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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocket now calm Samsung has finally announced the Galaxy Note 2 and in this video I'm going to tell you what I think about it let's get to it doh Samsung truly defined a category when they came out with the original Galaxy Note the 5.3 inch phablet that many people were skeptical about many of you more skeptical about it because even to use this device as a phone is a little bit ridiculous holding it up to your ear kind of looks like you're holding up a large brick like device to your head to make a phone call but the sales numbers have shown that people really like the large screen form factor of the galaxy note and so Samsung is obviously going to do another one of them the Galaxy Note 2 has an even larger screen instead of five point three inches we get a 5.5 inch screen but here's where it gets interesting the Galaxy Note 2 is less narrow and a little bit more tall how do they do that well it's because they change the screen resolution to 1280 by 720 instead of 1280 x 800 giving it a longer 16 by 9 aspect ratio which will be nice when you watch youtube videos and other 16 by 9 content you won't get black bars on the galaxy note 2 but that also means that the screen density the PPI will be a little bit lower on the original Galaxy Note you had about 280 PPI and on the galaxy note 2 you're down to about 267 265 so technically the screen will be slightly less clear but it still should be quite nice because it's Super AMOLED HD and it's no longer pentile which is fantastic now just like the original Galaxy Note Samsung has put a lot of power into the galaxy note 2 it's got a 1.6 gigahertz quad-core exynos CPU that's faster than the galaxy s3's quad-core exynos chip which should make for amazing performance they're also adding 2 gigabytes of RAM so there's no doubt that the Galaxy Note 2 will be one of the fastest smartphones ever now one of the problems with the original Galaxy Note was the software they have this S Pen which did some things but the its usage was relatively limited the accuracy of the s-pen was never that amazing and the use case scenarios really weren't there but with galaxy note 2 Samsung has really bumped up the software which i think is going to be fantastic it's running on jelly bean Android 4.1 and it's got a handful of really cool features that I just think will make a big difference for example little things there's something called pop up note so imagine you are making a phone call and you need to take a note you take out the stylus on the galaxy note and a little notepad pops up so you can quickly write down some information there's some other cool stuff like pop up view so that when you're in an email and you're using the stylus which by the way has been redesigned to be thicker and longer and have a better grip because the galaxy the original Galaxy Note cannabis has this flimsy s-pen when you're hovering over an email you can actually see little previews of what the email message contains the same can be said when you are looking at your schedule or when you're looking at a video or photo gallery so that really reduces the amount of times that you need to click also you can draw in a lot more places you can draw right into an EML you can draw right onto your calendar and really take advantage of those natural use case scenarios where you just want to write something down so what do i think about the samsung galaxy note 2 I think Samsung did exactly what they should have done they made something that's great even better by making it faster a little bit thinner unfortunately it's taller so it's going to be a little bit more cumbersome in your pocket than even the original note but most of all they've improved the software leg should be gone thanks to jelly bean and the utility and the usefulness of the s pen has been dramatically increased because you can use it in a lot more places and that's really what it should be about the Galaxy Note should be about notes and natural interaction and handwriting so what do you think about the samsung galaxy note 2 are you going to get it let us know in the comments in the post on pocket now if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you