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this episode of unboxed era P is brought to you by the national campaign against drunk driving what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and first I want to apologize for my voice here I'm a little bit rundown it's that time of year but hey I'm making a video so thumbs up for fighting through battling through a little bit of sickness today we're looking at the Galaxy Note 2 and as you can tell it's a really powerful device got a quad-core 1.6 gigahertz processor you have the s-pen included here you got a big 5.5 inch Super AMOLED display in a huge 3100 milliamp hour battery that's all beautiful this phone's been out for a little while now but I haven't actually played with one haven't actually got my hands on one and so I thought hey I'll bring you this video in my first impressions I do want to give a shout out to tell us for making this video possible and sending this device out to me if you guys want to show them some love as well I put their Twitter link down below so go ahead and tell them that you're grateful for the devices showing up on unbox therapy and maybe you guys can request different smartphones that you want to see on here and you can convince them to send me some more so definitely go tweet at TELUS and tell them you want to see more gear on unbox therapy so let's talk about the unboxing here we got a little bit of paperwork this is French in English because it is a Canadian version you've got your power brick this is pretty straightforward usb on one end power prongs on the other for charging your device from the wall and then of course your cable this is a microUSB to USB it's a done up in white so all the accessories here with the galaxy notes you are white at least with this specific model on the right-hand side of the device is where you'll find the power switch now this is important because had the power switch being on top it would be pretty hard to reach on such a large device this after all is a 5.5 inch phone on the top is where you'll find a headphone jack as well as a microphone and on the left hand side is where your volume rocker is this is pretty self-explanatory up and down to increase and decrease volume the device is very slim and surprisingly it doesn't feel as big in my hand as I thought it would it feels pretty reasonable pretty manageable on the bottom is where you'll see a microphone as well as a micro USB port that's going to be used for charging advice of course and you also got your s-pen that's what separates this device in one other way so it's huge but it's also got a pen so it fits somewhere between a smartphone and a tablet and I was actually pleasantly surprised with the pen not only is it basically undetectable when it's inserted into the phone but it's also pretty nice to use and surprisingly functional the back the device features your rear facing camera surprise surprise as well as the LED flash and then towards the bottom is where your speaker is you'll also find the s-pen as I said before in the bottom corner it's incredibly smooth to extract and at the same time it doesn't feel like it's going to come out accidentally I wouldn't personally worry about that and something else to mention the device as a whole if you're looking at specs you sort of think damn is this thing too big can I really carry this around on a daily basis well I have to say at least in my jean pocket it doesn't really feel all that much bigger then my Nexus 4 for example even though on paper it's quite a bit bigger I don't know what it is maybe it's the way it's curved maybe it's the fact that it's got such smooth finishes maybe it's because it's so thin but anyway it doesn't feel much bigger and even in my hand I'm pretty comfortable holding it so that's a pleasant surprise as you can see here this is one of the killer functions the fact that you could take notes right on the device and it's fairly precise in fact I've used Wacom tablets in the past and maybe it's not quite as precise as that but for something that is essentially a phone or a slightly larger phone it is impressive the kind of feedback you get it's leaps and bounds better than those third-party styluses that you can get for smart phones you know the ones with the soft tips that aren't very precise at all and they really don't have any levels of pressure sensitivity like this one does so depending on how hard you press on the screen it can sort of figure it out what you want to do so if you're sketching or doing drawing or something like that that's imperative because then you can get a different weight on the stroke as you come across the screen so anyway getting a little bit technical there but as you can tell the device is pretty snappy too that's another thing worth mentioning moving around the web browser the interface etc it's surprisingly snappy you guys know in the past I haven't been huge fan of having a skin put over Android but this one at least for now feels like it's kind of not inhibiting the experience all that much you can see I'm taking a look here at the new site trigger pulled calm you guys should go check that out if you haven't yet now while we load up the YouTube page I do want you guys to check out this quick and very important message from the sponsor of this episode and then we'll be back with a little bit more the national campaign against drunk driving has an important message to share this holiday season and I want to help them get it out there don't drink and drive chances are you're going to be hanging out with family and friends it's going to be a good time you'll probably have a couple of drinks I know I will myself but that doesn't mean you need to get behind the wheel of a car try to get home unfortunately this time of year there are more fatal collisions than many other times a year it might be the maximum in fact and what that means is if you get behind the wheel under the influence there's a great chance that you're going to end up hurting somebody getting in an accident getting caught under the influence with a DUI that increases your insurance rates there's going to be cops all over the country all the way up to New Year's Eve and you don't need to take that risk it's going to affect you in a number of potential ways and it's just strictly not worth it there are many ways to get home or you can just crash on the couch you could use public transit you could use a taxi or you could wait till the next morning like I just said so I know you've heard it a million times but please listen to me this time around you don't want to have to be looking back saying you know you wish you had done things differently or having regrets so stay sober drive safe alright so as you can see we've loaded up youtube.com slash on box therapy and using a 5.5 inch device to browse YouTube is actually pretty nice it means everything's a little bit bigger you're getting bigger thumbnails bigger text so using it as an entertainment device that's another killer use for it since it is somewhere between a tablet and a smartphone I could totally see like lying in bed watching YouTube tweeting etc with a device like this as you can tell I'm a pretty big fan given my limited use with it the main thing here is that it's not nearly as big as people have been saying I could totally see myself using this on a daily basis it's not big to the point where I feel that it's awkward in any way that might have something to do with the fact that I've already used somewhat big phones I'm using the Nexus 4 right now but this one here I could totally see myself getting used to it and hopefully I can play with it for the next couple of weeks and maybe you guys some more feedback on Twitter etc if you guys are interested in pricing and availability in this phone there's a link down in the description I appreciate your viewership if you enjoyed this video please leave a like and a favorite down below and I'll catch you on the next one I'll catch you actually this weekend remember two big important live giveaways hit up my channel if you don't know what I'm talking about but I'll see you guys on Saturday tomorrow all right later