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hey guys it's Michael with pocketnow.com here back at Samsung and Aoife day 2 in Berlin checking out the Galaxy Note 2 again we had a hands-on with this device yesterday and went through a lot of its features but we want to sort of compare and contrast it to the Galaxy s3 this is an AT&T branded variant I brought with me from the States but it is identical to all galaxy s3s physically right next to the Galaxy Note 2 you can see the obvious size increase and also a color difference that we did not immediately detect still the same kind of faux brushed metal but this I believe it's titanium gray is not quite at all and not quite the same as the deep blue of the galaxy s3 you can see the similarities and the camera modules here similar configurations as far as the headphone jacks go no stylus obviously on the s3 volume rocker power button coming to the galaxy note 2 from a Galaxy s3 will feel just like coming home right down to the ripple pattern on the nature UX so obviously very similar devices from a manufacturer that prizes uniformity across its high-end product line so one of the primary reasons that the note stands apart from the high-end standard smartphone like the Galaxy s3 is that S Pen Stylus now if you fire up s note on the galaxy s3 or rather s memo excuse me you know you're perfectly free to write with your finger on the capacitive screen here but there's no pressure-sensitive Wacom digitizer or anything of that sort so you're going to kind of get this constant pressure of this thick line on the screen that doesn't really do a lot and we know that stylus is tend to be a bit more specific than that the s-pen takes it a little bit further see we've got that air view hovering action going on but also you can see pressure sensitivity variations as I push harder and the virtual ink seeps into the virtual paper whereas with softer you can see a very plain difference there another thing people have been asking us are if there are any improvements to s voice in jelly bean in the jelly bird version of that's that the note 2 is running so we're just going to ask us boys a couple questions here double tap on both what's the weather like in Berlin today these are running on different networks the galaxy s3 giving us the forecast for Berlin New Jersey lol and of course the calyx c-note to following suit so no improvement in general awareness of location let's go ahead and just try and open a nap open gallery boom there that is that's Reginald veljohnson which is awesome and there's the new gallery in jelly bean that's great and why don't we try composing a tweet tweet IFA is awesome exclamation point once again this is on HSPA this is on samsung's Wi-Fi network here at Aoife looks like I got that understood perfectly so s-voice does some things well on the note 2 something's not so great and that's about on par with our experience on the galaxy s3 it's one of the things about the galaxy s3 being a smaller device than the note 2 that's convenient is that the keyboard generally is accessible with one hand if you have your other hand is busy with something whereas on the note 2 that is still sort of the case but really not not quite so much getting the cue and the one that's a little bit difficult and I have medium-sized hands if you have smaller hands that'll be much more difficult so Samsung has thoughtfully included a setting in their stock keyboard if you jump on into settings and you can set one-handed operation right there you check that box jump back into the keyboard and the keyboard will favor one side of the screen over the other so if you're right-handed you set it over here if you're left-handed you can set it over there very very handy for a device of this size so while we're here we're just gonna hop into the browser and do a little bit of comparison while we're talking about screen size and because these are on different networks this is not a speed test necessarily as much as it is an examination of what the sites look like on what the same site looks like on a standard superphone display and on a standard phablet display a term that Samsung has recently sort of embraced so you can see rendering is much much faster on the note 2 in this circumstance that doesn't really mean anything because their test conditions are not ideal but it certainly is reflecting what we saw yesterday on the note 2 with a really nice performance in the browser from pinch to zoom to scroll rendering when you look at this you definitely have to double tap to get to column view to actually read the text whereas on the note 2 you really don't have to it's not necessarily comfortable to read text this size but you can do it it is possible whereas on the s3 it's not really possible unless you are having especially acute vision then of course there are additional enhancements to Android the jellybean version that the note 2 is running the gallery app has been rethought and in addition there have been some enhancements have been made to the Galaxy s3 is pop-up Play version which is still here but only more so of course on the note 2 with the resizable window that you can move around and when you hop back into the video player you can use the s-pen and the air view to hover over points in the timeline without stopping the video just like on a flash-based player on a computer or on YouTube and finally support has been included this being jellybean once again for Google now which is not functioning on the network right now but which is really handy to have or might prove itself really handy to have depending on your tastes guys thanks for watching our side-by-side comparison the galaxy s3 with the galaxy note 2 we're gonna have a bit more content from everywhere here at IVA including a lot more Samsung stuff please stay tuned to pocket now you can follow us if you like and PocketNow tweets on Twitter you can follow me at at captain 2 phones that's Tony behind the camera follow Hamad at an Tandy Nadja and 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