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what's up everyone John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo here at the full review of the AT&T branded LTE capable galaxy notes this is the largest smartphone on the planet is it a phablet is it a tone is it too big for your pants let's go ahead and answer all these questions as we take a look at the Galaxy Note so if you aren't a monster phone nerd like me chances are you don't have the spec to this phone memorize let me recap what you can get in your 5.3 inch package just go ahead and make your jokes it is running Android 2.3 and that is of course gingerbread we are living in an Ice Cream Sandwich world and a phone with Gingerbread certainly isn't looked on with giant Smiley's and happy faces Samsung has said that Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming we're expecting it sometime in March from a price standpoint it's going to be 299 bucks with a two-year contract but you know sometimes deals happen so you're gonna want to check your retailer for updated pricing from a dimension standpoint five point seven eight inches down three point to seven inches across and a very thin point three eight inches there on the diameter so it's a large phone but a very thin phone and all that's gonna come in at a six point four five ounce package so not the heaviest phone in the world despite its size so that display 5.3 inches it's a resolution of 1280 by 800 WX VGA HD Super AMOLED screen so that giant resolution screen something we Raph they're gonna talk about it's gonna give you an extra row of icons especially when you're on the home screen as opposed to most Android phones that give you four we got five across and we'll talk about that screen a little bit more as we move along through the review a giant phone giant screen giant battery as a 2500 milliamp hour battery which Samsung says is gonna be good for about 10 hours of talktime we'll talk a bit more about battery life oddly enough it's a 100 milli amp hour smaller than the European and loft version comes in at 2600 million by our batteries and speaking of differences between the European version this guy is running a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Qualcomm built chipset I did a comparison of the European versus the AT&T version so you can check that link out down below in case you want to see the differences are but this is the 1.5 gigahertz Qualcomm model it's got a gig of ram 16 gigs storage internal with micro USD expandability on the back we've got boom 8 megapixel camera with LED flash I can shoot 1080p video at 30 frames per second that guy 30 frames per second of course LED flash but it also has 18 megapixel camera on the front right there boom that's the front-facing camera that's why I said boom in case you're wondering it is running on AT&T LTE network with backwards compatibility for HSPA+ or fallback rather for HSPA+ it's got bluetooth 3.0 one other bit of note that I'm not really gonna talk that much about because for me it's not overly useful it's got something called an S Pen don't call it a stylus Samsung will get mad S Pen uses Wacom technology you can draw right on the phone the most useful thing about the S Pen for me actually was that if you hold down one this here button on this your S Pen and it tapped the screen take screenshot and then you can edit that screenshot and you can draw right on it so I'll show you a little bit about the S Pen we'll go ahead and hit that the color stay red because I'm feeling like I'm in a red moon go ahead and exit out of that and now I can draw hi and I can write stuff and I can do different pressure sensitivity I think it's got 32 different points of pressure you can go ahead and race and do it everyone so why did that be useful if you need to draw something or sketch something if you're sending at Google Maps to someone go ahead and draw some notes right on there for me I didn't really use it but the S Pen doesn't take up much space doesn't really bother me so it's always nice to have and not use then to need it and not have it so for my personal needs I didn't find they're really useful but perhaps for you you might so hey yes pen lives there and that happened alright so a lot of this stuff on the for review I covered when I did the review of the International Galaxy Note and I also did a 30 days later with that Galaxy Note both those videos are gonna be down below so I'm going to talk about what makes this version unique and my thoughts and opinions on it and I'll recap very quickly my thoughts on the Galaxy Note so as using the Arpi inversion for the better part of a month and a half and then I switched over to the 18 T version so for about two months this has been the only phone that I've been using only phone died very happily I've been using the first thing you got to know about the Galaxy Note is it's a big phone and on paper you look at 5.3 inches you're gonna say no way too big that is ridiculous silly I'm gonna look like a madman or woman talking on this phone uh yeah you look a little bit silly holding up to your head I personally love the extra screen real estate it's been absolutely tremendous for me when you go ahead and look at a website let's go ahead and launch TechnoBuffalo here you can see where things really come in handy the extra resolution extra screen size means you're gonna get more content on the page so if you're someone like me that likes to do a lot of work on your phone this is gonna be tremendous right here you know I can view almost five articles on one page and generally high-resolution phones I haven't enjoyed because this thing's looks so small for the screen so small 5.3 inches though looks quite nice the next fear that I had but it's not gonna fit in my pants in my pocket it will and it does definitely it takes some getting used to but it's not as odd as you might think this is definitely one of those phones that are in the market for a new device you want to go to the store and try it you have to hold in your hand to see if it's going to work for you it's not so easy for one-handed use because it is so big I have relatively large hands with a freakish thumb actually I know my thumb is gigantic so for me it's been okay but if you're you know smaller frame Dora if you're a woman with smaller hands definitely gonna need to hand operation this is a phone that is not for everybody this is a phone that is not meant for everybody I look at certain mainstream devices you're gonna look at a device like the iPhone 4s and you on the Android side let's pick the Galaxy Nexus as a phone with a more conventional form factor as a phone with the more reasonable size that could fit in most pockets and fit in most purses this phone is not that certainly it's meant for a certain subsection of users that want that bigger screen real estate and I think that if you're a fan of Android that means you're also a fan of device choice you like the openness you like that you can have sort of different screen size different resolutions so you can find the phone that best fits fits you and can fit you know your friend or every else might be you might might eat it and for me this phone fits me perfectly where is something smaller like say the Galaxy Nexus I appreciate that it's around I like having more screen real estate so this phone has been wonderful for me but again not gonna be for everyone you're really gonna have to go and check it out as you can tell by effect I'll be using it for the past two months I have absolutely loved it and it's probably been my favorite phone of the past 12 months I'd say the past a year but you know we're only in February at least when I'm filming this review wonderfully powerful device a knock on it though certainly is that it's running Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich world hopefully we'll see a Samsung build of gingerbread with TouchWiz on top of it soon if not we can hope that the cyanogen team can release their version of a custom ROM for the so at least we can get our Ice Cream Sandwich nest on next thing let's talk about battery life and that was one of my big concerns one of my concerns that completely went away when I used the European galaxy note I was able to get through a full day taking it off the phone or off the charger rather at 7:30 I was able to get to about midnight was still 4050 percent battery life which is pretty impressive it's about five to ten percent less on the 18 key LTE version we have LTE here in the office so it has LTE signal connected to Wi-Fi most of the day and generally now I've got about 40 percent to 35 to 40 by time I go to bed at night which it's wonderful I charge my phone every night I expect to charge my phone every night you're probably not gonna get two days use out of this but you can easily get a day and a half if you have battery fears or concerns I don't really need to worry that much the battery is removable though so you can always pick up another one and go on your way so that was one of the other big concerns that I had LTE is certainly gonna vary depending where you are the screen here and a lots been made about the screen it's a beautiful display one of the more beautiful displays I've seen but it's a pentile display meaning the arrangement of pixels has a bit more of a blue and green pixels and other devices but for me things look great you know blacks look black colors look vibrant probably one of the better-looking screens I've seen that's my dog Lucy so you can see Lucia the demonstration here of the camera I'm trying to cover things that are unique to the particular device that I didn't cover in my review of the European version TouchWiz is this TouchWiz I mean you sort of know what you're getting again it's custom overlay on top of Android you're getting a different way to go ahead and view icons and shortcuts that sort of pops up here nicely you can pick widgets you get it all right here from the bottom it's a little bit processor intensive and RAM heavy I do like I'm a pulldown I can go ahead and adjust things right away airplane mode is here on the GT version on the European version get an option to set it to vibrate which I really did like having the option to have again Android you can't really customize and make it your own but you know I've done a little bit of to sort of make this phone work for me I've got a custom unlocker here I can go ahead and unlock it I can go jump into Mayo and go to messages or I can call my wife so go ahead and unlock I'm not gonna call her on camera the next thing people be making a big deal about and I think rightfully so it was a processor Samsung has elected to go with Qualcomm for the ETA version that has to do with LTE they need chipset that's compatible of LT radios Qualcomm currently is one of the leading providers of those so yeah it's got a slower it's a slower processor there's no way around it then the accessor I found the European version you saw that one did my comparison and we saw the quadrant scores I haven't noticed any difference though in real-world usage my reload usage isn't very processed or heavy I used a lot of email on it I'm not playing 3d games very much I don't have time unfortunately so I haven't done as much of a difference but if you're the kind of person that likes to push your phone to the max to the max then you know you're gonna want to consider perhaps looking at the HSPA+ European version if the galaxy notes what you want but if you're an everyday user that plays and likes to play games and you know use your phone for email text video and web you're not gonna notice any problems with the device at all I really enjoyed the Galaxy Note one thing that I do want to mention that I really haven't liked are these four capacitive buttons across the bottom I really did much like more it didn't much like more I speak English the main home button here on the European galaxy note but that's a design choice and if you never had the European Galaxy Note you're gonna be used he's capacitive buttons next question that I always get is what's gonna happen with these buttons once Ice Cream Sandwich hits good question you've probably seen the Galaxy Nexus that doesn't have any physical buttons that uses sort of virtual buttons these are gonna be repositioned the menu buttons are gonna do something a little bit different a home button if you hold it down you can watch multitasking they're still going to be in use you're not gonna have virtual buttons here with the Ice Cream Sandwich build that Samsung is going to put out or that the cyanogen team is going to be putting out so hey hopefully that helped answer your question so overall I really enjoyed this phone it's a film that's going to be in my pocket and I've got access to you know pretty much every device out there this is the one that I am choosing to carry with me it's definitely a very polarizing device it looks a little bit odd at first something you have to get used to but for me this is where I would put my smartphone dollar right now if I was looking to get a phone today on a two-year contract this is the Galaxy Note 4 AT&T sure check us out at TechnoBuffalo com for all of your tech news reviews and unboxings I am John Rhett enger' and I will see you in the next video buh-bye you