The Samsung music player is cool, and one of the features I like which I did not find in my Sony or HTC I the folder view, which is very useful when playing your music. The camera unit seems identical to the Galaxy SII and its excellent for a camera phone. The video is also very good, and the Note is all ready to do p, something that other brand phones only brought into the range! The speakers on the Galaxy Note are adequate, but for the larger size I expected better. Having tried both the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy 7.
The worse could be due to the form fact or design that muffles it, hence its not that loud. My former Sony Arc thumped a fair bit of sound when it comes to music than the Note.
However once you start to use the screen a lot for browsing or reading and remember AMOLED is not very efficient when the screen is entirely white, a major problem when it comes to browsing or e-reading , the battery drain is greater than a smaller screen with an smaller battery. However with general use similar to my Arc I can easily take the device over 2 days, something very hard to accomplish with most smart phones, though heavy internet users one of my colleagues who owned a Note falls into this category , and in his case the battery ran dry in less than a day.
An aspect that I did not write or consider much in my past reviews were on the SIM type, since the micro SIM is something we mainly associated with Apple. Well seems like more and more of the newer crop are joining the micro SIM band.
I had the luxury of using my version of the Note running Gingerbread and also subsequently try the device of my friend which had been upgraded to ICS. Here is a quick summary of standard results. Nenamark results have shown explosive increments with ICS across all phones i have tested so it seems to be either some tweak on ICS or how the benchmark works. Reasons for Antutu dropping so much has baffled me, and when i compared the CPU scores had dropped, but power saving was definitely disabled, and i had also stopped any background applications.
I will try to rerun that test and see if that had been a freaky result, since the overall graphical interaction responses of the Note with ICS had improved vastly compared to Gingerbread. I again got myself a Note, and this time it had ICS 4. Even Vellamo scores for web rendering related had dropped in 4. Here are the two captures for Gingerbread above and ICS below. However with the 4. When I first ran the results on my Gingerbread Note, I was rather disappointing if i had got a dud unit since the results were very poor.
Then I realized the reason was that I had the default power saving enabled. Here are some results showing the impact of the power saving on tests. Many laughed at the size, and all expected it to crash just like the Dell Streak. But how wrong people were, including myself, the device has a niche, and a large niche at that which seems to be growing, and the upcoming 5.
With smart phones growing in size, the current flagship phones are touting 4. The story is not just resolution, its also about the screen space, and with more and more users now moving to texting, browsing, and video calls coupled with seeking to use the phone as a multimedia device, the Galaxy Note has hit a spot and unlike past device its comes with superb hardware, an excellent screen that matches anything in the market, and the stylus that has its uses.
It has not fallen into the trap of compromising on its multimedia and comes with an excellent camera that produces superb photos and videos. My kids pediatrician who is a techno geek, has a Note, and thought he upgraded his day phone a S2 with the S3, he still has the Note indicating the more powerful S3 with the larger screen still cannot replace what the Note can do!
For many the Galaxy Note will be far too large to use it as a normal phone, since it is far to large for single handed use, and also too large in size to be keeping it to your ear in size and weight can also impact your clown factor in office! However if you are a Bluetooth headset user, this issue completely vanishes, and the larger battery and practically of the Note makes it a superb device. While the Note is large, my belief is that its suitable for browsing but falls short on the e-reader department as its just too small for long term reading.
Hence if you are into texting and take only a rare call, then the 7. Join Date May Posts Dear friend The android gingerbread is the old version and the android ics is the new version so the difference lies hereon in the different use of application for your phone I hope it helpsHappy to help Thanks and visit again. Join Date Apr Posts 1, Hello Dear Friend, As you want to know about What are the difference between Android Gingerbread and Android Ice Cream Sandwich for this as The android gingerbread is the old version and the android ics is the new version so the difference lies hereon in the different use of application for your phone.
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Join Date Jul Posts Browsing potential in ICS has faster browsing speed when compared to Gingerbread. All the Best. By Unregistered in forum Android Discussions. Replies: 13 Last Post: , PM. But not sure about battery perormance. Can any one tell which is has better battery for long talk times?? I own that Samsung currently, and was thinking to swap it for Xperia Mini, and I don't know if it's worth it.
Thank you. I recenty upgraded my phone to Ice Cream Sandwich from Gingerbread. Im happy with the new OS version it has a lot of features which Gingerbread did not have. Default launcher does not do well in touch especially while you Navigate the Menu option on the Home screen icons accidentaly open up. I had the same problem in Gingerbread. Upgrading it to 4. For a better Touch experience in the Menu navigation i now use GoLauncher App which does a lot more better in the Touch, now the apps does not accidentaly open while i navigate the menu option on the home screen.
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