The smartphone offers the convenience of a big screen of a tablet with the portability of a smartphone. Probably, the best phablet in the market, the Galaxy Note's strength is the S Pen, the intelligent stylus that accompanies the device and allows users to do more than just navigate the user interface and scribble notes. The Note 3 is made of essentially but Samsung cleverly disguised the finish of certain elements to give the smartphone a premium fit and finish. The front of the phone is dominated by its 5.7-inch Full-HD Super AMOLED display. The bezel is narrow on the left and right sides.
The phone not beveled above and below the screen and is flatter, sporting a textured dark grey finish. The Galaxy Note 3 comes with a full-HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels packing 386 pixels per inch. The display delivers sharp and vibrant text and images. Reading text and browsing the web was also a pleasant experience. Just like the Galaxy S4, the Note 3 offers Adapt Display, to optimise colours according to ambient light conditions. You can choose between four manual modes (Dynamic, Standard, Professional Photo and Movie) and automatic modes if you select the Adapt Display option. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the latest iteration of the OS (at the time of writing this review) and TouchWiz Nature UX. The Galaxy Note 3 features a 13-megapixel rear camera that takes excellent shots in daylight and good artificial light.
The images suffer, if they are taken in low light. The Galaxy Note 3 comes with new camera tricks including Cinemagram like Animated photo mode; an Eraser mode to delete moving objects from 5 consecutive photos; Drama shot, which takes multiple photos of a moving object and merges them all to denote action; and Best face, which allows selecting the best face shot in group photos. Other usual modes include the Burst mode that takes 20 continuous shots, HDR mode and Panorama mode. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is powered by Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa 5420 processor which is essentially a set of two quad-core processors- a 1.9GHz Cortex A15 quad-core processor and a 1.3GHz Cortex A7 quad-core processor that work together to optimise processing. It has 3GB RAM onboard, and a Mali T628 MP6 chip for processing graphics. The device gets it juice from a 3200mAh battery.
