![]() ![]() Update: You can turn on handwriting recognition at the system level, but it's hard to find - you have to long press on the gear icon on the keyboard, and then slide over to the T symbol. Vlad didn’t think the keyboard handwriting recognition was very reliable on the smartphone Note, so perhaps it’s not that much of a loss. (I looked repeatedly.) It seems like a late scratch there’s still documentation for the feature floating around in the system. Where the original Note’s software keyboard would let you press a button and begin writing on the screen to fill in any text field, the Note 10.1 doesn’t appear have any such functionality. and that’s about it." Nothing much has changed in the months since - if anything, the Note 10.1’s stylus integration is less powerful than its smaller predecessor, since it doesn’t have handwriting recognition at the system level. Let’s talk about it.īack in February when Vlad first reviewed the original Galaxy Note smartphone, he said the S Pen allowed you to "sketch, doodle, annotate. Since it’s Wacom technology underneath, you can use any Wacom Penabled stylus, which is a nice plus. There’s a button on the side that engages various functions in different apps, but for the most part all of the action is in the tip, which can register 1,024 levels of pressure. The bundled S Pen is a nubby little thing - it’s much shorter than a regular pen, and weighs almost nothing in the hand. I hope you like the Crayon Physics icon, because you’re going to see it every time you pull out the Note’s stylus. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any way to customize the apps shown on this menu. A quick-launch menu pops up when you pull it out again. The slot is actually quite clever, and can sense when the pen is inserted the OS plays a little sound. Samsung calls its stylus the S Pen, and it fits into a slot at the bottom right of the Note. Instead, there’s just the dawning realization you will one day lose this weird cable and find yourself alone in a room with a dead piece of plastic, tapping away with a pen that leaves no ink and no trace of your earthly existence. A micro USB port would have been much more useful - Apple gets away with a proprietary connector because it enables a robust accessory ecosystem, but there’s no such benefit with the Note. On the opposite edge you’ll find Samsung’s weirdly inconvenient proprietary charging connector, which looks almost exactly like Apple’s ubiquitous 30-pin iPhone / iPad connector but is something else entirely. ![]() You will probably never use them either, because a quick glance at the recorded output of the cameras suggests that any other camera in range of your person is probably better.Īround the top edge of the Note you’ll find a headphone jack, a microSD card slot, the sleep / wake button, a volume rocker, and an IR blaster for use with the bundled Peel smart remote app. The Note has cameras, which I did not use. I also think it looks a bit too contrasty and harsh, but I am extremely picky. It has solid viewing angles and brighter colors than the Nexus 7 display, but at 1280 x 800, it’s nowhere close to matching the resolution or clarity of the new iPad’s Retina Display or even other similarly-priced Android tablets, which are starting to feature 1080p displays. The front of the Note is of course dominated by its 10.1-inch display, which is. It all just feels a bit cheap - a stark contrast to other Samsung tablets like the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the decidedly-premium feeling Nexus 7, which costs just $199. ![]() Not only does the plastic back flex in your hand, but the shiny finish quickly picks up fingerprints and other smudges, belying its faux brushed-metal texture. It’s handsome enough, but it unfortunately it’s all plastic all the way around - and you’ll feel it the instant you pick it up. It’s certainly distinctive, though, with a dark silver border framing stereo speakers on the front edges, and a dark gray bezel around the screen. It’s interesting Samsung’s stuck with this design, since it first debuted as a hasty lawsuit update to the original Galaxy Tab after Apple sued Samsung for copying the iPad. You won’t notice much of a difference between the Note 10.1 and the older Galaxy Tab 2 10.1- in fact, they look almost identical. ![]()
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