Galaxy Note 2: A Portrait in 5 points - PR Web

The imminent arrival of 3G will reveal the true potential of smartphones, geo-location, video conferencing, universal knowledge, and lolcats, everywhere and all the time at hand … But there are smartphones that go a little further than that, simply because they contain a greater potential. When the Samsung Galaxy Note is one of the best machines on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, his successor, Note 2, gives Android 4.1 (or 4.2) Jelly Bean, an exceptional setting. What makes a machine Note 2 apart? Response 5 points.

Note 2 sees the big picture

The monumental size Note 2 clearly evident. The screen boasts its 5.5 inch diagonal in a 16/9 ratio well found which allows for even greater than the first note of the name, while maintaining an acceptable handling for a smartphone. Few days of adaptation may be necessary to get used to the size of the Note 2, but it then becomes difficult to go back, as web browsing, reading PDF, or watching videos, are easier to a few more inches.

The screen is based on AMOLED technology , it offers a nice rendering but does not claim to be the best on the market. Resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels , spread over the 5.5-inch screen, gives a pixel density of 267 ppi , less than 316 ppi of the Galaxy Nexus, or even the 285 ppi of the first note.

The color rendition is always explosive and contrast as always excellent, but these colors appear to be somewhat true to life, which could put off a professional photo editing or a designer who the desire to keep the same image between what occurs on the Note 2 and what he sees major files on your PC.

Where screen appears flawless, it is as regards its optimization for digital ink. A big plus for the Note 2 which recognizes 1024 different pressure levels (Note 1 had the 256). This gives it a formidable precision, we can write little and take a significant number of information on the same note.

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offered by Note 2 experience is one of the most comprehensive ever made by a smartphone, and for good reason, it is often used as a small tablet. We will use the precision of spen (stylus) to get the best out of the machine … and computing speed plays an important role in all of this happens without a hitch.

Note 2 is bodybuilder

Exynos 4412 quad-core clocked at 1.6 GHz … there is a powerful smartphone a PC. 2GB RAM and Mali 400MP GPU are supporting everything and simply offer the most powerful smartphone on the market released in 2012. Of course, the processor clocked at 2 GHz and 3 GB RAM will eventually land, but it’s a safe bet that the Note 2 will hold the length. It is so powerful it gets to do things that designers Jelly Bean did not even imagined a smartphone: multitasking windowing

So. Samsung has had to imagine the windowing software for this, and everything works so it can not be more ergonomic. A long press on the back button (right button sensitive) and a list of compatible applications with multi-window world appears on a left margin. From there, simply drag the applications you want on the screen and TADA!, It surfs the internet in the upper part of the screen while taking notes on the bottom.

Spaces allocated to applications are resizable, you can watch a video on YouTube while publishing on Facebook, send an SMS consultant navigation map … within compatible applications. It is hoped that an integrated version of the operating system of the windowing system (like the one on Windows 8 with the “anchor”) will appear to open this functionality across all applications Google Play. This handy addition is viable only because the Note 2 provides both the minimum size required for readability purposes, but also the computational power required for their proper functioning. Additions Samsung however not summarize this option.

Note 2 has an artist S Pen (airview, gestures, crop)

videos of digital painting with Note 2 abound on the Internet, and for good reason, the pen uses Wacom technology, reference tablet, the slight lag on existing Note the one here has been reduced to a trickle. The shape of the Spen has been redesigned, expanded, curved on one side and flat on the other, the stylus is much more comfortable than the Note 1, but mainly contains a significant number of new features. Airview is a good example. On a PC, by putting your cursor over an area without clicking, information may appear highlighted, a menu can take place for example … and it is not possible smartphone.

With Spen in hand, and now a few millimeters from Note 2, a point is projected on the screen just below the tip of the pen and acts as a cursor, it looks like magic, but it is science. The pen also allows other subtleties, take a screenshot in one click, and then add content to the image, or do clipping above.

The clipping is to select a portion of the image and the “cut” into a separate document. This gives an idea of ??the ease of photo editing with this tool. Quick to write commands by pressing the pen button allows access to applications without releasing the stylus, and without navigating through menus. If you forget the Spen somewhere, the Note 2 will display a notification summoning you to recover the precious pen.

Leaving the Spen from its sheath, a configurable menu appears automatically, allowing you without waiting for create a note or start a sketch … The feature list is endless, and all on board the Note 2 software combine to make “ designed for humans .”

Note 2 is smart

The combo Android and TouchWizz (the overlay software Samsung) works wonders on the Note 2, primarily through additions specific to spen. We always find the little touches introduced by the Galaxy S3 (which we will press off some) but you win more than you lose through the changes made by Samsung. We would have preferred to have a center button to Google Now, as the raw version of Jelly Bean, but can be accessed by shortcut through the home page, which makes the job.

Everything Note the two tends to help you use, except perhaps tutorials on spen a little light given the many features of the object. Remarkably, the drastic improvement in the recognition of slower handwriting certainly a keyboard input, but now precise enough to be viable, when it was never used on the first Note, too frustrating. We will not return to the excellent Android Jelly Bean, with its fluidity “butter”, and as reliable as voice recognition pra ctice. Practice … here may be the best adjective to describe the Note 2.

Note 2 is convenient

What ends to drive the nail is a detail which we attach great importance: storage expansion via microSD . This option tends to disappear on new devices, but it remains absolutely essential to take advantage of the machine. We also highlight the removable battery, 3100 mAh of pure happiness.

Would there is something to improve on the Note 2? Yes, definitely, starting with the screen, too fragile. Note 3 The benefit to board a deformable screen, able to withstand shocks, which would add to the trust between the user and the digital companion.

The camera is also an upgradeable item, 8 megapixel Note 2 do the job, but we are not yet at the age where the smartphone completely replaces the independent camera. Optical stabilization as the Lumia 920 would be perfect on this tool that can make photo editing and video better than any other smartphone. A calculation speed increased or optimized to remove the soft ligh t lag that appears when the software note taking, we would move to a new generation of smartphones that finally replace the PC as we know it.

In the meantime the coming upheaval, the Note 2 still has not to this day the official distribution, which is the price to play roller coaster, with 65,000 DA as a floor. The sound of broken piggy banks is therefore already heard, and the arrival of 3G can only increase the volume.