Samsung Galaxy Note series

Samsung Galaxy Note is a series of Android-based high-end smartphones and high-end tablets developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The line is primarily oriented towards pen computing; all Galaxy Note models ship with a stylus pen and incorporate a pressure-sensitive Wacom digitizer. All Galaxy Note models also include software features that are oriented towards the stylus and the devices' large screens, such as note-taking and digital scrapbooking apps, and split-screen multitasking.

The Galaxy Note smartphones have been considered the first commercially successful examples of "phablets"—a class of smartphone with large screens that are intended to straddle the functionality of a traditional tablet with that of a phone. Samsung sold over 50 million Galaxy Note devices between September 2011 and October 2013. 10 million units of the Galaxy Note 3 have been sold within its first 2 months, 30 million were of the Note II, while the original Galaxy Note sold around 10 million units worldwide.

Models

Galaxy Note

At IFA Berlin in 2011, Samsung announced the original Galaxy Note. While some media outlets questioned the viability of the device due to its 5.3-inch screen , the Note received positive reception for its stylus functionality, the speed of its 1.4 GHz dual-core processor, and the advantages of such a large screen size.The Galaxy Note was a commercial success: released October 2011, Samsung announced in December 2011 that the Galaxy Note had sold 1 million units in two months. In February 2012, Samsung debuted a Note version with LTE support, and by August 2012, the Note had sold 10 million units worldwide.

Galaxy Note II

On August 29, 2012 at IFA Berlin, Samsung unveiled a successor to the Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Note II. The new model, released September 2012, featured improvements to the original Note's hardware display, a revised stylus and an upgraded digitizer with 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity for more precise pen input, a new hardware design based on that of the Galaxy S III, along with new features such as pen gestures, split-screen multitasking, Air View , and other new features also introduced by the S III.

Galaxy Note 3 

On September 4, 2013, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 3, introducing a more "premium" design with a plastic leather backing, a 5.7 inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 13 MP camera, 32 or 64 GB storage, and expanded stylus pen functionality.

Galaxy Note 3 Neo

In January 2014, Samsung for the first time released a "downgraded" version of the Note 3, the Galaxy Note 3 Neo. It features the S-Pen, 8 MP camera, 5.5" super Amoled HD 720p display, 16 GB storage, 2 GB RAM as well as all of the Note 3's software features. For the first time, it has a Samsung Exynos Hexa 5260 processor with a quad core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7 CPU and a dual core 1.7 GHz Cortex A15 CPU with support for HMP and a Mali-T624 GPU.

Galaxy Note 4

On September 3, 2014 at IFA Berlin, Samsung unveiled a successor to the Galaxy Note 3, the Galaxy Note 4. The new model, released October 2014, introduced a new design with a plastic leather backing and metal frame, a 5.7-inch QHD display, a 16MP camera with OIS, improved S-Pen, an upgraded digitizer with 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity and expanded functionality, fingerprint scanner, and other features taken from the Galaxy S5.

Galaxy Note Edge

Along with the Galaxy Note 4, the Galaxy Note Edge was also presented featuring a curved display of 160px flowing into the right side of the phone. To accommodate this the power button was relocated to the top side along the headphone jack and the battery shrank to 3000mAh. The features are otherwise identical to the Galaxy Note 4. Its screen size is 5.6", just 0.1" smaller compared to the Note 4.

Galaxy Note 5

The Galaxy Note 5 was announced on 13 August 2015 in New York and became available in some markets a few days later. It features a metal and glass body design; unlike previous Note models the battery is not field-replaceable and there is no Micro-SD slot for expanding storage. There are no plans to sell the device in Europe.

Tablets

Galaxy Note 8.0

At the Mobile World Congress 2013, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8.0. It has an 8-inch display and uses a quad-core 1.6 GHz processor and, like the Galaxy Note 10.1, supports the Samsung S-Pen.

Galaxy Note 10.1

At the Mobile World Congress 2012, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 10.1, as an alternative to the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It has a 10.1-inch display and uses a quad-core 1.4 GHz processor and supports the Samsung S-Pen input as seen on the original Galaxy Note phone.

Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

At the 2013 Samsung Unpacked Episode 2 event on Berlin and New York, Samsung announced the successor to the original Galaxy Note 10.1 inch tablet dubbed as the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. Like its predecessor, it has a 10.1 inch display and now supports the improved Samsung S-Pen input also seen in the Note III and it copies the design cue of its lower-end sibling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 which sports the unified Samsung design first used on the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro

Galaxy Note Pro 12.2

At the 2014 Consumer Electrics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung announced the first Pro line of tablets which included a bigger Samsung Galaxy Note Pro tablet with a 12.2 inch display and also comes with the same S-Pen the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is sporting which is the standard on the Note Series. Design wise is also similar with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition which sports the new Samsung standard simulated stitched-leather back.