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Display
The Galaxy Note LTE features a 5.3in Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The display features TouchWiz User Interface (UI) and comes with a resolution of 800x1280 pixels and a pixel density of 285 pixels per inch.
The Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic Touch 4G, in contrast, features a 4.52in Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass. The display also features the latest TouchWiz UI v4.0. The resolution of the display is 480x800 pixels with pixel density of 206 ppi.
Dimension
The Galaxy Note measures 146.8x83x9.7mm and weighs 178g whereas the dimensions of Galaxy S2 are 130x70x10mm and it is lighter than the Note, weiging 130g.
Operating System
The Galaxy Note was launched with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but Samsung recently announced the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update. The Galaxy S2 runs on Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread).
Processor
The Galaxy Note is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon chip with a dual-core Scorpion processor clocked at 1.5GHz. The Galaxy S2 is powered by an Exynos chip with a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz. Both smartphones pack 1GB of RAM.
Camera
The Galaxy Note is equipped with a primary camera of eight megapixels with LED flash, auto-focus, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and image stabilisation technologies. The camera can record video at 1080p.
The Galaxy S2, like the Galaxy Note, sports an eight megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and image stabilisation. The camera can capture video in 1080p at 30 frames per second.
Both smartphones pack front-facing cameras of two megapixels.
Connectivity
The The Galaxy Note offers Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot and Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and EDR. It supports data speed up to HSDPA 21Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps. The smartphone also supports Near Field Communication and connects to 4G network speeds.
The Galaxy S2 offers Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, NFC (optional), Bluetooth version 3.0+HS and 4G connectivity.
Storage
The Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S2 offer internal storage space of 16GB and offer microSD card with an additional memory up to 32GB.
Battery
The Galaxy Note is powered by a Li-ion battery with a capacity of 2500mAh delivering talk time up to 10 hours while the Galaxy S2 is powered by a Li-ion 1800mAh battery which delivers talk time of more than eight hours.
Samsung S3 'most popular phone of the year' - Daily Telegraph
Apple's latest iPhone, the 4S, was preordered more than one million times in its first 24 hours of online availability to a global audience, but no further official figures or breakdowns were released.
Stapleton added, "The Galaxy S3 is without a doubt the fastest selling pre-order of 2012 so far. We're gearing up for an exceptionally busy launch day at the end of the month as the handset lands on shelves at our stores across the UK."
The Korea Economic Daily also claims that Samsung’s factory is producing five million S3 devices a month, and is already operating at full capacity.
The Galaxy S3, unveiled at an international launch held at London’s Earls Court arena, includes innovative new features such as eye tracking so that the screen stays on while a user is looking at it.
Samsung has already said that it will "substantially contribute" to its second-quarter earnings. In the UK it will be free with monthly tariffs from £28 per month. The manufacturer is hoping the device will replicate the success of its predecessor, the SII, which has sold a total of 20million units.
The S3 also features a 4.8” display, one of the largest on the market, and the ability to automatically initiate a call to a contact onscreen when the phone is held up to its user’s face. Samsung has also added voice control, similar to Apple’s ‘personal assistant’ Siri, and will offer 50GB of online storage via a partnership with Dropbox.com.
Samsung has also announced that the device will be the official phone of the London Olympics, and said that “a limited edition showcase device enabled with Visa’s mobile payment application, Visa payWave, will be available for Samsung and Visa sponsored athletes and trialists”.
Microsoft's smartphone share is now below 2 per cent globally, while LG and Sony's is also falling.
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 getting Ice Cream Sandwich, promo says - Crave
The mid-range Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 is in line for a scoop of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, if a Samsung promo video is to be believed.
The clip, spotted by Sammyhub, shows the Android-powered Ace 2 swirling around to some uptempo, accessible music. At the 14-second mark the Ice Cream Sandwich logo is shown on screen, along with the words, "Android Gingerbread ICS upgradeable".
It would be spiffing to see Samsung sending the 'sandwich along to Ace 2 owners, as one of my big gripes with the otherwise-promising phone was that it would arrive running out of date software.
This is by no means a guarantee the Ace 2 will get Ice Cream Sandwich though -- you'll note the text reads, 'ICS upgradeable' rather than promising the upgrade or giving any time estimates.
It's definitely a strong hint, but Samsung has proved notoriously slippery when it comes to Android 4.0 -- taking ages to squeeze the update onto the Galaxy S2, and performing several about-turns when it came to updating the original Ace. I've contacted Samsung for more information, and I'll let you know if I hear anything.
The Ace 2 went on sale earlier this week with numerical network Three -- yours for free when you agree to a £22 per month contract, though a £27 per month contract gets you a healthier amount of data.
The Ace 2 has a 3.8-inch display with a 480x800-pixel resolution and a 800MHz dual-core processor, while around the back lurks a 5-megapixel camera. We'll have a full review as soon as possible, so stay tuned.
What version of Android are you using? Are you intrigued by the Galaxy Ace 2? Let me know in the comments or on our Facebook wall.
Microsoft wins patent fight with Google's Motorola unit - BBC News
A German court has ruled that Motorola Mobility infringed a Microsoft patent which allows long text messages to be divided into parts and then reassembled by receiving handsets.
It marks the first patent ruling against Google since it completed its takeover of Motorola.
Microsoft can now demand a German sales ban of Motorola products, although it signalled it would prefer a licence fee.
Google said it may appeal.
Google's chief executive had previously said that his firm bought Motorola and its patents "to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies".
Patent warsMicrosoft and Motorola have repeatedly clashed this month over a series of patent disputes.
Motorola won the right to order the recall and destruction of Xbox 360 games consoles and Windows 7 system software in Germany at the start of May.
A judge at the International Trade Commission (ITC) subsequently recommended there should also be a Xbox import and sales ban in the US.
However, another Seattle judge has ordered Motorola to hold off from enforcing any such bans until it ruled on a related complaint.
Microsoft won a separate patent victory against Motorola earlier this month when the ITC ruled that the handset maker's Android-based devices infringed an appointment scheduling patent owned by the Microsoft.
The Windows software maker has already forced other firms including Samsung, HTC and others to pay it for the use of its innovations within Google's system software.
Split textsThe latest ruling centres on a European patent named "communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardised interface".
It is designed to tackle the problem that SMS messages were designed to offer a maximum of 160 characters.
It describes a way of "fragmenting" a longer text into smaller parts and then "reassembling" it within an application on the receiver's handset.
Florian Mueller, a patent consultant who advises Microsoft, was at the ruling made at a court in Munich.
He blogged that Google could find it difficult to work around the problem if it refuses to pay a licence fee.
"Since this patent covers operating system-level functionality, the modifications 'Googlerola' would have to make to Android... would lead to significant complications," he wrote.
"Android apps that make use of Android's messaging layer would have to be rewritten, and some functionality that Android used to provide to app developers would have to be implemented by the affected applications themselves."
A statement from Google said: "We expect a written decision from the court on 1 June and upon review, will explore all options including appeal."
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