Thursday, December 29, 2011

iPhone with redesign possibly coming fall 2012

iPhone 5 BGR iPhone with redesign possibly coming fall 2012As you know, as Apple failed to deliver the redesigned iPhone 5 and opted to push out the slightly upgraded iPhone 4S, everyone is expecting the redesigned iPhone 5 to appear later in 2012, and word has come down that although it isn’t being referred to as the iPhone 5 but rather the next generation iPhone, word has it a redesigned iPhone will surface in the fall of 2012.

According to an article over on Slash Gear, the guys over at the Boy Genius Report are saying they are confident the next iPhone will launch in the fall of next year roughly about the same time as the iPhone 4S launched this year.

The guys, although not saying where their information comes from, says that the next iPhone will feature a plastic or rubber material similar to that of the Bumper case, which will be built into the new iPhone casing and possible used as a bezel for the front glass and will allow for the next generation iPhone to sport an aluminium back along with covering a “redesigned antenna system” and thus not having to use a plastic insert such as the one found on the Apple iPad 2 WiFi+3G.

So if true one can expect the next generation iPhone aka iPhone 5 to sport a redesign with an aluminium back plate, redesigned antenna and a plastic bezel, and that’s all that is known at this moment although there have been previous rumours that the next iOS smartphone will come out to play sporting a larger display.

As I stated earlier, no word on just where the BGR got the info or even if it is reliable so for now all this remains firmly in the rumours category until such times as more evidence surfaces, but one does have to say that if Apple wants to stay at the top of the game a redesigned iPhone 5 has to come in 2012.

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Motorola XYBoard 8.2 Android Tablet Review

The Motorola Droid XYBoard 8.2 is the Motorola Droid XYBoard 10.1′s little brother on Verizon. But it’s not all that little: at 8.2″ it offers more to feast your eyes on vs. more common 7″ Android tablets, yet it’s much more portable than 10″ tablets. The XYBoard 8.2 shares many but not all specs with the 10.1″ version. It has the same 1280 x 800 resolution, and IPS display, a dual core 1.2GHz TI OMAP CPU with a gig of RAM, and it’s available in 16 or 32 gig capacities. It has a front 1.3MP camera and a rear 5MP camera with LED flash and the usual WiFi 8902.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a GPS.

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Like the Droid XYoard 10.1 it has an IR Blaster with Digit, an AV remote control app plus TV Guide, and it has 4G LTE as well as 3G on Verizon Wireless. It’s available in Verizon stores with our without contract, and the 16 gig version costs $429 with contract and $599 without (you can sign up for month to month data with no contract). The 32 gig version costs $100 more. So, like most 4G LTE tablets on the US market, it ain’t cheap. But it is well made, extremely sturdy and has a Gorilla Glass display for scratch resistance. Will there be a WiFi only version like the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition in Europe? My guess is yes, but I’d expect as with the Motorola Xoom that Verizon Wireless has a period of exclusivity.

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What’s different, beyond size, from the XYBoard 10.1? The 8.2″ model lacks Droid XYBoard 10.1′s active digitizer and digital pen (the XYBoard 10.1 pen doesn’t work with the 8.2), the ports and controls are in different locations and the XYBoard 8.2 has a smaller battery: 3960 vs. 7000 mAh. That means you’ll have to resort to a less precise capacitive stylus with the Xyboard 8.2 if you want to write notes or draw, and battery life is shorter. Smaller tablets generally have shorter battery life because there’s less room for the battery, and Motorola wanted to make the XYBoard 8.2 very thin and light: it weighs 0.86 pounds and is 0.35″ thick. Personally, I’d pick the 10.1 given the benefits and better control location unless you’re understandably sold on the 8.2′s tweener size.

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The tablet runs Android OS 3.2 Honeycomb and will get an upgrade to Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This is fairly vanilla Android with no home screen or UI customizations beyond Moto’s square icon treatment. The app bundle is fairly restrained and Motorola doesn’t include all the business oriented apps found on the XYBoard 10.1 (but some, like Citrix are downloadable). Motocast is here, and we really love this remote file access and streaming media player that works with Windows and Macs.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Samsung Galaxy Note Review,a unique Android smartphone

The Samsung Galaxy Note is (for now), a unique Android smartphone. Call it a phablet; a really big phone or a small tablet. It shares some Galaxy S II DNA, but it lives larger in terms of dimensions and specs. The Note has a superb (an adjective I don’t use all that often) Super AMOLED HD display running at a mind boggling 1280 x 800 pixels.

That resolution is standard for 10.1″ Android Honeycomb tablets, but the Galaxy Note is an Android 2.3.6 smartphone with a 5.3″ display. Serious pixel density! Fonts are smooth as a Samsung Galaxy S II’s polished plastic bottom. Blacks are extremely deep and colors are richer than life, which is typical of Samsung’s Super AMOLED display technology. For this high end phone, Samsung spent some time calibrating and tweaking it, and the blue color cast found on other Galaxy phones is at a minimum, and pure black images are pure black with no banding or light patches.

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It doesn’t stop there. The Samsung Galaxy Note runs on a 1.4GHz dual core Exynos processor, one of the fastest CPUs you’ll find in an Android phone, and clocked higher than the already fast GS II with a 1.2GHz CPU. Even though its pushing an extreme number of pixels around, the Note does extremely well in synthetic benchmarks, getting up to 2x the score of some dual core Android phones (4100 on Quadrant and 1920 on the Sunspider JavaScript test). The phone has the usual Galaxy S II 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash that can shoot 1080p videos. Shoot a photo or video and play it back in the post view–it’s like looking at a photo frame.

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But wait: there’s more. The Samsung Galaxy Note has a dual digitizer. That means it has both capacitive multi-touch and an active Wacom digitizer complete with a small Wacom pen that lives in a homey little silo. It supports pressure sensitivity for drawing and painting (if the app supports Samsung’s pen SDK, as do a handful of apps right now). The pen is much more precise and reliable for drawing and writing than a capacitive stylus. Handwriting recognition in addition to the stock Android keyboard and Swype? Check.

And here’s a little more icing on your dessert: Samsung says the phone will get an upgade to Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That should be uber cool because ICS adds some serious pen support and is designed to look good and work well on both smartphones and tablets.

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Above: the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and Samsung Galaxy Note.

The drawbacks? The biggest is that no US carrier yet offers it. A variant just passed through the FCC this week with AT&T bands, but it’s hard to say what that means, since our already on sale Euro version also had to pass through the FCC (as do most phones that might vacation in the US). That means you’ll be buying it SIM unlocked for around $700 from importers in the US (Amazon, Expansys and others sell it). The good news is that it’s SIM unlocked and has AT&T 3G and 4G HSPA+ 21Mbs on both bands. It works great with our AT&T SIM. If you’re a T-Mobile US customer, you’ll get GSM (voice, SMS, MMS) and 2G EDGE.

The other drawback? It’s obviously a large phone. If you’ve used a Dell Streak smartphone, it won’t seem big at all, but it makes even the HTC Titan and 4.5″ Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket seem portable. The plus? You probably won’t have an urge to carry a tablet with you anymore.

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Specs:
5.3″, 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED HD display (dual digitizer with EMR pen and capacitive multi-touch).
1.4GHz dual core Exynos CPU with 1 gig RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage.
MicroSD card slot.
2500 mAh Lithium Ion battery
Weight: 6.4 ounces.
Front video chat camera (works with Skype and Google Talk), 8MP rear camera with LED flash and 1080p video recording.
WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 +HD and GPS (GPS, AGPS, GLONASS)
Quad band GSM world phone with 3G/4G HSPA+ on the 850/900/1900/2100MHz bands (compatible with AT&T 3G/HSPA+ in the US)

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HTC Vivid Review

The HTC Vivid is a lovely high end phone with enticing specs and a vivid (sorry, but it is) qHD display. The problem? It’s one of the homeliest phones HTC has turned out in years and its 4G LTE launch mate, the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket shows it up in some, but not all, respects. But for HTC fans and Samsung not-fans, the Vivid has enough going for it that we can easily recommend it.

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The HTC Vivid joined the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket on November 6 as AT&T’s first true 4G LTE phones. We’re lucky enough to be in an LTE coverage area, and download speeds have been rocking 25Mbps on average, with 12Mbps upload speeds. Our top download speed was 38.4Mbps according to the Speedtest.net app! Of course, once the network is peppered with LTE devices, speeds will come down, but it bodes well for AT&T’s new true 4G network.

The HTC Vivid has much in common with the Skyrocket: both have 4.5″ displays, Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread with promised upgrades to Ice Cream Sandwich, 8 megapixel cameras and dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs. The Vivid has a higher resolution Super LCD that’s qHD 960 x 540 pixels, and it lives up to its name with rich and accurate colors that pop.

Design and Ergonomics

HTC is usually the paragon of elegant design, with complex curves, sculpted surfaces and classy soft touch finishes. The Vivid is the Pontiac Aztek of phones: a confused mix of textures, shiny plastics and an odd angular design that’s neither comfortable nor attractive. The truncated pyramid that is the back is gloss black plastic that adores finger oils, isn’t particularly comfortable to hold and is hard to grip. The flat finish metal back is a little jarring next to shiny plastic, but it redeems the phone from a quality materials perspective. The Vivid is also available in white, and from the photos it looks more attractive, though we haven’t seen one in person yet. I hate to harp on appearances, but consumer electronics devices are an extension of personal style, so looks do count. And we have high expectations from HTC because their high end smartphones usually use top quality finishes and are good looking and well made.

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In terms of quality, the phone is solid and weighty as HTC devices often are. It feels more durable and rugged than the waifish Skyrocket and Samsung Galaxy S II, though we haven’t intentionally abused the trio to see who best survived a bounce off the pavement. The power button is small but easier to operate than the sometimes maddening HTC Rezound, and the volume controls don’t rattle or have play. The micro USB port is on the phone’s left side and the 3.5mm headphone jack is up top. The microSD card slot is blocked by the battery, so you’ll have to power down the phone to insert or remove a card. AT&T isn’t as generous as Verizon: no card is included. But you do have 16 gigs of internal storage and the phone sells for $100 less than Verizon’s LTE smartphones.

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Horsepower and Performance

The HTC Vivid isn’t the fastest kid on the block, though the 1.2GHz dual core CPU is solid enough. It scored 2159 in Quadrant and a middle of the pack 4526 in the Sunspider JavaScript test. The Vivid has to work harder to drive the higher resolution display, and that accounts for some of the benchmark differences, along with the not huge 0.3GHz clock speed difference. On paper, the Skyrocket is faster. In use, the Skyrocket feels a bit more responsive as well, but the Vivid never struck us as anything but quick. It’s just not lightning fast. HTC Sense 3.0 is on board, and that may have something to do with it. We actually like Sense and the ease of use improvements it offers over stock Android, but it does consume more RAM and the highly customized app drawer with its enforced vertical page-at-a-time scrolling style can make it feel slower than it is.

The phone has a gig of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage with 8.83 gigs available for your use. Like all recent HTC phones, it has a protected bootloader (important for those who want to root and install custom ROMs), but we assume HTC will offer a way to unlock the bootloader at the possible expense of your warranty.

Benchmarks


QuadrantLinpack multi-threadSunspider Javascript Test
Motorola Droid RAZR255075.72102
Motorola Atrix 22287644090
HTC Vivid2159574526
Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket334683.82878

Higher numbers are better in Quadrant and Linpack, lower numbers are better in Sunspider.

Phone and Data

The HTC Vivid has HSPA+ 14.4 for those of you (most of you right now) who aren’t in an AT&T LTE coverage area. The carrier now has 15 markets covered, including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, Washington DC, Las Vegas and Boston. New York City will come by year’s end. Though the Samsung GS II has a faster 21Mbps HSPA+ radio, we got the same speedtest.net results on the phones themselves and when tethering on AT&T’s HSPA network. The Vivid averaged 6Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up on HSPA and got absolutely amazing results on 4G LTE as we noted earlier in our review. If you’re in an LTE market or one that soon will have AT&T LTE, you’re in for a treat, especially if you want to use the mobile hotspot feature that’s included in the $45/month 4 gig plan. Speeds rival and currently surpass many home broadband connections; but beware using up your monthly data allotment quickly if you tether to watch streaming video on your PC or download a host of Windows updates. Should you go over your allowance, AT&T, like Verizon, will bill you $10 for each additional gig you use in a given month.

Reception was good in our tests, and the Vivid and Skyrocket had identical LTE reception as measured in -db. Call quality is good but not stellar. Like the Rezound on Verizon, we noted digitized voice and a less sharp and clear quality to voice. That said, we had no trouble understanding our callers and they understood us. When AT&T LTE phones are in a call, they use the HSPA network rather than LTE for voice. So don’t be alarmed if you see the little “LTE” icon go away at the top of your screen. In our tests, the phone hopped back on the LTE network a minute after we ended calls.

Display and Multimedia

The aptly named HTC Vivid has a colorful and sharp qHD 960 x 540 pixel display. We appreciate the color accuracy and white whites that are Super AMOLED Plus’ Achilles’ heel. I know many of you love Samsung’s Super AMOLED Plus displays for their better than life colors and high contrast, but there’s something to be said for HTC’s Super LCD displays, especially if you spend much time reading eBooks and reading web pages with primarily dark text on white backgrounds. The Vivid has pleasing whites that lack Super AMOLED Plus’ blue color cast, and the higher resolution makes for sharper fonts. It might not be as flashy a display as the Skyrocket’s, but you get greater pixel density and clarity as well as menu fonts that aren’t huge like Samsung’s on their 800 x 480 jumbo screen phones. If you’re over 45 and don’t have the best eyes though, Samsung’s large fonts and high contrast might suit you better, even if fonts aren’t as crisp.

These days all smartphones are miniature multimedia powerhouses, and the dual core, graphics accelerated Vivid is no exception. It can play 1080p MPEG4 videos well, and it can do HDMI out with an optional MHL adapter dongle that typically sells for around $20. The phone has an FM radio, AT&T Live TV for streaming TV shows ($10/month and powered by MobiTV), MOG Music, Google’s Music app, mSpot Movies (video rentals, a partner of AT&T), YouTube, Adobe Flash Player and HTC Watch (more movie rentals with purchase options). The Vivid comes bundled with a playable demo of Need for Speed Shift that performs perfectly.

The speakerphone is full and doesn’t distort at higher volumes, but it’s not terribly loud. Those of you who like to use the speakerphone to make calls in noisy haunts might have better luck with a headset. It is adequate for calmer locations and both game audio and video tracks have pleasing bass and clear trebles by speaker standards. Like all modern phones, the HTC Vivid supports mono Bluetooth headsets, stereo A2DP headphones and speakers and car kits.

Camera

Like many recent top tier HTC phones, the Vivid has an 8 megapixel rear camera with a backside illuminated sensor and fast f2.2 lens for improved low light photography. It’s a relatively wide aperture lens with a 28mm equivalent, and like the HTC Amaze 4G and HTC Rezound, it takes very pleasing shots that are sharp, colorful and well exposed. There’s a dual LED flash to blind your friends and illuminate dark hallways, and it also helps with low light photos without whiting out your subject. HTC offers a variety of scene settings, ISO, white balance, face detection, geotagging and focus modes. 1080p video capture is slightly less impressive with some sense of haze over cloudy outdoor scenes (the cheap clear plastic cover over the lens may cause this), and motion blur, but it’s not bad stuff by any means. For photos, we prefer the Vivid, but for video capture we prefer the Samsung Galaxy S II and Skyrocket.

The phone has a 1.3MP front video chat camera and comes with Qik Lite for video chat. You can also use Gtalk video chat and install Skype.

Battery

Less impressive is the oddly low capacity 1620 mAh Lithium Ion battery. We’re surprised that HTC couldn’t fit a larger battery inside this not terribly thin phone. Still, it’s not as bad as you might think; unlike Verizon LTE phones that punish their batteries, AT&T’s network goes easier on power, and the Vivid lasted us to the end of the work day with moderate use. Our phone stayed on a steady -90db, 2 bar LTE 4G signal all day, and dropped to HSPA+ only when making calls. If you’re in an area with weak LTE coverage, you might see radio ping-ponging that could diminish battery life. Unfortunately, AT&T doesn’t offer a setting to disable LTE. The Skyrocket has an 1850 mAh battery in comparison, and a more power frugal Super AMOLED Plus display, and thus it lasted 2 to 3 hours longer in our tests.

Conclusion

The HTC Vivid is in every way a high end phone with a solid dual core CPU, qHD display that we really like, a good 8 megapixel camera and true LTE 4G. The market is absolutely flooded with top tier Android smartphones, and the Vivid does little to stand out though. Thankfully its LTE radio will get it some deserved attention, even if its physical design won’t win hearts and minds. The Vivid has stable reception, decent but not stellar voice quality and a sharp camera. If only the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket didn’t give it such fierce competition!

Price: $199 with 2 year contract, $549 without contract

Websites: wireless.att.com, www.htc.com/us/

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Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V review

Introduction

Do we cancel the show if the star is not available? This one must’ve crossed some minds over at Sony Ericsson when the Xperia Neo had to be discontinued. But no, they didn’t cancel it. The crew was told to take five instead while they skimmed the B-list for a possible substitute.

The Xperia neo V is not an upgrade of the original Neo. It’s actually a downgrade forced by circumstances. The only difference is the camera sensor – down from 8 to 5 megapixels – and the more recent Android version. Sounds so little, doesn’t it? That’s the price for saving the Neo.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V official pictures

The deadly Japan earthquake took lives and brought the local electronics industry to a halt. Sony was affected too and, with a shortage of 8 megapixel camera sensors looming, someone had to take the hit. That someone was the Xperia neo. This is the story told by a company insider, who we have no reason to doubt.

It’s the same phone, different camera and the lower price makes sense. And it should be clear by now the V is the Roman numeral for five, not a letter. Could there be a victory sign anywhere in the picture?

Key features

  • Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
  • 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
  • 3.7″ 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels) on Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine
  • Android OS v2.3.4 Gingerbread
  • 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 5 MP autofocus camera, LED flash, geo-tagging, 3D Sweep Panorama
  • 720p video @ 30fps, continuous autofocus with continuous autofocus and stereo sound
  • Front facing VGA camera, video chat (Google, Skype)
  • Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
  • GPS with A-GPS
  • microSD slot (32GB supported, 2GB card included)
  • Accelerometer and proximity sensor
  • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
  • Stereo FM radio with RDS
  • microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
  • Voice dialing
  • Adobe Flash 11 support
  • microHDMI port
  • Deep Xperia Facebook integration

Main disadvantages

  • Forced camera downgrade to 5MP
  • Display has poor viewing angles
  • The competition has dual-core CPUs, 1080p video
  • No smart dialing
  • Loudspeaker has below average performance
  • Very limited video codec support
  • Memory card slot under the battery cover

So, the Xperia Neo lives inside the Neo V. Patched up with band aid and mildly myopic but sill. The potential deal-breakers are identical, so if you had second thoughts about the original, you’ll probably pass on this one too.

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If you meet the Neo for the first time you are welcome to join us as we explore the hardware and build. Let’s see if Sony Ericsson play a bad card poorly or make the most out of a situation they never meant to be in.

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Samsung Galaxy Note vs. Samsung Galaxy Nexus

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the Samsung Galaxy Note; either way you can’t go wrong. These two top dog Android smartphones are Samsung’s crowning achievements for 2011, and both are solid evolutions of the Samsung Galaxy S II line. In fact, the world “evolution” belittles the giant Galaxy Note: it’s a leap ahead into the future of smartphones as they evolve into pocket tablets. And there’s the catch, the Note is a large phone that’s likely too big for some folks. But it’s head and shoulders above other smartphones in terms of hardware.

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The Galaxy Nexus, both the Verizon version we use in this video comparison, and the international GSM/HSPA+ model we did a video review of a while back, represents the evolution in software. It’s the first phone to run Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. And it’s a pure Google smartphone, which means there are no manufacturer software overlays or carrier customizations (OK, just a few in the Verizon Nexus). You’ll also be the first on your block to get OS updates, because Nexus phones are first in line. The Nexus is king of the lab for software.Link

While the Samsung Galaxy Note will get Ice Cream Sandwich in 2012, it won’t have that first in line status for subsequent OS updates and it will run Samsung’s TouchWiz on top. Now, some of you prefer TouchWiz to vanilla Android, so wouldn’t think of condemning it for it’s TouchWiz-ness, but you know your camp: are you a purist or a “give me some manufacturer customizations” type who wants built-in social networking, quick settings access and added video codecs?

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This 3 way comparison is complex because the Galaxy Nexus is offered with subsidy by a US carrier (Verizon). If you’re eligible for a contract extension or are just joining Verizon Wireless, you can get the Nexus for $299 with contract and required data plan. If you’re not up for renewal, it will set you back $649. A US carrier doesn’t yet offer the Samsung Galaxy Note, so you’ll get it from importers for $650 to $700. Likewise, the unlocked GSM/HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus costs $650 to $700US. For those of you in Europe and Asia, the Nexus and Note are available with contract and cost roughly the same.

The Samsung Galaxy Note works perfectly on AT&T’s 3G and 4G HSPA+ 21Mbps network since it has the required bands. It you’ve got the cash, it’s a great match for AT&T (T-Mobile US folks will only get 2G EDGE). Rumors say the Galaxy Note is coming to AT&T, making it a phone to keep your eye on if you’d rather get it with contract at an affordable price. And it might get LTE 4G, which is even faster than HSPA+. Thanks to LTE, Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus has faster data speeds vs. the HSPA+ Note, which is particularly important to those who use the mobile hotspot wireless tethering feature.

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In terms of hardware, I won’t do my usual category-by-category comparison, because the Galaxy Note simply slaughters the Galaxy Nexus. It has a dual core 1.4GHz Exynos CPU (that’s the CPU to beat for speed) vs. the capable but not exactly on fire 1.2GHz dual core TI OMAP CPU in the Galaxy Nexus. The Note has 16 gigs of internal storage and a microSD card slot. The Galaxy Nexus has no card slot, and comes with 16 gigs (GSM version) or 32 gigs (Verizon) of internal storage. All have a gig of RAM.

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The Galaxy Note has a 5.3″ Super AMOLED HD display running at 1280 x 800 resolution (the same as Android 10″ tablets) vs. the Nexus’ 1280 x 720p Super AMOLED display. The Note’s display looks brighter, more colorful and is simply tablet-like it its experience. Gaming is more fun on a huge and vibrant display, as is watching videos.

The Note has a Wacom dual digitizer, a first in a mainstream smartphone. That means is supports both capacitive multi-touch and active pen input from a precise EMR digital pen (included). It’s great for pressure sensitive drawing and note-taking too. That’s a step into the future. It’s a touch screen smartphone and a pocket note pad and sketch book in your pocket.

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The Note has the same 8 megpixel rear camera used in the Galaxy S II line vs. the Nexus’ 5 megapixel rear camera. The Note doesn’t yet have Ice Cream Sandwich’s instantaneous shutter, but it takes better photos and videos.

OK, so the Samsung Galaxy Note sounds like the champ, right? There are a few drawbacks. For those of you in the US, it’s expensive and there’s no direct carrier support (unless AT&T does release it and you can get their version). $650 to $700 is a lot to spend on a smartphone for many folks.

This is a big phone! It’s thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus but wider and taller. If you think 4.3″ smartphones are marginally tolerable, this is not the phone for you. It’s a phablet: a marriage of phone and tablet. I don’t mind large phones and have roomy pockets and a purse. You fellas might not have a place to stow it. Thin and light as it is, it lacks the ergonomics of the smaller (but still large) 4.65″ Samsung Galaxy Nexus.


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