The Galaxy Note 8 has a distinctive bright white chassis and a shiny backplate. It feels good in the hand, but the backplate’s shininess makes the device a little slippery to hold. It’s secure if your hands are big enough to cradle it one-handed in portrait mode, but the fingers can slide around a little when you’re holding it in landscape mode, it also comes in black.
The physical home button is at the bottom as are the two touch-sensitive Menu and Back buttons that flank it. The Note 8’s edges have a silver trim, which houses its various buttons and connectors.
The build is reasonably solid, though the all-plastic chassis does bend if you exert a bit of pressure. The weight of 340g makes the Galaxy Note 8 an easy device to hold for extended periods. Its overall dimensions of 135.9mm wide by 210.8mm deep by 7.95mm thick make the Galaxy Note 8 slightly too large for most coat pockets, but it compares well with the competition. For example, it’s only slightly bigger than the iPad mini, whose dimensions are 134.7mm by 200 by 7.2mm.
Measuring 8-inches diagonaly accross the face, the Galaxy Note 8’s screen delivers more viewing area than the 7.9-inch iPad mini, and better Apple’s device on resolution too, with 1,280 by 800 pixels compared to the iPad mini’s 1,024 by 768. The screen is perfectly usable for a range of activities from web browsing and e-book reading to the all-important pen-based note-taking using the S note app that is the selling feature this device and is quite handy for Grocery lists notes from a meeting and many other things.
Running a 1.6GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos 4 Quad processor with 2GB of RAM, the Galaxy Note 8 is a very strong contender in the tablet market. The touchscreen is also very responsive. this tablet is packed with GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, MHL, dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, 5-megapixel and 1.3-megapixel cameras at the rear and front, along with stereo speakers, the technical features are impressive. There’s no flash on either camera, and no NFC (Samsung prefers its own S-Beam), the 4,600mAh battery got us through a day’s worth of fairly intensive use that involved streaming, GPS and browsing. and when it comes to games and other apps the tablet does not fail to impress even the pickiest of tablet users.
The Galaxy Note 8 runs Android 4.1, and there are two models, one with wi-fi and mobile (3G) broadband and one with wi-fi only. If you get the 3G model you can use Android’s phone features. (“as of the publishing of this article the device has been updated to run version 4.4.2 Kit Kat”)
Samsung has included its TouchWiz Android skin and a range of the add ons we have come to associate with its top end devices. So, for example, there’s Samsung’s Smart Stay feature which uses the front-facing camera to detect whether you’re looking at the device and keeps the screen on if you are, as well as a range of palm-based gestures such sweeping the screen to take a screen grab. There’s also a “reading mode” screen setting that helps make the screen less harsh when reading an e-book, and more.
| DEVICE SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Processor Type: | Quad-Core Processor |
| Processor Speed: | 1.60 GHz |
| System Ram: | 2 GB |
| Hard Drive Size: | 16G, 32G, 64G |
| Screen Size: | 8″ |
| Screen Type: | Capacitive Touch Display |
| Battery Type: | Lithium Ion UP TO 8 HOURS |
| Network Connection: | 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN |
| Connector Type: | 1 x Headphone, 1 x MicroUSB 2.0 |
| Operating System: | Google Android |
| Accessories Included: | AC Adapter,USB Cable,S Pen |
| Operating System Version: | Android 4.1 Jelly Bean can be upgraded to version 4.4.2 Kit Kat |
| MAX MEMORY CARD SIZE | up to 64 GB |
| Product in Inches (L x W x H): | 11.0 x 7.5 x 2.0 |
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