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Only two days after Samsung announced the availability of the Galaxy Note 10.1 (and its source code), it appears to already have been rooted. An XDA user named Zedomax claims to have pulled off the feat by injecting root into the stock European firmware, then installing the superuser’d version in conventional ODIN fashion. With the usual bricking caveats, that’ll let you start installing unsanctioned apps to the pen-enabled beast, while apparently still getting OTA updates from the mother company. We’d love to verify it ourselves with our own GT-N8000, but we don’t have one yet — and neither does hardly anyone else, so you may want to wait for some other brave soul to confirm it before going ahead.

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Galaxy Note 10.1 just hitting shelves, already said to be rooted originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve got a good few updates rolling in on the Galaxy Note 10.1 front today. For starters, Samsung has announced that the S Pen equipped slate will available globally from August in WiFi and 3G varieties, with an LTE version coming later in the year. The press release and spec sheet after the break also confirm that the Note 10.1 will indeed possess a quad-core Exynos processor (alongside a 2GB dose of RAM), rather than the dual-core engine seen in our initial hands-on — although we’d already gleaned that much from retailer listings. Finally, there’s now an official video on YouTube showing off the tablet’s interface, including a multi-screen function to make use of that stylus. Samsung’s definitely pushing the productivity angle here, with the S Note / S Pen combo looking more like a publishing program than a doodle board. A sizeable and movable keyboard is also detailed, which should address the problem of landscape keys devouring screen space. Whether the UI runs on the new processor as swiftly and smoothly as the video suggests is unknown, but we’ll sort the spin from the truth in our review coming very soon.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 coming worldwide this month, UI shown off on YouTube originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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