Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review

Now Samsung has given in and referred to as the Note two a smartphone, we are able to dub it the foremost powerful around.

With a splendidly vivid five.5-inch Super AMOLED HD screen and meaty entrails, there is not any doubt that the Note two is that the chief once it involves raw grunt and performance.

Add to that the S Pen practicality, that has been given a bunch of recent fancy tricks, and you'll be able to see why there is a ton to coo over with the new device.

Let's begin with the internals, shall we? The quad core Exynos processor has been cranked up to one.6GHz, and is joined by a clearly un-shabby 2GB of RAM to power things on.

And it's quick. extremely quick. We've tested variety of devices like this on the stands of assorted firms, and we've seldom seen something whiz beneath the finger within the same fashion. It virtually ruins the Galaxy S3, just because there is a noticeable distinction between the 2.

However, before we tend to begin sounding too evangelical, let's highlight the main downside here: the scale. For all Samsung's conceit that this can be a product class that is been dying to be exploited, we're still not convinced that this is not overlarge.

It's a formidable achievement to stay a similar Note footprint whereas rising the scale of the screen to five.5-inches, particularly as it's solely nine.4mm thin.

It fits within the pocket simply fine, providing you are not sporting those tight trousers all the youngsters appear to be carrying recently, though it absolutely was pretty bushy attempting to check that theory out round the thousands of watchful Samsung stand bunnies.

The design is incredibly the same as most of the Samsung Galaxy vary, therein it's durable, however slightly light-weight, plastic.

The lock and power button, settled on the proper hand aspect, is well placed for straightforward use, as is that the slick S Pen slot. This slot has been imbued with larger powers, like mechanically gap the S memoranda application once you are on the phone and take away the stylus.

It's a neat trick, and currently has an additional level of practicality through Air read. This slightly convoluted side suggests that you'll be able to hover the S Pen over the show of the phone and see everything from messages to footage to scrolling through video while not truly touching the show.

Is it something over a gimmick? Unless you are scrolling through messages, in all probability not. The gallery practicality was pointless, and if you are already scrolling through a video to urge to a different purpose there is not any hurt in truly interacting with the motion-picture show, seeing as you are not observance it anyway.

And it feels extremely weird hovering the pen over the show in such how – here's hoping that is one thing you get wont to, or it's aiming to find yourself being as helpful as S Voice on the Galaxy S3.

The implementation of automaton four.1 Jellybean is actually a pleasant bit, though it's totally different to the vanilla providing on the Nexus seven and Galaxy Nexus. there is not card-based notification menu on provide here, though once long-pressing the house key to decision up the task manager you've instant access to Google currently, still because the ability to examine running apps.

But let's return to the speed of the Samsung Galaxy Note two – it's fantastic. This is, hands down, the most effective media and net browsing moveable machine we have seen in ages.

It's too massive still to be used as a traditional phone – individuals can still assume you are over slightly odd holding it to your face – except for texting, browsing, emailing, observance movies and a lot of, we have not seen far better than this.

We'll reserve correct judgement clearly till the value emerges – if it's something just like the 1st Note, we're sure a dear shock.

However, get this to the £30 mark and, let alone some serious promoting once more from Samsung, we should always have a winner on our hands.