Galaxy Note II

Samsung (005930) isn’t going to let a loss hold it down, and the company looks ready to take the wraps off the sequel to its popular supersized Galaxy Note smartphone later this week. While we wait for the Galaxy Note II to get official, the full specs have seemingly been revealed by Seoul Newspaper. The big details all appear to line up with earlier reports, which suggested the Note II will include a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos processor and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The report says the phone will include an 8-megapixel camera instead of the 12-megapixel shooter that had been rumored, however, and it also suggests that the phone will include 4G LTE connectivity and either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. The Galaxy Note II is expected to be announced during Samsung’s IFA press conference on August 29th. More →

We all know Samsung’s (005930) Galaxy Note II is going to be a monstrous smartphone when it is finally unveiled, but this leaked image reveals just how huge Samsung’s second “phablet” will really be. Gadget blog Nowhereelse on Wednesday published the image above, which it claims to have received from a source identified only as William. The photo appears to have been taken in a plant where Samsung’s devices are assembled and it purportedly shows the glass face of the Galaxy Note II, which sports a 5.5-inch space for the phone’s display that matches earlier reports exactly. The Galaxy Note II is expected to be announced later this month according to Reuters, and rumored specs include a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a quad-core Exynos processor and possibly a 12-megapixel rear camera. More →

This image above is one that we’ve seen for quite some time now. We first saw it emerge earlier this year alongside early Galaxy S III reports, but the Galaxy S III ended up launching as a very different beast. Now we’re seeing the photo emerge once again, but it’s the source that is of particular interest this time. Why? Because the source is Samsung (005930). The image was published to Samsung’s official Facebook page for Pakistan on Wednesday with the caption ”Picture perfect view made even more perfect with Samsung Galaxy S3.” The obvious problem with that, as Engadget points out, is that this isn’t a Galaxy S III. We’re not sure why someone from Samsung’s social media team would have fake images on his or her computer, so Engadget postulates that this could very well be the Galaxy Note II we’ll see Samsung unveil later this month. Samsung subsequently (and inexplicably) changed the caption to read “Galaxy Note” before finally pulling the Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon, further supporting the theory. More →

A new report out of DDaily suggests that Samsung will hold an Unpacked event at the IFA trade show in Berlin in late August to unveil a sequel to its wildly successful Galaxy Note smartphone. Earlier rumors have suggested that the device would feature a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a quad-core Exynos processor, and it may have a 12-megapixel rear camera as well. The South Korean website claims that Samsung will host the event on August 30th at 7:00 p.m., which lines up nicely with previous reports. The Galaxy Note II is expected to be released in September. More →

MK Business News has a new report on Samsung’s Galaxy Note sequel that supposedly confirms several of its own previously-leaked details and adds a tantalizing new one: the Galaxy Note II may feature a 12-megapixel camera. However, the report also throws some cold water on earlier reports that the new Note would feature an unbreakable plane (UBP) display, as an unnamed source told the publication that UBP would likely be a feature of Samsung products released after the Note II. More →