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<\/a>Faux-leather back of the Galaxy Note 3.<\/p><\/div>\n
The Galaxy Note 3 is a great device. It has a 5.7-inch screen running at full 1080p HD (1920×1080). That gives it a 386 ppi. This powerful smartphone has a 2.3 GHz processor and comes packed with 3 GB of RAM on an eight-core Xcynos Octa chipset! Or a quad-core processor depending on your market<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Note 3 comes with a 3200 mAh battery to power this device. Samsung chose to alter the back to a faux-leather back to give it a premium look while retaining the ability to have a removable back. This means that you can still purchase extra batteries for your device to swap out if you so choose. You can also install a microSD card for extra storage.<\/p>\n The front-facing camera is 1.9MP. The rear shoots pictures at 13 MP. The camera is impressive enough to record ultra 4K video.<\/p>\n It will launch with Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), but will be quickly updated to Android 4.4 (KitKat<\/a>).<\/p>\n Of course, being a Note device the Note 3 comes with the S Pen and multi-window app support. Not only can you run two different apps on the same screen, but you can now run two different windows from the same app<\/a>! The S Pen now works with a new featured called Air Command<\/strong>. Air Command is a little semi-circle that comes up when a user hovers or taps the S Pen on the screen. From Air Command a user can bring up a few customized apps like the Scrapbook that lets you record a webpage, app, or whatever by drawing a circle and jotting a note for later.<\/p>\n The Galaxy Gear is Samsung’s first foray into wearable devices. Longtime readers may remember the rumor of an iWatch by Apple<\/a> early last year. As someone who just broke his smartphone during a biking accident on Monday I am very happy by this announcement. I love<\/em> using my Android phone to track miles and time during my work out. I also like to do things from a mobile device like check-in on Foursquare. But a smartphone is bulky and can easily break when it hits pavement at high speeds. A watch is smaller and far less likely to get damaged during a fall.<\/p>\n Unfortunately that day is not quite there. Galaxy Gear is a $299 accessory to a Galaxy device over bluetooth. It is a 1.63 inch device running a 320×320 resolution (277 ppi). It can read and respond to text and e-mails. The Galaxy Gear can answer phone calls by simply placing your hand close to your head. This is good, because hands-on with the device indicates that the volume is quite low.<\/p>\n It takes point and shoot to a new level. Simply point your wrist<\/a> at something to take photos or video.<\/p>\n It’s not what I’m looking for, but it’s getting there. Hopefully in a year or two we’ll have smartwatches that do not need to piggy-back on a home device.<\/p>\n This post was originally published as Samsung Unpacked 2013<\/a> for Brand Builder Websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Unpacked 2013 Episode 2 event introduced the world to new products from Samsung — the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[133,173],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informative","category-mobile","tag-samsung","tag-smartwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Unpacked 2013: Galaxy Gear<\/h2>\n
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