So while I was checking out the Samsung event, I was looking forward to the official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4... but as a surprise, they announced this beautiful beast... the Note EDGE!
photo from: CNET.com
What a concept! A touchscreen bar on the curved edge? This is absolutely my choice of new phone. There is so much we can expect from this little touch bar. With the SDK out to developers now, it's immense what we can see done with this little bar... I can't wait.
Full Specs:
GENERAL
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network: LTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600
SIM: Micro-SIM
Announced: 2014, September
Status: Coming soon. Exp. release 2014, Q4
BODY
Dimensions: 151.3 x 82.4 x 8.3 mm (5.96 x 3.24 x 0.33 in)
Weight: 174 g (6.14 oz)
- S Pen stylus
- Fingerprint sensor
DISPLAY
Type: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 1600 x 2560 pixels, 5.6 inches (~524 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch: Yes
Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- curved Edge screen
SOUND
Alert types: Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes
MEMORY
Card slot: microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal: 32/64 GB, 3 GB RAM
DATA
GPRS: Yes
EDGE: Yes
Speed: HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA; LTE, Cat4 (Exnos), Cat6 (N910S), 50 Mbps UL, 300 Mbps (N910S), 150 Mbps (Snapdragon) DL
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth: v4.1, A2DP, EDR, LE
NFC: Yes
Infrared port: Yes
USB: microUSB v2.0 (MHL 3), USB Host
CAMERA
Primary: 16 MP, 3456 x 4608 pixels, optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash
Features: Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, panorama, HDR
Video: 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, optical stabilization
Secondary: 3.7 MP, 1080p@30fps
FEATURES
OS: Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat)
Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 805
Exynos 5433
CPU: Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 450 (Snapdragon)
Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core Cortex-A57 (Exynos)
GPU: Adreno 420 (Snapdragon)
Mali-T760 (Exynos)
Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, UV, heart rate, SpO2
Messaging: SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser: HTML5
Radio: TBC
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors: Black, White
- ANT+ support
- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
- Air gestures
- Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage)
- SNS integration
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input (Swype)
BATTERY
Li-Ion 3,000 mAh battery
