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everybody it's michael fisher with pocketnow.com here at the pop-up studio powered by YouTube here in New York City the samsung galaxy note 2 launch event for the Americas I have a galaxy note 2 for tmobile on the table in front of me right next to my samsung galaxy s3 don't have an international version to compare with right now but for now let's just take a look at the size difference between the galaxy note 2 and the galaxy s3 as you can see the difference is very familiar because we've covered this device a lot it is identical because the hardware is identical this is the same galaxy note 2 you are familiar with with very very very few differences in operation almost no differences physically except that this device is of course powered the same X no squad running at 1.6 gigahertz 2 gigs of RAM backing that up as well not a whole lot of difference is there the S Pen functionality also very similar you can see the hidden home page comes to view there is we use the as we pull the device out of its silo double tap while holding the button brings up the S note that clever functionality that I much appreciated on the international version as well quick actions has been changed slightly you'll notice a slightly revised user interface in the quick command window and we'll just go ahead and draw an exclamation point to get into maps while the music outside picks up it's a party here we wish you were here joining us you can just jump into maps that way we hop back out to the home menu hop into quick command again jump into maps again we can actually you'll notice search for a specific location with handwriting which is really handy not necessarily quite as fast as typing but certainly an interesting novelty to play with you can see it's pretty responsive they're hopping to a different use case if we go into the gallery application you can see that we play a video here airplay is here and it is as wonderful as ever that little pop-up window allowing you to see what is on the scrubber when you without necessarily jumping to that point in the video which is excellent and then of course when you find the spot you like just give it a tap and there's the jump happens there also here familiar to any watchers of our previous videos is pop up play so let's the video continue to play in the background as you take care of other tasks with the device nice handy feature there just give it a little tap to get rid of it and not quite as handy though as the pop-up browser functionality go ahead and hop into contacts here we couldn't find a Twitter feed but this is very useful in Twitter go ahead and find a contact with that has a URL in the name tap that you're asked for your preferences as far as which browse you want to use to open it up sit pop up browser I'm going to go with always on this one and clear that later the browser loads the page in the background while you go about your business wait for the page load it may never load here because there are literally hundreds of people outside that door page loads or read whatever article were interested in and we can either jump to the full-size browser or we can jump right out we're going to do that right now finally even though pop-up browser support is here what is not here unfortunately on this American version is multi screen support pressing and holding the back button does not give us access to the dual screen multitasking a little unfortunate kind of unclear at this point whether or not we will get that in the future but we will have to see going forward guys that's going to wrap it up for us as you can hear the music is getting louder outside the party is getting Wilder so I have business to attend to this has been a very very brief tour the American version of the samsung galaxy note 2 coming to every major US carrier almost simultaneously once again the t-mobile version it's also on sprint AT&T Verizon it's a little bit more time to paint their verizon logo on the button presumably we don't know what the holdup is there but it will come to all four major US carriers in the coming weeks keep it locked to pocketnow.com for news and information on that follow us on Twitter PocketNow tweets follow me on twit captain two phones thanks for watching thanks to samsung for hosting us in New York City for the launch event in the pop-up studio powered by YouTube pocket now I'm Michael Fisher thanks again you