Following 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, ...

Whether 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+ ...

I'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 ...

Samsung 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 ...

T-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 ...

A 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 ...

Look 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 ...

When we were in London to meet the Samsung Galaxy S III we noticed that the operation was very smooth, as it should be given the most powerful processor to be found on an Android device. However, Samsung's own TouchWiz UX is also smooth and a great improvement over previous versions and it is now available for other (select Samsung device users, for the moment). Let's start with the predecessor, the Galaxy S II. If you are running a Samsung-based ROM you could try TouchWiz UX on your device. There are two flavors, one with four columns and one with five. Head over to the first source link ...