GLOBAL FLAGSHIP WITH AN INDIAN HEART
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series features quirky innovations from its India R&D centre
The word flagship has been used and abused in the mobile world. Ideally, it should mean a device that lets a brand showcase the best it can offer, by way of design, performance, or chipset. Flagships tend to be more expensive because they are premium, with longer shelf life than other phones. But brands have diluted the concept by dubbing value-for-money phones as flagships just to grab eyeballs. This time around, Samsung claims that Note 10+ has the best features for both productivity and quirky ‘time pass’. It comes with sophisticated AI and machine learning that converts handwriting to text and saves your scribbles in multiple formats. What enables this, is the Samsung S Pen, the stylus that has evolved to operate with 6-axis gesture control. In its latest avatar, the pen features something called Air Actions, that detects direction and acceleration from your movements of the S Pen, and performs preset actions. With the Galaxy Note 10 series, Samsung has opened this feature to developers, hoping to enhance its usability and adding more functionalities.
The Samsung R&D institute, in Bangalore has contributed key enhancements, mix of fun and AI-driven productivity tools, to the Galaxy Note 10 series of phones, specifically targeted at young, restless millennials. The fact that the life of these uber cool people is one big folder of content — with audio, video, stories, live streams, and everything in between — inspired the Bangalore R&D centre to introduce features like Auto Doodle where you can scribble your unique drawings over photos and videos and it automatically predicts what you are trying to express, and creatively animates your scribbles. Big Bokeh, on the other hand, provides a catalogue of depth-related enhancements to your photos and videos, inspired by DSLR cameras. Another interesting innovation is intelligent sorting of your image gallery by virtual tags, using AI to automatically classify your pictures and suggest hashtags for it. With a 16 MP ultra-wide, 12 MP wide angle and 12 MP telephoto lens at the back, the Note 10+ churns out impressive lowlight photos and shake-free videos. The 10 MP front camera compliments this by offering attractive selfie enhancements.
— IndiaTechOnline