Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Just when you thought that the Samsung Galaxy Note was a rather huge phone with its 5.3″ display, along comes the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 that was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This will certainly add yet another member to the Galaxy Note family of devices, where the huge display will offer multi-screen functionality that maximizes efficiency in learning, work and creative endeavors. With multi-screen functionality, that translates to the ability to being a true multitasker, as you can keep track of your emails in one window, view a website in another, as well as play a video in the third while a fourth window is meant for you to write down your notes or sketch when inspiration strikes.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 will also come with S Note, a special and efficient tool that will allow you to combine notes as well as sketches together with web content, images and other digital media right into a personalized storyboard. This lets you create stories on-the-go, since the S Note already comes with different ready-to-use templates including meeting minutes, recipe, cards, diary, and magazine among others. There are also hand-drawn geometric shapes which can be perfectly digitized thanks to the Shape Match function, where you can create more organized idea sketches and storyboards.

Want to perform image editing on the move? Not a problem, thanks to the introduction of Adobe Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas, where the former allows you to transform images with core Photoshop features as well as combine multiple photos into layered images. You can also make popular edits and apply professional effects if those are your cup of team. As for Adobe Ideas, this is an easy-to-master drawing tool which will let you sketch ideas, pick out amazing color themes and import images.

The hardware specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 include a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, HSPA+ connectivity, Full HD video playback support, video streaming in real time, all running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Hopefully it will be affordable enough for the masses when it hits the general market.

Nokia 808 PureView boasts 41-megapixels of shooting goodness

One would have thought that the megapixel race is no longer relevant, but I am rather surprised to see Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia come up with the Nokia 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 2012, where this particular smartphone carries a 41-megapixel camera inside. Heck, even the high end (and yet unreleased) Canon EOS 1D-X carries only 18-megapixels of shooting goodness. Obviously, the megapixel count of the Nokia 808 PureView is the highest to date for any consumer class digital camera or smartphone, but how does it fare in real world performance?

Also, there is the issue of finding the storage space to stash away all of those 41-megapixel images on your home computer. You would be hard pressed to purchase new storage devices more frequently than ever before, so that might be something you would want to take into consideration before bringing home this puppy and start to use it to shoot images right out of the box.


It is rather strange that Nokia decided to have the Nokia 808 PureView run on the Nokia Belle operating system instead of Microsoft’s Windows Phone, as the latter might do its bit to endear more folks to the PureView instead of the former. Nokia’s new imaging superphone is most probably a niche market device, targeting folks whose mobile photography needs are far more advanced that those of the average person. Camera enthusiasts will definitely be curious to check this model out for sure.

16GB of internal memory can be further augmented with a microSD memory card, and the PureView will also feature a 4″ AMOLED display at nHD resolution (640 x 360 pixels), various sensors, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Any takers? No idea on the pricing details as at press time, but it should not cost too much just because of the whopping megapixel count. Would you give this a go out of curiosity?