Samsung Galaxy Note 4 : Speculations, Price & Features

Well! Samsung’s big launches gives the same jitters to most of us like the release of a new Star Trek movie. So, this time the big one is Samsung Galaxy Note 4, just hold your horses and wait a little while. As the rumors say it, we will be introduced to the launch of Galaxy Note 4 in IFA to be held in September. Let’s have a look at what the white elephant heard about the specs, price and launch date of the beast.

It was from the news of Korean times which quoted an executive of Samsung partner “Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 4 phablet, UHD OLED TVs, a Google Glass rival, and home appliances at the upcoming IFA. The Note 4 will have two versions - one with a curved OLED display for niche markets and the other a flat OLED display for mass marketing."

Samsung had a strong denial for the comment, however, from the words of Yoon Han-Kil, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s product strategy team, the firm has plans to launch the new Galaxy Note in the latter half of 2014.

Price

Till now there has been no word about the launching price for the new note but comparing with the previous handsets and speculating its specifications the experts have opinioned for the phone to cost between £550 and £600 or $950 and $1025 which lies in the launch price range of Galaxy S5.

Design

The Galaxy Note series is deliberately bigger than a phone and smaller than a tablet, hence, is a phablet. Since we know that Note 2 was 5.5 inch, Note 3 5.7, so this made us expect Note 4 to go till 5.9 inches display.

We believe that your expectations will be met and the Galaxy Note 4 will come with a stylus, i.e. Samsung’s S Pen which will be powered by Google’s Android Operating System. It is also speculated that the unlocking of the device will have an option of handwriting recognition and will perform functions like calling.

Coming to various colors, the phablet is expected to be launched in monochromes used in S5 which are Charcoal Black, Shimmery White, Electric Blue and Copper Gold.

Operating System

As going by Android’s OS release experts are contemplating the new 4.5 or 5.0 version codenamed as “Lollipop” will be released. So we are speculating that the New Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will have the latest software.

Processor

News have come that Note 4 will be bundled with Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 Processor, it is a a quad-core Krait 450 chip which can be clocked up to 2.7GHz and has an Andreno 420 GPU.

AnTuTu Benchmarks have emerged with another configuration saying the Note 4 to have Samsung’s own 5433 octa-core processor. A score of 40,303 is better than the Snapdragon 805 but slightly begins the nVidia Tegra K1.

However, we think that Samsung might be working on both and once the testing completes Samsung will take up a call on which processor to release or may be both.

Display

Following the Qualcomm, it calls the display processor “Ultra HD” because it supports 4K resolution capture and playback. This will make Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the first ever smartphone with 4K resolution screen. However, news have also confirmed that Samsung is working on both Quad HD and Ultra HD display and will launch the phone with the technology who wing the testing battle.

Another interesting fact that caught our attention is the possibility of a three sided screen which makes reading messages easier from various angles, this was confirmed by Samsung’s executive Vice President Lee Young Hee to Bloomberg.

Talking about the design, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is expected to be launched in a dust and waterproof design. It has become more of a standard feature after Sony launched it with high end devices like Xperia Z1 Compact.

Expected Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Model	Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Display	5.7-inch or more with QHD (aka 2K) 2560x1440p resolutions
OS	Latest Android OS
Processor	2.7GHz Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 series quad-core processor with Adreno 420 graphics engine/Exynos 5443 Octa-core CPU chipset (yet-to-be-announced) paired with the Intel's XMM7260 Cat. 6 modem
RAM	Expected 4GB
Storage capacity	Either 16GB or 32GB with options for expansion via microSD card.
Camera	Main: Sony's proprietary IMX240 (yet-to-be announced) 16.0-megapixel camera with OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer) feature
	Front: 2.0-megapixel camera
Network	3G/4G-LTE (cat.6)
Add-ons	Water-proof certifications, finger print sensor

Conclusion

The Note 4 will almost certainly be announced at the same time as the IFA 2014 show, which is due to kick off on 5 September. So, let’s wait and watch what surprises Note 4 has in store for us and will it be able to create yet another history for Samsung, but it you plan to buy the device, once it is launched, you can find the best price and offer here.