Samsung announces Galaxy Note

Besides its new tablet, the Galaxy Tab 7.7, Samsung used the podium at the IFA trade show in Berlin to officially announce another interesting gadget: the Galaxy Note.

The Note is a 5.3-inch, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) smartphone which in many ways doubles as a tablet - for example, it comes with a pen for drawing and note-taking, for those who still prefer it over the good old fingers.

It also has an impressive array of features: a 1.4 GHz CPU, a WXGA Super Amoled display, 1 GB of RAM, 16/32 GB of storage memory and an 8-megapixel camera as well as a 2-megapixel one for video calls.

All of this is stuffed into a 9.65 mm thin and 0.39 pounds heavy case, which seems reasonable for a 5.3-inch device and actually makes us want to consider using this behemoth as a phone.

Samsung plans to release two versions of the device: one supporting HSPA+ and the other with LTE. Price is pending and the release date is "in the coming months".

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