for otherwise very good phone