Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is probably the best phablet to come out of Korea. The Galaxy Note 3 handset has evenly balanced proportions and offers the classic leathery feeling, which will remind you of a real notebook. A chrome surround peeks just around the edges contrasting nicely with the rest of the bodyshell.
The Note 3 comes with a 5.7-inch display offering a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, giving you 386ppi. The Galaxy Note 3 is particularly capable outside in bright light conditions, even in direct sunlight. The whole phone is only 8.3mm thick and altogether it's very neat and tidy to look at from the front. Incredibly, though, Samsung has still found room for a pressure sensitive stylus, which stows in the phone's bottom right-hand corner. The stylus is used for photo editing, note-taking sketch scribbling and handwriting recognition.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 3GB of RAM, an Adreno 330 graphics processing unit (GPU) and is clocked at 2.3GHz. Performance is simply marvelous. The handset deftly handled everything ranging from apps, browser, 3D games or streaming HD video. The benchmarks are no less impressive, with the Galaxy Note 3 outgunning most of the competition. Vellamo clocks it with a score of 1180, Quadrant at 20903 and AnTuTu at 32837 – higher than the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4.
Connectivity options include full dual-band Wi-Fi capabilities with Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi Hotspot, and connectivity to Wi-Fi networks is very reliable indeed. There's also DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, GPS, microUSB and MHL TV-Out.
Note 3' USP is its S Pen. By clicking the S Pen, you can now run the Note 3's Air Command for access to five key buttons: Scrapbooker, S Finder, Action Memo, Pen Window and Screen Write.
Galaxy Note 3 comes with a 13MP rear camera that has optical image stabilization, autofocus, face detection and panorama.
Though the Note 3 isn't cheap, it is an outstanding device.
