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Samsung Galaxy Note3 Review

Score: 77.7 / 100

Samsung Galaxy Note3 is an amazing Android cellphone released back in 2013, provisioned with a huge 5.7-inches display, a high-tech 2300 MHz Quad-Core CPU, and two cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 2 megapixels front-facing camera. That's all? Not at all, it's only the introduction of this extreme review.

Samsung decided to sell this phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chip, including a high speed 2300 MHz Quad-Core processing unit with a great 3 GB of RAM. This phone has a impressive 64 GB internal storage memory and a slot for an external memory card, which allows the user to install hundreds of apps without thinking about how much memory is left.

This cellphone feels much lighter than what you expect from a device like this. This cellphone just has 5.95" long and 3.12 inches wide, but it's still able to fit a a 5.7 inches screen. The Note3 is extremely slim and stilized, being just 0.33" thick. Samsung offers this phone in 3 colors, black, pink and white.

This phone is equipped with a completely amazing 5.7-inches display with a 1080 x 1920 (Full HD) resolution, which makes it impossible to even distinguish the pixels composing the display.

The Note3 is equipped with two cameras, a 13 megapixels back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera. Whereas it's 13 megapixels might appear incredible the back side camera has a small 0.326797" sensor which makes photographs have less details and worse lighting than you would expect. It is capable of shooting 4K 3840x2160 videos at 30 frames per second, and slow motion videos in (HD) (1280x720) at 120 frames per second. Additionally, the camera includes auto-focus.

This phone has wifi connection (which it can share with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) high speed internet connection and also HSPA+ data connection, a lower speed 4G type and 3G fast connection type, supported by HSDPA and HSUPA technologies. This phone uses two Micro SIM cards so it is able to use two different phone numbers or carriers at the same time.

This cellphone counts with amassive 3200 mAh Li - Ion battery that can keep it running for many hours and even reach the end of the day without having to charge it.

This phone also includes plenty of interesting characteristics such as NFC, Infrared Blaster, Bluetooth and GPS (Global Positioning System), and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

No matter whether you want a social cellphone, will use this phone for work, are looking for a phone to play games or love photography, this device is definitely a great choice for you.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.4.2
Also Known As:Samsung Galaxy Note3 Olympic Games Edition||Samsung N9000||Samsung N9002||Samsung N9005||Samsung N900A||Samsung N900P||Samsung N900T||Samsung N900V
Dimensions:5.95 x 3.12 x 0.33 inchesMetric15.11 x 7.92 x 0.84 cmImperial
Weight:5.93 ouncesMetric168.11 gImperial
Colors:Black, Pink and White
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Release date:2013-09-25

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED
Size:5.7 inchesMetric14.5 cmImperial
Resolution:1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD)
Pixel density:386 pixels per inchMetric151.97 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:No

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974
Processor:Krait 400 (Quad-Core 2300 MHz)
RAM Memory:3 GB
Graphics Processor:Adreno 330
Internal Memory:64 GB
SD Card Slot:microSDHC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li - Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:3200 mAh

Camera

Back camera:13 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.20
    Focal length:31mm (35mm equivalence)
    Sensor size:0.33 inches (1/3.06")
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:3840 x 2160 (30 fps) (4K)
Max slow motion video:1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus and Slow Motion Video (4 times slower)

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
Dual SIM:Yes
LTE (4G) Bands:2(1900), 3(1800), 4(AWS-1), 5(850), 8(900), 17(700 b), 18(800 Lower), 38(2600), 39(1900+), 40(2300)
UMTS Bands:Bands 5(850), 8(900), 2(1900), 1(2100)
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA and HSUPA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Infra-red:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor