Samsung Announces the Galaxy Note – The Largest Smartphone in the World!

Rumored to release alongside the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Wave 3, the Samsung Galaxy Note flew surprisingly below the radar of gadget aficionados. The details on the device were thin, until Samsung recently announced it officially at the IFA.

Coming in at hefty 5.3-inches of length, the Galaxy Note attempts to blur the line between phones and tablets. A relatively surprising addition is the now out-of-fashion stowaway stylus, which can be used for several tasks such as taking notes, drawing and so on. The phone comes pre-loaded with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The UI is layered with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on top, which offers an all new ‘S-Pen’ interface, designed specifically by Samsung to put that good ‘olstylus to best use.

Beneath the pretty interface, a dual-core 1.4 GHz processor beats at the heart of the phone. Developed in-house by Samsung itself, this is the same processor that will power its Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet. The huge screen boasts of a WVGA Super AMOLED display, while two cameras – 8 megapixels at the back and 2 megapixels at the front – carry out your snapping, recording and video chatting duties admirably.

Despite its colossal length, the device is surprisingly easy to handle, thanks mainly to its 9.65mm width and a surprisingly low 178 grams of weight.

Processor – Dual-core, 1.4Gzh

RAM – 1024 MB

Screen – 5.3” Super AMOLED, 800 x 1280 display

Camera – 8 MP rear, 2 MP front

Storage – 32GB on-board, expandable up to 64GB

Dimensions – 146.85mm (height) x 82.95mm (width) x 9.65mm (depth)

Samsung Wave 3 – The First Phone with Bada OS 2.0

Samsung has just announced its latest Bada phone – the S8600, more popularly known as the Samsung Wave 3. The third iteration of the Wave family maintains the form factor of its predecessors, combining the good old slim shell and brushed metal look with its favorite Super AMOLED screen. Speaking of which, this is a 4-inch 16M-colour display with WVGA resolution. The glass itself is scratch resistant.

The phone features a power packed CPU, clocking in at 1.4 GHz, which is able to handle all tasks thrown at it with aplomb. The 5-megapixel camera at the back featuring a LED flash makes snapping pictures and recording HD video an easy task, while the VGA camera at the front handles the video calling chores.

The phone runs on a brand new version of Samsung’s proprietary Bada OS. This almost feels like a complete revamp of the platform. Everything from the home screen to contextual menus to the web browser has undergone a facelift.

The Samsung Wave 3 is a great package, and is a deserving upgrade to its previous iterations in every way imaginable.

Processor – 1.4 Gzh

Screen – 4.0″ 16M-colour Super AMOLED with 480 x 800 pixels resolution

Camera – 5MP rear with LED flash, VGA front

Storage – 2GB on-board, expandable up to 64GB via microSD card slot

Dimensions – 125.9mm (height) x 64.2mm (width) x 9.9mm (depth)

Smart-i Wireless Spy Camera

With the advancement and miniaturization in electronics these days, you can never quite tell just which device is a spy camera, or at least, comes with some sort of surveillance mechanism within to watch your every move in an unsuspecting manner. I would suppose jealous spouses who wonder what’s going on with their other half who started to dress up sharper than ever before, splashing a dash of cologne or perfume before going out, will find such spy devices to be helpful in behavorial monitoring. Well, you can add the £79.99 Smart-i Wireless Spy Camera to the arsenal now – as this is touted to be the smallest Wi-Fi camera in the world.

Just how small is it? Well, it won’t be bigger than your average walnut, and yet crams in enough technological wizardry to shoot video at 640 x 480 (VGA) resolution, while ensuring all of that data will be streamed directly to a PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad or Android-powered device. All you need to prepare beforehand is get the free Smart-i app and you’re good to go. All footage can be saved on the device itself, so you need not stash an additional SD memory card with you.

Each full charge of the Smart-i Wireless Spy Camera will enable it to shoot up to 2 hour straight, and it has a decent visual of up to a 100 meters outdoors with fair lighting conditions. Just make sure the place where you’re staying at won’t dip below -10°C or go beyond 50°C in its temperature reading, otherwise the Smart-i Wireless Spy Camera will start to act up. Hmmm, maybe that extreme temperature is why your “target” is acting all wonky in the first place?