Samsung’s new Android 4.3 update will bring Galaxy Gear compatibility to the S3, S4 and Note 2, instead of just the Note 3. Good news if you enjoy looking like Inspector Gadget.
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If, like many of us, your hands are too small to to comfortably use the Galaxy Note 3’s giant 5.7-inch display, you’re in luck. Android Central has uncovered a hidden tiny screen mode for your tiny baby dwarf hands.
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After pulling the same dirty trick with the Galaxy S4, Samsung has been caught rigging the Galaxy Note 3 to perform better in benchmark tests than it does anywhere else. It’s like all Samsung phones are on performance enhancing drugs or something.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note series has been the most popular BIG phone since it was first released a couple of years ago. The Galaxy Note 2
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Three is the magic number. Three is lucky. Three’s a crowd. Okay, ignore that last one, but the number 3 does also apply to the latest Galaxy Note, and we’re curious to know which of those maxims might apply. What are the marquee features this time around? Well, there’s the usual bevy of specification improvements (a 5.7-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 800 and 3GB of RAM), Android 4.3, some new S Pen features and the small matter of the Gear, that optional, polarizing companion watch.
Samsung makes a great many products, even if you just consider the mobile ones. However, since it burst into existence in 2011, the Note has been up there with the Galaxy S series on the flagship pedestal. So, it’d be fair to say that we’re expecting big things from this big phone, but with a SIM-free price in the UK of £620, it requires even deeper pockets than its predecessor did at launch (that one cost around £530). That said, if you want one, you’ll need big pockets anyway. While you check their size, we’ve scribbled, doodled and gestured the Note 3 with abandon to see if it’s worth the bounty. Read on to find out if it is.%Gallery-slideshow99481%
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
In each issue of Distro, Executive Editor Marc Perton publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
In the US, Labor Day traditionally marks the end of the lazy days of summer, and the beginning of the busy fall season. While this summer was hardly quiet — it included, you might recall, major product launches from the likes of Motorola, Google, LG, HTC and others — the fall started with a bang, with Microsoft’s surprise announcement on Labor Day that it was buying Nokia’s devices and services division for $7 billion. The deal gets Microsoft a guaranteed hardware partner for Windows Phone, and quite possibly a new CEO, as the company has all but admitted that Nokia’s Stephen Elop is first in line to replace outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer. It might also be considered a bargain. Just two years ago, Google paid over $12 billion for Motorola; that same year, Microsoft made another expensive telecom acquisition: it bought Skype for $8.5 billion.
Before we even had time to digest Microsoft’s news, Apple announced — somewhat anticlimactically — that it would indeed have a major event next week, where the company is expected to launch an upgraded iPhone 5, as well as a lower-end model, along with lots of new colors. Meanwhile, Amazon announced an upgraded version of the Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, and Google’s Android KitKat became the first operating system with a name licensed from a candy company. And this was all before the week’s real news started rolling in from IFA.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear
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That didn’t take long. Just hours after Samsung’s IFA presser, the company’s latest oversized handset made its way through the FCC. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 ran through the usual gamut of federal tests, but didn’t betray compatibility for US LTE bands — instead only revealing support for GSM and UMTS 850 / 1900 MHz. In all likelihood, this is probably just an early peek at the international unit shipping later this month. Turns out even the federal government will have to wait until October to get their hands on a US model.
Filed under: Cellphones, Samsung
Source: FCC
Surprise surprise, there’s a new Galaxy Note. Whodathunkit? But with the Mega on the scene
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