This is a great time of year annually for smartphone shoppers looking for bargains. New smartphones usually come rolling out in the second and third quarters, and both wireless carriers and device manufacturers often times reduce the retail price of their current handsets, to help them move onhand stock. The Galaxy Note II for Verizon has been a flagship device for that carrier, and certainly doesn’t need a lowered price tag to guarantee sales.
The Galaxy Note II for Verizon is available for a reduced sale price now starting at $149.99.
However, a lower retail price of $149 on contract was recently spotted on the Galaxy Note II for Verizon at the Amazon Wireless store. That handset also received some good news from an “unnamed source” for Samsung, which told GSMArena that the Galaxy Note II smartphone was one of the few devices which would receive an upgrade to the Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie operating system in the near future. That source did not name a specific release date for the OS upgrade, but did state that the handset may receive future operating system upgrades higher than 5.0.
The Galaxy Note II for Verizon offers a built-in Stereo FM radio with RDS and YouTube video player in its multimedia package, and popular online destinations Facebook, Picasa and Twitter have been pre-installed. The rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder on the Galaxy Note II is capable of recording video in 1,080P HD resolution, and joins a front facing 1.9 megapixel chat cam in the handset’s camera combo.
The large 5.55 inch display on the Galaxy Note II is a True HD screen, with a 720 x 1,280 pixel resolution. That screen is also designed in a 16 to 9 aspect ratio, widely regarded as the industry-standard for viewing HD video. Pixel density runs high at 256 pixels per inch, standard multitouch, capacitive gestures are supported for your hand or the enclosed smart stylus S Pen, and light and proximity sensors are on board to help preserve battery power.
Those battery conservation efforts help deliver up to 15.0 hours from a single, full battery charge, and the powerful quad core processor on the handset provides multitasking and multifunction capabilities when combined with the multi-window split screen feature the handset offers. This allows you to divide the large display into two equal pieces, and conduct totally separate operations and applications on each, while also allowing you to interact back and forth between the two split screens. The handset is powered by a quad core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, a full 2.0 GB of RAM memory has been installed, and a quad core graphics processor is on board as well.
