Galaxy Note 3 mini (or Neo) brings line back a couple steps

A device with the (code) name Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo has appeared this week with specifications and a look that suggest Samsung is going back to basics. It’s like a combination of the Galaxy Note 3’s pen and back panel and he rest coming from the original Galaxy Note - even the camera and the LED flash are in the same place. Inspect these leaked images while you can.

You’ll find this device appearing through a leaked set of images from SamMobile where they suggest this device may be revealed in full at Mobile World Congress 2014. We’re not even a day out of CES 2014 and it’s time to move on, it would seem.

This device is tipped as working with a 5.55-inch display with Super AMOLED technology and 1280 x 720 pixels across it. That’s 265PPI, if you’re counting, and it’s attached to an 8-megapixel camera as well. Supposing you’ve not already agreed that this machine is made up of the parts of the original Galaxy Note, you’ll love it when it’s revealed that you’ve got a 3100mAh battery and what’s likely to be some sort of Qualcomm Snapdragon processor due to its ability to roll with 4G LTE.

Inside you can work with a microSD for memory expansion, or you can stick with this machine’s 16GB of internal storage right out of the box. It’s got four CPU cores and a couple of GPU cores at least. THere’s NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, and an IR-blaster in this machine as well - and USB 3.0 for good measure.

UPDATE: It would now appear that we’re actually working with the Samsung-made Exynos 5260 hexa-core processor in this device. That means “Heterogeneous Multi-Processing”, or HMP, which also means the ability to roll with 6 cores at once. Strange stuff indeed.

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'Samsung Galaxy' Note 3 breaks 10m barrier

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 has passed the 10m sales mark, taking just sixty days to set phablet sales records, and doubling the pace set by the Note 2 before it. A simultaneous launch across 58 countries didn’t hurt, Samsung says, but the company also credits the appeal of the large screen in North American and European markets, and the stylus input option for phonetic languages such as in China, as broadening demand for the large phone.

In fact, the Note 3 is the fourteenth phone to make it into Samsung’s “10m club”, with the earliest being the SGH-T100 clamshell of 2002. In more recent years, the Galaxy S, SII, S III, and S4, not to mention the Galaxy Note, Note II, and now Note 3 have all made it from Samsung’s Android range, though not all at the same speed.

It’s that pace which is most telling, arguably. Samsung has seen sales growth of both its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note ranges increase with each iteration, though it’s unclear how much faster demand for future devices can get.

Meanwhile, it’s also worth remembering that what different manufacturers count as sales aren’t always the same thing. In Samsung’s case, it tracks the sales into channel – i.e. the number of Note 3 handsets that go out to retailers, carriers, and others, to be sold on to end consumers – which means that it’s entirely possible that a percentage of these 10m Note 3 handsets are still sat on store shelves somewhere or in warehouses.

Nonetheless, considering the criticisms leveled at phablets in general, skepticism over whether consumers wanted a pen, and the increasing size of the Note 3 in particular, it’s undoubtedly a successful product for Samsung. Next up is to see whether the phone can maintain its momentum, or if the simultaneous launch meant that some of the long-tale has been prematurely sapped.




VIA : Android Community
SOURCE : slashgear

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