When Samsung Galaxy Note released his first was a special appearance, such a huge phone. But now is the size of around 5.5 inches gained his place. Samsung knows what audience it serves with the Galaxy Note 3 provides a high-speed phone with excellent battery and foremost a dazzling display.
Huge
the Galaxy Note 3 in a market with knoepers as the 6.3-inch and 6.4-inch Galaxy Mega Xperia S Ultra anymore. Slightly larger than its own predecessor, the Galaxy Note 3 with a 5.7 inch screen though.
Last year, Samsung sold about 28 million Notes, about 10 percent of its total Android sales. This serves the Note 3 might be a niche, but one which the users of the discs get what they want.
Display and sound
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most visible improvement is the screen of the Note 3. With a 1080p resolution, this first of a lot sharper than the 720p screen of the Note 2. Full HD delivers a 5.7-inch pixel density of 386 ppi. In other words. Sharp image
The screen is also to be used. with all kinds of gloves You have to press a little harder, but it works fine.
Samsung stops in recent years always super AMOLED screens in its appliances and that is no different. in Note 3 In the past, were the colors of the AMOLED screens always oversaturated about a flaw that Samsung has the S4 already getting fixed. The Note 3 continues in the same direction and good shows most colors much more realistically.
Especiallydisplaying white is a lot better and not striking blue, as was previously often at super AMOLED case. Compared to LCD is still see a slight blue haze without comparison you notice little of.
This also applies to the color: LCD shows them faithfully, but the difference is much smaller than before.
The screen is also bright, something you Samsung devices in particular could not say. telephone screens in general and the AMOLED screens The Note 3 is a little bright, it is one of the brightest smartphone screens I’ve ever seen. Z ven though the autumn right on the screen, yet everything is still perfectly visible.
would for some users the brightness in the dark can be a disadvantage. Even on the lowest setting, the screen of the Note 3 still quite bright, brighter than LCD screens and other AMOLED screens on the lowest setting.
The viewing angle of the screen is excellent. The colors remain full and contrast fine, even if you look from an angle.
The sound from the speaker of the phone is somewhat disappointing. It sounds a bit tinny and far away. When the sound gets louder, the only tinny. It contrasts with the screen that is just excellent for viewing movies.
Samsung is pretty much synonymous with shiny, smooth plastic. For example, the Galaxy S4 has such a smooth barrel, but the Note 3 breaks that tradition. The back is still plastic, although you would not say directly. The Note 3 is back with a neplederen namely relief, which feels a lot more comfortable than it sounds.
Where the relief there, certainly looks indeed a bit by nepstiksel on the edge, like leather, feels not so. That does not matter, because the level of grip that provides the relief is more than welcome.
Note 3 shows by its size the best two-handed operation, but one-handed use, the grip by the fine relief. The sides of the phone give more guidance by a relief on pages of a notebook should appear.
Although the addition of relief certainly an improvement, start it off stabbing at the high quality materials used by competitors.
the plastic housings of Samsung
Note 3 feels in terms of housing is not cheap, but there is also everything that can be said. The metal of a HTC One of the aluminum and glass of a Sony Xperia Z1 give more feel that you expect from an expensive premium phone.
13 megapixel camera in Note 3 is the same fine copy that is in the Galaxy S4. The pictures that the Note 3 makes its sharp, especially when there is sufficient light. The colors are just like the S4 a lot more realistic than Samsung phones in the past. There is progress in colors and contrast is fine when the pictures are taken. In sufficient light
In the dark or in low light situations, the camera performs 3 of the Note as of the S4 a lot less. There is a night mode, but which enhances photos especially in situations with medium to low light, and even then are pictures of devices such as the iPhone 5S and Sony Xperia Z1 better.
At dusk or night is the night mode little difference. In that respect, the camera Note 3 not much different than most smartphone cameras: not worth a lot in the dark
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speed and battery
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Note 3 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 is one of the fastest chips available today. The chip is also in the G2 LG and Sony Xperia Z1 and like those handsets running the Android 3 discs very quickly, with basically nowhere a noticeable hitch.
addition, the device has 3 GB of memory, a first for smartphones. Such memory is especially fine at multitasking. Apps and games available when you stay longer in between other apps use.
That makes the Note 3 feels very fast in daily use. Many apps do not use that much memory, making the switch between apps like Chrome, Twitter, Facebook, email, Whatsapp and Feedly no additional charge occurs. Do you play a game for a while then the memory is eventually full, but by the Snapdragon 800 are the loading times that there are almost always short.
Normally we always test the speed of smartphones with benchmarks. This condition tests for devices say not necessarily about speed in everyday use, but give something compared to benchmarks from other join up a fine grip. This week discovered website
Software and S Pen
Removing the pen is more difficult than in the Note 2, wherein the stylus had a protruding tab. The pen Note 3 has only one edge, so you will have to pull out.
the pin considerable difficulty with short nailsWhatbuild quality is concerned, the pin against. When in one hand have an expensive premium phone, it’s weird when you do write on with a very light and clear plastic scribe. Especially the button on the pen feels cheap and thereby to unsatisfactory.
The functionality of the pin is, however, improved. When the S-Pen takes out the Airview screen will appear, which you can create a new note in a tap or include a screenshot of the current screen can write.
It is especially the recognition of written text in Action Memo handy and impressive. Even fairly messy scribbled text and figures are accurately detected by the Note 3. The recognized text can then for example, immediately save your contacts, task list in your search on the Internet or recording.
Do youwith MultiView two apps next to or above each other open, then it is also convenient that you can copy from one to the other app. selected text
Another new feature of the Note 3 is worth mentioning, if only because it is so bizarre. The Note 3 namely has a mode that lets you easily with one hand can use the phone. After a swipe from the left or right edge of the screen, it is.
screen reducesThat way you can use a thumb indeed easy on the screen, then that roughly two-thirds of the screen covers. The text is so small at that time, however, that you still have little.
| Screen | 5.7 inch super AMOLED |
| resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels (386 ppi) |
| Dimensions | 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm |
| Weight | 168 grams |
| Processor | 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 |
| Battery | 3200 mAh |
| Memory | 3 GB |
| Storage | 16 t / m 64 GB |
| Cameras | 13 and 2 megapixel |
| OS | Android 4.3 |
Galaxy Note 3 is the biggest leap forward that Samsung made so far this year. Where the Galaxy S4 but slight improvements compared to the S3 showed, the three discs on virtually all surfaces clearly better than its predecessor.
Note 3 is still the device for people who like a smartphone and a small tablet combine and see advantages in using a stylus. The Note 3 is its excellent screen and fast chip very versatile and the large battery never feel like you have a compromise between a smartphone and tablet in your pocket.
- Beautiful screen
- Superfast
- Easy multitasking
- Good battery life
- Tinny sound
- Cheap materials
: NU.nl / Floris Port
Image: NU.nl / Joost Nederpelt
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