Samsung Galaxy Note from AT&T

By Edwin Kee on 01/09/2012, filed in Home > CellPhones

Samsung Galaxy Note from AT&T [CES 2012] Look at what the stork brought in – AT&T will be getting the Samsung Galaxy Note, a device that does not quite know whether it is a smartphone or a tablet, and yet has been getting rave reviews from different quarters who have gotten hold of it so far. Hitting AT&T in carbon blue and ceramic white, the Galaxy Note will come with a 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display at 1,280 x 800 resolution, an integrated S Pen, 4G LTE support, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot for expansion options, an 8-megapixel and 2-megapixel camera at the back and front, respectively, all running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Those who use the Galaxy Note as a tablet will find the S Memo multimedia application to be something different altogether, as it is capable of capturing all forms of user-created content. It does not matter whether you doodle, draw a really artistic picture, type text or write notes, all of those can be combined to include photos and voice recordings before being converted to a shareable ‘memo’.

CES: CES is the acronym for the (International) Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest consumer-electronics shows in the world. Although it is held in Las Vegas today, the first CES happened in June 1967 in New York City and Bob Gavin, the CEO of Motorola was the opening keynote speaker for that first edition. Subsequently, CES was held twice a year: the summer edition was in New York, and the winter edition was in Las Vegas, that is, until 1998 when CES became a once-a-year show. CES has been the introduction place for key products and technologies, including: Pong (1975), Nintendo NES (1985), Tetris (1988), Compact Disc (1991), HDTV (1998), Xbox (2001), Blu-Ray (2003), OLED TV (2008). Check our latest CES Coverage

Galaxy Note: The Samsung Galaxy Note was introduced by Samsung during IFA 2011 in Berlin. It was the first smartphone to break the 5" display size barrier with an 5.3" 720p Super-AMOLED display. The international (non-US) version was powered by a Samsung Samsung Exynos 4210, while the U.S version used a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255T. In terms of storage, the Galaxy Note came with 16GB or 32GB of internal flash memory, which could be supplemented with a microSD card. The battery has a capacity of 2500mAh, which was nice at the time, but has been surpassed since by the Galaxy Note 2, which has a 3100mAh battery. You can read our complete Samsung Galaxy Note review, or hop directly to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review.

Samsung: Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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