The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a powerhouse of mobile technology and is packed with amazing tricks and features. Some of these will be familiar to every Android user, while others are exclusive to the TouchWiz UI. Here are some tips to enrich your experience of using the Galaxy Note 3.

One-handed operation

It’s no mean feat to use a 5.7-inch screen with one hand. Samsung knows this and offers a one-handed operation mode. Just go Settings > Controls and enter the one-handed operation menu to change some elements of the phablet’s UI so that you can reach them easily.

Use the screen while wearing gloves

The Galaxy Note 3 comes with a capacitive touchscreen, which doesn’t rely on pressure to register taps. Unfortunately, this means that you can’t use the screen while wearing gloves. Luckily, Samsung has found a way around it. All you have to do to is increase the display’s sensitivity by going to Settings > Controls and checking the ‘Increase touch sensitivity’ box.

Mute your phone by waving your hand in front of it

Nothing’s more embarrassing than your phone ringing in a quiet environment and your fumbled attempts to mute it. Luckily, the Galaxy Note 3 gives you the option of silencing your phone just by hovering your hand on top of it. Go to Settings > Control > Palm motion to enable this option.

Go completely hands-free

Using your phone while driving is both dangerous and illegal. Instead, use the hands-free option included in your Galaxy Note 3 to easily use your phone while driving. The hands-free options include having your caller information and text read aloud and accepting a call by waving your hand over the display. You can enable this option by going to Settings > Controls > Hands-free

Control your television with your phone

Most Samsung devices have IR blasters, which serve to make your phone a substitute for your TV remote. Just open Samsung’s WatchON app and enter your region details along with your TV type to make your phone into a TV remote.

Thinner and lighter, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a Super AMOLED screen Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 5.7 inches. The smartphone is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 2.3 GHz 800 comes with 3 GB of memory (RAM ), all running OS Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.

The Galaxy Note 3 shows the now well-known Galaxy S4 lines with rounded corners a little less than the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 , but with an overall look close enough. The novelty comes first from the rear which is not covered with the usual plastic , but a new coating called "Note Skin" by the manufacturer. The material effects of the Galaxy Note 3 , with its stitched seam finish gives it an elegant and refined design .

Media side , it is a 13 megapixel sensor capable of shooting 4K , an internal memory of 32GB, 4G connectivity 150 Mbps ( cat.4 ), WiFi n, WiFi Direct , Bluetooth 4.0, A- GPS , USB 2.0 Host Finally ... thanks to its 3,200 mAh battery, users can enjoy multimedia content without worrying too much about autonomy.

A new S Pen Experience

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is used with a finger or with a stylus with the S Pen technology which can be used to make sketches or drawings , or instantly jot down ideas before they s' soar. The Galaxy Note 3 enables even more features with the S Pen. Thus , passing the S Pen over the screen appears a new range of features and controls can be activated at any time . Air Command provides direct access to five major features :

• Action Memo allows you to directly convert handwritten notes into a specific action such as creating a contact by selecting directly on the screen and save it in the directory, find an address on a map or appeal .

• With the new Scrapbook feature, the user can select and collect with the S Pen multiple content types that interest from multiple sources such as the web or YouTube, and organize them into an album .

• Capture allows you to capture screen and enrich handwritten notes . The annotated image can then be shared.

• S Finder allows full search ALL the contents of the smartphone ( handwritten notes , calendar, mail ... ) using keywords and filters.

• Window Pen allows you to use multiple applications simultaneously while accessing other features of Galaxy Note 3 . Just simply draw a window of the desired size , anywhere on the screen to bring up the application desired format popup . You can then resize and move .

The new version of S Note egalemet gives the possibility to synchronize the application with an Evernote account with a Samsung account.

And there we have it. Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone, which hasn’t even been out a month, is now officially the tech giant’s fastest selling phone ever, with the company announcing late Wednesday that sales had crossed the 10 million mark.

“Launched globally on April 27, the phone is estimated to be selling at a rate of four units per second,” Samsung said in a statement announcing the news.

The Android-powered Galaxy S4, with its 5-inch 441-PPI display, 13-megapixel camera and slew of snazzy features, is evidently proving a big hit with consumers in the 110 countries where its currently sold. Ten million sales in less than a month makes sales of the previous iterations of the handset appear positively sluggish, though they were, of course, considered impressive at the time.

The Galaxy S3 crossed the 10-million mark 50 days after its launch in May last year, while the S2 took five months to reach the same milestone. As for the Galaxy S, the first handset in the range, that took all of seven months to sell 10 million units after launching in 2010.

“On behalf of Samsung, I would like to thank the millions of customers around the world who have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S4,” Samsung co-CEO JK Shin said in the statement. “At Samsung we’ll continue to pursue innovation inspired by and for people.”

The Galaxy’s S4’s impressive sales figures also indicate a narrowing of the gap previously comfortably enjoyed by Apple with its iPhone – for the first three months of this year, Apple sold an average of 12.5 million handsets per month. Could we see the S4 outselling the iPhone before the end of 2013, or will sales  tail off once the initial enthusiasm for the handset fades?

Late last year it was reported that Samsung is aiming to sell more than 500 million smartphones and feature phones in 2013, improving on sales in 2012 by around 20 percent. Based on Wednesday’s news, phones in the company’s Galaxy S range are likely to make up a sizable proportion of those sales.

Avec le Galaxy S3, Samsung prépare l'arrivée de l'iPhone 5 en poussant un smartphone bien équipé et doté d'un magnifique écran XXL. Si le coréen a bien rempli sa part du contrat, Google doit encore optimiser Android pour simplifier l'interface et améliorer la réactivité de son OS mobile.

Si Apple a profondément bouleversé le marché des smartphones depuis la sortie de l'iPhone et de sa boutique d'applications, le duo Samsung/Google lui a emboité le pas et a également contribué à marginaliser Nokia et RIM, aujourd'hui en pleine tourmente. Dernier né de l'association entre le coréen et la firme de Mountain View, le Galaxy S3 repose sur Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) la dernière mouture du système d'exploitation de Google sur laquelle a été greffée une surcouche baptisée TouchWiz 4. Cette dernière vient simplifier Android qui n'est toujours pas un modèle d'ergonomie. Mais il est toujours impossible de remplacer une icône par une autre sur le bureau par exemple ou de créer un dossier en fusionnant deux icônes. Autre problème, les interfaces utilisateurs de ce type surchargent et ralentissent la réactivité du système d'exploitation. Heureusement, le Galaxy S3 a été très bien doté du côté de la plate-forme matérielle. Le terminal est en effet animé par une puce ARM quad-core Exynos 4212 cadencée à 1,4 GHz, épaulée par 1 Go de mémoire vive. Ainsi équipé, le S3 se montre fluide et réactif que ce soit pour naviguer entre les écrans ou lancer une application. Du moins tant que la mémoire n'est pas surchargée car, comme avec un iPhone 4S, il est de temps en temps nécessaire de tuer des applications pour alléger le gestionnaire de tâche. Et l'opération est encore plus simple que sur un iPhone, il suffit de double cliquer sur le bouton principal pour lancer le gestionnaire de tâches et tuer les applications.

Un écran surprenant

Mais ce qui surprend immédiatement lors de la prise en main du terminal de Samsung, c'est la taille de l'écran : 4,8 pouces (1280 x 720 pixels) pour le S3 contre 4,3" pour le S2 et 3,5" pour l'iPhone 4. De type super Amoled HD, l'écran est aussi bon que celui de l'iPhone 4. L'affichage pourrait toutefois être un peu plus lumineux. La fonction d'économie de batterie assombrit un peu trop l'écran. Imposant avec son écran XXL, le S3 demande un petit temps d'adaptation quand on vient d'un iPhone 4. On ne sait pas si le terminal va tenir dans la poche de son jean, ni s'il tiendra bien dans la main. Mais après deux semaines d'utilisation, toutes ces craintes se sont envolées. Le S3 reste certes imposant, mais on finit par oublier la taille du terminal pour naviguer dans les différences couches d'Android 4.0. Il faut bien l'avouer les possibilités offertes par le S3 sont bien supérieures à celle d'un iPhone 4S. Apple livre un smartphone ergonomique et efficace, mais la richesse fonctionnelle est du côté du Galaxy S3. On accède à beaucoup plus de réglages dans les bas-fonds d'Android. Et les boutiques en ligne d'apps Android - celle de Samsung et celle de Google par exemple - regorgent d'utilitaires pour améliorer son smartphone : Juice Defender pour améliorer l'autonomie, Cerberus pour la sécurité, AppMonster pour gérer les apps...

Sur les pas de l'iPhone 4S, le S3 propose également un assistant vocal baptisé S-Voice.  Comme pour Siri, il s'agit d'un gadget qui amusera les grands enfants. S-Voice est en effet aussi bon ou aussi agaçant que son homologue. En français tout du moins, car en anglais les possibilités sont plus nombreuses. Si les commandes de base comme prendre une photo ou quel temps fait-il fonctionnent plutôt bien, dans la plupart des cas on aura tout aussi vite fait de tapoter sur l'écran tactile.

Network connectivity for the part , the S3 supports 3G + ( HSDPA 21 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps) , WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0 ( A2DP ) , GPS (A- GPS) and even has DLNA and an NFC chip for future use contactless services . If the single connector microUSB type, it can also act as audio- video output ( MHL ) . Photo / video side , Samsung has opted for an 8 megapixel sensor ( 3264 x 2448 pixels) , capable of recording Full HD footage (1920 x 1080 pixels). Last icing on the cake , it comes standard with an FM tuner that is sorely lacking in the iPhone.

One last word to conclude on autonomy and the design of smartphone. No great surprise side battery (removable here) , intensive use ( 3G/WiFi ), the terminal will not hold a full day but it is the lot of all smartphones of the moment. Side look, Samsung has kept its copy precisely to avoid a new trial from Apple . With its rounded hull white or blue polycarbonate , its screen XXL and wasp waist , the S3 is very different from the iPhone 4. Impossible to confuse . If Galaxy is now a very good alternative to the iPhone 4S , he will find his way in the autumn version 5 of the Apple device. Rest with its intrinsic technical qualities and the arrival of Android 4.1 , it will smoothly rope for future battle ahead .

Samsung launches this week its new high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S4. With this model, it must consolidate its new position as world leader in mobile phones.

Galaxy S4, new high-end smartphone from Samsung, released this week in the world to counter the iPhone 5 in advance and strengthen the South Korean on Apple. Presented in March at Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Galaxy S4 opens Friday in South Korea and the rest of the world over the weekend.41 million Galaxy S3 sold in one yearNo more than the iPhone 5, the S4 offers technological revolution, but improvements that can be decisive in the fierce competition between smartphones and tablets using him as Android, the mobile operating system from Google. S4 - S3 whose predecessor has sold over 41 million copies since its launch a year ago - is especially with a large high-definition screen (5 inches, 12.7 centimeters) a battery and a camera performance. It can recognize eye movements to scroll or turn pages automatically as and when reading, or stop video when the user looks away."Samsung entered into uncharted territory. Sales S4 tell us if he is able to defend its new status as" the world leader in mobile phones and smartphones, notes James Song, an analyst at KDB Daewoo Securities.For now, everything seems to smile on South Korean company is expected to announce Friday that a whopping 53% of its operating profit in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2012, to 8.7 trillion won (5.98 billion euros).Objective 70 to 80 million for the S4?Samsung has passed 65 million smartphones in the first three months of fiscal 2013, for a market share of 30%, according to research firm DRAMeXchange Taiwanese. In contrast, Apple announced Tuesday the first decline in net profit in nearly a decade. According to DRAMeXchange, the iPhone has sold 37.5 million units for a global market share of 15.3%. Samsung had stolen the top spot to Apple in 2011 and its lead last year and accounted for about 30% market share against 19% for the group at the apple. S3 was even temporarily replaced during the summer iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone, and Samsung was openly mocked his rival in commercials where he had people queuing up to buy the iPhone 5, but squinting with envy on the Galaxy S3.For his successor the Galaxy S4, the bar has been set very high. CIMB Bank expects at least 70 million passed this year. Morgan Stanley also mentions an "ambitious goal" set by Samsung to its suppliers, who will be able to deliver 10 million copies per month, against 8,000,000 at the time of peak production for the S3. According to Morgan Stanley, the device would be proposed by a number of "record" of 400 operators in 210 countries for use on the third or fourth generation (3G or 4G LTE).Samsung, whose range is very wide, from S4 to cheaper models for emerging markets, however, remains far from Apple in terms of profitability with a two times higher for the U.S. operating margin. "Samsung still has a long way to go before settling permanently as a leader and not a follower. Has never had the genius of innovation as Steve Jobs," said James Song. "But Jobs is no longer Apple and the company is struggling. It could help Samsung to gain time to install as a leader in every sense of the term." Song believes that the S4 can reach the 80 million units taking advantage of recent problems in Apple's supply chain.Learn more about