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LG today announced that it is prepared to deal with Samsung when it comes to affordable phablet the fray. Right in front of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will soon be LG’s G3 Stylus, a phablet which is actually less powerful than the Note 4, but take it much cheaper and just as easy to use.

The LG G3 Stylus is a phablet that fits in the G3 line smartphones and therefore has the same UX ( user experience ) as for example the LG G G3 Beat and Vista. Unlike those smartphones, the G3 Stylus gets larger qHD screen, no less than 5.5 inch. The pen is supplied according to LG comfortably in the hand and seems to be to get you scribbling, writing and drawing perfect – that is a lot more modest than Samsung defines the S Pen . The phablet additionally be pre-installed apps that users between entertainment and work can change.

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Earlier this phablet was already gone in a video of LG .

As the LG UX G3 Stylus same as the LG G3 smartphone, it benefits from all the things that the manufacturer has well organized with its platform. For example, the Stylus a thirteen-megapixel camera with the same features as on G3, as Touch & amp; Shoot, Gesture Shot and Front Camera Light. In addition, the Stylus a replaceable battery of 3000mAh. However, further specifications in part to: as is the 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, a step back from the G3′s 801 2.5Ghz Snapdragon chipset. Also, the front camera only 1.3 megapixels – the G3 has 2.1

The Stylus runs on Android 4.4.2, has eight gigabytes of storage, and one gigabyte of RAM.. The rest of the specifications makes LG announced next week at the IFA in Berlin. That this LG phablet opposite Note 4 turn, may seem a strange move because the specs do not come close to the Galaxy Note 4 so far. But LG has one ace in the hole: the price. Although the manufacturer has not yet announced, it is likely that (far) goes down, below the price of the Note 4 because the components of the Stylus are slightly cheaper once now.

                     In early September, Samsung has presented at the IFA in Berlin, Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, a special variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 whose screen extends over the edge. Initially Samsung said that the phone was going to be ,, already indicate new signals to a wider release. Released in a limited number of countries

Key Features: 12.2-inch 2560 x 1600p display;
Quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor; Magazine UX
Manufacturer: Samsung

What is the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2?

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is an expansion of the Note phone and tablet range. It’s a 12.2-inch Android tablet with a pressure sensitive S Pen stylus.

Samsung has packed the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 full of business apps to help give it a different angle to the new 12.2-inch Tab Pro. However, the stylus makes more sense than ever on a large screen like this, and it is a cut above its Tab-series brothers in a few respects.


The large screen, relatively heavy body and pricier-than-an-iPad Air £649 cost mean it’s not for everyone. But it’s a great tablet for the right person.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Design

Until last year, Samsung made glossy plastic tablets. Virtually all of its tablets and phones were made of shiny plastic, and it led to near-constant criticism of its top-end devices. They simply didn’t look or feel as expensive as they were.

Samsung’s answer to this is a new design, first seen in phones like the Galaxy Note 3 and shared by the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. Glossy plastic has been switched for rubberised plastic with a leather-effect texture. To complete the fake ‘handmade’ look, there’s pretend stitching embossed into the edges of the back.

It’s not a look we love, but it comes across better here than in previous ‘leather’ tablets like the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition. The Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is better-built than its brothers, and is far stiffer than we expected from a Samsung tablet as large as this. Its outer shell may be plastic, but there’s a rigid metal cage underneath that stops it from flexing.

The rubberised finish is also grippier than glossy plastic or anodised aluminium.

However, before buying a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 you need to think carefully about how you’ll use it. At 750g it’s too heavy to use in one hand, making it much less flexible as a portable tablet than an iPad Air or Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. It’s large too – a 12.2-inch screen is larger than that of some small laptops.

The placement of the front soft keys and the central select button are not designed for one-handed use at all either. Samsung has sensibly given up any idea of trying to make a 12.2-inch tablet ultra-portable in the same manner as its phones. However, the buttons do respond to the S Pen stylus as well as a finger – the earliest Note devices’ buttons didn’t. The S Pen lives in a little hole on the tablet’s right edge.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Connections and Hardware

This is a tablet aimed at the rather vague target of power users, and this is seen throughout the hardware, not just in the large screen. Like the Galaxy Note 3, it uses a USB 3.0 port rather than the older, slower USB 2.0 type. It looks like a normal microUSB port with a half-formed twin attached. In the Note 3 we thought it was overkill, but here it fits in well – it’s not as if there’s not enough edge space to go around.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s USB 3.0 port allows much faster file transfers, and faster charging over a USB 3.0 port on a computer. However, you’ll still want to use the charger if you can. USB 2.0 power output maxes out at 500mA, USB 3.0 at 900mA. The tablet’s charger is a 2000mA power source, and even with that charging takes a while.

This port is also MHL-compliant. Using an MHL adapter you can output the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s screen content to any display with an HDMI input.

Completing the trinity of basic geek-friendly hardware features is the microSD slot. You get 32GB storage (23GB accessible) as standard, but a covered memory card slot lets you add up to 64GB pretty cheaply.

The obvious missing thing here is a way to turn the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 into a laptop. There are no docking points on its bottom or its sides that might open the doors to a keyboard accessory that would turn the Note into a Android laptop.

If you want a laptop-tablet hybrid, this isn’t it. Look to the Asus Transformer Book T100 or the Transformer Pad TF701T instead. You can, of course, use a Bluetooth keyboard with the Note 12.2, though.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Screen & Sound Quality

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has a 12.2-inch screen, as its name suggests. It’s a big, bright, widescreen display that offers a much larger video-watching, reading and drawing space than any previous Note tablet or phone.

On paper its very strong. This is a 2560 x 1600 pixel display – the same resolution as the 10.1-inch Note 2014 edition. And it is an LCD-type screen, rather than the AMOLED type used in Samsung’s Note phones.

Despite a solid screen resolution, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 doesn’t offer that strong an impression of sharpness. It’s because of the kind of subpixel array used in the screen.

Rather than using uniform rows of red, green and blue pixels, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has rows of red, green, blue and white pixels. It increases power efficiency, but dramatically decreases how sharp a screen appears. It’s down to the uniformity of the rows of pixels – consecutive rows are shunted by a subpixel, causing straight lines to look fuzzy. It also has a patterning effect on block colour/white areas.

This pixel arrangement is part of the PenTile family, and it lets the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 increase brightness with less power consumption than rival RGB screens. And top brightness is indeed pretty searing. Whether you prefer the pure image quality of RGB (as seen in the iPad Air) or better efficiency is down to your own taste. But we’d opt for image quality every time – especially in a tablet with design/arty potential like this.

We saw this symptom in the Note 10.1 2014 Edition and didn’t see it as a big problem, but here the lower pixel density makes it more apparent.

The backlight in our review sample is also inconsistent. In a darkened room it’s extremely clear where the side-firing LEDs that light the screen live, and when viewed from certain angles, the screen greys as the backlight’s separate presence becomes all too obvious.

This is a good screen, but ultimately we’re a little disappointed. We wanted a great one - and we deserve one for £650.

Another important feature for the home tablet is speakers. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 makes a good start with stereo speakers – there’s a driver on each end.

Side-firing drivers give a distinct stereo image when the tablet is held out in front of you. However, the sound quality isn’t particularly remarkable. Like most tablet speakers that haven’t had some serious work put into them, they sound a little thin and lacks the lower-end warmth and power that makes a speaker more enjoyable to listen to.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Screen Multi-tasking

As well as having a larger screen than any other Note tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 tries harder to make its screen inches work for you.

Some of basic interface tweaks include reworking the Android home screens layout in order to make better use of space. The Google Search bar is sensibly relegated to a small corner of the bottom-left rather than taking up the whole length of the screen, and there’s no persistent app shortcut bar. Samsung has made the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s home screens into zones that are as customisable as possible, rather than plastering each with everyday ‘essentials’. It’s a sensible choice.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s multi-tasking skills are more attention-grabbing, though. In the other Note phones and tablets, a feature called Multi Window lets you open two apps at once on-screen. With this tablet you can open four.

Not all apps can be opened in Multi Window, but most the basics can - the browser, email, YouTube, S Note and more. Some third-party apps work, but it is a case of hit and miss.

These apps are then scaled to the size of the window, and you can also choose how much room each gets. It works remarkably well – and is very usable. Forgetting the coding wizardry needed to make this work for a second, it’s not that surprising. Each quarter of the display is roughly equivalent to a 720p display in resolution, and the 12.2-inch work surface offers plenty of space.

The only issue is finding a use for this sort of multitasking. A classic quartet might be the browser, a video player (MX Player works with Multi Window as well as the default player), your Gmail and S Note, a note-taking app. Why? Use your imagination.

This sort of intensive use is a bit at odds with the more relaxed way most of us use our tablets. But Samsung has successfully taken tablet use to the next level with the Note 12.2, if that’s what you’re after.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also offers a slightly more casual way to use multi-tasking. Using the stylus and a feature called Pen Window, you can draw a box on the screen and load up most Multi Window-compatible app in it. This has uses that are a little less of a tablet stretch than quad-add multitasking. You could, for example, look up a game walkthrough online while playing a game or bring up your email while watching a video.

Like other Samsung tablets, there’s also a more traditional app switching menu, accessed using the left soft key.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2: Software and Performance

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 runs Android 4.4 with the TouchWiz interface laid on top. It’s pretty similar to what we saw in the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, but with a few elements given a spruce-up so they look less ugly.

As ever Samsung’s custom interface is less than beautiful. However, Android on large tablets never looks or feels perfect, and Samsung has made some sensible changes. 

The notifications bar is also different from the norm. There are nice, big feature toggle buttons up at the top, and the usual notifications below. We’d ideally like to see Samsung make better use of the screen space here, but it is certainly clear regardless.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also has a pair of extra home screens that you won’t find in Samsung’s previous phones. You access these by swiping beyond your normal home screens.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Magazine UI

These are pages of Samsung’s new Magazine UI, used in addition to the standard Android home screens. They arrange your favourite content as sharp, stylish-looking blocks that are reminiscent of Windows Phone (or the touch interface of Windows 8) and Flipboard, a hugely popular news aggregation app.

You can choose all sorts of blocks including feeds from websites, your Twitter account, your email and your calendar. And they can be arranged in all sorts of ways.

Tapping on one of them takes you to another screen that shows you all the content from that source, again arranged attractively.

In pure functional terms, Magazine UI works very well. However, its auto opt-in prescriptive nature is entirely contrary to what the best tablets are all about – the Nexus 7 2 and the various iPads are blank slates you can fill with whatever you want. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is a bit like moving into a lovely new flat only to find it comes with a live-in butler who asks you if you need anything every five minutes.

Some people will love Magazine UI, we’re sure, but the assumption that everyone who buys a tablet like this will have a remote interest in such an interface is overly presumptuous. And a symptom of Samsung’s OCD-tinged approach to including every feature it can think of.

Unlike some other, smaller Samsung tablets, though, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 doesn’t feel cramped, cluttered or particularly confusing if you forget Magazine UI exists. But it does reinforce that this is not a tablet for those just getting into gadgets.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Stylus

Where we’re keen on Samsung doing its best to get the most out of something is with the S Pen stylus. A few crucial right moves make the stylus a great asset rather than a naff add-on. They’re pretty much the same as Samsung’s other Note products, so we’ll be brief:

• The S Pen slots into the body so you’ll only lose it once a week, not three times a day
• It uses pressure sensitive digitiser rather than ‘dumb’ capacitive pen, making it worthwhile
• There’s palm rejection, meaning when the stylus is close to the screen you can rest your hand on the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 without it counting it as a touchscreen prod
• The nib is rubber rather than plastic, and has a bit of give, making it feel more natural to write with
• There’s no battery in the stylus

The S Pen is a great piece of hardware, and one of the few things that sets Samsung’s tablet line-up apart from the rest. This particular tablet doesn’t introduce many brand new stylus software features, but the current bunch is pretty good regardless.

The stylus can be used wherever you need to input text, as the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s custom keyboard has a separate OCR mode that lets you write – rather than tap. It’s generally slower than typing with your thumbs, but character recognition works quite well unless you have truly terrible handwriting.

When not handwriting, Air Command is the main way to access S Pen features. It pops up when you hover the S Pen over the screen an inch or closer and press the button on the pen itself.

Functions on this radial menu include partial screengrabs, writing notes on the screen, the universal search and two more interesting ones – Action Memo and Pen Window.

Action Memo gives you a post-it sized scrap of note paper. Write something on it and it’ll be OCR’d into standard text that you search the web with it or email to someone.

Pen Window is a multi-tasking feature we referenced earlier. You draw a Window on the screen and can then run a mini version of a core app within it – a browser window, a calculator, video player or your email being obvious examples.

These extra stylus bits turn the S Pen from a stick into a tool.

However, it’s also useful as simply another way to navigate around the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. For the most part it works just like a finger when prodded on items – it can flick through menus, run apps, be used to play games and so on.

There are also a few stylus-optimised apps included. The most important are S Note, the versatile note-taking app that can even be made to sketch out presentations, and SketchBook Pro. This is a fantastic drawing app that shows off the stylus’s benefits for creative types. It supports pressure sensitivity, Photoshop-style layers and plenty of brush customisation. It’s one of the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s best apps.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Performance

All this was true of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. However, that tablet was beset with performance issues at launch that we haven’t experienced with the Note Pro 12.2.

Performance is pretty great generally, with little lag and plenty of power on tap. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 version we’re reviewing uses the Octo core Samsung Exynos 5420, clocked at 1.9GHz. This is the chip used in the Wi-Fi only version of the tablet. The 4G version uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 instead.

They’re fairly evenly-matched processors, and both version of the tablet have 3GB of RAM. This is the most seen in any mainstream Android tablet or phone, as of February 2014.

In the Geekbench performance test, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 scores 2,712 points. That’s roughly on-par with the fastest Snapdragon 800 tablets and phones. It has enough power to play top-end Android games. However, you will find that not all games are optimised for the tablet’s super-high resolution screen. Real Racing 3 looks blockier than you might expect, for example.

Still, that is not Samsung’s fault.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Camera

The larger a tablet gets, the less keen we are to use it as a camera. You need to shed your dignity to use the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 as a compact-replacer, but its camera is actually pretty good.

It’s very fast to focus and there’s virtually zero shutter lag. Tablets often treat their cameras as afterthoughts, and this tends to result in slow performance, making the things frustrating to use. In daylight, sharpness and photo ‘pop’ are both great. Some of that sharpness is down to processing, but when it results in photos that good a good deal better than those of other tablets, we don’t care much.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also has a very effective HDR mode, which melds multiple shots in order to make scenes with trickier lighting easier to shoot. Once again, the tablet is much closer to smartphone levels than what we might usually expect from a tablet.

We found the camera’s close-up shots a little soft, but we doubt many people of you will want to buy a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 to take macro photos.

For the spec fans out there, the camera has an 8-megapixel 4:3 aspect sensor - of the usual 1/3.2-inch size. The lens has an f/2.4 aperture with a focal length of 32mm. The front camera shoots at 1080p resolution and is pretty good too.

You get most of the same modes as Samsung phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 as well. This includes drama shot, which takes multiple exposures for some natty action photos, panorama and the face-smoothing Beauty Face. Theyre most frivolous, but theres some fun to be had with them.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Battery Life

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has a 9,500mAh battery that is non-removable. That’s bigger than the iPad Air’s 8820mAh battery or the Note 10.1 2014 Edition’s 8220mAh battery.

Stamina is, as you would hope, very good. With brightness set to 40 per cent we got 13.5 hours of SD-quality video playback off a charge. That’s even better than the 10.1-inch model.

Good stamina makes this a tablet you can rely on, even if it is just around the home – where the Note Pro 12.2 thrives. However, charging the battery does take quite a while. It takes a good few hours with the bundled 2A charger, and will take forever plugged into a laptop.

Other things to consider

We are not a business technology website and have therefore not focused hugely on the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s inbuilt business apps. However, Samsung considers them an important part of the tablet.

Perhaps the most important is Knox. This is a security system designed to let tablets and phones be used within large companies’ corporate networks. It offers far greater security than Android, and is a great addition given how fiddly some third-party BYOD security packages for Android are.

We haven’t spent a great deal of time with the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s other business-focused apps, but they enable things like WebEx virtual meetings and remote access to your work computer through the tablet. These are things that can be provided in other tablets with third-party apps. But having them all centralised under the Samsung banner is a bonus.

The tablet also has an IR transmitter, letting you control your home entertainment gear with the tablet, using a third-party app.

Should I buy the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2?

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is not a tablet suited for most people. It’s big, it’s relatively heavy and it’s quite expensive.

However, this is an area without many rivals. If a 10.1-inch screen isn’t big enough and a pressure sensitive stylus is a must, this is actually a very successful tablet. The Samsung UI remains overwrought in places, but looks better than before and works pretty well on the big screen. And the S Pen works better than ever before thanks to the increased screen space.

We’re not convinced it’ll actually be that much more useful than an iPad Air for many people using a tablet for the more social side of business – presentations, displaying data at meetings and so on – but the more PC-like features such as quad-app multitasking should prove indispensable for some. And while the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is not light, it is lighter than any 12-inch laptop and certainly thinner at just 8.6mm thick.

Verdict

A 12.2-inch tablet is not the right choice for 90 percent of tablet buyers. However, good build quality, decent specs and the always-handy S Pen make this a good buy for arty types or business users not satisfied by an iPad Air.

Nvidia, maker of graphics chips, Samsung and Qualcomm sued for patent infringement around such chips, and wants an import ban.

Nvidia wants an import ban on some recent Enforce Samsung devices with the American authorities. Include the just-announced Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 4 Edge but the S5 Galaxy, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab Pro may Nvidia blacklisted.

It is the first time that a company Nvidia patent infringement to court challenges, reports the Wall Street Journal . According violate Nvidia graphics chips in many recent Samsung handsets are patents. Remarkably, this mainly for chip designs that Samsung purchases from other chip makers.

Samsung says towards Reuters that the indictment “by all means” will challenge it. Samsung phones are used in both chips in its design as chips include Qualcomm. That company is sued. Nvidia has not made clear what compensation would have it.

Qualcomm still refuses comment. ARM, a chip maker that Samsung has licensed the related designs for graphics chips also did not respond. Nvidia says to consider whether it is needed even more companies to complain. For patent infringement case by case Samsung has been conducting longer such a struggle, mainly against Apple

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Then in early September Samsung Galaxy Note 4 revealed the expectations were high. Samsung dominates since 2011 phabletmarkt, but with the introduction this fall of devices such as the LG G3 and iPhone 6 Plus competition is harder than ever. If they made it over at Samsung worry, it was at the announcement in any case not notice. The Note 4 was unveiled confidently as the phablet this fall.

We can Samsung at first sight difficult to blame. The Galaxy Note 4 has the most powerful hardware, the sharpest and brightest screen, stylus software and the most comprehensive of all phablets. If there is one manufacturer understands what is important in a phablet, then it is probably Samsung. But the competition has not been idle, and phablets Apple and LG threw high eye in recent months. GSMinfo.nl tried the Galaxy Note 4 recent weeks expanded and asks, still offers the best Samsung phablet of the year

Design

That the Galaxy Note 4 a very large smartphone is we probably do not tell you. A 5.7 inch device is too large to be pleasant to operate with one hand and you wear skinny jeans then you should probably quite up to get the four discs in your pocket. But that’s all part of a phablet. In addition, Samsung has managed to keep the device relatively compact. For example, Note 4 is smaller than the iPhone 6 Plus, even though the screen Samsung’s device it is 0.2 inches bigger.

After Samsung had years of complaints about the sometimes cheap-feeling design of its flagships the manufacturer this year the design of high-end appliances really addressed. The back of the Note 4 is made of a faux leather that provides good grip and firm to the touch. Some users will doctrine may be seen as slightly kitschy, and it’s certainly not something that will appeal to everyone. But it’s definitely a lot more “premium” than the flapping pieces of plastic that Samsung in the past stopped behind its smartphones.

The side of the device is made of metal and pulls the premium look even further by . The Note 4 is not solid black as it may seem in the pictures, but has tiny horizontal lines from bottom to top. As a result, the front seems almost a krijtpak. It’s a business look that looks good, one small detail. Below the screen sit next to the home button a physical Rewind and Multitask button with LED lights underneath, but the pinstripes are still about those lights back. If the buttons light than its parts so even black, while the rest okay now white. A minor irritation perhaps, but something that just stands still in further premium design.

 
 
 
 
 

Like the Galaxy S5 is the Note 4 equipped with a fingerprint scanner. That should be easier in theory and faster to unlock your smartphone, but appears to work in practice moderate on such a large smartphone. With Samsung’s scanner you should be clear with your finger from top to bottom swipe on the home button. This can be used with the Note 4 only the device with two hands. Try it with one hand then you will thumb slightly tilted swipe on the button, and your fingerprint then never recognized. This in contrast to Touch ID on iPhone 6 Plus, where you can put your finger on any way places to unlock the device. It’s a lot faster (and less frustrating) to just use a pattern or PIN.

It is a pity that the Note 4 is not waterproof. That the Galaxy S5 was in fact still a welcome addition to the features of Samsung’s flagship. Water resistance is still a way to distinguish yourself from the competition, and is also quite useful. The certainty that you can use your phone in the rain without trouble, or worry in the shower or during washing, is a nice extra. Note that the four that can not is still a bit of a loss.

Display

In a smartphone with a big screen like that of the Note 4 is the quality of that image of course extremely important. Fortunately, Samsung does not disappoint here: the AMOLED screen is very colorful, sharp and clear. The colors burst off the screen, so you still have a very vivid picture even on relatively low brightness. Samsung’s screen tends to give a little white image a blue tint for a little extra liveliness, but if you’re not a fan of are you there that possibly correct in Settings.

The brightness of the Note 4 is almost unbeatable. The maximum brightness of the device is 700 nits, similar to the Galaxy S5 and a lot brighter than bijvoorbeed the iPhone 6. That means the Note 4 actually always easy to read. Even in direct sunlight, the screen is still bright enough to see everything goes.

But even if you just do not feel in a brightly lit screen works the Note 4 excellent. In the dark, the brightness of the unit so that there is hardly light of the image is coming. Layer The contrast of the Note 4 is good enough to still make it readable. For example you can before going to bed a little things on your smartphone check without a huge light does shine is right on your face.

Note 4 is one of the first smartphones with a QHD- resolution 1440×2560 pixels. That equates to 515 pixels per inch, 150 ppi more than the Note 3. These are good figures to join brag and provides an incredibly sharp image, but in practice you will probably hardly notice. The resolution of the Note 3 was already quite sharp, and the extra pixels add little something.

Put your the Note 3 and Note 4 to each other and you stare pretty intense to the appliances you need to press the Note 3 might still be able to count some individual pixels, but just use the difference in resolution is negligible. The usefulness of QHD should in our view be proven.

Hardware

Note 4 is equipped with a powerful 2.5 GHz quad-core processor and a spacious 3 GB of memory. That’s more than powerful enough to run Android smoothly. The LG G3, another qHD smartphone, seemed to stutter and sometimes succumb to the high resolution. The Note 4 does not usually suffer from there. Quickly swipe through menus is smooth and even apps perform well.

Even the Multi Window feature does well. Who worked in the past does not always ideal, as one example, but app was active at a time, or because they were both slower during heavy action. In Note 4 you will not notice: you can feel in one app and watch video in another open a heavier site without causing the hassle.

 
 
 
 

The only hitch was that we saw more often when opening the app switcher. Return Press the button under the screen that open, it sometimes takes a second (or even two) for this appears. Especially if you have many apps open the Note 4 just need some time. Once the app switcher has been opened however, you can quickly scroll through your apps, and is once you tap an app opened again within a fraction of a second.

S Pen

Of course, the Note 4 also includes a stylus called the S Pen by Samsung. The stylus itself is comfortable in the hand and is very light, but feels a bit cheap. The plastic material used Samsung feels a lot less than the Note 4 itself. Premium The button on the pen that you use such as opening Air Command is not ideal to find by touch and offers enough feedback when pressed.

Functional still works fine pen . You can easily make notes, and handwriting recognition to convert to ‘normal’ text seems better than ever. The Air Command dropdown that you can open at any time you make notes on a screen, or you capture a small part of a website to send to a friend. If you’ve never used the S Pen is only really getting used to. Before you know it you notes anywhere to create and share your quickly your handwritten messages with friends and colleagues. The S Pen is still a meaningful extras that Samsung takes full advantage of the large screen of the Note 4.

Software

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A few years ago, each new Samsung smartphone with more than the previous model. own software Many of these bundled applications were bad in each other or were mostly useless. The last year Samsung seems to realize that this is not a good strategy, and that the Korean manufacturer so the app offering appropriate to limit to it.

However, there are still a lot of apps on the new Note. In addition to the standard Google applications like Gmail and Google Maps Samsung supplies its own version of almost any stock app. There is a private file manager, own browser, own agenda and even its own app store. Especially the latter is incredibly redundant: the app offer at Galaxy Apps is severely limited, and the store itself is a lot less than the Play Store

By the way you use the Galaxy Apps store probably at least one more time. open. Namely Samsung gives quite a few ‘Galaxy Gifts’ away free apps and services for all Note 4 users. There is still quite some valuable between: so you get 6 months free Deezer, three months, the New York Times, and free (audio) books from Kindle and Audible. Plenty of extras that suits you and just make the Note 4 more appealing.

Most of the apps that Samsung supplies power to work fine, and we have, in many cases already discussed in our Galaxy S5 review this year. Apps and S Health did when all good their thing, and still do. What is new is that many of Samsung’s apps suddenly fill the entire screen; even the notification bar disappears from S or S Health Planner open. Now fullscreen perhaps useful when watching a video, but should the notification bar just open our opinion remain with the average app, especially with such a large screen as the Note has four. An incomprehensible adaptation of Samsung.

Camera

Note 4 makes excellent pictures in almost any conditions. The images we made are colorful, bright and usually quite sharp. Even with considerable movement knows the Note 4 camera still clearly capture the image without being too blurry. Compared to some other high-end cameras like the photos are vibrant and colorful to be less, but fading and with noise.

 
 
 
 
 

Note 4 camera shoots in Full HD standard, but there are still quite a few other options available. The UHD resolution of 3840×2160 are supported, if you want to advance film in 4K resolution. Funnier (but still mostly a gimmick) is the ability to film slow motion or fast motion with slow or very fast image. In practice you probably rarely use, but it works fine in any case. The videos that the Note 4 does look otherwise fine:. Sharp, little noise, and brightness close to the real world and colors

Battery

The Galaxy Note 4 has a battery capacity of 3220 mAh, making it one of the main battery in smart phones is up to now. Unfortunately, the Note 4 breaks no battery usage records with this battery, presumably by QHD screen. The high resolution ensures that the battery draining a lot faster than a Full HD device, something we already saw in the LG G3.

That does not mean the Galaxy Note 4 lousy performance in this area. The unit easily fetches the end of the day, even if you go on the Internet between meals, check your mail, play games and listen to music. With relatively heavy use we still had a few percent over the end of the day. But even in medium to use, there was often less than 50 percent over the end of the day, so you’ll really get two days.

And that’s a shame because other smartphones this fall as the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 prove that it is not impossible to get two full days without charging. If you would give between a battery that lasts really long or QHD screen, our choice then we prefer the battery. From You have a lot more to that. In practice,

Fortunately, Samsung makes a lot of good with the rapid charger that comes with the Note 4. This charger you go from an empty battery to 50 percent full in less than half an hour, a full charge takes less than two hours . In the afternoon we just half an hour to charge your phone at the office before driving home again is as yet enough to reach without problems the end of the day.

Value

The competition from other phablets is fiercer than ever this fall. Apple brings almost simultaneously the iPhone 6 Plus off. This device seems on paper a lot less than the Note 4 powerful but is not that bad in practice. Apple’s iOS needs to run smoothly, no powerful quad-core and the difference between Full HD and QHD will usually barely noticeable. The cameras are on both devices of excellent quality, although the Note 4 has double the number of megapixels.

The price of the Note 4 is a few bucks less than that of the iPhone 6 Plus, but experience shows Samsung’s smartphones a lot faster in price bags. Chances are that you can find at the end of this year, Samsung’s device for less than 700 euros, while the 6 Plus still costs 800 euros. In addition, Samsung has years of experience with phablets, and that pays off in extra software convenience. The Note has four Multi Window, the S Pen, and other tricks that exploit the big screen, while the largest phabletfeature Apple the ability to slide the top half of the screen down. Will talk about the design tastes differ, though the 6 Plus something thinner and more than Note 4.

        
        
        
       


        
        
        
       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

       

         

         

         

         

       

        

        

        

        

       

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	Samsung Galaxy Note 4	Apple iPhone 6 Plus 16GB	LG G3	Huawei Ascend Mate 7
Display	5.70 inch	5.50 inch	5.50 inch	6.00 inch
Resolution	1440 x 2560 pixels	1080 x 1920 pixels	1440 x 2560 pixels	1080 x 1920 pixels
Pixel density	515 ppi	401 ppi	534 ppi	367 ppi
OS	Android 4.4 (KitKat)	Apple iOS 8	Android 4.4 (KitKat)	Android 4.4 (KitKat)
Processor	2.7 GHz quad-core	1.4 GHz dual-core	2.5 GHz quad-core	1.8GHz octa-core
Memory	3 GB	1 GB	2 GB	2 GB
Internal Storage	32 GB	16 GB	16 GB	16 GB
Camera	16.00 megapixel	8.00 megapixel	13.00 megapixel	13.00 megapixel
Weight	176 grams	172 g	149 g	185 g
Standby time	–	384 Hours	565 hours	648 hours
Talk	1200 minutes	1440 minutes	1260 minutes	–
By subscription	Free from ​​ € 35 , 00	Free from ​​ € 41 , 00	Free from ​​ € 25 , 00	Free from ​​ € 26 , 00
Los device	​​ € 732 , 00 to ​​ € 799 , 00	€ 797 , 39 to ​​ € 938 , 00	€ 404 , 02 to ​​ € 569 , 00	€ 494 , 99 to ​​ € 509 , 00

Two other recent phablets the LG G3 and the Huawei Ascend Mate 7. The LG G3 drops lately sharply in price, and includes LG’s cashback action already available for less than 400 euros. For that amount you get a device that is hardly inferior in performance to Note 4, and has a very nicely finished design. It must be said that the G3 is almost absurdly cheap for what you get, and with a price difference of more than 300 euros with the Note 4 is LG’s device is worth considering.

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 another affordable alternative to Note 4, though the price difference is slightly smaller. The Mate 7 has a slightly larger screen, but a lower resolution. In contrast, puts the Mate 7 a much better battery life down, and the unit is fairly effortless two days. In terms of performance does the Mate seven fine, though it’s just a little less than the Note 4.

Another possible alternative if you are looking for an affordable phablet monstrous is the model of last year, the Galaxy Note 3. now available for less than 500 euros and hard sinking in price since the introduction of the Note 4, but in terms of functionality, there are hardly any differences between the new and old model. The resolution is higher and the processor is more powerful in Note 4, but they were in Note 3 good enough to make any complaints. You might miss a few apps, but chances are that the Note 3 beginning in 2015 gets an update that many of the Note adds four features, something happened with previous Samsung devices.

With a suggested 750 euros is Samsung’s new phablet one of the most expensive smartphones this fall. However you about the best hardware of the moment into your home, but a really good value for money’m certainly not offer the device. LG proves that it can be less with the G3 for a few hundred euros, making it thus quite difficult for Samsung by price range

Conclusion

When Samsung a few years ago the first Galaxy Note was launched but whether there really was a large market for smartphones. Three years later, the discs more competitive than ever, and it seems the answer to that question is clear. Phablets are here to stay . Fortunately, Samsung has not been idle, and managed to improve every year.

Therefore, the Note Note 4 is still the best phablet of the moment. The combination of a large, bright display with multifunction S Pen makes four discs an ideal smartphone to be productive. Working, playing games, watching videos, reading, the Note 4 still makes it more comfortable than any other smartphone that is currently available. Add to that the excellent camera and decent housing in and you have a rock of a smartphone.

However, the Note 4 more than a revolution. Evolution The resolution compared to last year became higher, the slightly more powerful processor and there are some added minor new features, but you still have a three discs are then you have nothing to envy. Extra features like the fingerprint scanner and heart rate are moderate enough that you’ll barely use after the first week. They Hopefully Samsung knows next year with the Note 5 to renew more thorough, because the distance between the Korean manufacturer and the competition is slightly smaller

+ Fantastic screen every year:. Sharp, bright and colorful
+ Powerful hardware that rarely falters
+ S Pen and Multi Window take full advantage of large screen

– Battery life is good, but not excellent
– S Pen feels somewhat cheap to
– Pretty expensive compared to some other phablets and QHD smartphones

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 buy?

GSMinfo.nl we compare prices from over 50 online stores, so you always have the cheapest Galaxy Note 4 can find. There is already a free Samsung Galaxy Note 4 getting in combination with a subscription from ​​ € 35 , 00 per month. If it is loose gear on sale from ​​ € 732 , 00 . The Note is available in four different colors, including black and white.

Samsung used the summer in recent years to think about the successor to the Galaxy Note. What the big unit must all be as it is announced in September This is probably the list of specifications

Samsung announces two hugely important phones every year.; the flagship Galaxy S and Galaxy Note-phablet. Now announcing Galaxy S5 already well behind us it is time to look at the successor to the Galaxy Note 3 According to a new source gets the N910, as the Note 4 also called a Quad HD screen and Snapdragon 805. – processor.

still unclear what screen size the Note 4 inherits. The Note 3 has a screen of 5.7 inches in size; 0.2 inch larger than the Note 2. So it is not inconceivable that the screen on the Note 4 is larger, especially since Samsung another high-end device prepared with a 5.5 inch screen. However, previous rumors spoke of the same 5.7 inches. Other features include a 16 megapixel Sony camera and a 2 megapixel front facing camera. Samsung grabs years now the IFA in Berlin as moment of announcing the new Note

Source:. Sammobile.com

Back in 2011, Samsung decided that bigger was better and launched the Samsung Galaxy Note range which came with a 5.3-inch screen. At the time, this screen was a massive talking point: many thought it was too large to be a phone, others thought it was too compact to be a tablet.


Skip three years and that 5.3-inch screen no longer looks out of place in the phone market. Given that the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with a 5.1-inch screen, its clear to see the line between what was once classed as a phablet and what is now expected as a phone has well and truly blurred.

While this hasnt stopped Samsung pushing out the size boat - the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 came equipped with a 5.7-inch screen - it seems Samsung has finally put on hold the size creep.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 comes with the same-sized 5.7-inch screen as the Note 3, with Samsung instead deciding to improve on the quality of the screen rather than its size.

You can now pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 from Samsung Experience Stores, with other retailers taking pre-orders from 26 September, before its release on Friday 10 October.

Screen quality

The screen now boasts Quad HD Super AMOLED (2,560 x 1,440 resolution) technology that stretches to 500 pixels per inch. Couple this with what Samsung is calling an adaptive display - one that changes depending on the light of the place you are viewing the screen - and on paper you have the optimum viewing no matter what situation you are in.

To test the quality of the screen I watched a video that was shot in UHD on the device and it was stunning.

Colours were vivid and detail popped out with the clarity you would expect from a 500ppi screen. Even zooming in there were no jagged edges and playback was smooth - no judder from the demo I viewed.

But the screen isnt the first thing that hits you when you get the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in your hands, its the build quality.

Design

Samsung has definitely listened about its latest line-up feeling plastic-y in the hand and has decided to give the Note 4 more of a premium finish, with a metal rim surrounding the handset, shielding the rest of the chassis like a velvet rope protecting celebs from real people in a club.

I loved the way the Note 4 felt in the hand and being a regular user of the Note 3, it definitely felt different enough and its light too, just a touch over the weight of the Note 3 at 176g.

Its obvious but the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 does come equipped with some of the features that we saw on the S5.

The most notable is the heartrate monitor on the back (which also has a neat camera functionality I will explain shortly) and the back has been improved somewhat too, but is still a little too faux leather for my liking.

There is a lot of similarity between the Note 3 and its successor. Size difference between the two chassis is definitely negligible - the Note 4 comes it at 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5mm, compared to the Note 3s 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3mm size.

Its clear Samsung hasnt re-invented the Note range but refined it with clever software updates and slight tweaks here and there.

S Pen

One of the most impressive is to do with the S Pen. It surprised me that the stylus (sorry Samsung, I know you hate that word) made a comeback with the Note range but four devices in and the S Pen finally makes a lot more sense.

For a start there are two new pen options: fountain and caligraphy. Of these, fountain is the most interesting as it shows off how far the S Pen has come in terms of usability. Until now, using the S Pen has felt a lot like gliding a piece of plastic over a glass screen.

The "feel" of writing on paper just hasnt been there. With the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 this has changed.

The fountain pen works best when you sweep the S Pen across the screen as you would ink on paper and because of extra sensitivity (which has doubled) it is now a joy to write on the Note 4s screen. Signatures look like signatures and your handwriting actually really looks like your true handwriting.

Im left handed and the S Pen was still a joy to use. Considering I have never been able to use a fountain pen in real life, because of smudging, it was great fun.

And the innovations dont end there. Now you can use the S Pen much like you would use a mouse. Click the button on the side of the S Pen and you are in Smart Select mode, where you can highlight whole passages of text from a website, or even clip out sections of a site and put it into your own clippings archive.

Instead of being an added extra, the S Pen finally feels like a necessary part of the Note 4, rather than a "this is fun but I have no use for it" accessory.

Snap mode has also been improved on the Note 4. While you used to just be able to snap two separate services to the top and the bottom of the screen, you can now "resize" an app much like you would a widget.

So, if you are using the camera and want to send an image via text but stay in camera mode, a quick diagonal down swipe from the top right of the screen will shrink the camera function and show the rest of the phone screen for you. Its a nice feature that could replace using the left multi-tab hot key for many.

You can also make use of the new floating UI which offers Facebook Chat Heads style pop ups on the screen for certain apps.

Camera

One other big improvement is with the camera. When it comes to megapixels its gone from 13MP to 16MP but the innovations dont lie in the meaningless megapixel chase but also in the front cameras f stop (megapixel wise this is 3.7MP), which now clocks in at f1.9. In old money that means that the camera now lets in 60% more light and makes for better quality images.

This also comes with the added bonus of optical image stabilisation.

You can also use the camera in unison with the S Pen. A new feature called Snap Note allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper (or whiteboard) and change whats in the picture.

Although I didnt try this out myself, the demo I was shown consisted of a piece of paper with a number of images and text on it.

A picture was taken of this, put through Snap Note and then the colour and size of the images could be changed, text could be deleted and the size of objects could be increased. Its a niche new feature but one that could come in useful in a creative environment.

The way you can take pictures has changed too. With the whole world going selfie mad, it was inevitable that Samsung (and plenty more manufacturers) would want to cash in on this. It has done it twofold with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

First there is a selfie panorama mode. Much like the panorama mode seen on the Note 3, where a picture is stitched from images taken from a pan of a scene, the same thing happens in this mode - except it is in portrait and uses the front-facing camera.

Samsung is quoting 120 degrees spatial awareness and after having a go with it I am not going to argue about such a figure.

Samsung has also recognised that if you want to take a selfie, then it is a little difficult to get your thumb around to the front of the device to take the picture. So it has utilised its heartrate monitor functionality as a back trigger button.

One tap on this and your selfie is preserved. Its not a feature I will be using much but given the sudden popularity of taking pictures of your own face in different places it will be a feature that is used a lot.

Performance and battery

Samsungs improved the Note 4s mic performance too. Voice recording is something that wont be used for all but the Note is a device built for business and this feature will be welcomed.

There are now three mics on the handset (two at the bottom and one on the top), these are used well when recording voices.

In a crowded room you can zoom into one voice and cut the rest out. This journalist is already salivating at the prospect of interviewing someone and playing back the interview without hearing his own voice. Its a clever feature but one that may be overlooked by many.

As for the speed of the device, it was fast. I managed to zip between apps and internet with no lag at all and it didnt break a sweat when loading up a movie. But thats exactly what youd expect with a 2.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor and 3GB of RAM under the hood.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a premium-looking device that will be familiar to anyone who has used a Note. Dont expect huge changes here - you still get a ribbed plastic back, although its more in keeping with the S5s style.

That was the phone that propelled Samsung into the AAA league of smartphone manufacturers and the Note 4 on first hands on feels like it will be a worthy addition to the Note range.

When it comes to the all-important battery, Samsung has given the Note 4 the same battery as the Note 3 (3200mAh) but it has improved charging times. You can now charge 50% of the battery in just 30 minutes and it has the same ultra-power saving technology that was built into the S5.

Early verdict

It is big and it is clever: the Galaxy Note 4 looks to be Samsungs best Note yet, toning down the gimmick and adding real innovation to what is becoming one of the best phone ranges around.

The biggest relief is that the software changes are innovations rather than annoying bloatware. Samsung does have a habit of adding gimmickry to its handsets but the big changes here are actually beneficial to how you use the Note.

Allegedly get the special device from Samsung, Galaxy Note Edge , in February until the upgrade to Android 5.0 Lollipop . If the device receives the update rather than the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Note 4, is not known.

If we have a new batch of rumors are to be believed, then the Samsung Galaxy Note gets Edge in February all / only the upgrade to Android 5.0 Lollipop. You are free to delete as applicable. If the update appear earlier than the other popular Samsung phablets, then there is ‘all’. Should he-appear later, then we go to ‘pass’ as it is a bit strange that the Note 4 and Note Edge not be updated simultaneously. Indeed, the two devices share the same base largely.

At least, on a smaller battery and zijschermpje after then. Perhaps that special adaptations are needed Lollipop get running on the Note Edge, but we only come back when Samsung officially modified the software and released. Already came out that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in early 2015 would be provided with the Lollipop update, but an exact date seems difficult predict – even if this information directly come from Samsung

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge resembles specifications so terribly on the Galaxy Note 4, with two main differences that the Edge with a smaller battery. must do and the device of course still a piece of the screen on the side of the phablet has hung. That screen is separate from the big screen where you will normally look at, but offers the buttons within the context of what you’re actually doing. Although both screens are so unrelated, they work well together happily.