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Digital welcome to the Samsung booth folks we're here with the crown jewel of
their display here at CES which happens to also be a display this is a 21 by9
UHD TV it is 105 Ines diagonally making
it the largest and the most curved LCD
display available now it's t when I say available I mean available only to
people at Samsung where they might have a handful of them for trade shows just
like this because we don't have any confirmation in terms of exactly when
it's coming maybe sometime later this year but details are still kind of
sketchy they just wanted to show it off because hey they can make this thing
which is absolutely amazing now it's not
a 4K UHD display instead it actually has
more than 5,000 pixels horizontally which means that because these standards
are not 100% ratified someone buying this TV just like someone buying you
know an HDMI 1.4 TV last year um with
the update to HDMI 2.0 coming right away might feel kind of insecure is it okay
to buy something like this without knowing if the standards are are even
going to be supported well don't worry with Samsung's one connect technology
they actually are using an external box for connectivity as well as signal
processing which allows you to just upgrade it once the standards are
completely ratified now you might be wondering to yourself what exactly would
I want a 21 by9 display for and the answer is most definitely movies with a
smaller display and we've been walking around the show floor a fair bit curved
maybe doesn't make quite as much of a difference but with a large one like this where you're really replicating the
field of view of a theater within your
home having each part of the screen an equal distance from your eye can make a
significant difference to the viewing experience this is much the same reason
why when you go there this is for the same reason that when you go to theater
the display looks natural even though it is so large so we're going to be moving
along here shortly I think someone's actually trying to get past us but it
looks absolutely phenomenal in person next up we're here with the Galaxy Note
Pro this is the 12.2 in version but it's also available in 8.4 and 10.1 in
versions this one's got a quad core processor it's got 3 gigs of RAM of
course I mean it's a note Series so it's going to be pretty darn highend it's got
a nice slim form factor it's actually not too heavy although it's hard to gauge with this security device on the
back speaking of the back it has a pleasing sort of leather feeling plastic
much like the Note 3 but of course the business is mostly in the front it has a
massive 12.2 in as I mentioned before 2560 by 1440 display this makes it great
for watching movies but also due to its size great for taking notes because it
is approximately the same size as an 8 1/2 by 11 standard sheet of note taking
paper now of course a note device is not just about the hardware it's also about
the software so we see a lot of carryovers including an included stylist
that tucks away in the side from the Note 3 you've got Samsung's airdrop
functionality so you just hover the pen over the display and then press the
button and you can go ahead and select a bunch of different stuff you can draw a
little window if you need a calculator you want to watch video or something
like that with the supported applications and it makes multitasking a
little bit easier than with many other Android devices thanks to TouchWiz now
here's a new one that I haven't actually seen before if you swipe in from the
right and then instead of just clicking on one of the applications if you hold
it and drag you can configure up to four
different applications in a screen sharing mode that will make working on
things quite efficient especially if you move from one to another and back and
forth and so forth now I did that slightly wrong there I think oh I think
this one doesn't work that way so let's go ahead and grab uh contacts here there
we go so we're going to split this up four ways actually we'll just do it
three ways and then check this out guys you can actually move around the division
so if you want to have a nice long column for your emails you can have that
and then you can see more of your video thumbnails if you want to see more of your contacts over here you can just
move that around dynamically it's incredibly cool and it integrates
seamlessly with the other features so I could still use airdrop to you know like
grab a little calculator or something like that now a device like this is not
just for play it's also for work so we're going to go ahead and show you
guys their new software that is I guess meant to compete with things like um
Windows RT's inclusion of Microsoft office or Apple's inclusion of
productivity software with their devices now so check this out we're going to
swipe open from the right hold on come in from the right here and this is
handcom so you've got sell show and word which are of course going to be
spreadsheets uh presentations and then typing so we're going to go ahead and
open one of these bad boys check that out they are they are claiming it's 90%
compatible with Microsoft Word so unless you're using some of the more obscure
features things will open up correctly even if you're saving them and then
opening them back and forth between devices
and because of the size okay that's a normal keyboard this is pretty cool guys
I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to close a bunch of other things and we're
going to open up the handcom word so HW
in full screen maximize that and check
this out you've got almost about the size of a laptop keyboard on here it's
not super easy to type on I made a few quite a few mistakes at the beginning
but with a little bit of practice it would definitely be faster than trying
to type with just two thumbs so you kind of go okay lonus that's great there's a
lot of productivity stuff here that sounds fantastic but what if I can't
take this thing to work because my office doesn't allow people to bring
their own devices don't worry it is fully Samsung nox compliant so you've
got all the encryption features that you need if you need to access vpns offsite
or whatever else the case may be so it's definitely meant to be both
entertainment and productivity thanks for checking out our coverage of the
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