[Full Galaxy Note Review] Equipped with a capacitive stylus, the Samsung Galaxy Note was announced at IFA 2011. The smartphone sports a large 5.3-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280x800 resolution. Inside, it's packing a dual-core 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos processor. It comes running Google Android 2.3 with Samsung's TouchWiz UI. It also features two cameras, one front facing two-megapixel camera for video chat and a rear facing eight-megapixel camera with LED flash. Read on for the latest Samsung Galaxy Note news, reviews and videos:
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 31, 2012 9:03 AMRead OnAugust 8 is the date to circle in your calendar and $250 is the amount of money you should have ready 0n that date if you want to grab a Samsung Galaxy Note from T-Mobile (even if it will be a couple of weeks ahead of the rumored Galaxy Note 2 mid-August, pre-IFA launch). If you still decide to get one, prepare to update it as soon as you unbox it. T-Mobile is preparing an out-of-the-box over-the-air update for the 5.3-incher rolling out on August 8. It will pack Android 4.0.3 and naturally it will also be available via KIES, to bring you nothing major, except some bugfixes for the weather ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 30, 2012 1:22 PMRead OnFollowing months of rumors and leaked documents pointing to the arrival of Samsung's Galaxy Note at T-Mobile, the carrier made things official earlier this month. At the time, though, T-Mobile wasn't quite ready to share any of the specifics regarding just when it might start selling the Note, nor for what price. We saw August 8 mentioned as a potential retail launch date, and it looks like that leak was spot-on, with the carrier now confirming things. The Note will sell for just about $250 on-contract, and after factoring-in a mail-in rebate. That's the same as it's going for on AT&T, ...
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by Brandon Miniman | July 27, 2012 11:26 AMRead OnJelly Bean is increasingly becoming available for a wide range of Android phones. First we showed you the Galaxy S III, then the One X, and now the Galaxy Note with this early build of Android 4.1 via a preview of CyanogenMod 10. So far, we've found the CM10 previews to be exceptionally stable and (most importantly) fast. How about the Galaxy Note? Well, that might be the exception. While the CM10 preview works in terms of functionality, there are some performance issues that keep it from being as incredibly smooth as the other two aforementioned devices. There seems to be some lag when ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 17, 2012 1:42 AMRead OnWhether you are an Android, Samsung, phablet, Galaxy Note or T-Mobile fan, this should be exciting. After a long period of waiting the carrier finally announced, and officially, that the Samsung Galaxy Note becomes part of its line-up. Is it too late for the Galaxy Note, knowing that it will turn one year old next month and probably there's already a refresh in the not-so-distant future? It will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box with the Premium feature set installed (S Pen, S Note, S Memo and Polaris Office), feature the same 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED screen, 4G (HSPA+ ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 16, 2012 7:20 PMRead OnIt's hardly a secret that T-Mobile has been preparing to start carrying the Samsung Galaxy Note. After all, considering the amount of circumstantial evidence that has been piling-up, you'd have to be willfully ignorant to not see the signs of the phone's pending arrival. Despite confidence being high in a T-Mobile Note, the carrier had yet to officially confirm anything at all regarding its intentions for the phone. That finally changes today, upon T-Mobile tweeting its announcement of the Galaxy Note. After all this waiting, T-Mobile's confirmation still feels a bit empty, as it doesn't ...
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by Michael Fisher | July 11, 2012 7:17 PMRead OnI'm one of those people who uses his tablet in bed. In fact, that was one of my biggest justifications for purchasing an iPad in the first place; bedborne browsing has for years been one of my favorite ways of drifting off. For much of that time, though, it was a cumbersome process. I was either awkwardly chained to a notebook computer, with its accompanying fan-port and form-factor headaches, or confined to browsing on a 3" smartphone screen- not ideal for eyeballs already weary from staring at displays all day. Early in the iPad's quest to popularize consumer tablets, I bought one, and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 10, 2012 3:31 AMRead OnUsers of the international Samsung Galaxy Note are already enjoying Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on their devices but the waiting seems to be over for those on AT&T who are rocking the almost one year old 5.3-incher. The refresh should be pushed out today, July 10. The firmware update will apply a platform refresh to Ice Cream Sandwich with its key features -- like Face Unlock, data management as well as Android Beam -- as well as the Premium Suite which contains device-specific goodies, like the brand new S-Note app and S-Memo widget. Make sure to check for the update's ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 6, 2012 12:17 PMRead OnSamsung may be well into planning the follow-up to last year's stylus-packing Galaxy Note, with rumors suggesting the company will release a handset with a slightly-larger 5.5-inch screen. Despite this, the Note 2 supposedly wouldn't be any wider than its predecessor, and we've heard that Samsung may be targeting an October release window. The latest rumor reiterates that 5.5-inch figure, and makes some new suggestions about how the phone will be announced. According to "a source familiar with the matter", Samsung could reveal the Note 2 at this year's IFA in Berlin, which kicks-off on ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 4, 2012 12:59 PMRead OnWhile Galaxy Note users in the States continue to await updates bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to their handsets, distribution is well underway for the international edition of the Note. Not everything has been going smoothly, though, with reports coming in from France that the ICS update for the Note there is causing crashes and even bricking. Samsung has acknowledged that something is amiss, and is inviting users who have run into such problems to contact its technical support department. In the interim, it's halted distribution of the ICS update, at least in France. Hopefully Samsung will ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 29, 2012 7:56 PMRead OnT-Mobile's getting the Samsung Galaxy Note. We've seen early shots of the phone in action, read about possible release dates in leaked roadmaps, discovered the model's FCC paperwork, and most recently got to look at some press renders. Despite all this, T-Mobile has yet to officially announce its plans for the Note. We'd been expecting that to change very soon, as that leaked roadmap mentioned a July 11 retail launch for the handset. That may not be coming to pass, as a newly-leaked internal document now shows the Note not arriving until we're well into August. The document shows an ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 25, 2012 4:32 AMRead OnThe Samsung Galaxy Note will soon turn one-year old and the internet is already burning because of all the Samsung Galaxy Note II rumors. However, this should't stop Samsung and T-Mobile fans from being excited over the Galaxy Note and its appearance on Magenta. It's been rumored (and expected) for quite some time and last we heard it received its FCC certification. The image above and the one below are reportedly official press renders of the T-Mobile variant. As you can see, it's nothing out of the ordinary (still following the Galaxy S II guidelines in terms of removing the home button ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 19, 2012 1:35 PMRead OnA couple weeks ago, some rumors started going around concerning a potential follow-up to Samsung's Galaxy Note. These rumors suggested that the Note 2 would see its release in October of this year, but we weren't convinced just how reliable that information might be, especially as it arrived accompanied by a lot of hardware specs that sounded like pure guesswork. Now a new rumor arrives making just a couple specific claims about the Note 2, including the use of one special component we've been hearing about for years. Remember the flexible OLED display prototypes we keep seeing demoed at ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 11, 2012 7:58 PMRead OnFollowing the US debut of Samsung's Galaxy Note on AT&T and its fledgling LTE service, it seems like the phone has been doing everything in its power to make it over to T-Mobile, as well. First, we heard about efforts from hackers to modify the phone's radio software to provide some very basic T-Mobile 3G support. Later, some leaked pictures purported to show an official T-Mobile version of the Note in the works, revealed as Samsung model number SGH-T879. Tonight, that model pops-up at the FCC, upon the publication of the phone's certification paperwork. Just like we'd expect to see, ...
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by Michael Fisher | June 11, 2012 12:57 PMRead OnLook here: Samsung's Galaxy Note passed the 5-million-units-sold mark in March. That's sold, not shipped. Current sales estimates hover between 7 and 10 million Galaxy Notes circulating in the wild. That's a lot of units for a device as unique as the Note, with its monstrous 5.3-inch screen and accompanying oversized casing. Indeed, the Note was the first device to focus worldwide attention on a new sub-category of devices, commonly referred to as "phablets." While some consider that portmanteau of "phone" and "tablet" to be a derisive term, I don't think it is- and it certainly hasn't ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 25, 2012 7:27 PMRead OnWe've been waiting for some sort of confirmation on when Samsung's eagerly-anticipated Galaxy S III would become available in the States, and while we still lack precise official word, tonight a newly-leaked roadmap out of T-Mobile gives us some anticipated dates for a couple upcoming models, including the GS3. According to this leak, T-Mobile will first get the Galaxy S III in blue on June 20 (the same date we've seen tipped for the phone's Canadian release), with the white version following on July 11. This is interesting for a couple reasons, first because that's precisely the opposite ...