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hi I'm fly with the verge and this is the Samsung Galaxy Note equipped with a 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display the note is Samsung's attempted and no compromise device the balance is the portability of a phone with the extra utility of a larger screen tablet but that's not all Samsung's also brought in an integrated stylus making a note a candidate to replace your paper notebook as well the obvious risk that Samsung is running by straddling so many categories is that the note will exceed and none of them exchanging excellence in any one area for greater versatility that's partially true as a phone the note inevitably sacrificed a single hand operation is pretty awkward socially if not physically to hold against your face to take a call and its ability to fit inside pockets can be described this question of what is best the note also won't replace your iPad firstly because your runs Android Gingerbread and secondly because the screen is a really large enough if you can look past this one size fits non form factor though the note is a truly excellent Android device here's a 1280 by 800 display resolution giving you pixel density of 285 PPI and it's Super AMOLED technology means incredibly deep blacks contrasted against bright vibrant colors there's also screen mode adjustment in case you find the saturation too strong a common complaint with AMOLED displays the dual-core 1.4 kicker's processor inside the note is extremely impressive Richard score of over 4,000 in a standard quadrant benchmark and running every Android game and app with ease Riptide GP looks spectacular in the note and I'd love to see the high graphical fidelity of the Tegra optimised version of this game being brought to Samsung's platform as well the notes easily powerful enough to handle it games also where the stylus comes in with things like fruit ninja and some other drawing and slicing games making good use of it you can use the stylus to take a quick handwritten note to grab a screenshot of what's on the phone and annotate it or to navigate exactly as you would with your finger the only downside is that the capacitive keys don't recognize it so you still need to use your physical digits to activate those beyond handwriting recognition in the core apps like messaging an email samsung doesn't really have any killer uses for its S Pen Stylus there's an SDK out and some recommended doodling apps like Omni sketch and Zen brush but they're not exactly deep of functionality additionally text input the stylist can be hit a miss did not mean a few too many mistakes for me to learn to write my notes instead of typing them out browser performance in the notes is excellent pages around it beautifully where a zoomed in or out scrolling is quicker responsive and so is pinch-to-zoom the camera is also pretty quick in operation though not as fast as the one at the Galaxy Nexus on the plus side did not take some really great pictures that almost never need to be reshot it's part of the great processing power within it the note does have some software issues holding back the most immediate one is the delay in the screen waking up from sleep it's manifested slower than most firms there's no lag around the TouchWiz UI but there are some delays in the occasional stutter things that an upcoming upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich should hopefully rectify some of the smaller things that Samsung has done well include the keys err app which has been around since the release of the Galaxy s2 but it's still one of the best ways to communicate between your phone and PC 2500 milliamp hour battery is also great it lasts like a champ and the bundled in ear headphones are actually very decent in the UK the note also comes with an ingeniously designed power plug to save space ultimately I feel like the note size is his biggest weakness if you're after a tablet I wait for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 which is almost the same internal specs but comes with a bigger and better Super AMOLED plus display the Galaxy Nexus will take good care of you if you're after a morgue anomic phone than the note while the get up paper based notebook still remains the easiest and cheapest way to take handwritten notes