Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Note II Price Reduced for the Holidays

The Samsung Galaxy Note II 4G Android tablet/smartphone hit the Sprint 4G LTE system in the US on October 25. With the largest screen on a 4G smartphone, a quad core processor and Jelly Bean 4.1 Android operating system, the handset has been a bestseller for Sprint and attractive to smartphone shoppers this holiday season. To get into the holiday spirit, Sprint recently reduced the retail price of their Galaxy Note II to around $225 on contract at the Amazon Wireless store during their holiday sales event.

The Galaxy Note II for Sprint now starting at $224.99.

This is the very first Samsung smartphone to deliver Android’s new Jelly Bean 4.1 operating system out-of-the-box, and that OS update delivers a faster and smoother user interface. Jelly Bean meshes with the Samsung TouchWiz UI, and multitouch, capacitive gestures can be used to navigate the handset, as well as the integrated S Pen smart stylus. You have your choice of marble white or titanium gray, with the Sprint Galaxy Note II delivering Near Field Communications (NFC) wireless support out-of-the-box.

Slim at 0.37 inches (9.3 mm), the powerful Galaxy Note II delivers its large 5.55 inch Super AMOLED screen in the true HD aspect ratio of 16 to 9. That display is protected by a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 2, and pixel density runs above average at 265 pixels per inch. The 16 million individual colors that the Galaxy Note II uses in its displays are represented on the screen in a 720 x 1,280 pixel resolution. Even though the handset has a power-hungry quad core processor and tons of battery draining hardware and software, talk time still runs nearly double the 4G smartphone average, at 15.0 hours offered from a single charge.

The hardware package on board the handset includes a Samsung Exynos 4 (4412) chip set, a quad core 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU and ARM Mali-400 MP4 (Quad-Core) graphics processor. The 2.0 GB of RAM system memory are double the average of most smartphones, and 16 GB of storage are built-in. You can also add extra storage via the microSD slot on board, which supports cards up to 64 GB in size. A Stereo FM radio with RDS display is on board, as is a built-in stereo and YouTube video player.

The handset delivers 1,080P HD resolution video recording with the 8.0 megapixel camcorder on the back of the handset, and the Sprint Galaxy Note II also provides a chat cam up front. The handset is rendered for social networking right out-of-the-box, with Facebook, Twitter and Picasa applications pre-installed, and DLNA wireless connectivity allows you to export whatever is on your display to an exterior HDTV or monitor.

You can purchase the Galaxy Note II for Sprint for a reduced price tag now starting at $224.99.