Super Bowl 2012 Features Galaxy Note: Specs of Samsung Hybrid Announced

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February 7, 2012 6:15 AM EST

Samsung Galaxy Note, which was featured in a Super Bowl ad on Sunday, wowed the audience with its big size and stunning looks.

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Samsung's first hybrid of the smartphone and tablet, known as the "phablet" is all set to hit the U.S. market on Feb. 19. But there's good news for Samsung enthusiasts, they can pre-order the phone from AT&T's official Web site.

With Galaxy Note, South Korean electronics giant Samsung brings in a new category of smartphones that combines great features of the smartphone and a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED viewing screen (almost of the size of a tablet) and advanced input technology while retaining a "pocketable" design.

Check out the specifications of the Galaxy Note as announced by Samsung.

Display: Galaxy Note will sport a 5.3-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display that will give a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and about 285 ppi pixel density.

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Display Protection: The Samsung smartphone will have Corning Gorilla Glass display protection.

Size: Galaxy Note will come with 146.85 x 82.95 x 9.65 mm dimension and weigh 178 grams.

Processor: It will have a dual-core 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon Adreno 220 GPU with 1GB RAM.

Camera: Galaxy Note will sport a rear-facing 8 megapixel LED flash camera but with 1080p HD video capture capabilities and 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video call.

Camera Features: The Samsung smartphone will have Single Shot, geo-tagging, touch focus technologies and some additional features like face and smile detection, Panorama, Share Shot, Beauty and Image Stabilization.

3G/4G: Galaxy Note will have HSDPA up to 21 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps and will support 4G LTE.

Operating System: Galaxy Note will run on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system with the promise of an upgrade to Google Inc.'s latest smartphone OS Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

User Interface: Samsung's Phablet will have TouchWiz user interface.

WLAN/Bluetooth/USB: Galaxy Note will support Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot along with Bluetooth 3.0 version with HS, EDR, microUSB (MHL) 2.0 version and USB On-The-Go (OTG).

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