As promised, the Samsung Galaxy Note is now available for sale on AT&T. The giant 5.3-inch handset was just announced a few weeks ago at CES, and since then it's been flaunted with great fanfare by Samsung. Just be sure to check the subtotal before checking out - the Note carries the trendy top-tier smartphone price of $299.99 on a two-year agreement.
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Announced a few weeks ago at CES, Samsung and AT&T have just revealed that the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note will be available on February 19th in your choice of carbon blue and ceramic white. Pre-orders for the device will kick off on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5th, and AT&T's promising that all pre-orders processed by the 15th will arrive in customers' homes in time for launch day. Pricing runs $299.99 on a new two-year agreement, in line with what carriers have been charging for top-tier smartphones lately - and with LTE and a giant high-res display, the Note probably falls into that category.
If your AT&T contract is just about up, you might want to hold off for a bit as it looks like some new phone options are on their way. In addition to the Lumia 900 - which is rumored to arrive for $99.99 on contract - AT&T's got another LTE Windows Phone 7 device in the hopper: a source has told BGR that the HTC Titan II will come out on March 18th for $199.99. Of course, if Windows Phone doesn't suit your fancy there are also plenty of LTE-equipped Android phones coming to AT&T: the Sony Xperia Ion, Samsung Exhilarate, and Samsung Skyrocket HD are all slated for release towards the end of the first quarter. The site also says that AT&T's ver …
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Note: Our original review was of the unlocked, £499.99 ($784) GSM Galaxy Note. We've updated the review to reflect our impressions and tests of the $299 (with contract) AT&T model as well. Check out the Connectivity and Software sections, in particular, to see the biggest differences between the two devices.
There once was a time, commonly referred to as the pre-iPad era, when people questioned if there really was a gap between laptops and smartphones for tablets to fill. The two established device categories seemed to have too many overlaps in functionality to permit a separate product type to exist between them. Today, that question has b …
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AT&T has just announced that it'll be bringing the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note to the United States, a beastly half-phone, half-tablet that spans the divide between two white-hot product segments. The feature list should sound familiar: it's in many ways the same Galaxy Note already available in Europe, featuring a 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED display, 8-megapixel primary and 2-megapixel secondary cameras, and the so-called "S Pen," a stylus integrated into the rear that can be used to register pressure-sensitive drawings on the phone's expansive screen. AT&T has also added LTE support, a feature that it's already pushing extraordinarily hard in the uppe …
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Phone? Tablet? It's Galaxy Note on AT&T and ready to be launched by Samsung here in Las Vegas, not that we ever doubted it. But where's the LTE logo? The Samsung Galaxy Note features a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display and launched in Korea 19 days ago with LTE and Android 2.3 in tow. So maybe AT&T's just being coy and will surprise us on Monday when we expect this hybrid device to be priced during the official announcement.
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Even before today, it was looking likely the Samsung Galaxy Note was headed for AT&T, and today PocketNow released some official-looking promo images that make it even more probable. Aside from swapping in four capacitive Android buttons for the single home button on the international version (as we saw the other day), the tablet / smartphone hybrid looks unchanged. There's very little left to do with this device but announce it, which we're fairly sure will happen next week at CES. If you've been waiting for smartphone styli to come back into fashion in the US, you shouldn't have to wait much longer.
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We had a good idea the Galaxy Note would soon be making an appearance on AT&T when we saw an image of the device emblazoned with the carrier's logo. Now there's even more evidence of an impending release after accessory vendor Anymode seems to have prematurely announced itself as an OEM partner for the Note's launch on AT&T. In a CES Media Alert, the company announces plans to exhibit its accessories at CES, which leads us to believe that Ma Bell will be making its plans official in Las Vegas come next week. The release also confirms that the Samsung device is currently set to become available in "early 2012." We'll start stretching our pocke …
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The stylus-strapped Galaxy Note has achieved its first milestone, crossing the one million shipments mark within a couple of months of its global release. Shipments to retailers and carriers are, by definition, always greater than actual end-user sales, but Samsung will still be encouraged to see broad support for its unorthodox Android device. Measuring in at 5.3 inches, the Galaxy Note intentionally straddles the gap between tablet and smartphone form factors, aiming to be everything to everyone. We'll soon get a chance to see how an American audience will react to the Note's dimensions, as Samsung has also promised to deliver the Galaxy N …
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We still don't know if it's a tiny tablet or a monster phone, but Korean Galaxy Note buyers will now have the option of picking one up with LTE. It might be available today, and Samsung announced that the LTE version will include NFC, unlike the Galaxy Note that was made available earlier this month in the UK. We don't know what Samsung's plans are outside of Korea, but it's certainly possible that Verizon or AT&T may decide to bring it to their LTE networks. If the prospect of an LTE-powered tablet-phone hybrid piques your interest, be sure to check out our hands-on impressions and see the full specs at the product page below.
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