Galaxy Note 8 Hands-On & Preview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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usa.com so we're hands on with the Galaxy Note 8 which is an upcoming
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tablet from Samsung it's part of their note series which means you get all of
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those note optimized features things like the included stylus or the whatever
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it's called the S Pen I think is what Samsung likes to call a stylus as well
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as the full digitizer built into the display itself so that's going be
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extremely useful for users who want more than just the onoff functionality that
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you get with most touch screens so instead you're actually able to apply
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distinctly different amounts of pressure so it's great for uh for sketching for
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things like uh what else I think I gave a couple examples when I did this
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rehearsal but I can't remember any of them now the point is that if you want
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to draw on your tablet if you want it to be useful for more than just for artists
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you know if you're on the go you want to draw something and you want to actually move that over to your computer later I
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know for example here at at Tech tips we'd love to have a tablet with a
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digitizer because when we're doing things like storyboarding for episodes
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it'd be great to be able to draw on something that looks a little bit more
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sophisticated than just lines in terms of performance it's going to have a quad
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core E9 it's an 8 in tablet so you've got a 1280 by 800 resolution so you can
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watch uh 720P HD content and it's at
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Native resolution but 1080p content would be downscaled the overall look of
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the device is pretty much it's got a white back that's particular one
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although I guess uh actually I have no idea if it's going to be available in
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different colors so I'm not going to promise anything but this is white backed and it basically looks like a
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gigantic Galaxy S3 white cuz you got
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your rear camera here you got micro SD expansion here on the side and then
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that's pretty much it for the back your headphone jack is on the top of the
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device right here and then moving down this side you've got your unlock your
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volume rocker moving down to the bottom that's where the S Pen is stashed and
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what's cool about the S Pen is it's not just a storage pocket here it actually
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opens up uh the relevant applications
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when you open it and close it so you can see you pop that back in and it goes back to the home screen also on the
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bottom you've got Samsung's charging station stereo speakers I would love to
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see more tablet manufacturers move towards stereo speakers prefer
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preferably optimized for landscape content viewing but I mean hopefully
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that's something that we'll see sort of moving more forward in the future it's
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certainly better than something like you know my old iPad 2 which is what I'm
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still using dayto day which has one speaker on the back of the device so at
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least we're moving in the right direction here uh on the front you've
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just got your light sensor as well as your front camera and then the usual one
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hard button for the home button and then back and contextual menu buttons so
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we're really excited to bring you guys sort of more information about this
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little tablet sometime in the future when we get our hands on a working one
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as you may or may not have noticed the Jelly Bean OS that's on this particular
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one here has this yellow text all over it that actually doesn't go away because
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this is not a finished device yet so I just wanted to show you guys what it
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looks like in terms of size so I'll do my trademark iPhone 4 comparison I'm
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getting evil looks from all the Samsung folks in the room here for uh for
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pulling out an iPhone in their in their uh in their Suite but I'm sorry guys I'm
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sorry I had to do it I do it every time people expect it from me so the actual
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thickness is is pretty similar to something like like this device and the
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feel is not super light like we've had
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with uh even previous Samsung devices so the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the one that I
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actually still use dayto day for a Samsung tablet and had quite a light
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feel to it this one uses a bit of a denser plastic and it feels like a a
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thick piece of glass you can you can tell there's there's no there's no flex
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to the device it is a little bit more solid I personally don't mind this it's
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one of the things I like about the iPhone 4 compared to other smartphones
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is it actually has some heft to it it feels like something that you're not
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just going to kind of go W and drop all over the place so it comes down to the
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individual user how they feel about that but overall construction feels solid and
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I really look forward to showing you guys more about this don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos and apparently I mean this sort
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of a computer but mobile device videos too couple key things that I actually
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missed before and this I was I was tinkering with the screen I was pressing
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on it and I was going oh this doesn't look like an LCD uh it looks like this
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is either Amed or super Amed it's it's
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not an LCD display which is extremely exciting because this is one of the
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larger format organic LED displays that
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I've yet encountered looks absolutely beautiful I mean the viewing angles are
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outstanding and the other thing that I missed before is that is an IR emitter
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which means that you should be able to use this as a universal remote among all
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the other functionalities that you can enable with an IR emitter most of which
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the universal remote