Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is here: the latest high-profile tablet from the Korean tech giant, and one that sits across many intersections of what's fast becoming a complex Samsung family tree. While the Galaxy tag is a given for any Samsung mobile device nowadays, the Note range is also now seemingly becoming a separate line of its own.
As with the original Samsung Galaxy Note - a smartphone that helped popularise the awful term 'phablet' because of its large display - the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 comes rocking an S-Pen: Samsung's stylish name for its stylus.

We had a quick go on the super-sized Note, which you can see in our video:

So, in the confusing Galaxy of Samsung devices - where Y means Young, M means Magical, Pro means there's a physical keyboard and Plus means an upgrade - the Note moniker is pretty straightforward. It means you can, if you want, make use of a stylus.
However, the term Note is not reserved for large-screened smartphones - the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is a tablet, after all.

But with Samsung already having just launched a 10.1-inch tablet into the market - the similarly named and similar-looking Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 - you'd be forgiven for scratching your head at this point (whether you use a stylus to do this is your choice).
So the Note tag is now a label associated with premium mobile devices and Tab, despite its use on the original (and expensive) Samsung 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, now appears to indicate a more affordable entity.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1's spec sheet blows the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1's out of the water, you see, with a quad-core 1.4GHz processor (as opposed to a 1GHz dual-core one) and double the RAM.
On the flip side, it will also do your bank balance more damage. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 costs £399 in the UK or $499.99 in the US for the Wi-Fi only version, £500 (around $790 - cellular tablet price not announced in the US yet) if you want 3G coverage as well - both offering 16GB of storage. A 32GB version is available in the US for $549.99 (around £350).

That's a price tag that, while cheaper than the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, makes the new Note a bit more expensive than the quad-core duo that have come out of Taiwan recently - the Asus Transformer Pad 300 and the Acer Iconia Tab A510.
And while we've resisted to use the 'i' word up until now, it's also impossible not to mention that this is a price point that puts the Galaxy Note 10.1 directly up against Apple's latest iPad (16GB version).

The Android vs iOS argument is not one we're going to venture into here, but it's pretty difficult to ignore the fact that you can have the world's most popular tablet - complete with its incredible Retina display - for the same price as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
However, should you dare to be different, read on...

 

Full Spesification's For samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

 

GENERAL	Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
LAYAR	Tipe	PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Ukuran	800 x 1280 pixels, 10.1 inches (~149 ppi pixel density), multi-touch, Samsung TouchWiz UI
DIMENSI	Ukuran/Berat	262 x 180 x 8.9 mm / 600 g
AUDIO	Fitur	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Jack	3.5mm jack audio
	Speakerphone	Ya
MEMORY	Internal	16 GB storage, 2 GB RAM
	Eksternal	Slot Micro SD card up to 32GB
DATA	3G	HSDPA, 21.1 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.8 Mbps
	EDGE	Class 12
	GPRS	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0 with A2DP
	Infrared	Tidak
	USB/Port	microUSB (MHL) v2.0, USB Host support
KAMERA	Primer	5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geotagging
	Sekunder	1.9 MP
	Video Record	Ya, 720p@30fps
BATERAI	Tipe	Standard battery, Li-Ion 7000 mAh
	Standby	-
	Talk Time	-
FITUR	OS	Android OS, v4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
	CPU	Exynos 4412, CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz, GPU Mali-400MP
	Browser	HTML, Adobe Flash
	GPS	Ya, A-GPS
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Java	Java via Java MIDP emulator, Touch-sensitive controls, sensor Accelerometer, gyro, compass, SNS integration, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), Organizer, Image/video editor, Adobe Photoshop Touch app, Document editor/viewer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, Voice memo/dial, Predictive text input (Swype)
FITUR LAIN	Multiple SIM	Tidak
	Video Player	MP4/H.264/H.263 player
	MP3 Player	MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
	Audio Record	Ya
	TV	Tidak