What Happen To Note 3 Dual Camera

I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Notation. At that point in time it wasn't really obvious but how critical larger-display smartphones were going to be in the future, nor just how close the smartphone market was to becoming a mature one. In a mature market it'southward all about filling in the niches, something Samsung has been doing since the very starting time past casting a very large form factor net with its lineup of android devices.

I call back being intrigued with the original Note more for the agile digitizer feature (S-Pen) than the large brandish. It was during the tiptop of the draw something craze, and having a stylus seemed like a logical advantage. Two years I lean the other style entirely, it's that bigger display that makes me interested in the form factor not just every bit a curiosity but as something I actually desire to employ daily.

This is at present Samsung's third Milky way Note, and as the adage goes hopefully third time is indeed a charm. Not that the first two weren't wildly popular to begin with, either.

The Annotation 3 is obviously an iterative production with iterative improvements. The bones formula of the Annotation is unchanged - huge display, bumped specs versus the S series flagship, and active digitizer pen. The improvements this time are bigger display while making the overall device dimensions smaller, much faster SoC, higher resolution brandish, better camera, and all the improvements around the edges you'd look (802.11ac, USB 3.0, IR).

I always start out by talking about the industrial blueprint, appearance, and feel of devices, and won't change that with the Note iii. Let's just say information technology - the blueprint of the Note 3 honestly isn't a significant divergence from Samsung's norm. Then again nobody should've expected a huge departure to begin with.

Whereas the Note two felt and looked a lot like a blown up SGS3, the Note 3 is too a fleck like a larger SGS4, although I honestly see $.25 of SGS2 in it. The forepart is dwelling to the huge display, the same kind of earpiece grille we e'er see from Samsung, forepart facing photographic camera, concrete dwelling house button, and capacitive bill of fare and back buttons.

The edge of the Note 3 is ringed with the familiar chrome, although this fourth dimension there's a ridge which makes it more than grippy. With bigger phones making the edges less glace is important, the Note 3 hits the marking here nicely.

All the buttons are also in the usual places for Samsung, and feel peachy. Power is easy to get to, the volume rocker also is nicely positioned.

Headphone jack and the IR port are upward pinnacle, forth with one of the 3 microphones used for racket cancelation on the Note 3.

There's some other microphone on the bottom right of the device, and the third is at the bottom to the left of the microUSB 3.0 type B connector jack.

In that location'south been a lot of talk about the presence of USB three.0, even though the micro B connector type has been around for considerable time already and in a ton of devices. The Annotation 3 just has the misfortune of apparently being many people's starting time exposure to the connector, whose awkward double lobed shape gives it forward compatibility with microUSB 2.0. The rightmost region is merely the familiar microUSB 2.0 connector, the left contains the pins for SuperSpeed signaling for 3.0. Plug something into the right 2.0 jack and yous get 2.0 speed for transfers and charging. three.0 at present should requite you faster transfer charge per unit (it doesn't in practice as you'll soon encounter), and somewhen faster charging, but the Note 3 continues to use Samsung'south 2.0 amp charging spec and rate, but more on that later.

	Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (T-Mobile SM-N900T)
SoC	two.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) 4x Krait 400 @ 2.3 GHz, Adreno 330 at 450 MHz
Display	5.7-inch Super AMOLED (1080p)
RAM	3 GB LPDDR3
WiFi	802.11a/b/g/north/ac (BCM4339) + BT 4.0
Storage	32 / 64 GB + microSDXC (up to 64 GB)
I/O	microUSB 3.0, MHL 2.0, IR LED (remote), NFC
Bone	Android 4.3
Battery	3200 mAh, iii.8V, 12.1 Whr
Size / Mass	151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3mm, 168g
Camera	13 MP w/AF, LED (Rear Facing) – 1080p60, 720p120, 4k30 2 MP (Front end Facing)

Whereas well-nigh of the Note three is par for the course for Samsung device blueprint, the backside is something different entirely. Instead of the slick plastic that we ordinarily get out of the Korean handset makers, the Note iii backside material is plastic, textured to wait like a leather bound book complete with faux stitching, and in the case of the blackness color, topped with a somewhat grippy rubbery finish. The white model doesn't get that rubbery finish, and instead merely feels like somewhat roughly textured plastic with the same false leather pattern. I've held pleather, simulated leather, and real leather, and this frankly isn't any of that. Information technology's still injection molded plastic, but this time patterned so it looks vaguely leather.

Samsung does deserve kudos for not just giving usa another slimy-backed phone with a glossy plastic battery cover, notwithstanding. I take to admit I practice like the rubber stop on the black Note 3 I was sampled, as the white one feels significantly dissimilar as information technology lacks that finish. The only downside is that information technology does choice up and show hand grease, whereas the white one handles information technology meliorate. I could do without the imitation stitching though.

I've been fugitive the discussion nigh the size of the Annotation 3 and whether it'due south too big or too much. I've addressed this before in the Note ii review, and I'd encourage y'all to read folio 2'south "using a phablet" section, since the Note 3 is essentially the aforementioned situation, since it's the same course cistron. I tin can definitely utilize the form factor just fine, and the Note 3 comfortably. With the swipe keyboards that are pop at present (I just use the stock Google Keyboard) I can even blazon i handed without much effort. In fact I've written a huge chunk of this review on the Note 3 in Typhoon, some of it 1-handed.

Hands vary in size, and what size device is "all-time" for someone is really just a affair of personal sense of taste. Some people are clamoring for smaller devices, others want bigger - as this market matures, success for OEMs volition mean a diverse portfolio filling in all the obvious form factors.

More and more than I'grand starting to recall the width of devices is the hurting point that causes real fatigue, and edge bezel thickness. The Note iii does very well hither compared to its predecessor because information technology's thinner, and lighter. In fact, yous could pretty much sum up the Note 3 with – thinner, lighter, faster, oh and it has a bigger display at the same time.

	Galaxy Notation 3 (T-Mobile)	Galaxy Note 2 (T-Mobile)	Galaxy Notation (AT&T)
Tiptop	151.2 mm	151.1 mm	146.85 mm
Width	79.2 mm	80.5 mm	82.95 mm
Thickness	8.3 mm	9.4 mm	9.65 mm
Mass	168 grams	180 grams	178 grams
Display Size	5.7-inch	v.five-inches	5.3-inches
Display Resolution	1920 10 1080	1280 x 720	1280 ten 800
SoC	2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 (4x Krait 400)	1.half dozen GHz Samsung Exynos 4412 (4x Cortex A9)	1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon (APQ8060 - 2x Scorpion)
Camera	13 MP with LED	viii MP with LED	eight MP with LED
Battery	3200 mAh, 3.8V, 12.16 Whr	3100 mAh, three.8V, 11.78 Whr	2500 mAh, 3.7V, 9.25 Whr

I actually want to utilize the Annotation three a lot more than this time, since having more display existent estate does make me feel like I can attain more than. Obviously multimedia content also benefits from a larger viewport too. Since I haven't ever actually been a tablet person, larger phones seem like a logical tradeoff.

Honestly the Note iii feels improve than its predecessor, and the biggest reasons for that are the textured rubberized dorsum, grippier textured edge, thinner trunk, and thinner width. Oh and there's no creakiness or build quality problems to speak of, in spite of existence then big the Annotation 3 is very rigid and solid.

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Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/7376/samsung-galaxy-note-3-review

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