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hey what's up guys mkbhd and this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 now Samsung has learned a lot from the success of the galaxy s3 people love that phone so they started to take some design ideas from it and bring it to other products so they shrunk one down and made a Galaxy s3 mini and they stretched one out and here we have the Galaxy Note 2 but this Note 2 is a little bit better than just a supercharged Galaxy s3 so we'll take a look and see all the reasons why that is now but first of all the size let's make a scale this is the Galaxy Nexus a phone that people originally thought was really big just borderline too big four point six five inch display then another giant came along in a similar footprint that four point eight inch Galaxy s3 both of these phones were and still are considered huge phones and then there's the Galaxy Note a 5.5 inch behemoth of a display easily the largest of the smart phones out there right now and you can see if the body of the galaxy s3 can almost fit in the screen of the note itself it's that spacious a lot of people seem to think it's too close to a tablet size but trust me it comes nowhere near the smallest of the Android tablets out there and what's neat is all these displays are the same 1280 by 720 resolution and because of the same resolution you don't actually see more content when you're for example looking at a webpage but you do see the same content bigger on the note which helps with reading so some content you just can't read it's too small when you're zoomed all the way out on the galaxy s3 but you look at it on the note and you can actually pretty much read it no problem oh and the note display also is not pentile so that's also a plus but you can't really talk much about this hardware without comparing it to that galaxy s3 so I'll link my full galaxy s3 review down below the like button on this video so you can get a better look at that but in terms of comparison these guys are rocking very similar exteriors so the note 2 has the camera on the flash both in the same spot up at the top of the phone but it moves the speaker down to the bottom and they have a very similar slicked-back design we of course both have the white versions here and they look look very similar you can see that the design elements from the galaxy s3 have moved up to the galaxy notes size they are also rocking the exact same imaging hardware so the photo and video quality 1080p video is exactly the same both look very very good obviously the biggest difference between the galaxy s3 and the note 2 is that screen size and you can call me freak or whatever but I can touch all four corners of the galaxy s3 is four point eight inch display no problem at all making it a one-handed device you can type everything you can use the whole thing one-handed the note 2 on the other hand is a guaranteed 2 handed device for everyone except maybe I don't know yeah Ming you can't touch all four corners with one hand but it makes for very easy two handed operation especially when typing on that Samsung keyboard there are some settings just on the note 2 from Samsung to make it easier for one-handed use to turn on and basically use the phone with one hand which basically just shrinks things down and moves them a little bit to one side of the screen so with the calculator here for example you can use it with your left hand on the left hand side if you're a lefty or on the right hand side with your right hand if you're a righty and that's nifty now the one thing about the hardware is and I don't know if it's just me or if it's just a my note but the note 2 rocks when you press the right hand side of it it rocks back and forth that's where the stylus sits so I don't know if you know maybe the stylus is lighter than the rest of the body or if it's actually lopsided but it's really annoying when I'm trying to type on a flat surface and it keeps bouncing over to the right very nice but I felt the need to mention that but anyway not only am i a fan of the note 2's quad-core processor and 2 gigs of ram and LTE but software is pretty great too it runs Android 4.1.1 jelly bean which is the latest version out right now and on top of that is a little bit of TouchWiz now you guys know that I prefer stock Android of the Nexus line any day of the week but with the screen size like this you kind of do need some adjustments to be made and you know you get some different looks some pre-installed apps and you know the messy ugly calendar app and the dreaded s voice is still present but you also get things like Google now and Android 4.1 jelly beans mandible notifications which I love so much and you get a little nifty slide to open apps from the lockscreen shortcuts and you can pick which apps go there so even this wicked multitasking mode that lets you use two apps at once with half the screen for each app all this stuff you get is a lot better than the previous versions and this is way more responsive by the way than the first time they tried this they tried this on a 10.1 inch tablet it was awful so I guess that shows off the note twos power it's not even like I use this feature a lot but when I do holy hell it is useful I mean you can watch a video and fact check at the same time or you could use Facebook and Google Plus at the same time whatever you want to do it is fast and yes that is because this Note 2 is a powerhouse I never really put a lot of weight on benchmarks you guys know that and I might do a video about why in the near future but I ran a quick quadrant standard benchmark to see how it compares to other Android devices to see if that quad-core and two gigs of ram held up and of course that combo did turn out on top but in the end it's really more about the experience that these high-performance internals can deliver and boy do they deliver real-world performance here is a 10 out of 10 this is half the hardware and half jelly bean and project butter at work here but everything everything is buttery smooth and I love it gaming on this huge display is really fun whatever game you're playing whether you're slicing and dicing fruit in landscape mode like a boss or outrunning some zombies in portrait mode everything happens so smooth on this massive display that it's really refreshing and pleasing to see for someone who's been using Android Sense Eclair like me and even if you're not gaming regular performance in apps that you use everyday is stellar it's almost like you don't even notice that there could ever be any hang-ups they just don't happen and I never ever ever ever thought I would say this ever but I kind of like the stylus and and don't worry you don't have to like it too you don't you don't even have to use a stylus it's just in addition to the phone but to me it feels like a part of the experience of using this phone especially a phone this you about the stylus and it's like oh you want to use a stylus you know here's a few things that you might like to do using it for everyday use you might have previously used your fingers kind it feels kind of weird to use it in place of your finger so I'll put it that way I mean it responds really well just like your fingers do and it's not 2001 where the stylus is like you know a necessity to your phone and response times were more like project chunky peanut butter than project butter but it's an accessory you know it's called the Galaxy Note and it is a major marketing feature for Samsung that you can use this stylus but I just kind of use it once in a while you know and I have fun when I do and also PS the handwriting recognition that it's straight up one of the most impressive things I've ever seen on a phone next to Google now it is scarily accurate no matter how messy your righty or Lefty handwriting may be it's really really good so that handwriting recognition is a plus in the stylus by itself there's also even this hover feature which is pretty neat so you can hover over things without actually clicking them that can reveal what certain buttons do or you can have it slide through previews of a video clip to get to a clip you want to watch or even content awareness so it knows when it's hovering over a text box and when it's not so all the stuff bundles together in a stylus that fits neatly in the side of the note out of the way if you don't want it and it's called the s-pen and right next to that S Pen in the body is the second largest battery in any phone coming in at 3100 milliamp hours and I actually tried to kill it I tried for a full day unsuccessfully constant use six and a half hours of screen on time 22 hours of being on I tried so hard but it still wasn't dead 10% left at 11:25 p.m. so I called it quits very very impressive long long battery life on this guy so a couple that battery life with super phone specs a massive non pentile 5.5 inch 720p Super AMOLED display buttery smooth performance with Android 4.1 and a bulging or pocket like no other you can be proud to rock the Galaxy Note 2 which is arguably the best phone you can get right now so there you go guys that's been my experience with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 overall this is absolutely a flagship of a phone there's no question about that it has a quad core processor Android 4.1 jelly bean LTE in the United States a huge 3300 milliamp hour battery that could last two days with no problems the only thing about it is the really large size and that would make someone either consider it or throw it down the drain but I think that you can try it out and you can actually get a better a sense of how big it feels in person and you'll get used to it I didn't think I was going to get used to it at all I thought it would always seem big to me but now this seems phone size to me which is a little weird to say but it makes the galaxy s3 seem small which makes the Galaxy Nexus seem really small which makes other smaller phones seem mini as Samsung would definitely agree so the choice is yours go ahead leave a thumbs up on this video if you want to see a more in-depth comparison to its brother over here the galaxy s3 I know a lot of people were interested in both the similarities and the differences so I covered a little bit of that but if you want to see a full video let me know if there's a comments section if you want to talk about this and either way that's been it thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the very next video which should be one that you'll be really excited to see so don't miss the next one