Samsung Galaxy Note II Review

Samsung Galaxy Note II is an incredible Android phone released some years ago, in 2012, which features a big size 5.5 inches multi-touch screen, a very powerful Quad-Core processing unit speeding at 1.6 gigahertz, and two cameras, an 8 MP back camera and a 1.9 MP front side camera.

Samsung made a great design job making this phone as lightweight as 6.34 oz. This cellphone is sold in two different colors, white and gray. Although this cellphone is only 5.94 inches long, it is still able to fit a a 5.5" screen. This phone is just 0.37" thick, making its way into the thinnest phones podium.

Samsung packed the Note II with a interesting 5.5" screen, and a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, which makes everything look great. This screen uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

Samsung ships this phone with a very powerful 1600 MHz Quad-Core processor, included in the Samsung Exynos 4 (4412) system chip and a big 2 GB RAM. Graphic rendering generally consume a lot of CPU time, so it uses an extra ARM Mali-400 MP4 graphic processing unit ticking at 266 megahertz to unload the processor. This cellphone counts with aquite big 16 GB internal memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, which allows the user to install a couple hundred games and applications without worrying about space.

This cellphone includes wifi connectivity (which can be provided to other devices around, acting as a modem or router), LTE (4G) high speed connectivity and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a slower 4G network and fast 3G connectivity, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This device works with a SIM card for GSM services.

This device features two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 1.9 MP front-facing camera. It is capable of filming 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 fps. To complete the camera, it also counts with a few nice features like flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode and smile detection shooting.

The Samsung Galaxy Note II comes with a big 3100 mAh Li-Ion removable battery that can keep this phone running for many hours without charging it. Samsung afirms this phone has a talk time of 15 hs and a stand by time of 288 hs.

The Samsung Galaxy Note II also includes lots of cool features such as Wireless charging system, NFC, Bluetooth (for communication with other bluetooth cellphones and accessories) and GPS Geolocation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

Samsung offers this device for 215 dollars, which is quite high for comparing with similar phones. No matter if you need a device to play games, want this device for work, want a social cellphone or you love taking pictures, you will definitely be very pleased with it.