REVIEW: Samsung Galaxy Note
01.01.70
Again, if you've reach-me-down a Galaxy S II, you'll feel right at home, with "Hubs" collecting apps for social sites like Tizzy or Facebook, gaming portals and apps in the Gaming hub, book buying and reading apps in the Reader hub and music and media... All the hackneyed Google apps are onboard, including Maps, Talk, Latitude and Places, and you get access to the Android Store app store for grabbing new software. Drag down from the top of the screen and you'll be presented with the Android notifications bar, housing all your email, app, or popular network updates. This being an Android device, you have none of the Flash woes that hamstring Apple's devices when it comes to browsing. Samsung's Internet browser is the illustrious of the pre-installed app line up though, and again that's mostly thanks to the quality of the screen in the first place. As with all Android phones you get ample ability to customise the undergo, and Samsung offer a strong array of live widgets (many of which can be resized) for displaying information at a glance across the seven homescreens. Pinching the cover gives an exploded view of all seven homescreens at once, letting you jump quickly from one to another. It's so big as to make full screen browsing not far off the happening you'd have with a tablet device, with eminently readable, crisp text and vibrant images.
Source: Tech Digest