The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is a 10.1-inch
Android-based
tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers ...
produced and marketed by
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...
.
It belongs to the new generation of the
Samsung Galaxy Note series
The Samsung Galaxy Note is a discontinued line of high-end flagship Android smartphones developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The line was primarily oriented towards pen computing; all Galaxy Note models shipped with a stylus pen, ...
tablets, which also includes an 8-inch model, the
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 and a 12-inch model, the
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. It was announced on 4 September 2013, and was launched worldwide in October 2013.
It is the successor to the original
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
The Samsung Galaxy Note series, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is a 10.1-inch tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The tablet runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0.3 (Android Jelly Bean, Android 4.1.2 in Europ ...
. The model numbers were originally going to be GT-N8100, GT-N8110, and GT-N8120 for the 3G, Wi-Fi, and LTE variants, respectively, before becoming SM-P601/P602, SM-P600, and SM-P605.
History
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition was announced on 4 September 2013.
It was shown along with the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear at the 2013 IFA at Berlin and at the New York Times Square simultaneously. On September 26, Samsung announced that the tablet would be released in October, starting from $549, and start shipping in the US on October 10.
Features
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 was released with
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Samsung has customized the interface with its ''
TouchWiz UX'' software. As well as apps from
Google
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, including
Google Play
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,
Gmail
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and
YouTube
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, it has access to Samsung apps such as
ChatON (discontinued in March 2015), S Suggest,
S Voice
S Voice is a discontinued intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which is only available as a built-in application for the Samsung Galaxy S III, S III Mini (including NFC), S4, S4 Mini, S4 Active, S5, S5 Mini, S II Plus ...
, Peel Smart Remote and
AllShare Play.
Additional pen-oriented features and apps have been added to the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, namely the Air Command menu which provides shortcuts to pen-oriented features such as Action Memos (on-screen
sticky note
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s that use
handwriting recognition
Handwriting recognition (HWR), also known as handwritten text recognition (HTR), is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwriting, handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens ...
to detect their contents and provide relevant actions such as looking up addresses on
Google Maps
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and dialing phone numbers), Screen Write, which is an annotation tool, Pen Window, which allows users to draw pop-up windows to run certain apps inside, the search tool S Finder, Scrapbook, My Magazine, which is a
news aggregator
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app powered by
Flipboard
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that is accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, and an updated version of S Note.
The original Note 10.1 may not have come with the latest version of Android out of the box, but the 2014 edition did when it was released. An update to
Android 4.4.2 KitKat began for the SM-P605 model in June starting from the
Nordic countries
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, while the upgrade for the WiFi only edition (SM-P600) began in April and started from
Colombia
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. Late in September 2015, the 2014 editions started receiving an update to install
Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is available in Wi-Fi-only,
3G &
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...
, and
4G/
LTE
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Science and technology
* LTE (telecommunication) (Long-Term Evolution), a mobile telephony standard
** LTE Advanced, an enhancement
** LTE Advanced Pro, a further enhancement
* Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers
* Leukotrie ...
& Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 64 GB depending on the model, with a
microSDXC
Secure Digital (SD) is a proprietary hardware, proprietary, non-volatile memory, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA). Owing to their compact size, SD cards have been widely adopted in a variety of port ...
card slot for expansion. It has a 10.1-inch
WQXGA TFT screen with a pixel resolution of 2560x1600. It also features a 2 MP front camera and an 8 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos.
The SM-P607T is a 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi version released exclusively for
T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand of telecommunications by Deutsche Telekom
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USA.
See also
*
Samsung Galaxy Note series
The Samsung Galaxy Note is a discontinued line of high-end flagship Android smartphones developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The line was primarily oriented towards pen computing; all Galaxy Note models shipped with a stylus pen, ...
*
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...
*
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
References
External links
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