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inside this box I have the Galaxy mega 6.3 and since I'm such a phablet fan you know I've been waiting to get my hands on this thing 6.3 does refer to the screen size alright let's see Hey pick this guy out of here wow that is a big fun they're using millimeters it's their primary measurement just just as a trivia note six point three inches is one hundred and fifty nine point seven millimeters good to know all right see what else is in the box the instruction booklet headphones it's kind of a nice touch since it's media friendly charging cable international power brick oh hey oh it's an adapter yeah I I actually thought that it might come with an SD card can you imagine how useful that would be it's just a micro SD adapter and then a little four gig micro SD card all right and our big big battery let's get it all ready I will say even though it is obviously ginormous it feels really lightweight and the battery isn't that much heavier so I think it's gonna be pretty nice in the hand the SIM card slot is right on top of the micro SD card slot that's kind of an awkward stacking but I guess if you did this all at once when you very first got the phone maybe you wouldn't have to mess with it again but it would be kind of annoying if you wanted to swap out your tsimko your SD card for something bigger because four gigs is not very much get our battery in maybe because it's so big this plastic case feels even flimsier than usual it feels like paper and power that's a big display big display familiar Samsung startup screen and while I go through some of this setup let's do the specs the mega has a full HD 6.3 inch TFT display the resolution is 1280 by 720 it runs Android 4.2 jelly bean it has a dual-core 1.7 gigahertz processor the battery is good size 3200 milliamp hours samsung says that should run up to 17 hours obviously we'll have to test that because that stream is gonna eat up some battery memory is 16 gigabytes ports include microSD expandable up to 64 gigabytes USB 2.0 and a micro SIM slot the micro SD card slot is on top of the micro sim port and the way they're stacked is a little bit awkward connectivity wise the mega comes packed with bluetooth Wi-Fi and a GPS the 6.3 version comes with LTE but the five point eight inch mega does not have an LTE support the camera in the galaxy mega is a slightly disappointing 8 megapixels but there are a ton of built-in photo modes that are really fun there are filters and you can even apply them when you're taking video and then there are various camera modes like the ability to automatically choose the best photo from a bunch continuous shooting the best face and something called beauty face and the front-facing camera is 2 megapixels the unlocked price is a pretty high 798 dollars most of that cost of course goes to the screen now a couple key differences between the plain old galaxy line or in this case the galaxy mega lines and the s4 line even though it has some of those Samsung only features like smart stay air view S beam and of course the somewhat annoying TouchWiz interface it doesn't have some of those premium s4 features like the eye scrolling and the gesture controls personally I find those to be a little bit of a novelty anyway so I don't think you'll miss them this phone is really all about this display so if you're really into watching a lot of media on your phone and you don't mind carrying something around this size it's a pretty nice oh I mean you know me I like it you spoke what I don't understand is what Samsung is going to do no three we're still expecting that to be enough so if six point three or five point eight inches seems to be a little too much for you if I want to hold out to get they announce their five and a half to be the perfect size we stopped opposite all right for our full review check out cnet.com