After a short delay which was caused by Samsung deciding to improve the TouchWiz Android user interface, the operating system boost from Android 4.1.2 to Jelly Bean 4.2.2 on the Galaxy Note II will take place in July instead of June this year. Samsung is striving to make the TouchWiz user interface more intuitive and less noticeable on the Galaxy Note II smartphone, and it will accompany the software update which will come over the air delivering Android’s 4.2.2 OS to the large screen phablet.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II is available for a reduced sale price now starting at .
With a handy Multi-Window feature that allows you to split the display into two smaller screens, the Galaxy Note II smartphone has been a bestseller and globally popular since it arrived in the US in November of last year. You can interact with the handset by speaking to it, writing, drawing or doodling with the smart stylus S Pen, touching the display with your fingers or hovering the S Pen just above the screen. A popular choice for business users, the Galaxy Note II has been given a SAFE designation (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) because of its support for multiple business and IT security and productivity applications.
The S Pen is thicker and longer than the version found on the original Galaxy Note, and provides contextual awareness features. Hover just above the display and you receive link preview information and magnification of websites, allowing you to do more with fewer clicks. You can also set audible and visual alarms which will alert you when the smart stylus strays a little too far from the handset. The first smartphone that Samsung manufactured with the Jelly Bean operating system, the Galaxy Note II measures a slim 0.37 inches (9.3 mm).
Though the profile is slim, the display is anything but diminutive. A full 5.55 inches, the Super AMOLED screen on the Galaxy Note II delivers a resolution of 720 by 1,280 pixels, and is laid out in a 16 to 9 aspect ratio. This is a perfect ratio for watching HD movies, and the screen delivers more than 16 million colors when rendering visuals. Special power saving light and proximity sensors are built into the display, and they automatically adjust for the proper brightness and automatically dim the display when not in use.
This helps deliver a full 15.0 hours of talk time and as many as 12.0 days of standby power from a single charge of the extended life 3,100 mA battery on board the phone. The brains behind the large smartphone/tablet is a Samsung Exynos 4 system chip, with a 1.6 GHz quad core CPU at its core. A full 2.0 GB of RAM memory joins a quad core graphics processor and 16 GB of built-in storage in the hardware package, along with a storage expanding microSD slot. Video capture runs 1,080P HD resolution on the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder, and a front facing chat cam of 1.9 megapixels offers video call and Skype support.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at .
