GSM Arena have got their hands on the Samsung Galaxy Note, an Android powered smartphone with a 5.3" 1280 x 800 display! Not only does the Note have about a quarter of a million more pixels to play with than the iPad, but it also comes with the power of a 1.4GHz dual core processor, a camera that captures superb 1080p video and a stylus for handwriting tasks and sketching.

It's hard to gage just how successful the Note will be. Is it too big for a phone but too small for a tablet computer as we suspect, or will people flock around the idea of one device to serve both camps? We'll be keeping a keen eye on this new class of device.

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