The Galaxy Note 3 Neo has been officially announced by Samsung Poland. This is the first time we've seen Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphone range screen actually get smaller. The Note 3 Neo is set to hit shelves globally in February but no pricing details have been revealed at this point. That's a shame because the main point about this cut-down Note 3 is probably to fit into a lower price range that Samsung has targeted.
The Note 3 Neo handset features a 5.5-inch AMOLED display, 8MP rear-camera with LED flash, 2MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM and 16GB internal memory expandable up to 64GB by MicroSD card. It also comes in three colour variants; Black, White and Green. Importantly, just like the other devices in the Note series, it comes with the S Pen and associated software.
The standard 3G model and the LTE+ offer nearly identical innards besides the fact that the 3G variant Is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core whilst the LTE+ features a speedier hexa-core processor packing a 1.7GHz dual-core chip entwined with a 1.3GHz quad-core chip.
Here is a specs comparison table so you can easily compare the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Note 3 Neo:
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo |
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 |
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Body |
148.4 x 77.4 x 8.6mm 162.5g |
151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3mm 168g |
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Display |
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colours 720 x 1280 pixels, 5.5 inches (~267 ppi pixel density) |
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colours 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.7 inches (~386 ppi pixel density) |
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Memory |
microSD, up to 64 GB 16GB internal storage, 2 GB RAM |
microSD, up to 64 GB 16/32/64 GB internal storage, 3GB RAM |
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Camera |
Primary: 8MP |
Primary: 13MP |
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OS |
Android OS, v4.3 (Jelly Bean) |
Android OS, v4.3 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.4.2 (KitKat) |
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CPU |
LTE+: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7 & dual-core 1.7 GHz Cortex A15 3G: Quad-core 1.6GHz processor |
Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 (N9005, N9002)/ Quad-core 1.9 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 (N9000) |
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Chipset |
Exynos?/unknown |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (N9005, N9002)/ Exynos 5 Octa 5420 (N9000) |
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Colours |
Black, White, Green |
Black, White, Pink, Merlot Red, Rose Gold Black, Rose Gold White |
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Battery |
Li-Ion 3100 mAh battery |
Li-Ion 3200 mAh battery |
When compared to Samsung's flagship Note smartphone, the specifications of the Note 3 Neo are definitely cut down, most notably the screen and main camera. This means that we can safely assume, even without prices, that it will be a cheaper version of the Galaxy Note 3 aimed at those who are more interested in Note functionality than having the highest specs.
Unfortunately, the 'global rollout' excludes the US and the UK for now; "Samsung UK can confirm that the Note 3 Neo will not be coming to the UK market," (nor the US) reported Pocket-lint last week.
