![]() Samsung also borrowed a feature from Nokia for the Note 3: you can increase the touch sensitivity of the screen in order to use it with gloves, and it works great. Full HD displays are table stakes for any high-end Android phone released in 2013, and while the Note 3’s screen doesn’t blow me away like the LG G2’s or HTC One’s, it’s bright, colorful, and viewable outdoors. The display itself has been upgraded to a 1080p Super AMOLED panel. It’s still absurdly big, however, and it’s not a phone that you can use with one hand.Įven faux leather is a huge upgrade from slick plastic ![]() As a result, the Note 3 is ever so slightly easier to handle than last year’s model, even though it has a squarer, less ergonomic shape. In fact, the Note 3 is thinner and narrower than the Note II. What’s most striking about the Note 3 is how Samsung was able to increase the size of the display - it’s grown to 5.7 inches - yet the overall footprint of the phone itself is virtually the same. The Note 3 carries most of the design ethos of the Galaxy S4, including the chromed plastic border that’s supposed to look like metal but isn’t, and the single home button flanked by two capacitive keys for "menu" and "back." Around back is where Samsung has made the most significant improvement to the Note’s design - it has replaced the slimy glossy plastic that has become both the trademark and punchline for Samsung devices with a textured finish that feels almost leathery in a good way. This year Samsung’s gone back to a rectangular shape on the Note 3, which looks much more like the first Note than last year’s edition. ![]() ![]() It made the behemoth of a phone slightly easier to handle. Last year, Samsung softened corners and rounded the overall shape of the Note II compared to the original model. ![]()
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