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hi this is stephen Shankland from cnet news with a first look at the samsung galaxy note this is a 5.3 inch android phone very large screen and what's more unusual is that it has a stylus called the s-pen tucked away in the back here the stylus that you do things you can't do with an ordinary phone it's based on Wacom drawing technology they're a pretty big company when it comes to tablets most interesting thing is the S Memo application which you can see here lets you take notes hello world then like you're taking notes you can undo back up something i really like also is you can change the pen size can you say for example a paintbrush and you can draw its pressure-sensitive although i find it's easier to add pressure than it is to back it off but if you have a kid who likes to draw pictures on your phone or your tablet this is going to be a great application for them one nice option with the pen is taking screenshots and annotating them so for example we could load up a map and then to take a screenshot there's a little button on the side of the pen you'll hold the button hold it against the screen and let go of the button and we'll take a screenshot then you can annotate you are here say button after you've taken a screenshot you can open it up here for example in the my files folder and send it by email to your friend the sense of galaxies no it's pretty responsive it's got a 1.4 gigahertz dual-core Samsung processor runs android 2.3 on the front it has an 8-megapixel excuse me on the back it has an 8 megapixel camera and LED flash and on the front it's got a 2 megapixel camera good for video conferencing can shoot 1080p video it's got an accelerometer barometer and a digital compass optionally it's got NFC it's a fairly responsive device for example you scroll around the maps on pinch-to-zoom you can see it's generally responds pretty quickly so it's a pretty good device it's got a 1280 by 800 pixel Super AMOLED screen from etho this is stephen Shankland reporting on the samsung galaxy note