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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 3

If you want high end phones for performing superior tasks, then you must have a look at these. They are extremely rich in features offering almost no compromises. But which among them is the better one? Samsung Galaxy…

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If you want high end phones for performing superior tasks, then you must have a look at these. They are extremely rich in features offering almost no compromises. But which among them is the better one?

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Samsung has presented yet another phone from the Galaxy Note family. It looks similar to its predecessors in design. What more does it have to offer? Let us see.

Design & Display

It weighs 183 grams – which is lighter for a phone. It is presented in unique S pen stylus. The screen is a Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen with 16 M colors. It has 720 x 1280 pixels resolution on its 5.5 inch screen. This gives it a 267 pixel per inch density resolution. The resolution is ample for fine viewing. Multi touch feature is powered by TouchWiz UI.

Specifications, Camera & Battery

It is available in 16/32/64 GB internal storage capacity and has expandable memory slot up to 64 GB. It has a 1.6 GHz Quad core processor which is backed by a 2 GB RAM. Currently it is available in Android Jelly Bean OS but it is upgradable to Android KitKat OS. It has an 8 mega pixels camera with autofocus and LED flash support. The secondary camera is 1.9 mega pixels. It has a 3100 mAh Li-Ion battery.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

This phone released in the last quarter of 2013, shares a lot of similarities with its predecessor. We can say that Samsung has tried its best to renovate the Note series with this phone. How far has it achieved that?

Design & Display

This phone is also featured with S Pen Stylus but has 168 grams weight – making it much lighter than Note 2. It has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on its screen. The phone is brighter and longer than Note 2.

Specifications, Camera & Battery

It is available in 16/32/64 GB internal memory slots and it is expandable up to 64 GB. The 1.2 GHz Quad core processor is backed by a massive 3 GB RAM support. It is available in Android Jelly Bean OS but is also upgradable to the latest Android OS KitKat version. It has a 13 mega pixel camera of 4128 x 3096 pixels resolution. The camera includes dual LED flash along with auto focus, geo tagging, panorama, image stabilization, HDR and such features. The front camera is only 2 mega pixels. The phone has a non removable Li-Ion 3200 mAh battery.

Overall

We agree that the Note 3 is supposed to be a better phone compared to Note 2. But the benchmark of betterment was expected to be higher. Nevertheless you can opt for Note 3 because of higher specs. But if you are running out on budget, get yourself a Note 2 – you wouldn’t miss much.

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