Despite being responsible for the phrase 'phablet', the Samsung Galaxy Note has always been a smartphone that we've admired; with its enormous screen and stylus it proved that smartphones don't all have to look and work the same.
A year after the original Note took the smartphone world and turned it on its head, Samsung once again took to the stage at IFA, Berlin to announce its successor, the even bigger Galaxy Note 2.
Featuring a 5.55in HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720 x 1280, the Galaxy Note 2 takes the original Note formula and brings it on a step, with the introduction of a more advanced S-Pen stylus developed by graphics tablet experts Wacom.
Sensitive to 1,024 levels of pressure, the S-Pen is similar to that found tucked inside the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, but it's slightly thicker and instantly feels more accurate when writing on the screen
During out hands-on time with the Galaxy Note 2, we found it to be substantially larger than a Galaxy S3 and absolutely dwarf the 3.5in iPhone 4S - even if Apple boosts the new iPhone screen to 4in, it'll still look small in this company.
Speaking of the Galaxy S3, the new Note shares almost its entire design with its little brother - save for the S-Pen, which is housed in a slot in the lower right corner of the Note.
As you would expect from a smartphone with such vast processing power, the Galaxy Note 2 flies through Android Jelly Bean, booting apps just about instantly and multitasking between them without breaking a sweat.
As we said above, even compared with the recently launched Galaxy Note 10.1tablet, writing on the Note 2 with its S-Pen feels better than it ever has before - and although our handwriting is truly dreadful at the best of times, we recognised our scrawls right away; writing on the Note 2 feels very natural indeed.
Key Specs:
5.5-inch Super AMOLED HD display, 1280×720 pixels 1.6GHz Quad-Core Exynos processor
2GB of RAM
8-megapixel camera, 1.9-megapixel front facing camera
S-Pen
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, TouchWiz Nature UX
3,100 mAh battery
Micro-SD card slot
16GB/32GB/64GB memory variants
Available in colours: Marble White and Titanium Grey
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