Samsung has just announced that they’ve sold 2 million Galaxy Notes just 5 months after bringing the product to their home market. To give you an idea of how impressive that is, South Korea is a country that’s home to roughly 49 million people. In other words, 4% of the country decided to spend their Korean wons on a 5.3 inch smartphone that uses a stylus. Now I’ll be the first to admit, I completely misjudged the Note when I first wrote about it back in October of last year. After having recently played with one for a few days, I can not only say that I was wrong to slam the Note, but that I’m actually looking forward to seeing what the next generation of the device will look like. The first Galaxy Note was basically a Galaxy S II, but with a larger screen, so it wouldn’t be that far fetched to imagine the next generation Note being the Galaxy S III, but with a monster display.
Speaking about the Galaxy S III, it’s due to be announced in less than 12 hours. We know it’s going to have a quad core 32 nanometer processor, it’ll have a 720p AMOLED screen that doesn’t use PenTile technology (which is a good thing), and some whiz-bang camera that will better than last year’s camera, but probably not as good as Nokia’s 41 megapixel monster. But really, let’s be honest for a second, what we truly want to see is the next version of Android, the next version of iOS, the next version of Windows Phone, and the first devices on the market to use ARM’s new Cortex A15 processor. The OS updates are things we’ll hear about towards the end of the year, and the A15 bit … that’s at least a year away.
Then again, there’s always something better around the corner.