With global sales of more than 10 million units, including more than 1 million devices sold in its home country of Korea, the Galaxy Note II has been a rousing success for Samsung. The handset delivers an extremely large and high resolution screen with input acceptable from your voice, your hand, the integrated S Pen smart stylus or the Hover feature which allows you to interact with the Galaxy Note II without even touching the screen. The AT&T version currently retails for around $199 at the Amazon Wireless store on contract.
The Galaxy Note II hit the AT&T 4G LTE system in the US in early November of last year, and one of the most popular features of the handset is the Multi-Window split screen application. Just as it sounds, this allows you to divide your display into two equal windows, and either carry-on separate applications or operations on each half, or interact and integrate the two windows. The smart stylus pen proximity also allows you to set visual and audible alarms so that you are notified when the S Pen gets a little too far away from the handset.
While many industry analysts and “experts” claimed the original Galaxy Note display was too large at 5.3 inches, the Galaxy Note II expanded that screen size to 5.55 inches. The first handset from Samsung to offer the Jelly Bean 4.1 Android operating system out-of-the-box, the Galaxy Note II is a svelte 0.37 inches (9.3 mm) in thickness. The True HD screen has been designed in a 16 to 9 aspect ratio, which many feel provides the perfect True HD experience for videos and movies.
That large Super AMOLED screen on the Galaxy Note II delivers an overall resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels, offering up more than 16 million colors at the rate of 265 pixels per inch. The proximity and light sensors built into the screen help squeeze every possible hour out of the 3,100 mA battery on board the handset, while also offering auto brightness adjustment and auto dimming. That helps the oversized cell deliver a full 15.0 hours of talk time and 12.0 days of standby battery power from a single charge.
Samsung chose an Exynos 4 (4412) system chip to power the handset, and it revolves around a powerful Exynos quad core CPU clocked at 1.6 GHz. An ARM Mali 400 MP4 quad core graphics processor is also on board, and the Galaxy Note II delivers 16 GB of internal storage, 2.0 GB of RAM, and a microSD slot for storage expansion. Video is captured at 1,080P HD resolution thanks to the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder, and the Galaxy Note II for AT&T delivers NFC support out-of-the-box.
