{"id":14247,"date":"2012-10-25T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=14247"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:18:43","slug":"samsung-impresses-with-launch-of-galaxy-note-ii-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/samsung-impresses-with-launch-of-galaxy-note-ii-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Impresses With Launch Of Galaxy Note II In The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
Last night, Samsung held an event in New York to announce the launch of it’s phablet\/hugephone, the Galaxy Note II, across all major U.S. carriers. I attended the event and took home a Note II to review, so expect comprehensive coverage of this major device here in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Some first impressions and notes:<\/p>\n
Samsung continues to load up its phones with a lot of unique features. While few of these features are earth shattering, they add up to a phone that does a lot more than any other phone. Less advanced users will, out of the box, have a top-notch phone, but advanced or curious users can turn on a surprisingly large number of features you don’t see on other phones or that are even provided (well) by third-party apps.\u00a0 Here’s just a sample of some special Note II features, some of which are on Galaxy S3 phones and coming to other major Samsung devices:<\/p>\n
There are probably anywhere from 10 to 30 little features like these (all optional), so you can choose the ones you like and not be bogged down by the rest. All that is available on the Note II, before getting into the major marquee features, like the S Pen stylus, Google Now and S Voice voice control, Android 4.1 (Jellybean), the amazingly fast quad-core Exynos processor, the giant 5.5 inch screen, NFC, and many other features that we’ll focus on for a proper review and follow up articles.<\/p>\n