Samsung Galaxy Note (original)

This article is about the smartphone/tablet introduced in

2011. For later devices, see Samsung Galaxy Note series.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is an Android
smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet" portmanteau of (Ph)one T(ablet)), introduced in
October 2011 and noted for its 5.3-inch screen size
between that of conventional smartphones, and larger
tabletsand its included stylus.[7]

History

A screenshot annotated on a Galaxy Note, showing a picture comparing the Galaxy Notes size with other smartphones and tablets
(Order from top to bottom: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Samsung
Galaxy S II, HTC Titan, the Samsung Galaxy Note itself, LG Optimus Pad, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1).

The Galaxy Note was announced by Samsung during IFA

2011 in Berlin. It was released to the public starting with
Germany in late October 2011, with other countries following shortly after that.[8] By the end of November, it
was available in most major markets, including East Asia, Note shows potential as a games console.[16]
Europe and India.
Like most recent smartphones and tablets, the device is
In December 2011, Samsung announced that one mil- constructed in the slate format (see Slate phone and
lion Galaxy Notes were shipped in less than two months, Slate tablet). The body is built from plastic with a
and that a North American variant would be available in metallised rim.[17] The front panel is Gorilla Glass,[18] a
February 2012.[9] In January 2012, the US version of the strengthened glass often used for high-end devices such
Galaxy Note was featured at the 2012 CES in Las Vegas, as this.
allowing press to get an early look at the new device.[10]
The front panel houses one physical home button (for
As of the rst quarter of 2012 from January to March, activating the device and switching to the home screen),
5 million have been sold.[7] As of 1 June 2012, Samsung two illuminated touch pads (menu and back), the disannounced that 7 million had been shipped.[11] As of 15 play, the front-facing camera, and light and proximity
August 2012, Samsung announced that 10 million devices sensors. At the back is a thin plastic snap-on panel with an
have been sold.[1]
indent for a ngernail to facilitate removal, for access to
the 2500mAh battery, SIM card and SD card. The back
panel houses the speaker and main camera and ash. The
metallic rim houses several controls: at the top edge is
2 Size and construction
the 4-pole 3.5mm jack socket for connecting the headset
(which incorporates in-canal earphones, FM radio aerial
The Galaxy Note, with a 135 mm (5.3 in) screen, is sized (for non-Snapdragon based variants), microphone and
between smartphones such as the Galaxy S II and the volume control) and a pinhole microphone; at the bottom
Galaxy Tab tablet. PC World Australia opined that Sam- is the industry-standard micro-USB socket for charging
sung Galaxy Note is too big to be a true mobile phone, and data transfer, another pinhole microphone, and the
citing the diculty of using it single-handed.[12] This hy- well for storing the stylus; and the sides house an on-o
brid is being called a phablet by Forbes and Engadget. Ph- button and a volume control.
ablet is a portmanteau of the words phone and tablet.[13]
Techradar questions Samsung Galaxy Notes marketability as users cannot store it in a small pocket and that
users look ungainly when holding it against their faces 3 Hardware and software features
while conversing.[14] GigaOM hails it as a pioneer in a
[6][19]
new market segment, despite the similar but unsuccessful Hardware specications of the device include:
Dell Streak, combining the best features of both device
types.[15] Pocket-lint has remarked that Samsung Galaxy
a dual-core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex A9 Exynos 4210
1

4 VARIANTS

SoC processor or a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 used Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The standard Android
Snapdragon SoC S3 processor (AT&T, SK Tele- user interface is overlaid with Samsungs TouchWiz incom, KT, LG U+, docomo)
terface, which includes support for the devices stylus,
among other features.
Mali 400MP GPU (Exynos)/Adreno 220 (SnapSeveral application programs are pre-loaded on the dedragon)
vice. These include the standard Android applications
a 5.29 HD Super AMOLED display with RGBG- such as email, web browsing, and media playback, as
Matrix (Pentile) and WXGA (1,280 x 800) resolu- well as some programs aimed mainly at business users
tion
and to facilitate the use of the stylus, such as Polaris
Oce, personal information manager software, calenan 8-megapixel main camera that can record 1080p dar, advanced note-taking (S-Memo, S-Note) and drawvideo, and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera
ing applications, and one game, Crayon Physics Deluxe.
Other applications, specically designed for the S-Pen
802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4/5 GHz) support for Wi-Fi
and the device are available at Samsung Apps and Google
Quad-band HSPA+ 21Mbit/s 850/900/1900/2100 Play, as well as from independent sources.
mobile network support, LTE support for the Korean, Japanese, and North American variants

3.3 Text input

Global positioning using both the a-GPS and

GLONASS systems.
Text can be entered using a choice of methods: a plain
on-screen keyboard, with handwriting recognition using
the stylus, and using the Swype keyboard input method,
3.1 Stylus
which replaces direct typing of a word with a single movement of the nger or stylus across the desired keys.[26]
The Galaxy Note includes a stylus which Samsung calls
the S Pen. The stylus tucks into the bottom panel of the
phone and can be used in a variety of apps. It can simply 3.4 Cameras
replace the use of a nger in situations where precision is
needed, but it is also equipped with a "shift" button, which The device features an 12-megapixel (2,448 x 3,264 pixwhen pressed enables other functions such as grabbing els) main camera with ash on the back panel, and a 2screenshots (which can then be drawn on using the stylus) megapixel (1,200 x 1,600 pixels) camera on the front, prior for writing sticky notes with drawing/handwriting, text marily for video phone calls. The clear lens cover of the
input, and pictures. The stylus and screen are coordinated main camera lies ush with the back panel, exposing it to
using a Wacom digitiser system which results in accurate the same scratches that the panel might suer, which has
been a source of criticism.[14] However, the quality of impressure-sensitive input.[20]
ages captured with the main camera has been praised.[14]
Samsung released in late November 2011 an SDK (softVideo recording through the main camera is 1080p (Full
ware development kit) for the stylus so developers can
HD)
at 30 frames per second. Photo-editing and videowrite third-party apps that use it for input.[21] Android
editing software is supplied with the device.
4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the OS version released after
the introduction of the Galaxy Note, also includes support
for stylus input.[22]
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices in the 1990s
used the stylus as a primary input method. Many other
touchscreen smartphones in the 2000s also included styluses, although the Galaxy Note is notable in that it has a
capacitive touchscreen and a stylus, whereas traditionally
styluses could only be supported on pressure-sensitive resistive touchscreens. The Galaxy Note stylus implementation has been described as high quality.[23]

3.2

4 Variants

Software

Between October 2012 and February 2013, starting with

South Korea, Android 4.1 Jellybean has been made Galaxy Note with some of the standard accessories
available for the Galaxy Note.[19][24] Since May 2012, it
had been equipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sand- The Galaxy Note is primarily produced with a black body
wich for non-Snapdragon based variants.[25] It originally (dubbed carbon blue by Samsung), but bodies of other

3
colours have been made available, including white[27] and and Canada. The variant was rst released on AT&T on
pink.[28]
19 February 2012 in the US,[34] while being simultaneBell, and Rogers on 14 FebruThe following performance variants of the Galaxy Note ously released on Telus,
[35]
ary
2012
in
Canada.
Although
commonly referred to
have been made available:
as the Galaxy Note LTE, the ocial model number is
SGH-I717, dierentiating it from the original N7000 and
GT-N7000 The original version, with a dual-core the Korea-exclusive LTE variant.[36] In addition to LTE
1.4 GHz Cortex A9 processor
connectivity, Samsung made several modications to the
GT-N7000B Sold only in Australia and Thailand, phone. Externally, the physical home button and the
this version is optimized for the 850 MHz 3G band. two touch-sensitive buttons on the front of the phone were
replaced by four touch-sensitive buttons. Internally, the
GT-N7005 Sold only in Hong Kong and Singa- chipset was changed to the Qualcomm MSM8660 Snappore, this version looks similar to the SGH-i717, dragon, which is signicantly slower than the original
but with 1800/2600 MHz LTE instead of AT&Ts Exynos 4 Dual 45 nm (4210) chipset.[37] The Snapdragon
700/1700.
3 SoC features a dual-core 1.5 GHz Scorpion CPU and
an Adreno 220 GPU.[36] FM radio was removed.[37] All
SHV-E160K, SHV-E160L, SHV-E160S LTE other phone specications remained identical to the origversion with higher-speed communications ability, inal N7000.
available exclusively in South Korea. Internal specs
are similar to the American AT&T version. It is
equipped with dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3
(APQ8060 1.5 GHz) processor, Adreno 220 GPU 5 Galaxy Note product line
and TV support instead of FM radio. The exterior
is similar to the international N7000 version on the Main article: Samsung Galaxy Note series
front (it has the central physical button instead of the
capacitative buttons).[29]
Following the success of the original Galaxy Note, Sam SGH-I717 LTE version released exclusively in sung have released a new version every year since (as of
late 2014), and produced tablets of varying sizes with stythe United States and Canada.
luses, also bearing the Galaxy Note name.
SC-05D LTE version released by NTT DoCoMo,
Japan. It is equipped with dual core Qualcomm
Snapdragon S3 (APQ8060 1.5 GHz) processor and 6 References
Adreno 220 GPU. Other specs and design are as
same as international version N7000.[30]
SGH-T879 a T-Mobile USA version of Galaxy
Note was released 6 months after AT&T version in
August 2012, it has similar specication of SGHI717 model but does not support LTE. This version
came with Android 4.0 right out of the box.

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GT-I9220 WCDMA model released exclusively

for China Unicom.[31]

[4] Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus sport HD Super

AMOLED - is the PenTile matrix bad for you?

GT-I9228 TD-SCDMA model released exclusively for China Mobile.[32]

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27, ID=1550585

SCH-I889 CDMA2000 model released exclusively for China Telecom.[33]

Samsung have made available a collection of accessories such as a clip-on screen cover (which replaces the
back panel), a docking station, and spare chargers and
styluses.[8]

4.1

SGH-I717

Another variant of the Galaxy Note capable of LTE connectivity was released exclusively in the United States

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