Penampakan Ponsel yang diduga Samsung Galaxy S III
Jangan Percaya dulu Samsung Galaxy S III ada? - Di ajang Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas yang baru saja berakhir, Samsung sempat memperlihatkan sebuah video. Belakangan video itu jadi pembicaraan karena memunculkan sebuah ponsel yang lain dari yang sudah ada.
Rumor pun merebak yang mengatakan itu adalah penampakan pertama dari Samsung Galaxy S III. Ponsel tersebut merupakan seri kelanjutan dari Samsung Galaxy S II.
Seperti dikabarkan oleh GSM Arena, "penampakan" itu bisa diamati pada menit ke-7 dan detik ke-11 video yang diputar saat konferensi pers di CES 2012. Ponsel itu mirip Samsung Galaxy S II namun memiliki beberapa perbedaan mencolok.
Misalnya, ponsel itu memiliki tepi yang sangat tipis di sekeliling layar. Hal ini, menurut GSM Arena, cocok dengan rumor bahwa Samsung Galaxy S III akan memiliki layar Super Amoled 4.6 inci.
Namun peringatan disampaikan oleh GadgetHelpLine.com. Menurut mereka, gambar itu hanyalah hasil rekaan grafis komputer yang semata-mata dibuat untuk ilustrasi saja.
Beberapa hal yang menguatkan kesimpulan ini adalah: sudut melengkung pada tepi layar, kosongnya bar di bagian indikator kekuatan sinyal (hanya ada indikator baterai) hingga penempatan kamera depan yang dianggap janggal.
Tentu saja, spekulasi tentang Samsung Galaxy S III akan terus muncul hingga Samsung resmi mengungkapnya. Saat ini boleh dibilang bocoran gadget Samsung adalah yang paling dinanti di kalangan pengguna Android.
Kabarnya, Samsung Galaxy S III akan diperkenalkan pada acara Mobile World Congress yang digelar di Barcelona, Spanyol, pada Februari 2012.
PERBEDAAN : KINDLE FIRE DENGAN IPAD - Hay para sobat blogger Kertas Kecil Kita khusunya bagi pecinta Tablet, nah sobat kita pastinya sudah tau dengan Tablet iPad produk dari Apple Inc. Kini Amazon baru saja meluncurkan komputer tablet Kindle Fire. yaitu Tablet berukuran 7 Inch berbeda dengan iPad keluaran pertama dari Apple Inc yang ukurannya lebih besar yaitu 9.7 inch. Diperkirakan Kindle Fire ini akan menjadi pesaing iPad yang saat ini masih menguasai pasar tablet.
Kindle Fire ini memiliki banyak perbedaan dengan iPad pada umumnya, baik dalam tampilan atau fitur-fitur lain yang dimiliki iPad. tidak hanya itu sobat harga Kndle Fire jauh lebih murah dibanding iPad dan dengan harga yang murah ini Kindle Fire diprediksi akan laku dipasaran. selain itu, konten dari Amazon juga menjadi menjadi nilai lebih dari tabllet Kindle Fire ini.
Nah para sobat bagaimana perbandingan Kindle Fire ini dengan iPad? berikut sekilas pemaparannya.
HARGA Harga iPad yang jauh lebih mahal menjadikan Kindle Fire seperti benda bernilai yang dijual murah. Situs Amazon.com menyebut harga Kindle Fire hanya Us$199 atau sekitar Rp1,8 juta. Harga ini lebih murah US$300 atau sekitar Rp2,7 juta.
Harga iPad kini bermula dari harga senilai US$499 (sekitar Rp4,5 juta) hingga US$829 (sekitar Rp7,5 juta), tergantung dari kapasitas penyimpanan dan kapabilitas 3G.
Harga Kindle Fire ini dianggap sesuai untuk orang tua yang ingin membelikan tablet untuk anak-anaknya, namun tak mau mengeluarkan banyak uang untuk iPad. Namun, harga tentu bukan sekedar pertimbangan utama, karena kini banyak tablet lain yang juga dijual lebih murah dari iPad.
UKURAN LAYAR Perbedaan ini jelas terlihat, karena Kindle Fire hanya memiliki layar touchscreen berukuran 7 inch. Coba bandingkan dengan iPad yang memiliki ukuran layar 9,7 inch.
Ukuran layar juga yang membuat Amazon merasa layak untuk menjual tablet ini dengan harga murah. Tablet Amazon ini juga memiliki berat dua kali lipat lebih ringan dari iPad. Berat dan ukuran ini menjadikan Kindle Fire lebih praktis untuk dibawa.
Namun, ukuran layar kecil dianggap menjadi masalah bagi beberapa pengguna tablet. Karena banyak yang tidak bisa menikmati menonton film dan bermain game di layar ukuran 7 inch.
FITUR DAN SPESIFIKASI Fitur Kindle Fire dianggap sesuai dengan harganya. Tidak ada kamera, sehingga Kindle Fire tidak bisa digunakan untuk melakukan video chat.
Fire juga tidak memiliki mikrofon dan voice recording. Ini menyebabkan fitur audio call via Skype tidak bisa dilakukan dengan menggunakan Kindle Fire.
Kindle Fire juga hanya menggunakan wi-fi. Jadi tanpa wi-fi, jangan harap Anda bisabrowsing dan mengunduh konten dari Amazon. Karena itulah iPad yang menggunakan 3G dinilai memiliki keuntungan daripada Kindle Fire.
Dari kapasitas penyimpanan, Kindle Fire hanya memiliki kapasitas 8GB, bandingkan dengan iPad yang minimal berkapasitas 16GB. Lemahnya fitur penyimpanan menjadikan penggunanya akan mengandalkan fitur komputasi-awan (cloud) gratis dengan menggunakan server Amazon.
Sedangkan untuk daya tahan baterai, Kindle Fire hanya bertahan hingga 8 jam. Bandingkan dengan iPad2 yang bisa bertahan hingga 10 jam.
APPS Kindle Fire memiliki sistem operasi Android. Ini menjadikannya bisa mengakses lebih dari 250 ribu apps yang tersedia di Android Market. Sedangkan iPad bisa mengakses lebih dari 425 ribu apps yang ada di AppStore.
Tapi, tentu saja Amazon akan mengoptimalkan konten yang dimilikinya. Amazon juga menggratiskan untuk streaming video, ebook, dan konten lain di Amazon Prime, selama 30 hari ke depan.
Karena itulah interface di Kindle Fire berbeda dengan tablet lain yang menggunakan Android. Kindle Fire memiliki interface seperti 'rak' digital, yang memperlihatkan sejumlah konten Amazon yang bisa digunakan. Setidaknya, Amazon menyediakan 11.000 film dan pertunjukan televisi yang bisa di-streaming melalui Kindle Fire.
Saat memperkenalkan Kindle Fire, CEO Amazon Jeff Bezos pun dengan bangga memperlihatkan sejumlah konten video, musik, ebook, dan game yang bisa diunduh dari Kindle Fire.
KESIMPULAN Kehadiran Kindle Fire tentu memberikan alternatif baru bagi pengguna tablet, yang memiliki kebutuhan berbeda-beda. Konten Amazon yang kaya dengan film, ebook, juga game, menjadikan Kindle Fire bisa menjadi pilihan.
Dengan harganya yang murah, mungkin wajar jika Kindle Fire memiliki sejumlah kekurangan, terutama dalam fiturnya. Tentu ini juga menjadikan pertimbangan utama bagi calon penggunanya.
Selain itu, belum diketahui apakah Kindle Fire akan dijual secara bebas di Indonesia. Selama ini, untuk memiliki Kindle misalnya, pembeli di Indonesia baru bisa membelinya melalui situs Amazon atau menitip kepada teman yang pergi ke luar negeri. Kindle pun terbilang tidak user-friendly, karena masih banyak yang belum terbiasa untuk menggunakan Kindle atau mengunduh sejumlah kontennya dari Amazon.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is an Android Gingerbread powered smartphone with a 5.3-in Super AMOLED display and 8MP camera.
EXCESS :
Astounding Performance
Great HD Video Playback
Superb Browsing Experience
Very Powerful Battery
Very Good Camera
LACK:
Size Makes Single Handed Use Difficult
Expensive
Poor External Speaker
Review
Is it a perfect device? No, but you can't blame it for not aspiring to be one.The Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 represents all that's terrible and all that's exciting about the modern era of smartphones. On one hand, it's a device that fits no clear niche, it's too large to be an ultra-mobile smartphone but it also doesn't offer the 7-inch and 10-inch screen of a tablet. It also makes the specs and numbers all important, so much so that they make it easy to ignore other aspects of a phone that should matter very much.
But even all of my cribbing can't deny the fact that the Note is a powerhouse, a Dohvakin (a 'Dragonborn' for those of you yet to fall in love with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) amidst regular, common phones. It's a great representation of how far ahead technology has reached to be able put so much power and potential in the palm of your hand.
FeaturesThe Samsung Galaxy Note is all about its 5.3-in display and while that's a massive size that offers so much, it's also the biggest roadblock in whether it will be acceptable as a phone. The screen has a resolution of 1280x800 pixels (which puts it in the same corner as Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom, the Acer Iconia Tab and the Lenovo Ideapad K1) and boasts of Pentile Super AMOLED technology (that trades overall quality for more power efficiency and pixel density). The Note has 16GB of internal storage and supports up to 32GB of microSD storage although it doesn't come with a card in the bundle. The Galaxy Note is powered by a dual-core 1.4GHz Cortex A9 processor and a Mali-400MP GPU and has 1GB RAM. The Note supports Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G (HSDPA 21Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps- we got a top speed of 14.4Mbps on Vodafone's 3G network in Bangalore) and uses a microUSB port to connect to the PC. Other connectivity options include DLNA support, Wi-Fi Direct (that allows you to transfer files over Wi-Fi to a compatible device), Bluetooth 3.0 and USB On-the-go. Unfortunately, the Note doesn't come with the requisite connectors such a USB On-to-go connector or an HDMI adapter (even though it can output to HDMI). For a phone that costs this much, the connectors should have been a mandatory addition.The Galaxy Note sports the same camera as the Galaxy S II- an 8MP autofocus shooter with an LED flash that's capable of shooting 1080p videos. It also has a secondary front-facing 2MP camera for video chats.The Galaxy Note runs on Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) and utilizes Samsung's own TouchWiz UI 4.0. It has access to the Android Market and also Samsung's App Store. The Note's resolution and specs mean that you can make full use of HD apps but you will come across some apps that won't look as good as they are meant for smaller displays and lower resolution.
S-Pen
The Galaxy Note comes with a stylus, named the "S-Pen", which works with a couple of pre-installed apps and is similar to what we saw on the HTC Flyer. The first of these is S-Memo, an app that lets you draw and write notes. You can bring up the app at anytime by holding down the button on the stylus and double-tapping the screen. You can use the stylus similarly to navigate the UI as well and also take screenshots and then make notes or draw over the captured image.
The stylus is also integrated with the S-Planner app so that you can add a hand-written memo to any date along with a task or an event.
You can also download apps (16 at last count) from the Samsung App store that work with the S-Pen. The S-Pen itself is light and works well even when outside the memo app (for instance when using it to navigate the UI). Writing with it is also neat since it translated my handwriting quite well and didn't make it look like chicken scrawl. However, it is a bit laggy.
While the S-Pen feature is a nice addition, at the present moment, it doesn't really add that much to make it a must-have feature.
Design & UsabilityThe Samsung Galaxy Note is a huge device and as a result, whether you would want to buy it really depends on whether you are able to look beyond its size and bulk (although at about 180g, it's not really very heavy). While the size may have its advantages such as more screen real estate, its biggest drawback is that it makes single-handed operation very difficult. For e.g. unless you have massive hands, your thumb will not reach the other end of the screen making it difficult to use the "a" and "q" keys ("p", "l" and "backspace" for left-handed users). Even when not using the keyboard, it feels risky to use the phone in one hand as it poses a greater risk of slipping and falling from your grip. And of course, you also run the risk of looking silly with such a huge device plastered to the side of your head (the same risk posed by the Dell Streak).Apart from its size, the Galaxy Note is a good-looking device since it wisely devotes much of its body to its beautiful screen. The screen is rich (at the risk of looking overly saturated at times) and has good sunlight legibility. Again for inexplicable reasons, as we saw on the Galaxy S II, Samsung has decided to give the Note a flimsy plastic cover which doesn't feel right on a high-end device. I would suggest using the flip cover which is available for free with the phone, at least for a while.
Unlike a bunch of people out there, I actually like the TouchWiz UI. Yes, it looks a little too much like the iOS UI but it's usable and doesn't do too much to mess around with the way the default Android UI works. It's a good looking UI and is an absolute pleasure to use. The Galaxy Note's powerful innards mean that the UI works superbly and the touch response and accuracy is also excellent.
The Galaxy Note also has one of the most powerful batteries I have seen on a phone. It's rated at 2500mAh but that number would mean nothing if it didn't result in real world performance. Fortunately, in the Note, it does. The Galaxy Note's battery easily lasted two days of regular usage with 3G on (about 1 hour of calls a day, about half-an-hour of Wi-Fi browsing a day) and lasted over a day of heavy usage (that included over five hours of calls, plenty of app installs and uninstalls and about an hour of video and audio playback), again with 3G on.The Note also offers very good call quality with great loudness and clarity. The one issue that I noticed was that voices sounded a bit metallic. You can also turn on/off noise cancellation during calls.
Browsing & Multimedia
I'm quite used to seeing an excellent browsing experience from high-end Android devices and the Galaxy Note didn't disappoint me. The default browser offers a full-fledged browsing experience and even with two flash videos playing concurrently on a web page, the browser worked fine.The Galaxy Note also has a very good camera that stands right there as one of the best on a smartphone. It captures great looking outdoor and indoor photos (although I did notice a slight color bleed when shooting a subject against a white background). The Note also takes great looking 1080p videos that play without any frame-rate issues but, in contrast to its super-rich screen, look de-saturated. Also, the Galaxy Note's flash is surprisingly weak.
The Galaxy Note played every one of our test videos that was thrown at it including 1080p DivX videos, 720p MKV videos and 720p WMV videos right out of the box. Playback was also very good although some videos did look over-saturated. Audio playback was also excellent (if a bit treble-friendly) and the Note offers a plethora of EQ options including a custom EQ. The Note's external speaker, though, is disappointingly weak.
Bottom Line
The decision to buy or not to buy the Samsung Galaxy Note is an easy one. If you have a problem with its huge size (and it is huge) and all the drawbacks that come with it (which I've mentioned in my review), the Galaxy S II is a better buy. Also, if the larger display and the 10-15% performance boost do not seem worth the Rs. 5,000 hike in the price-tag, then the Galaxy S II should be your pick.
However, if the size and price are not deal-breakers for you, then I can whole-heartedly recommend the Galaxy Note for its best in class performance and treasure trove of features.The Samsung Galaxy Note is currently available in India for Rs. 32,500. It's Fantastic
