Tayla Lyell: Samsung announces Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear at 'Unpacked' event in Berlin

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Samsung announces Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear at 'Unpacked' event in Berlin

Samsung’s new phablet has a 5.7 inch 1920 x 1080 AMOLED screen, a 2.3 GHz quad core processor (LTE) and a UHD camera.

Samsung announced another addition to its Galaxy Note family at the IFA conference in Berlin today, the Galaxy Note III.

As to be expected, the Note III is simply an enlarged Galaxy S4. There’s nothing much new or exciting in this device.

The Galaxy Note III features a 2.3 GHz processor, 3GB or RAM, a 1920 x 1080 5.7-inch super AMOLED screen, Android 4.3, a 3,200 mAh battery, 32 or 64 GB of user memory and a 13-megapixel camera that supports UHD.

Below is a screenshot from @evleaks, purporting to be Antutu running on the Note III.

In many ways, Samsung ups the smartphone camera wars with the Note III’s camera. It’s able to shoot 4K UHD at 30 FPS, 60 FPS “smooth motion” at 1920×1080 HD and 120FPS slow motion at regular HD resolution. The camera does, however, lack optical image stabilization despite its mighty resolution.

At the event Samsung also launched the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which is simply a watch with an SD slot that connects to the Note III via “smart relay” — a protocol that sounds like Bluetooth or NFC by any other name.