Galaxy Note 3 Showcase & Interview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,148 words · ~5 min read
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and fully private. Click now to learn more. So, we're here with Ken Price from
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Samsung Canada, who's going to be showing us the Galaxy Note 3, which is
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their latest and greatest. Tell us what
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you guys have done to improve this over the well legendary at this point, Galaxy
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Note 2. Sure. I think what people will find it's slightly narrower, slightly
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longer, has a a larger screen size. We've been more efficient in terms of
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the use of the bezel. All of the hardware is updated. Processor, 3 GB of
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on onboard memory, 32 GB of storage
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that's standard. And it's also though in in many ways familiar for Samsung folks,
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a you know, a product that we've put a lot of thought into the into the design.
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Otherwise, you're still able to get inside of the device, even though it has
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this nice sort of luxurious feeling kind of leather background or leather feeling
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background, but in fact, it's still the same flexible light casing that we've
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always had. NFC supported through the battery, 3200 milliamp battery, able to
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add external storage, 13 megapixel
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camera, and for those that have been following along, this is a device that
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borrows a lot from the Galaxy S4 in terms of its functionality, but in it's
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also able to take high-end video, more so than any other device from Samsung.
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Now, you've covered spec a little bit here. So, it does 4K video and also
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1080p video up to 60 FPS, which is pretty awesome. But tell us uh what
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else? What do you mean by latest and greatest hardware inside? Sure. Um, so I
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think that well I think actually the other uh functionality that I wanted to
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cover is more related to the stylus itself where we're kind of bringing
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forward the use of the pen because what is signature about the note more than
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any other device in the family is the fact that we have this option for for
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folks who want to use a pen as part of a natural uh functionality if it'll just
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come out of here just like I rehearsed it. Right? So, the first thing you'll
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notice is that there's an air command feature. So, this is using that hovering
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technology that we first saw on the G on the Note 2 actually and then also
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extended on the Galaxy S4. And you'll see that in fact, I'm able to call up
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certain commands just by hovering the screen. And then I use the the button
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that's on the pen itself to fire up some of those commands. Things as simple as
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being able to take an action memo. So, I' I'm able to take a quick note or I
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can create a new window inside of the inside of the device. And also, it's
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able to sort of navigate now without having to put the pen down. And that's
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the biggest advantage of the Note 3. Show us that window uh that window
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feature. Sure. So, for example, if I if I invoke this pen window functionality,
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you see that I just click that quickly, then I draw a
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square, and then I'm able to run certain utilities or programs inside of that
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window. So let's say I wanted to do so this is sort of replicating you know I'm
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taking notes or I'm doing something else on the phone gez I need to make a quick calculation how can I sort of call that
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up or I want to see a quick video or do some other functionality and being able
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to take advantage of this sort of advanced hardware um without having to
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disturb what I was doing otherwise. So obviously one of the big stories with
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the Note 3 given that it's launching at the same time is integration with the
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Galaxy Gear smartwatch. So tell me how
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these two are are a match made in heaven in your eyes. Sure. Well, I think that
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there are as powerful as smartphones are and there are still some transactions
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that you might have that are are more immediately served by something that's
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more intimate to you. So, for example, being able to take a quick picture or
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get a notification that I'm responding to, rather than seeing that on the
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device, I can have that in a place that's actually closer to me. And
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there's a piece of software that actually is tightly coupled to the use
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of the of the device itself, which is called the gear manager, which is how
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you would actually use the two devices together. So, what would you expect to
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do using the gear versus actually pulling your massive phone out of your
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pocket? Um, sure. Well, you know, a
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couple of examples might be taking a quick picture because it still takes
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some time to, you know, be able to take the the camera out and set it up and so
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on. And if you wanted a high-end picture, that's great. If you wanted a
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quick snapshot to take a video memo almost that it might be better served
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with something that's more closely at hand or get notifications that are are
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sent to me while the device is, let's say, docked or in my pocket or something
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like that without actually having to respond or even take a call, which I
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could do without actually having to, ironically, take out the smartphone and
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use it. I could actually just take that call right from the actually the Galaxy
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Gear. So convergence is dead then. And it's it's we're we're now we're now
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taking the phone functionality out of the phone and putting all the other
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functionality into the phone. Well, I think we've recognized that mobile
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communications is now the hub of what this is doing and that's a much more
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powerful idea than just emailing and phoning. There's a number of things that
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people are going to do in terms of running applications. So then the
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question is is that you know how can we improve the convenience of how a mobile
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communication device works and we think that having something close at hand and
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on your wrist is going to be part of that answer. Awesome. Thanks very much,
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Ken. And without further ado, I'd like for uh the viewers to direct their
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attention to some nice glamour footage of the Galaxy Note 3, which if you're
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into big phones, is very likely to be your next tablet.
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Heat.