By Jasons Rozentsweig


Many expert are in doubt whether Android phones can ever be as attractive to customers as an iconic iPhone. The war between the two classes is going for a few years by now: Apple just released iPhone 4S and will probably go for a new iPhone 5 on WWDC 2012 in San Francisco.

What about the army of Android phones? On the one hand, HTC, Samsung and others sell more non-Apple devices. iPhones clearly dominate the high-end segment of the market while Android phones are very heterogeneous with various features. This market segmentation with some Android phones selling at less than 300 dollars prevents them from outperforming in dollar terms Apple.

Samsung Galaxy Note is in the avant-garde of Android phone army because it has a number of interesting features. This phone is equipped with 5.3 Gorilla glass screen which make puts it in between a small tablet and large Smartphone. However, many customers, especially women, think that a huge screen in a Smartphone is rather a disadvantage of Samsung Galaxy Note.

Another difference with iPhone that some customers are not happy about is stylus that can be used to operate the device or write notes. Galaxy battery will allow sending messages, surfing the web and talking over the phone for up to two days of active use.

However, unlike other phones the customer has to remove the battery first before changing the memory card. TouchWiz 4.0 is placed on the top of the Android 2.3.5 OS and includes large Widgets and 5 icons on the bottom of the screen. There are up to seven desktops that are supported and some Widgets can be adjusted to customer preferences.

Samsung but it is heavier because of additional enhancements. A popular resource dpk.com.ua considered a model that costs 850 dollars and runs on Android Gingerbread. It has Samsung own processor Exynos and Mali 400-MP accelerates unconverted video.

Despite high resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels of the Super AMOLED screen, Galaxy Note suffers from a domination of green shades that can be attributed to PenTile technology.

Handwriting opportunity with the help of stylus is one of the major marketing advantages of the device. Indeed, stylus allows drawing a nice picture and the model allows character recognition even for the worst handwriting. Large keyboard is an alternative for text editing that is especially convenient in the horizontal screen mode.

Dock station is an interesting concept for this half-tablet and half-Smartphone device. It has a built-in speaker for a more loud sound. Additional features of the smart phone include full HD video, Wi-Fi direct, AllShare, FM radio among other things.

It seems that Samsung can bite off some Apple market share because Note is comparable to iPhone in terms of customer appeal and features in Android phones vs iPhone battle. Our preference, however, would be a power full laptop for about the same price because we are not sure whether Samsung Galaxy functionality matches its price.




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