The Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy 3 Gear arrived today at Portuguese stores. Meet our first impressions of the new product range of Samsung Galaxy
Neither of these products is presented as a novelty itself, since over the past few months we have been talking enough of them, including after its global introduction at IFA Berlin 2013 earlier this month . As you might expect, the news from Samsung will be very accessible to the average consumer, since only the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, locked to the operator, will cost about 699 euros. Unlocked its value increases to 829 euros. Already the Samsung Galaxy Gear costs about 299 euros, while those interested in purchasing a package 3 + Galaxy Note Galaxy Gear will pay 999 euros by the end of October, the month after which this value should be slightly increased.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3
The first impression that will jump in sight over the 3 Samsung Galaxy Note is its size: it is large and can be even higher than its predecessor Galaxy Note 2. The news of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 pass through your screen Full HD Super AMOLED 5.7 inch, support for 4G networks and run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Other specifications include a 13 MP digital camera capable of recording videos 2K (twice that of Full HD resolution typical) and also support for the now classic S-Pen. The Galaxy Note 3 also features 3 GB of RAM associated with 32 GB or 64 GB of storage space. And what about the time we spent with him?
While the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is presented as an improvement much larger than its predecessor, the Galaxy Note 3 left us feeling that it was just an upgrade from its previous edition . And we do not mean by this that its user experience fell short of expectations, on the contrary, it is felt that there is not much to improve on previous models, and that everything that Samsung will limit do going forward will only improve them in some respects.
In terms of technical specifications we are facing one of the best offers in the market, and the truth is that 3 GB of RAM, combined with a quad-core 2.3 GHz, allow you to take advantage of a performance dream for any device that runs Android. The screen is bigger, which means that the web experience and consumption of multimedia content are practically mandatory in this handset.
also experience with the S-Pen appears to have been thorough thanks to five new features that include the Action Memo (to write notes manually, but also allows easily initiate calls or add information to contacts) the Scrapbook (compile and organize Web content in one place), White Screen (capture screen image), S Finder (allows additional information searches with content that are available on the user devices) and Pen Windows, which is a kind multitasking complement the various possibilities that this tool offers.
Extra points for the covers available for the Galaxy Note 3, fleeing the typical aesthetic ‘plastic’ associated with Samsung and 3 give the Note a more premium.
Samsung Galaxy Gear
We have to be honest and admit that imply the Galaxy Gear when presented at IFA Berlin, and we’re still not 100% convinced that this is the thread by which the smart watches has been wait. We are surprised by the positive, however, with some aspects of this smartwatch.
The first is that it is much more compact and smaller than imagined, they are not as intrusive as we might initially think. There it more elegance than the first images seem to suggest. Your screen is tiny (1.6 inches) and appears to be based primarily on the information display, so it does not require a large processing capacity (the 800 Mhz that comes seems to suit him perfectly.)
One point that definitely favors the Galaxy Gear is that it offers an experience intuitive and relatively farther from the smartphone segment than originally imagined. There are, in fact, tabs for contacts and one for applications, but we can not forget that this smart watch is to be used as a complement to the high ranges of equipment from Samsung, and not as a stand alone device. In fact, this seems to be the trump card complementary strand behind this new market segment.
Navigation is done in landscape mode, although we have taken some time realizing it during our first contact with the Galaxy Gear. Beside the display lies a small button that allows us to unlock the screen and return to the home screen clock and there is no way – at least to our knowledge – to return after an operation. If we consider that there are still some layers that separate a very specific menu of the main screen, it can become cumbersome and require the user to redo an entire way back to the folder where it was just to select alternative applications.
Samsung Galaxy Gear: applications that we will find in the Samsung smartwatch?
Another aspect that we considered to be barely noticeable was the transition between the horizontal navigation (menus on top) and vertical (within folders or applications). Samsung could perhaps have favored greater agreement this browsing experience, but turns out to be an aspect of little relevance to their experience.
One thing you certainly gave us the enjoyment of using the included digital camera Galaxy Gear, filming in HD. The utilities that can give this camera seem to us to be interesting, but we suspect that they may also be used against the will of some users who can now spend much unnoticed. Extra points for comfort cuff that surrounds the Galaxy Gear, although the hypothesis that adjust to our wrist requires some skill on your part.
conclusions about the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy 3 Gear
Both the Samsung Galaxy Note as the Galaxy 3 Gear seem to us to be two fascinating products, although hard to reach to the average consumer. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 does not really add anything that has the Galaxy Note 2 has not already introduced confining itself to overcome its predecessor into details that can make the difference between a good user experience and a fantastic.
Already Galaxy Gear may have arisen too soon, but his proposal certainly seems to raise the interest of users. In our opinion, as users may before we opt to wait for a second or third generation of these products before we risk throwing head to a market segment that has not set exactly an industry standard and whose future remains uncertain.
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