*** The Official Samsung Galaxy Note II Thread ***

[mrk]

NO!

I want to believe!

 

[Owenb]

The Adreno 225 is currently the second the most powerful mobile GPU behind the SGX543mp4 and probably the most efficient too. How is that a let down?
Anyway, yes this HTC device uses a Adreno 320 powering a 1080p display. (Hopefully that 5" LG one )

Adreno 225 is a match for the Mali 400 in the SII, but is nowhere near the higher clocked one in the SIII. Adreno 320 should bring Qualcomm into line with the GPU in the SIII.

 

[Nexus18]

Adreno 225 is a match for the Mali 400 in the SII

The adreno 225 is better than the mali 400 by a good chunk.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5559/...mance-preview-msm8960-adreno-225-benchmarks/3

And here is Sarge's favourite image now

 

[bastic]

Fake FB page is Fake.


But in actual news...

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-note-2-reportedly-uses-flexible-superamoled-panel

RGB AMOLED 5.5" screen with 350ppi and flexible panel + thinner unbreakable panel resulting in bigger battery?

Hmm, almost tempting enough if it's true!

Want...
But 5.5" is not far off from my nexus7 would I need such a big mobile...

 

[sarge78]

A 5.5" flexiable OLED would be brilliant! And ~350ppi would mean something like 1680*1050? Sweeeet!

Adreno 320 should bring Qualcomm into line with the GPU in the SIII.

Technically it's the other way round...
Adreno 225 uses a fully programmable unified shader architecture with DX9.3 support, Samsung won't have that until Exynos 5.
Adreno is finally making good on its ATi heritage!

...by a good chunk.

Hehe, I wouldn't say a good chunk ...but show Mali 400 a bit of geometry and it starts crying like a small girl (they're close enough not to worry about in the real world)

 

[leoncc]

So when would we expect to pick this up sim free or on contract?

I'm guessing £500 upon release?

I have no mobile right now and I'm so close to getting a Note but I know at the end of this month I will raging hard when the II is released hopefully?

 

[Cosimo]

This may be the bezel:

http://translate.googleusercontent....69590/&usg=ALkJrhgCtLUB-rSoszJPFTZHWU3aTXX-7w

 

[HAz]

Lol 5.5 is too big.

 

[grudas]

Lol 5.5 is too big.

too big? for you? or too big for anyone?

 

[leoncc]

Depends really, I mean if the phone itself is still the same size as the Note I or slightly smaller but the screen itself is closer to the edges, 5.5" to me is win win.

Can't wait to see the Note II.

 

[ng93]

This may be the bezel:

http://translate.googleusercontent....69590/&usg=ALkJrhgCtLUB-rSoszJPFTZHWU3aTXX-7w

God I hope that's genuine, am very worried Samsung are gonna **** up the design of this like they did with the S3.

Edit: also if i'm not mistaken the hole for the screen is 16:9 which matches the rumours of it being thinner that the Note I.

 

[grudas]

God I hope that's genuine, am very worried Samsung are gonna **** up the design of this like they did with the S3.

Edit: also if i'm not mistaken the hole for the screen is 16:9 which matches the rumours of it being thinner that the Note I.

s3 is a nice phone tbh..

 

[ng93]

s3 is a nice phone tbh..

Oh no doubt its a very good phone, but aesthetically I think it's a real backwards step, although admittedly the black version looks a lot better then the blue/white it was released with.

 

[mrk]

You like the black renders?

 

[ng93]

Me? I don't dislike it as much as the other colours .

 

[mrk]

No comment until I have a black side by side with blue

 

[Maccapacca]

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/1542734/samsung_galaxy_note_2_picture_revealed.html


My contract is up in September, really fancy this

 

[Nexus18]

Why can't Samsung loose the hard home button and have on screen buttons like the GN or all touch sensitive buttons like the X and S. Ruins the front of the device (it looked nice on the GS 2 though)

 

[Grrrrr]

That picture doesn't look like a 16:9 aspect ratio. Hasn't it been confirmed the phone will be 720p?

 

[Grrrrr]

I'll also be VERY disappointed if it doesn't have a black front bezel. Having an almost indistinguishable screen from bezel is half the reason OLED is so good.