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hey everyone I'm Jessica doll court for cnet here at CES 2014 in Las Vegas or I'm taking a first look at the very large Samsung Galaxy Note pro this is definitely part of the galaxy note line as you can tell by the stylus that flies out from its little cubby hole and also by the leather like backing and the stitching here around the side that is molded it's actually plastic but it does have a soft touch finish that's really important when you've got a device this big that you need to grab without it slipping between your fingers this is definitely a two-handed device the Galaxy Note pro comes in black and white colors as for the screen this is 12.2 whopping inches of LCD with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels that is a 4 million pixel hall and that's going to make it very bright and clear however the smaller versions of the pro series that don't have styluses the 10.1 and 8.4 inch screen versions will have even sharper resolutions one of the first things that you're going to notice is the brand new layout Samsung is calling this the magazine UX so everything you saw before on previous notes is gone instead you have this sort of three tyl home screen situation where it's divided into your personal screen your productivity and working screen and then your social networking screen everything is customizable you can get rid of two of the screens if you really want to but you've got to have at least one Samsung has really tried to amp up productivity for this device and the other tablets on the pro line for example you've got some office productivity apps you've got the multitasking on this large screen format you can open up to four appt windows at a time and you can open up two instances of the same app so you've got a calendar and you want to drag and drop or look at different days on the calendar you can do that another cool feature and probably one of my favorites from the short time that I've had with the device so far is the virtual keyboard which looks a lot like the desktop keyboard you've got tab and control buttons you can use shortcuts and there's a very very slight bit of haptic feedback if you're the kind of person who likes to know when you've pressed a key for a closer look at some of the apps we've got microsoft office suite you've got remote pc so you can file share with different files that are on your computer wherever that happens to me you also have some samsung apps like a meeting and you've got WebEx support in addition there are preloaded apps like evernote dropbox bloomberg businessweek the new york times and a bunch more this is an Android device running 4.4 kitkat right out of the box so it is nice and up-to-date there's an eight megapixel camera on the back and a 2 megapixel camera on the front it is LTE supported there's also 3G support so there are some regions that don't have LTE you'll be using 3g but it is connected in terms of storage you'll have 32 gigabyte and 64 gigabyte versions with a microSD card slot that will take up to 64 gigabytes and external storage there are also three gigabytes of RAM on here underneath the hood you've got a two point three gigahertz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor which again could vary by region we don't have any prices or pinpointed availability yet however you should look for this device to come out and its first market in q1 Samsung is definitely going pro with this that means there's going to be a very premium price tag for the tablet Samsung is trying to get you to even more put aside the laptop and use a very high-end tablet that can handle productivity not just watching videos and playing games although you can certainly do this on the pro lines too I'm jessica's all court for CNN this has been your first look from CES of the Samsung Galaxy Note pro