Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Announced

Samsung unveils a comfortable, functional Galaxy Note 8 (hands-on) 

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Note 8 -- an eight-inch Android tablet with a stylus.

 

Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 8, Aiming To Dethrone The iPad Mini

 Samsung has made a tablet that's in the Mini's size range: it's very first iPad competitor had a 7-inch screen, and it still makes a tablet of that size, but without a pen.

 Samsung will start selling the new tablet in the April to June period, at an as yet undetermined price. It made the announcement ahead of Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry's annual trade show, which starts Monday in Barcelona, Spain.

This is definitely a tablet, however. Inside the Galaxy Note 8 is a quad-core processor running at 1.6GHz, 2GB of RAM and up to 32GB of internal storage, which can be expanded with microSD cards up to 64GB in size. A five-megapixel camera sits on the rear, with a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front.

It features 3G with speeds up to 21Mbps, but unlike its main rival the iPad mini, there is no 4G LTE configuration. A Wi-Fi-only version will also be available.

Screen resolution is slightly higher than the iPad mini's, though. Within the eight-inch LCD panel is a resolution of 1,280x800 pixels, at a pixel density of 189 pixels-per-inch. This compares favourably to the iPad mini's 1,024x768-pixel resolution and 163 pixels-per-inch. The result is image quality and text that's slightly sharper.

  Specifications of the Galaxy Note 8.0 are :

• Measures 210.8 x 135.9 x 8 mm
• Weighs 338 g
• 8.0 inches capacitive touchscreen (~189 ppi pixel density)
• Multi touch support
• Android v4.1.2
• 5 Megapixels primary camera (2592 х 1944 pixels)
• 1.3 Mega pixels secondary camera
• 16/32 GB Internal storage (expandable upto 64 GB)
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Has Infrared port
• USB 2.0
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Li-Ion 4600 mAh battery (non removable)