Samsung Galaxy Note 2: Unbreakable, Higher-Resolution 5.5" Display

Details have begun to emerge about the successor to the Galaxy Note, which most likely will be released by next fall. With more inches, more power, more everything, the Galaxy Note II may just turn out to be a force to reckon with.


For now it's all rumours and hearsay, sometimes leaked from subcontractors, but what's certain is that the Galaxy Note II (seen in the non-official photo above) is already creating a buzz. Word on the street says it will have a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display with Pentile technology (two sub-pixels per pixel) with 1680 x 1050 pixel resolution (300 dpi), compared to the current Galaxy Note's 5.3-inch Super AMOLED screen and 1280 x 800 resolution (285 dpi).

According to Korean website, MK Business, the display currently in the works is unbreakable and the first in a coming generation of Samsung-made flexible OLED screens, possibly the fruit of the firm's Youm technology. Only a few weeks ago it was announced that the components would be ready for implementation in client/competitor devices by late 2012. It appears Samsung may have fast-tracked the display for its own products.

So what else does the grapevine tell us? The Note II will reportedly run Android 4 ICS with a new version of TouchWiz and have a 2 GHz dual-core processor (Samsung's own Exynos 5250), a 12-Megapixel 1080p photo/video camera, a Mali-T604 GPU, 1.5 GB of RAM, brand new dedicated apps, a Galaxy S III-inspired design and a stylus.

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