Offered in your choice of either a Ceramic White or Carbon Blue chassis, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android tablet phone may be the face of things to come in the smartphone and tablet marketplaces. When released, Samsung made a heavy claim that the Galaxy Note “Phablet” would create a whole new consumer-electronics device category, offering tablet capabilities on a screen small enough to hold in one hand, while also delivering high-end Android smartphone features. According to some recent estimates by a few industry analysts, Samsung may be right on the money with that prediction.
Buy the Samsung Galaxy Note starting at $189.
Forecasting trends in global connectivity, consumer-electronics and other technologies, ABI Research says their recent data leads them to believe that Phablets like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4G will total over 208 million device shipments as early as 2015. While offering a hybrid device that is larger than the typical smartphone but smaller and more portable than a tablet, Samsung may just be the front runner in an entirely new device category. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4G has already sold more than 10 million units, and the handset’s unique handwriting recognition technology and integrated S Pen smart stylus mesh with the 4G-smartphone-biggest 5.3 inch display to deliver features not available on other handsets.
What was originally considered a gimmick by most industry analysts and Samsung competitors has now drawn copycat praise by smartphone manufacturers HTC, LG and Huawei, who are all releasing their own Phablet devices. When the Kindle Fire 7 inch touch screen tablet debuted last year with no microSD slot, no cameras, and the less popular at that time 7 inch screen, the majority of industry analysts said it would flop. Instead, the Kindle Fire created an entire device category of smaller screened, less expensibe, stripped-down tablets that are selling extremely well. It appears that the Samsung Galaxy Note may have done the same thing.
Powering the tablet capabilities and smartphone features of the Galaxy Note 4G device is a Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon microchip package that uses a separate Adreno 220 processor to handle all graphics requests. This allows the dual core 1.5 GHz Scorpion central processor to dedicate itself entirely to handling your requests as quickly as possible, and that has helped create one of the quicker CPUs of any 4G smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Note also delivers high-end screen resolution at 800 x 1,280 pixels, high-resolution video capture at 1,080P HD, 16 million color rendering and 1.0 GB of RAM system memory. Buy the Samsung Galaxy Note starting at $189.
