Samsung Galaxy Note: 5.3", 1200x800 SuperAMOLED, S-PEN stylus, 2500mAh attery... *phew*

Orange sell WiMo 6.5 stuff through their business arm incase you didn't know and still require them. (usual disclaimer I work for them, other networks are available etc...)
Richdog said:
It is going to be light... its more or less the same thickness as the GSII, and still thinner than many phones and thus will weigh less than many communicator-style phones. It's definitely not going ot be a brick weight-wise... the only issue I see is size in the hand/pocket.
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It's ~20% larger and has a 50% larger battery than their own SGS2. This is not invisible, weightless stuff. It will be important to buyers when they pick it up to try. I honestly am not sure what you're comparing it to when you say "communicator style" phones because they haven't really been sold for a few years in the EU and the only one to generate even more than a blip was the DesireZ in terms of communicator formfactor. If you mean smartphones as a whole then the only one that has been this large so far was the dell streak and it didn't exactly set the world alight.

Don't get me wrong, it's probably a really good device and if you are OK with this size then great but this is a bit niche for the phone market to me when a couple of inches bigger gets you a tablet with a better sized screen and an inch shorter gets you a more sellable phone.
 
Myshra said:
Orange sell WiMo 6.5 stuff through their business arm incase you didn't know and still require them. (usual disclaimer I work for them, other networks are available etc...)
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We are with Orange at the moment and they won't give us any more or they are stopping providing them in the very near future which is why we are looking at alternatives, atleast that's from what I've been told it's not my team that deals with the user devices.
 
SGS2 is as big as I am comfortable with for one handed use. this just seems like a filler for a niche in the market that isn't really there.
 
Robbo said:
People are just captivated by the resolution, other than that it isn't much different to the Galaxy S II. The extra battery won't really provide much of a benefit unless you have the screen off most of the time (in which case such a phone is even more pointless).
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I dont follow that logic... a device with a 1" bigger screen than an SGSII will somehow consume all the extra power that a battery with 50% extra over an SGSII provides? :confused:

Myshra said:
Orange sell WiMo 6.5 stuff through their business arm incase you didn't know and still require them. (usual disclaimer I work for them, other networks are available etc...)

It's ~20% larger and has a 50% larger battery than their own SGS2. This is not invisible, weightless stuff. It will be important to buyers when they pick it up to try. I honestly am not sure what you're comparing it to when you say "communicator style" phones because they haven't really been sold for a few years in the EU and the only one to generate even more than a blip was the DesireZ in terms of communicator formfactor..
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Nowhere did I say a bigger screen and battery was weightless.... lets keep the discussion a little sensible without the drama. What we do know is that the SGS II is ridiculously thin for a phone of its size, and that the Note is not going to be much thicker at all... probably in line with many "normal" phones. The SGS II was pushing the boudaries of tech in that respect, and the Note is using the same methods. When I talked about communicator devices I was talking about the Nokias and HTC's of this world which are now on sale and are not featherweight devices themselves. I dont think the note will be heavier than these despite the extra screen size, and am looking forward to reviews to confirm it.
 
Richdog said:
I dont follow that logic... a device with a 1" bigger screen than an SGSII will somehow consume all the extra power that a battery with 50% extra over an SGSII provides? :confused:
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The higher resolution will also put more strain on the GPU, drawing more power (I believe). I think the battery will perhaps be slightly better overall, but it will be fairly negligible. We'll have to wait and see.

Its standby times will be superior though I imagine.
 
Dude, the higher resolution will make barely any difference to battery drain... same principle as on any hardware, whether PC or phone. The chip inside is capable of whatever resolution its capable of, then the screen displays it as it displays any other resolution. The only time I would expect more drain is during 3D gaming, when it will of course work the GPU harder at the higher resolution. In normal use however, it will be un-noticeable.
 
As if the GSII wasn't big enough already :eek: But then my hands aren't that big :o

Richdog said:
Dude, the higher resolution will make barely any difference to battery drain...
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The way I see it (I could be wrong) the screen is AMOLED and the pixels produce their own light. The GSII has 800x480 = 384000 pixels, this has 1280x720 = 921600 pixels which is 2.4x more so won't the screen use just as much more power?
 
Temi_D said:
As if the GSII wasn't big enough already :eek: But then my hands aren't that big :o



The way I see it (I could be wrong) the screen is AMOLED and the pixels produce their own light. The GSII has 800x480 = 384000 pixels, this has 1280x720 = 921600 pixels which is 2.4x more so won't the screen use just as much more power?
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SGS II is quite wide, but thin and quite light. My Mrs iPhone 4 seems tonka toy like in comparison, both have a similar all round bumper/hard case. SGSII is just about big enough, though I'd like to see the same form factor used but with the whole face of the device being screen

There is 2.4 times the pixels, in a slightly larger screen, so wouldn't they be smaller/less power hungry? The bigger battery would offset this too
 
engadget/thisismynext had some android bluetooth watch that sync'ed with the phone, so this device type, (or even a tablet) that type of watch, and crazy person bluetooth headset could be a useage model :O
 
Anyone else think the size of this may be due to this being the smallest Samsung can economically go at that resolution at the moment?

IE its them showing off the best screen tech they have and producing a "phone" around it...
 
Too big for me. My SGSII is as big as I want to go tbh. (Maybe I'll think differently when I'm more used to it, but for someone just coming off a nokia 6230i a 4.3" screen seems quite large enough!).
 
To be fair its too big for me too... but one thing I desperately want is a 720p screen on a phone. If I could get one of these for a corporate device though id be loving it. :D
 
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