Samsung's Galaxy Note comes with a pen for sketching and more

And one last biggie from Samsung at IFA – the Galaxy Note. It is quite clearly a smartphone but it does boast a 5.3 inch display, so it could almost be a baby tablet. It isn’t the first gadget to sport this sized screen, you might remember the similarly specced Dell Streak from last year.

What makes this a bit different is that it actually comes with a pen on board. The S Pen means that you can use the device’s big 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display for everything from sketching to note-taking. It also comes with a planner – the S Planner, which is a professional planning tool that integrates the phone’s To-Do list and schedule.

Interestingly Samsung plans to release the S Pen SDK allowing app developers to create fundamentally new applications and services incorporating the pen functionality.

Samsung also claims that the bifg screen makes the device useful for things like PowerPoint presentations (yawn), web-pages, news apps and e-books.

It also boasts a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, HSPA+ and LTE (4G) connections, runs Android 2.3(Gingerbread) OS and packs an eight mega pixel camera. Full specs below.

Network

HSPA+ 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100
EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900

Processor

1.4GHz Dual Core Processor

Display

5.3″ WXGA(1280×800, 285ppi) HD Super AMOLED

OS

Android 2.3(Gingerbread)

Camera

Main(Rear) : 8 MP with LED Flash

Front : 2 MP

Action Shot, Beauty, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Share Shot

Video

Video : MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1
Recording 1080p@24~30fps, Playing 1080p@30fps

Audio

Codec : MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG

Music Player with SoundAlive

3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS

Value-added

Features

Samsung Apps

Samsung Kies 2.0/ Samsung Kies air

Samsung ChatON mobile messenger service

(Downloadable via Samsung Apps)

Samsung TouchWiz/ Samsung L!ve Panel UX

Smart Note Apps

S Pen / Pen UX

Social Hub
– Integrated Messaging(Email, SNS), Contacts/ Calendar Sync

– Basic: POP3/IMAP Email

Social Hub, Readers Hub , Music Hub

GoogleTM Mobile Services

– GmailTM, Google TalkTM, Google SearchTM, YouTubeTM, Android Market TM,

– Google MapsTM with Google Places and Google Latitude

A-GPS

Enterprise Solutions

– ODE, EAS, CCX, MDM, VPN, WebEx

NFC (optional)

Connectivity

Bluetooth® technology v 3.0 + HS

USB 2.0 HOST

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct

Sensor

Accelerometer, Light, Digital compass, Proximity, Barometer

Memory

16/32GB Internal Memory + microSD (up to 32GB)

Size

146.85 x 82.95 x 9.65 mm

Battery

Standard battery, Li-on 2,500 mAh