Samsung 105" Curved UHD TV, Galaxy Note Pro - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital welcome to the Samsung booth folks we're here with the crown jewel of
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their display here at CES which happens to also be a display this is a 21 by9
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UHD TV it is 105 Ines diagonally making
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it the largest and the most curved LCD
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display available now it's t when I say available I mean available only to
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people at Samsung where they might have a handful of them for trade shows just
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like this because we don't have any confirmation in terms of exactly when
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it's coming maybe sometime later this year but details are still kind of
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sketchy they just wanted to show it off because hey they can make this thing
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which is absolutely amazing now it's not
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a 4K UHD display instead it actually has
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more than 5,000 pixels horizontally which means that because these standards
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are not 100% ratified someone buying this TV just like someone buying you
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know an HDMI 1.4 TV last year um with
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the update to HDMI 2.0 coming right away might feel kind of insecure is it okay
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to buy something like this without knowing if the standards are are even
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going to be supported well don't worry with Samsung's one connect technology
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they actually are using an external box for connectivity as well as signal
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processing which allows you to just upgrade it once the standards are
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completely ratified now you might be wondering to yourself what exactly would
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I want a 21 by9 display for and the answer is most definitely movies with a
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smaller display and we've been walking around the show floor a fair bit curved
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maybe doesn't make quite as much of a difference but with a large one like this where you're really replicating the
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field of view of a theater within your
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home having each part of the screen an equal distance from your eye can make a
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significant difference to the viewing experience this is much the same reason
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why when you go there this is for the same reason that when you go to theater
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the display looks natural even though it is so large so we're going to be moving
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along here shortly I think someone's actually trying to get past us but it
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looks absolutely phenomenal in person next up we're here with the Galaxy Note
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Pro this is the 12.2 in version but it's also available in 8.4 and 10.1 in
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versions this one's got a quad core processor it's got 3 gigs of RAM of
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course I mean it's a note Series so it's going to be pretty darn highend it's got
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a nice slim form factor it's actually not too heavy although it's hard to gauge with this security device on the
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back speaking of the back it has a pleasing sort of leather feeling plastic
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much like the Note 3 but of course the business is mostly in the front it has a
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massive 12.2 in as I mentioned before 2560 by 1440 display this makes it great
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for watching movies but also due to its size great for taking notes because it
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is approximately the same size as an 8 1/2 by 11 standard sheet of note taking
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paper now of course a note device is not just about the hardware it's also about
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the software so we see a lot of carryovers including an included stylist
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that tucks away in the side from the Note 3 you've got Samsung's airdrop
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functionality so you just hover the pen over the display and then press the
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button and you can go ahead and select a bunch of different stuff you can draw a
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little window if you need a calculator you want to watch video or something
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like that with the supported applications and it makes multitasking a
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little bit easier than with many other Android devices thanks to TouchWiz now
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here's a new one that I haven't actually seen before if you swipe in from the
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right and then instead of just clicking on one of the applications if you hold
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it and drag you can configure up to four
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different applications in a screen sharing mode that will make working on
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things quite efficient especially if you move from one to another and back and
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forth and so forth now I did that slightly wrong there I think oh I think
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this one doesn't work that way so let's go ahead and grab uh contacts here there
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we go so we're going to split this up four ways actually we'll just do it
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three ways and then check this out guys you can actually move around the division
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so if you want to have a nice long column for your emails you can have that
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and then you can see more of your video thumbnails if you want to see more of your contacts over here you can just
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move that around dynamically it's incredibly cool and it integrates
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seamlessly with the other features so I could still use airdrop to you know like
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grab a little calculator or something like that now a device like this is not
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just for play it's also for work so we're going to go ahead and show you
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guys their new software that is I guess meant to compete with things like um
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Windows RT's inclusion of Microsoft office or Apple's inclusion of
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productivity software with their devices now so check this out we're going to
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swipe open from the right hold on come in from the right here and this is
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handcom so you've got sell show and word which are of course going to be
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spreadsheets uh presentations and then typing so we're going to go ahead and
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open one of these bad boys check that out they are they are claiming it's 90%
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compatible with Microsoft Word so unless you're using some of the more obscure
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features things will open up correctly even if you're saving them and then
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opening them back and forth between devices
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and because of the size okay that's a normal keyboard this is pretty cool guys
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I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to close a bunch of other things and we're
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going to open up the handcom word so HW
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in full screen maximize that and check
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this out you've got almost about the size of a laptop keyboard on here it's
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not super easy to type on I made a few quite a few mistakes at the beginning
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but with a little bit of practice it would definitely be faster than trying
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to type with just two thumbs so you kind of go okay lonus that's great there's a
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lot of productivity stuff here that sounds fantastic but what if I can't
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take this thing to work because my office doesn't allow people to bring
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their own devices don't worry it is fully Samsung nox compliant so you've
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got all the encryption features that you need if you need to access vpns offsite
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or whatever else the case may be so it's definitely meant to be both
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entertainment and productivity thanks for checking out our coverage of the
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Samsung booth here at CES 2014 don't forget our trip to the show is powered
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by nc.com as well as Corsair and Western
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digital a huge thanks to those guys because without them we would not have
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been able to be here