The best smartphones for 2012
Despite being in the UK for a while now, the US has had to wait as Samsung confirmed at CES that the Galaxy Note will arrive stateside with the added bonus of 4G LTE mobile internet. Samsung are pitching the Galaxy Note as half-way between a smartphone and a tablet mainly due to it's 5.3 inch Super AMOLED screen and incredible stylus, the S pen.
Otherwise the phone has a a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, runs on Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread), has 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, up to 32GB of additional storage via microSD card, 2,500mAh battery, eight-megapixel 1080p camera with flash and two-megapixel front-facing camera.