Five million units of Samsung‘s Galaxy Note II have been sold worldwide, the company has announced.
The milestone comes exactly two months after the device was launched globally, on September 26, 2012. It took approximately a month for Samsung to sell the first three million units, and sales are obviously still going strong after Samsung brought the device to the U.S. on October 24.
The Galaxy Note II is a 5.5-inch smartphone/tablet hybrid with a stylus. It sports a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage (further expandable to 128GB via memory cards).
With 5 million units moved in only two months, there’s no question of its success on the market. This success probably did not sit well with Apple, which recently added the Galaxy Note II â€" along with five other devices â€" to its ongoing patent lawsuit with Samsung.
The successor to the first Galaxy Note smartphone, the Galaxy Note II has a huge 5.6-inch screen and comes with a stylus that lets you do things like draw on photos or screengrabs. It costs $299.99 with a two-year contract and it runs Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean," which lets it use many of the advanced abilities seen in the Galaxy S III, such as auto-tagging of photos and S Voice, Samsung's answer to Siri. Power users will love it, and if you just want a large screen, it's the biggest you can get on a phone.
Samsung's stylus, the S Pen, is a bit different this time around. It's a different shape that makes it easier to hold, and the phone can now detect when it's removed from its slot.
You can set up the lock screen to show you scrolling feed from your social networks.
The Galaxy Note II measures 5.95 x 3.17 x 0.37 inches.
The Note II will come in gray and white finishes.
The Galaxy Note II will be available on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular.
The phone now interacts with the S Pen in new ways, such as Airview, where it shows a pointer when you hold the stylus within about an inch from the screen.
The rear-facing camera has an 8-megapixel sensor that can record 1080p video, and the front-facing one is 1.9 megapixels.
Pictured here are the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III, the original Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note II.
The screen on the new Note is larger (5.55 inches vs. 5.3 inches). Much like the iPhone 5, it elongates the screen slightly to go bigger while actually making the overall form factor thinner.
The S Pen in the Note II is a different design than the original, making it less inclined to roll away. However, it won't fit older accessories.
The Note II knows when the S Pen is removed from its slot, bringing up a list of stylus-specific options.
S Note has several productivity tools, including a mode that will recognize scientific formula symbols.
The Note II makes use of the multitasking abilities that are also on the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. By double tapping the screen with the stylus, you can call up a miniature S Note so you can jot something down and save for later.
The Note II can shrink the keyboard and move it to one side to better assist one-handed use of its enormous screen.
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