Samsung Galaxy Note 5 officially announced!

Samsung Mobile has finally made the global announcement of the Galaxy Note 5 here at the Lincoln Center in New York. Sporting an all-metal body wrapped with Gorilla Glass both at the front and back, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is the first in the Galaxy Note family to carry unibody design.

In terms of hardware configuration, the Galaxy Note 5 basically followed the route of the Galaxy S6 with a few improvements like more RAM (4GB LPDDR4), bigger screen and higher battery capacity. Aside from the S Pen stylus, all the rest are basically the same.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 specs:
5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display @ 2560×1440 pixels, 518ppi
Gorilla Glass 4 (front and back)
Samsung Exynos 7420 64-bit octa-core CPU
ARM Cortex A57 2.1GHz quad-core, ARM Cortex A53 1.5GHz quad-core
Mali T-760 GPU
4GB LPDDR4 RAM
32, 64 internal storage
Dual-SIM, 4G/LTE Cat. 6 and Cat 9.
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, 2.4GHz & 5.0GHz, MiMo 2×2
Bluetooth 4.2, LE, ANT
NFC
GPS with aGPS, GLONASS
16 megapixel rear camera, OIS, dual-LED flash, f1.9
5 megapixel front-facing camera, f1.9
Qi Wireless Charging
3,000mAh Li-Ion non-removable battery
Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with TouchWiz
153.2 x 76.1 x 7.6mm (dimensions)
171 grams (weight)

The Galaxy Note 5 will no longer have a removable battery due to its unibody design. There won’t be any expandable storage since it also dropped the microSD card slot.

Two colors will be initially available — gold and black, but a special color variant, silver, will be released later as well.

Meanwhile, here’s our hands-on video of the device if you want to see more of the Note 5.

Check out our initial review of the Galaxy Note 5 here.

In the same launch event, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ was also announced.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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11 Comments

Nagmamagaling says:

9 years ago

Is this for real? Other blogs such as Android Central and Android Authority say the announcement doesn’t start until 11AM today Eastern Time.
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shutter says:

9 years ago

parehong pareho lang sa mga lumalabas na leak. Wala na din syang microSD.Pero maganda.
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Syntax says:

9 years ago

No microSD card slot.
Not removable battery.
No 128GB internal storage to pick from.

Why did you have to kill yourself Samsung?
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anonym says:

9 years ago

non removable battery – disapointed
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quasimodomehman says:

9 years ago

if you have the s6 / s6 Edge, the upgrade isn’t worth it. same spec

aside from the stylus, extra 1GB ram, screen and battery.

meh
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KiD says:

9 years ago

maraming na dissapoint sa note 5 dahil maraming tinanggal na tinatangkilik ng consumer na features dati:(
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val says:

9 years ago

Damn Samsung..don’t just and paste. Coz it appears you forgot to exclude Iphone’s weaknesses as well you moron
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Yoav Kim says:

9 years ago

Samsung has turned to full retard! Adapting the mindset of Apple. They thought if Apple could sell a lot of iPhone garbage what is stopping us from selling garbage as well. There you go!
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