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idea of ??”smart” watches Samsung, on the contrary, “peeked” at the competition. Watch Samsung Galaxy Gear began selling with Galaxy Note 3, but not in the same package, as it were vdovesok. And this has given rise to another wave of doubt: why so expensive? And why with the Galaxy Note 3 hours really do not work with other smartphones? About all this – in this review. Outset that the material is devoted to not only watch, but also a smart phone, despite the fact that we already wrote about it on our portal. Hand on heart, for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 can write more than one occasion, the smartphone is really fun and incredibly functional.

Competitor Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Model	Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005)	LG Optimus G Pro (E988)
Operating System	Android 4.3	Android 4.1.2
screen	Super AMOLED (PenTile), 5,7”, 1080×1920	IPS, 5,5”, 1080×1920
Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974AB, 2265 MHz, 4 cores	Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T, 1700 MHz, 4 cores
GPU	Adreno 330	Adreno 320
Memory	3024 MB	Adreno 320
Internal memory	29,8 GB	14,9 GB
Memory Cards	micro-SD/SDHC/SDXC
Wi-Fi	802.11 a / b / g / n / ac	802.11 a / b / g / n
Bluetooth	4.0
rear camera	12,8 megapixels, flash, autofocus	13 megapixels, flash, autofocus
front facing camera	2,1 MP	2,1 MP
addition	GPS, GLONASS, LTE, NFC, digital compass, FM radio, pen-stylus, 3 microphones	GPS, LTE, NFC, digital compass, FM radio
Dimensions	79,2 h151, 2×8, 3 mm	76,14 x 150, 1h9, 4 mm
Weight	168 g	174 g
Battery	3200 mAh	3140 mAh
Price	35,000 rubles.	20,000 rubles.

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What is happening with the market of mobile phones is increasingly beginning to resemble laptops when the model exists in a dozen configurations, artfully encoded in the title. And go and try to understand – which model do you bring to the test and whether it is globally different from other configurations. It’s important: the journalist tested the fact that he brought and gave some results, including in numbers: so many runs on batteries, so and so performance in parrots, but so is a screen, but is found software. The reader familiar with the review and went to the store, bought, and, as it can be bought at all that. Who is to blame and what to do?

So, be warned once: we tested the model SM-N9005, and all that is written here applies it to her. We have, for example, worked as a module LTE, but the model N900, which sells Megaphone, judging from the performance characteristics on their website, there is no LTE. It is unlikely that this is a mistake on the site, considering how badly wants to sell Megaphone users to LTE.

Note that different versions of the Galaxy Note 3 are not only the presence or absence of the module LTE – there are differences in the processor. The above-mentioned model N900 runs on Exynos 5 Octa – eight cores with a clock speed of 1900 MHz production Samsung, and our test unit – a quad 800 MSM8974AB Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with a clock frequency of 2265 MHz.

similar confusion previously characterized the products LG – there almost every country different models supplied. Now here’s the LG more or less brought the product line up, but Samsung, on the contrary, unbelted. Even relatively conservative Sony were noted in the press quite so strange fact: different countries have the same models are fundamentally different in quality screens.

in the table above, we compare Galaxy Note 3 to the LG Optimus G Pro even though the latter was released a year earlier. Now LG stopped playing lopatomaniyu and their new LG G2 has a screen “only” 5.2 inches, so to compare it to Note 3 is not entirely correct. On the other hand, Optimus G Pro has a similar diagonal 5.5 inches, and only slightly less efficient than the Note 3. The truth here is the pen-stylus with “Optimus” no.

Samsung continues to increase the diagonal of the Note. At first, it was equal to 5.3 inches, and then, in Note 2 was 5.55 inches, and there is 5.7 inches. However, in all three number hand felt about the same.

At the time, as Apple has refused skevomorfizma in the design of its operating system (recall skevomorfizm – when visually simulate any material, such as leather or wood), Samsung has decided to play with skevomorfizmom in the material body. Make a plastic “under the metal”, it is already in Korean, and plastic “under the skin” is something new. But let’s be honest: to touch the rear surface Galaxy Note 3 very personal. True, it’s only because it reminds sensation (just remind) the skin, and feeling genuine leather, cause a person to the association with quality, reliability and high cost. Psychologists probably would have called it “anchor”. But in reality, it is no expensive and high-quality leather is not here! It’s not even imitation leather – it’s just plastic.

However, skevomorfizm in Korean design has always been more the rule. I remember that the author was a guitar made some Korean firm: there was a lot of fake screws – the designer for some reason decided that when the guitar visible screws – it’s cool and pleasant to people. In reality, the cogs on it was three times less. So, “leather” battery cover at the Galaxy Note 3 – the solution of purely Korean and European Heart questionable. Somehow it looks like the faux “gold-plating” imitations of Swiss watches.