The Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android smartphone launched on February 7 of this year, and is currently exclusive to the AT&T 4G LTE network in the US. That handset was promised Android’s 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, and that promise was delivered in mid July. Unlike some ICS upgrades, the integration with the Galaxy Note 4G phablet is actually very smooth, and a true joy to behold. Users with other Android smartphones have complained that the ICS 4.0 OS didn’t mesh correctly with particular handsets and their UI, but that is definitely not the case here.
If you have become used to the visual appearance of your Gingerbread operating system on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4G, you’ll be happy to know that the ICS upgrade makes vast improvements, but don’t change the way you use your handset. Actually, after the over the air download, many Galaxy Note owners complained that the upgrade had not been made, since the changes are subtle in appearance, but great in substance. And it is true that the home screens look identical, but press the Home button and your recent tabs appear, and if you head over to Settings, you’ll see the brand-new layout with usage monitoring added.
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The handset now accesses Android Beam, a wireless data share app which allows you to wirelessly share data, applications and other info by merely pressing your Galaxy Note against another Android Beam enabled device. The handset also delivers via ICS 4.0 an update to the smart stylus S Pen’s productivity suite that Samsung is calling Premium Suite. It changes and enhances the S Memo, S Note and My Story apps, and the really neat upgrade is to S Note. (My Story is available as an optional app through the Google Play Store.)
You can now import and edit PDFs on the Galaxy Note, allowing you to quickly and efficiently take and add notes to existing documents. You also have the ability to annotate and import S Memo maps, snapshots and other images that you have already edited or cropped with your S Pen. There are also multimedia-rich note-taking templates that make note-taking very descriptive, if not artistic. Shape Match takes your feeble attempts to draw basic geometric shapes and perfects them, and S Memo can now be added to the home screen as a small icon that instantly gives you access to write, draw or type, even adding a memo or photo.
The Galaxy Note offers the largest screen of any smartphone, at 5.30 inches, with 800 x 1,280 pixel resolution, and contains a powerful 1.5 GHz dual core CPU. That screen is protected by a layer of scratch resistant Gorilla Glass, and the handset delivers approximately 25% superior talk time than the average 4G handset, at 10.00 hours offered from a single charge. The Galaxy note 4G delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) support out-of-the-box. Buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 4G at the reduced price.
