Samsung has revealed Tuesday during a special event hosted by the city of New York, the new version of Galaxy Note and the next generation of virtual reality glass “Galaxy VR2”.
Note 7 phone comes after the successor “Galaxy Note 5,” which was launched by the South Korean company last year, and had previously made it clear that the reason for skipping the number 6 to unify their product collection and eliminate confusion and provide full compatibility with the “Galaxy S” series phones.
The phone comes with the same design style since Samsung phones “Galaxy S 6” and in the same shape and specifications with the new features that have emerged over the past months.
Note 7 offers “Super AMOLED” screen with the new generation of “Gorilla 5” glass curved on the sides measuring 5.7 inches and 1440×2560, including 4 GB random access memory (RAM) and internal storage capacity of 64 Gigabytes can be extended up to 256 Gigabytes through SD Micro cards.
The phone works with the quad-core processor of 64 byte Snabdragon 820, with two nodes 2.15 GHz, and two node of 1.6 GHz, with the option of eight core processor “exynos 8890” (four cores at speeds of 2.3 GHz, and four other of 1.6 GHz).
The device supports fourth generation networks LTI of (Cat.9), which provides data transfer speeds up to 450 Megabyte per second, and includes a a battery with capacity of 3500 mAh/h and has a back camera of 12 megapixels that supports dual pixels technology and a 5 megapixels front camera..
Also it comes with Type-C USB and also comes with Iris sensor in addition to as well as a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone to protect data in folders, it also supports “Bluetooth 4.2 and “NFC” contact.
The Phone and its pen are waterproof and dustproof in accordance with the standard “IB 68” and the company has added new features to the pen where it became the easy interpretation of the words as soon as you mark the desired word, as well as it can convert any video clip to the moving picture (gif)
The phone is currently available for pre-order on the company’s website at a price of $850, It will be officially available at the market as of August 19 in multiple options.
The next-generation of Gear VR awaits.
The company also revealed the next generation of virtual reality glasses “Gear VR” which is similar to its predecessor with some significant improvements as it increased the ion FOV (field of view) for up to 101 degrees compared to 96 degrees in the previous version.
These glasses now supports the USB interface type C to conform with the Nore 7 phone, as well as supporting the company’s latest phones starting from the “Galaxy S 6, and Note 5” by replacing the interface, The company also updated the in the control buttons on the glasses sides.