Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Smartphone Full Specification

Brand: Samsung
Category: Smartphone
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CPU: Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9
RAM: 2 GB
Storage: 16/32/64 GB
Display: Super AMOLED, 5.5 inches
Camera: 8 mega pixels
OS: Android v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.4.2 (KitKat)

Technical Expert Opinions and Rating

The product overall rating and highlights is based on review by our technical experts. All ratings have been selected out of 10.

5.5 2.8 3

Body & Design (look and feel) 7 / 10
Display Design & Feature 6 / 10
Camera Quality (Both) 7 / 10
Multimedia (Audio/Video) 8 / 10
Available Features in Device 6 / 10
Network & Internet Connectivity 5 / 10
Call Quality & Internet 7 / 10
User-Friendliness (How Easy) 6 / 10
Overall Gadget Performance 6 / 10
Battery Backup & Performance 7 / 10
Value For Money (VFM) 6 / 10

Key Features

Brand – Samsung
Model – Galaxy Note 2
Device Type – Android Smartphone
CPU – Quad-Core 1.6GHz Cortex-A9
Chipset – Samsung Exynos 4 Quad 4412
Camera – 8 Megapixel with Dual-tone LED Flash and AF | 1.9 Megapixel Front camera with Flash
Memory – RAM-2GB | ROM 16/32/64GB with dedicated microSD card slot up to 64GB
Display – Screen size 5.5 inches Super AMOLED HD Display
Battery – Removable Lithium-ion 3,100 mAh battery
SIM – Hybrid Dual SIM (Micro + Micro/microSD) SIM Smartphone with Dual Standby
Support 2G/3G/4G Networks with HSUPA 5.76 Mbps, HSPA 42.2 Mbps, HSPA plus LTE 50 Mbps, upload, LTE Cat3 100 Mbps Download
Sensors – Barometer, Proximity, Accelerometer, Ambient Light, Compass Sensor
Color – Blue, White, Gray, Brown, Pink, and Ruby Wine
Operating System – Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
Price – $259 (INR 16,800) Approx after discount
4G category 3 technology supported
Included Super AMOLED HD touch screen with 267 ppi for better user experience

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Detailed Technical Specifications

General Information

Device Type Usually, most of the Gadgets (Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop, Smartwatch, VR, Drone) comes with some unique specs, such as phone comes with 3G, 4G, & 5G feature, & It could be based on Different Platforms such as Android, iOS, Mac OS, Windows and Any other type, Device type itself will tell you on which platform this gadget is based and what is its basic identity.

Smart Phone
Brand & Model It simply means which brand the gadget belongs to, and which model of a particular brand, here we mark the company name and the product's model number. We mention device brand including their model number.

GT-N7100, GT-N7105
Device Proclamation Date This is the date on which you get the specs, news, or any information about any gadget from the brand. In other words the initial public announcement by a company or brand for its upcoming gadgets or device with few or full information till its release date.

01 August, 2012
Product Release Date The release date is the date in which a release was made available through some sort of distribution mechanism. For example, this may be via a online or offline retail store, being published as a available to sale on a website or distributed to industry insiders.

01 September, 2012
Product Availability Status the device is available in the market, upcoming device or the company or brand have close the productivity of gadgets.

Available Now

Body Design & Dimensions

Design Type (Form Factor) Design Type is a combination of smartphone's size, style, dimensions, weight, color, layout. Mainly there are three types of form factors seen in mobile phones and other computing devices such as bar phones, folding phones, and sliding phones.

Bar
Dimensions (LxWxH) height, width, and length of the computing device measures in mm, cm.

151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4 mm (5.95 x 3.17 x 0.37 in)
Weight (in Grams)

183 g (6.46 oz)
Gadget Body Color Body Color of electronics Gadgets.

Titanium Gray, Marble White, Amber Brown, Ruby Wine, Pink, Blue

Display & Screen

Display Type Display Technology => There are number of display technology available for computing devices such as TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an advanced version of AMOLED) and there are two types of touchscreen displays Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens not only works with human skin but also with stylus pen) and Capacitive Touchscreen (only work with human skin).

Super AMOLED
Display Size (in diagonal) Display size of each computing device is measured diagonally in inches, cm, or mm.

5.5 inches
Resolution (in Pixel)

720 x 1280 pixels
Multitouch Input Multitouch display functionality
Display Colors Display Colors refer to the number of different shades of colors that the device screen is capable of displaying mostly there is three display color - 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors used and 16M is the highest available range of colors and better than others.16M display color used in more advanced computing device such as Smartphone , Tablet or Gaming console while the 256K or 64K colors are used for basic handset and entry level computing devices.

16M colors
Pixel Density (In PPI) Information about the number of pixels per inch of the device screen. The higher the pixels density of any device, the more detailed and clearer content (Image, Video,Graphics, etc) will be shown on the display.

267 ppi
Touch Screen

Yes, Multitouch
Display Protection Display Protection => is must have feature for all computing device, especially in Smartphone segment there is different-different technology for protecting the display from scratches, drops, water, dust, and bumps of everyday use.Most common display protection technology are corning gorilla glass, Tempered glass, Scratch resistant glass, Full lamination technology, OGS, and More. So whenever you buy a new device you should always consider the smartphone having display protection feature.

Corning Gorilla Glass 3
Features Display supports various kind of features such as Contrast ratio, NTSC, 2.5D curved glass, OLED, AMOLED and more features.

Capacitive touchscreen, Light sensor, Proximity sensor

Camera & Features

Rear Camera Primary Camerais usually placed on the back side of Smartphone to capture photos and videos. The main attribute of camera are the resolution (measured in Megapixels), lens focus type (automatic or manual). High megapixels mobile can take higher quality pictures and videos but it does not always the quality parameter as there are other factors also responsible for high-quality picture so we can't predict the camera quality by just looking at its megapixels.

8 mega pixels
Image Dimensions captured image size

3264 x 2448 pixels
Video Resolution

Yes, [email protected]
Primary Camera Features Good Camera plays important role for any Gadgets it comes with many features such as Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital image stabilization, Digital zoom, Face detection, Geotagging, HDR ISO settings, Panorama, Scene mode, Self-timer, Touch focus, White balance settings, PDAF etc

Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Flash Type Flash Light => Flashlight are very important in camera for enhancing the picture quality in low-light condition.LED Flash and Xenon Flash are two most common flashlights are used in mobile phones.LED flashlight provides lower power consumption with drive circuitry which takes up little room and can be strobed faster than any other light Source while the Xenon Flash offers an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration.

LED flash
Front Facing Camera secondary camera or front camera in the device like selfies camera in Smartphone, the user can click his own photo using this camera.

Yes, 1.9 MP, video call

Hardware Parameters & Memory | Platform

Chipset (SoC) Chipset is the main part of any computing device such as Mobile, Laptop, Smartwatch, Camera, Tablet etc each one runs on a chipset or SoC which includes CPU, GPU, and Cache memory.Chipset is integrated circuit designed to perform some specific task and popular devices come with more advanced chipset which can perform many different tasks according to their design and programming capabilities

Exynos 4412 Quad
CPU Frequency CPU Central Processing Unit or processors,its main function is to interpret and execute instructions in the computing device .Mostly we measure CPU capacity in GHz or MHz with the number of the core such as 2-core, 4-core, 8-core, 10-core etc.Always look for high-power processor first whenever you will purchase a new device

Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9
Graphics Processing (GPU) GPU Stands for Graphics Processing Unit is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly rapid mathematical calculations, primarily for the purpose of rendering images, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion and it is also responsible for high-performance gaming graphics a good GPU always have such kind of power to control the gaming graphics.The common GPU for mobile devices are Qualcomm Adreno, Intel HD graphics, PowerVR, ARM-Mlai etc.

Mali-400 MP4
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, and used by Operating system and installed application in the computing device data in the RAM temporarily stored means it will be lost whenever the device is turn off or restarted .

2 GB
Internal Memory Internal Storage also known as secondary memory or ROM is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other content stored.There two types of internal memory expansion expandable and non-expandable.

16/32/64 GB
Card & Expandable Memory External Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's internal storage, A memory card is a small storage memory used to store content such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

Yes, microSD, up to 64 GB
Sensors Sensors are electronic components which increased the functionality of any computing device in which they are embedded sensors detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment.

Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer

Network & Cellular

SIM Card Type SIM stands for Subscriber Identity Module which securely stores subscriber's information such as phone numbers and text messages. Users can easily switch SIM card from one mobile set to another. SIM card is responsible for communication among several mobile devices using different kinds of networks such as GSM, UMTS, LTE etc.

Standard SIM

Software & Platforms

Operating System (OS) OS => Operating System responsible for all basic operations of the device ( smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers, drones, smartwatch and other handheld devices). The Operating System manages and controls the functions of the hardware components of the computing device. There are numbers of OS such as Android, Windows, iOS, BlackBerry and more.

Android v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.4.2 (KitKat)
User Interface (UI) UI or user interface (f human–machine interaction) of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

TouchWiz
Java (Software Platform)

Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Social Network (FB) Facebook its no 1 popular free social networking site which allows users to create a free account and adds your friends or family in your social list to chat with them, upload photos, videos, video chat and send messages via the internet and keep in touch with friends,Each Smartphone supports Facebook app.
Video-Sharing Youtube Youtube is a popular free video-sharing website, Youtube is the largest video sharing site in the world, Millions of users around the world have created accounts on the site that allow them to upload videos that anyone can watch.
Microblogging (Twitter) Twitter is global microblogging social media website, you can use twitter application on your smartphone, tablet. Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size

Multimedia Features (Audio, Video and Images)

Supported Audio Format Which type of audio playback supported by the device as there are number of audio format such as WAV, AAC, AMR, MP3, WMA, MIDI, FLAC, etc

Yes, MP3, MIDI, WAV, AMR
Supported Video Format

Yes
Video Output

Yes
FM Radio FM is a VHF broadcasting technology which uses frequency modulation (FM) to transfer sound over the broadcasting radio.

Stereo FM radio with RDS (GT-N7100 only)
Alert Types Alert types are types of sound which notify the users when someone sends notifications like a phone call, message, email etc.

Vibration, ringtones
Ring Tones

64, MP3, WAV
Loudspeaker

Yes
Audio Output for external sound using headset

3.5mm Headphone Jack
Speakers

Yes

Wired & Wireless Connectivity | Comms

Wi-Fi (Standards Supported) Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology which provides wireless data connection between various device using radio waves it uses the IEEE 802.11 stands for communication.

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB Type and Version USB required for transfer or sync the data from one computing device to another such as from Smartphone to computer.

Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL), USB Host
Bluetooth Type, Model Bluetooth is wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, personal computers and other network devices over brief distances without wiring, Bluetooth technology was mostly designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. There are different-different types of Bluetooth Profile (A2DP, HID, LE etc) available in each device for exchanging different content within a short distance.

Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, LE
Navigation Technology (GPS) GPSStands for Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation technology using it users can track their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, the most common GPS technology are GPS and the GLONASS.

Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
Near Field Communication (NFC) NFC stands for Near field communication is a set of short-range wireless communication standards for smartphones and similar computing devices to establish peer-to-peer (P2P) radio communications with each other by touching them together.It works on smaller range around 10cm.
HDMI Port HDMI Stands for (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) most commonly used for transferring video data and digital audio data from a HDMI- device (Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop) to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.
Infrared (IR) Infrared (IR) connectivity is an old wireless technology which uses an infrared light to transfer information between two electronic devices over short-range.
Wireless Charging Technology

Data & Internet

General Packet Radio Service GPRS GPRS stands for General Packet Radio Service it is also known as GSM-IP is global system mobile communications internet protocol which works in 2G and 3G cellular networks.It provides data speed up to 40 kbps which enable mobile devices to access the internet at a Similar speed of dial-up modem and it is used for wireless data transfer like sharing pictures, text, video or browse the internet via mobile phone connection.
Enhanced Data for Global Evolution EDGE (Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Environment) also known as also known as Enhanced GPRS or EGPRS is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection.
Internet Speed (Mbps) Data Speed supports by any computing device such as Smartphone, Tablet, Computer, Laptop etc mostly it measured in Mbps (Mega bit per second).A good device always supports faster data speed.

HSDPA, 21 Mbps (N7100), 42 Mbps (N7105); HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE Cat3 (N7105 only), 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL
Supported Browser Web Browser => used to access information on the world wide web such as text, image, video, audio here we have listed some of the common browsers supported by the device.

Yes, HTML5

Messaging and Email Services

Short Message Service SMS (Short Messaging Service) is a text messaging service through which users can send text messages up to 160-224 characters to mobile devices such as cell phone, smartphone, and PDAs.

Yes (threaded view)
Multimedia Messaging Service MMSstands for Multimedia Messaging Service and it is used for sending multimedia message from one device to another device such as audio clips, video clips, images, text.
Messaging & Email Email Email Stands for Electronic mail which used for sending and storing message it just like sending a physical letter.The user can send text messages, images, and other attachments to the recipient using the internet . You can create your account with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or any other without any cost and its necessary to receive any message over internet and email address is unique to each user.

Yes
IM (Instant Messaging) IM stands for Instant Messaging is an exchange of text messages through a software application in real time, it enable users to create a kind of private chat room (for example Yahoo! Messenger and Apple's iChat ) with another user in order to communicate in real time over the Internet.

Yes

Battery and Power | Charging

Battery Pattern Battery Type => The battery is most important part of any electronics device and they powered by different-different kind of battery such as there are basically four types of cell phone batteries Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.

Li-Ion (Lithium Ion)
Capacity (in mAh) Battery Capacity which measure typically in Amp-hr which tells users that how much of the charge stored by the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of power that can be run any computing device under certain conditions. A good battery always provides consistent power but it also depends on the quality of device, processor, and design

3100 mAh
Battery Fixing

Removable
Standby Time Standby Time is the longest time a phone can remain in the power during single battery charge while the device will not be in active use but constantly connected to the GSM network.

Up to 980 h (2G) / Up to 890 h (3G)
Talk Time Talk Time is the total time a battery can power a phone under perfect conditions, talk time requires more power and much shorter than standby time.

Up to 35 h (2G) / Up to 16 h (3G)

Warranty Details

Box items

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Smartphone Full Specification rustam pawri
Posted on September 20, 2016 at 1:33 pm

change display type

All the device has same display type, super amoled, it should make some new one.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Smartphone Full Specification Eric
Posted on September 20, 2016 at 1:35 pm

Nice Bluetooth

I have 3 phone as of now, samsung galaxy note 2 is one of them i like the qualityof sound and diaplay as well as very nice bluetooth for somehow long distance A2DP, EDR, LE.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Smartphone Full Specification jack
Posted on September 20, 2016 at 1:37 pm

jack should change

should change jack size of audio, Samsung is one of the most powerful brand they can change 3.5mm Headphone Jack, make it something different, my suggestion, that should be changed.

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