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how's it going guys david here from public comm and in this video we're reviewing the samsung galaxy note this is actually the AT&T version and before i go into the review i'm just going to do a quick hardware tour on the back of the galaxy note you have an 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture you have a LED flash at the bottom of the back you have your speaker grill right here at the top of the device you have nothing but your 3.5 millimeter a headset jack at the bottom you have your microphone right here your USB charging port and of course the s pen which you could pull in and out easily just like that at the left side of the device you have nothing but the volume rocker right here at the right side you have nothing but the power key so there is no dedicated power or a camera button on this phone and of course on the front you have your 2-megapixel front-facing camera your typical sensors and ear piece right here at the bottom you have your capacitive touch buttons for a menu home back and search and of course what either draws you in or you know moves you away from the galaxy note is the massive 5.3 inch going diagonally display that Super AMOLED and is 1280 by 800 and resolution so with that said I I'll go ahead and go into some of the things I dislike and some of things I like about the galaxy note starting with what I dislike alright so the first thing that I dislike about the phone and probably the most obvious is the size it is a little bit too big now I'm not necessarily complaining about the screen size obviously when you get the galaxy note you're looking for that big screen you're looking for that hybrid tablet smartphone experience but obviously one of the drawbacks to this is the one-handed use now I could use the bottom right of the screen no problem the bottom left I can use all the capacitive buttons here at the bottom no problem even the top right so basically I could access you know pretty much everything on the phone with one hand with the exception of the top left corner so basically it from you know the here up I can't use it so I'll go ahead and open up a nap and show you you know where it could be annoying so for example let's say i'm looking at dvds on flicks and I wanted to go back home I can't really reach the home by I mean this is the farthest my finger will go of course i could just tilt the phone with my the back of my fingers and you know hit the home button that way which is a workaround but you know it is a little bit of an inconvenience so not that big of a deal obviously like I said if you're going for the galaxy note you're going for that big phone screen and that tablet like experience but there is something else that I dislike about the phone and that's the processor inside it's a Snapdragon s3 at 1.5 gigahertz the dual core now it isn't slow by any means but it isn't as fast as this icky notes counterpart and the international version which is you know much much faster than this guy especially the better GPU um and also considering how you know when it came out I would rather have seen the Snapdragon s4 at least in this guy because the Snapdragon s4 is also compatible with the up 4G LTE which is the main reason why Samsung opted not to include their icky nose processor in this guy so with that said the last thing that I dislike about the phone which the good news is it will actually change is the fact that it comes with Android 2.3 pre-installed so again considering how late this phones come out for AT&T you know I would expect it to come with ice cream sandwich instead it's preloaded with two point three point six um like I said an update should be coming out soon so isn't that big of an issue and you know by the time you watch this video perhaps the updates dirty out so you might be able to just cross that one off your list but anyway right now that's something that's a little bit disappointing but you know those are the main things I dislike what the phone which is actually good news because everything else I'm really happy with the phone it compares a lot to the samsung galaxy s2 I was just a bigger version if you will but you know what that said I'll go ahead and talk about the things that I like about the samsung galaxy note in the particular alright so like I said the galaxy note is pretty much you know the same thing as the galaxy s2 other than the bigger screen and a few differences and that's really what i'm going to talk about because you know the cameras on the front and the back or same the TouchWiz user interface that you see is the same and even the processor thus a dragon s3 you know with steam than t mobile's and 80s version of the galaxy s2 so what do I like about the galaxy note and you know what's different about it compared to the galaxy s2 other than just the screen size and the first thing and probably my favorite thing is the screens resolution or the screens clarity it's 1280 by 800 meaning it's an HD screen and it just really makes everything that you look at on the phone absolutely you know amazing i mean i'll go ahead and go to the web browser really quick and i did a quick google search for phone buff and I mean just scrolling through the google results page it's just you know amazing on here I mean it's so easy and so quick I mean I have the galaxy nexus with a 4.6 5-inch screen yet you know for some reason even though it's not that big of a difference between the two um it just feels so much better in here I mean it really makes me feel like I'm on a desktop more so than on a smartphone so definitely a great experience there of course watching YouTube videos is amazing as well I'll go ahead and load up a quick youtube video that I uploaded recently and um you know this is nothing like pulling out the galaxy note out of your pocket and you know showing strong some friends of youtube video you know you guys all could huddle around the phone and you know I'll be able to see clearly what's going on the video instead of you know on a tiny screen or a foreign screen even I mean it just makes a huge difference so anyway that's one of my favorite features obviously if you're looking at this review that's probably what has you interested in the galaxy know in the first place but the next thing that I really love about the galaxy note is the S Pen so the S Pen you know if you haven't watched a review yet you probably think is just your normal stylus and you know it is in that sense I mean it works just like a normal stylus would um you can move from screen to screen I could grab the notification bar go to my apps and whatnot but the key difference is one it has a button right here that when you press it and hold it in touch the screen it has a totally different input and second the little tip of this pen and the screen allow for 256 different levels of pressure sensitivity so I did a review and how you on the s pen and i'll put the link in the description box below because i rather just focus on the phone but i'll just do a quick walkthrough as far as the pen goes so like I said you can use as a normal pen but if i press and hold them the little button right here and double tap I actually get this little S Memo light application opened up and you know i can write something like hi really quick and let's say it when I was taking notes on what I was looking on sales at a website I could press right here look at what i was looking at before let go and go right back to my note and you know make a note about whatever i'm looking at so pretty cool functionality right there of course you could also take a screenshot by pressing and holding on the button and then pressing and holding on the screen takes a screenshot automatically will open up the editor in which you could you know start editing the photo and then you can save it share it print it whatever i'll go ahead and discard this guy really quick also cool thing what the s pen is it replaces some functions of the or it replaces these capacitive buttons too so for example let's go ahead and open up actually I open up the Play Store and if i press and hold the button again and swipe up it opens up the menu if I swipe up again it takes the mini away but I swipe down what happens is it goes home if I open sky up again and swipe let's say I go into the apps and swipe back it'll it'll replace the back function so I don't think I did that right there you go so I backwards or holding the button it replaces the back burner so basically these three functions are replaced other than the search key so really cool functionality to spen and really quick i'll show you the different level of sensitivity so i'll just bring this guy up and i'll show you if i make a light if i press lightly on the screen i can make a line right there so hopefully that shows or you can see how thin that is um vs that one so it is you know really depends on how hard you touch the screen so you can see this one is thinner than this line right here not sure if that comes through on camera but believe me there is a difference as far as how thin and how thick the lines are just based off of how much I'm pushing on the screen so it's kind of like a real pen and sense that when you press harder more ink is going to be you know put on to the memo pad but that's all I want to talk about the s-pen like I said if you want more information on that and you know more in-depth look at it this look at the video linked in the description and the last thing that I want to talk about for the galaxy note is the fact that the phone is still fast you know even though the Snapdragon processor which I kind of complaint about earlier it's still fast i did a apps PR comparison speed person against a phone like the iphone 4s or the Galaxy Nexus and I did beat those guys out and also you have 4g LTE so I'll go ahead and run a speedtest really quick to show you guys what kind of speeds you expect with 18 TS 4g LTE network so right now i'm not in the best Arab what four out of five bars so I'm not a full reception i'll go ahead and begin the test and show you guys the speeds that you can expect I mean obviously every area differs or varies but you know as you can see right here I'm getting what 5.8 as probably and go up to 6 megabytes down per second so 6.6 6.7 obviously those are really really good speeds um I don't know what happened the apps been crash on me when it comes to the upload test that's not doesn't have to do with the connection with ATT I think something's going on with the app anyway um like I said you get about seven megawatts down or at least I've been getting seven mega mega bites down where I am in laguna hills i'm sure some people have gotten way higher than that but it's been pretty consistent and it's pretty good so really happy about the data speeds um i'm going to do a quadrant test right now just so you guys can see what this device will score so i'll just hit actually no first i'm going to close out the apps in the background so let me close these guys out had a whole bunch open alright so let's go to quadrant and i'll just quickly run this test and instead of making you wait through it and watch the whole benchmark do its thing i'm just going to go ahead and pause the video and then continue it as soon as i get the results alright so the benchmark is done i'm just going to hit yes to get the results and right now scored a 1697 so that's probably because i've been doing the review that's actually a pretty low score i usually get around 2000 you can see another benchmark that I did when I compared this phone to the Galaxy Nexus they got two thousand that score but anyway that's the quadrant score other things they are worth mentioning the camera it's good it's not great I think a phone like the HTC One X has a much better camera compared to the Galaxy Note what else the speaker quality and the call quality are pretty good on here I mean I you know when I've made calls on here it sounded you know nice and clear when I listen to music on here it sounds perfect so I mean overall I'm really happy with the device I mean there's like I said there's very little that I dislike about it a lot to love about it you know I just wish that you know yeah it gets ice cream sandwich sooner rather than later and the only thing like i said you know that i wrote what a rather seen was the s4 processor maybe the enkei knows processor but then again you know we wouldn't have had 4g LTE so that's my review on the Galaxy Note Oh actually you know what I must show you a quick picture that I took on this phone just to give you an idea of the cameras quality and I also did a 1080p video samples so let's check out the youtube channel for that or go on form of comm so here's a picture I took of my dog from this distance and now you can just see how clear it is so it is a good camera like I said it's just not as good as the HTC One X from what I've seen so far but overall um you know like i said i'm really happy with the phone cameras good call quality the speaker quality the screen is amazing I the pen like I said makes it very unique it gives you a whole bunch of different functions but the main reason you get this phone is because you want a tablet like experience with the you know pocketable size which is exactly what the galaxy note is you know it does fit in my pocket it's not the most comfortable thing our first but because the device is pretty thin considering how big it is it isn't all that bad so anyway that's my review if you found it helpful hit the like button is five and don't forget to visit bomble com or cell phone news reviews and how to's thank you