Gadgetory

Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with corsair Memory and western digital welcome to the Samsung booth folks were here with the crown jewel of their display here at CES which happens to also be a display this is a 21 by nine UHD TV it is a hundred and five inches diagonally making it the largest and the most curved LCD display available now it's when I say available I mean available only to people at Samsung where they might have a handful of them for trade shows just like this because we don't have any confirmation in terms of exactly when it's coming maybe sometime later this year but details are still kind of sketchy they just wanted to show it off because hey they can make this thing which is absolutely amazing now it's not a 4k UHD display instead it actually has more than five thousand pixels horizontally which means that because these standards are not a hundred percent ratified someone buying this TV just like someone buying you know an HDMI 1.4 TV last year with the update to hdmi 2.0 way might feel kind of insecure is it okay to buy something like this without knowing if the standards are even going to be supportable don't worry with Samsung's one connect technology they actually are using an external box for connectivity as well as signal processing which allows you to just upgrade it once the standards are completely ratified now you might be wondering to yourself what exactly what I want a 21 by nine display for and the answer is most definitely movies with a smaller display and we've been walking around the show floor a fair bit curved maybe doesn't make quite as much of a difference but with the large one like this where you're really replicating the field of view of a theater within your home having each part of the screen an equal distance from your I can make a significant difference to the viewing experience this is much the same reason why when you go there this is for the same reason that when you go to a theater the display looks natural even though it is so large so we're going to be moving along here shortly I think someone's actually trying to get past us but it looks absolutely phenomenal in person next up we're here with the Galaxy Note pro this is the 12 point two inch version but it's also available in 8.4 and 10.1 inch versions this one's got a quad-core processor it's got three gigs of ram of course I mean it's a note series so it's going to be pretty darn high end it's got a nice slim form factor it's actually not too heavy although it's hard to gauge with this security device on the back speaking of the back it has a pleasing sort of leather ish feeling plastic much like the note 3 but of course the business is mostly in the front it has a massive 12.2 inch as I mentioned before 2560 x 1440 display this makes it great for watching movies but also due to its size great for taking notes because it is approximately the same size as an eight and a half by 11 standard sheet of notetaking paper now of course a note device is not just about the hardware it's also about the software so we see a lot of carryovers including an included stylus that tucks away on the side from the note 3 you've got Samsung's air drop functionality so you just hover the pan over the display and then press the button and you can go ahead and select a bunch of different stuff you can draw a little window if you need a calculator you want to watch video or something like that with the supported applications and it makes multitasking a little bit easier than with many other Android devices thanks to TouchWiz now here's a new one that I haven't actually seen before if you swipe in from the right and then instead of just clicking on one of the applications if you hold it and drag you can configure up to four different applications in a screen sharing mode that will make working on things quite efficient especially if you move from one to another and back and forth and so forth now I did that slightly wrong there I think oh I think this one doesn't work that way so let's go ahead and grab contacts here there we go so we're going to split this up four ways actually we'll just do it three ways and then check this out guys you can actually move around the divisions so if you want to have a nice long column for your emails you can have that and then you can see more of your video thumbnails if you want to see more of your contacts over here you just move that around dynamically it's incredibly cool and it integrates seamlessly with the other features so I could still views airdrop till you know like grab a little calculator or something like that now a device like this is not just for play it's also for work so we're going to go ahead and show you guys their new software that is I guess meant to compete things like windows RT's inclusion of microsoft office or Apple's inclusion of productivity software with their devices now so check this out we're going to swipe open from the right Oh hold on come in from the right here and this is hand calm so you've got cell show and word which are of course going to be spreadsheets presentations and then typing so we're going to go ahead and open one of these bad boys check that out they off there are claiming it's ninety percent compatible Microsoft Word so unless you're using some of the more obscure features things will open up correctly even if you're saving them and then opening them back and forth between devices and because of the size okay that's a normal keyboard this is pretty cool guys I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to close a bunch of other things and we're going to open up the hand calm word so H word in full screen maximize that and check this out you've got almost about the size of a laptop keyboard on here it's not super easy to type on I made a few quite a few mistakes at the beginning but with a little bit of practice it would definitely be faster than trying to type with just two thumbs so you kind of go okay Linus that's great there's a lot of productivity stuff here that sounds fantastic but what if I can't take this thing to work because my office doesn't allow people to bring their own devices don't worry it is fully Samsung Knox compliance so you've got all the encryption features that you need if you need to access VPNs off-site or whatever else the case may be so it's definitely meant to be both entertainment and productivity thanks for checking out our coverage of the Samsung booth here at CES 2014 don't forget our trip to the show is powered by NCI XCOM as well as Corsair and western digital a huge thanks to those guys because without them we would not have been able to be here