Samsung Unveils the Mighty Galaxy Note II

A lot of time has passed since Samsung launched the original ‘Phablet’, the Note, so 10 months and 10 million units later, we’ve finally got Samsung’s next super phone or phablet, the Note II.
The Note II’s design is similar to that of the Galaxy S III. But when it comes to power, it had got quite more muscle under its hood. With enormous screen of 5.5 inches Super Amoled display, this smartphone from Samsung will probably be the best pick for those who would want to have one device for their phone and tablets.
Here are the specs:

• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (finally a device that is launched first up with Android 4.1)
• 5.5 inch Super Amoled display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 and 16 million colors
• Multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• Thickness: 9.4 mm
• Weight: 180 grams
• 1.6 Ghz quad-core Cortex A9 processor with Exynos 4 Quad chipset
• 2 GB of RAM with 16, 32 or 64GB expandable storage
• 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and 1080p Full HD video recording
• 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera
• A thicker and longer S Pen
• A new feature called ‘Air View’ (explained below)
• Accelerometer, Barometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Compass sensors
• Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB v2.0, USB-on-the-go, Wifi-hotspot, NFC
• 3100 mAh battery

Air View is a feature which lets you preview images, videos, emails etc. when you hover your S Pen over them.
Samsung Galaxy Note II will be released in parts of the world in October and worldwide after that. No info is out regarding the pricing but don’t expect it to come cheap. The Galaxy Note II might be the Phablet of the year.

Samsung Announces World’s First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone, the ATIV S

This is shocking. Despite the exclusive Nokia-Microsoft deal, Samsung has become the first company to officially unveil a Windows Phone 8 smartphone. To start-off, this is a decent smartphone with specs easily better than any Windows Phone smartphone right now.
Considering the smoothness that Windows platform offers, these specs of 1.5 Ghz dual-core processor with 1 GM of internal RAM will boost the the performance needs of ATIV S users.

See for yourself:

• Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 8 OS installed
• 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and 16 million colors
• Multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• Thickness: 8.7mm
• Weight: 137 grams
• 1.5 Ghz dual-core Krait processor with Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4
• 1 GB RAM with 16/32 GB expandable storage
• 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with LED Flash and 1080p Full HD video recording
• 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera
• Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Compass sensors
• Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB v2.0, NFC, Wifi-Hotspot

Nokia is expected to release its Windows Phone 8 smartphones on September 5 where it might launch a ‘Pureview Lumia’. Still, you can’t deny the fact that the ATIV S is easily among the best smartphones right now.
No words on pricing of Samsung ATIV S revealed so far. Meanwhile, check below screens of the Windows 8 Phone:

Samsung Unveils Android Powered Galaxy Camera

No one really had expected Samsung to extend its Galaxy line-up to cameras. But we’ve finally got an Android powered point-and-shoot camera and it is called the Galaxy Camera EK-GC100.
Its classified as a point-and-shoot camera but its certainly bigger than that. Actually, this camera can even become a threat to the new Nikon S800c camera.
With dimensions and weight of 128.7 x 70.8 x 19.1 mm and 305 grams respectively, this is easily among the biggest point-and-shoot cameras you’ll find. It has surely got some great specs.
To start off, it has a 1/2.3″ 16 megapixel CMOS Sensor, 21X Optical Zoom and a wide-angle 28mm lens. It can do 1080p Full HD video at 30 frames per second or slow motion videos at a resolution of 720 x 480. There’s 8 GB memory onboard along with a microSD card slot.
This camera has got an HDMI output, Wifi, 3G and 4G for connectivity. There’s also a Xenon Flash which pops-up from inside the camera while usage. The battery is a 1650mAh one which extreme users might find small.
Then there’s the touchscreen. Its a 4.8 inch touchscreen with HD resolution and guess what, the camera runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which is several light years ahead of the Android 2.3 of the Nikon S800c. Its customized with Touchwiz and all the Touchwiz special apps like the S Voice and S Planner are there.
This camera runs on a 1.4 Ghz quad-core processor. Did we mentioned there’s Play Store access too? Its available in Black and White flavors.
No info on launch date is out currently but it should hit stores in or around Q4 of 2012, and is estimated to be priced around Rs. 40,000.

Samsung Unveils its First Windows 8 Tablet, the RT ATIV

Along with its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone and other products, Samsung has also introduced its first Windows tablet to the people and its called the RT ATIV.
Apart from being Samsung’s first RT tablet, the RT ATIV is also easily the best portable devices among the tablet.
Here are the specs:

• Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 running
• 10.1 inch LCD display with HD resolution of 1366 x 768
• Thickness: 8.9 mm
• Weight: 570 grams
• 1.5 Ghz dual-core ARM processor
• 2GB RAM with 32 or 64 GB expandable storage
• 5 megapixel rear camera with flash
• 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera
• Office Home and Student 2013 RT installed
• 8200 mAh battery
• Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and Micro HDMI output

No info on pricing and availability is currently given by Samsung but if this tablet is priced around Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 50,000, this can become a potential iPad killer.

Samsung S Cloud Spotted Running on Galaxy Note 2

Since we all heard rumors that Samsung is planning to launch a service called S Cloud which would obviously compete with iCloud.
So, at IFA 2012, Samsung has put these rumors weight by giving the very first image of this cloud service working on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
Although it is apparent that Samsung has yet to confirm its existence but a German Blog was lucky to experience the functionality of S Cloud by going into settings Galaxy Note 2.
More interestingly, the S Cloud currently seems to be a shell for Dropbox, which makes the S Cloud in collaboration with the popular file-distribution applications.
For now, it seems that the data is going onto the Dropbox servers, but it is supposed to change as by moving the data to Samsung’s own servers. If S cloud arrives with similar dropbox functionality then it will be able to sync pictures, movies and documents into the cloud.
Reportedly, the S Cloud option will be enabled on the Galaxy S III too once it gets up to 4.1 Jelly Bean.
There’s also a rumor that S Cloud might arrives with its own email service but it has not been confirmed yet. The S Cloud is likely to be announced in October and would be available to computers, tablets as well as Smart TVs.