![]() ![]() The bread and butter of the PC industry has always been IT departments and commercial buyers. It's no coincidence that Microsoft's Surface commercials all take place at work, even the ones with the most dance-fighting. ![]() As it is, bigger doesn’t add anything: you're getting larger icons and bigger text, not more pixels to work with.Īnd above all, that’s what Samsung's trying to do with the Note Pro: give businesses something to work with. The Pro is so designed around its screen, and its best features improve with every available pixel, that something even higher-res would have helped make the Pro worth its $749.99 sticker price. The Note 10.1 has the same resolution in a smaller display, and side by side with the Pro is noticeably sharper. But I can't help wondering if Samsung could or should have done better. The screen itself is quite good, a 12.2-inch, 2560 x 1600 panel with great colors and viewing angles. It's essentially like holding a television two feet in front of my face. Playing Asphalt 8: Airborne gave me a headache, the frenetic game jittering so large so close. ![]() The Note Pro all but blocked my entire vision, was so bright it left me seeing spots, and tired my arms out pretty quickly. I often lie in bed, on my back with a tablet held above my face while I watch TV shows before going to sleep. Its sheer size makes it a great way to show something to a co-worker or client, but too big for almost anything else. It's meant to be used flat on a desk, too, or cradled by your elbow, since it's virtually impossible to hold in one hand and only slightly more stable in two. The physical home button sits on the bottom as I hold it in landscape, flanked by multitasking and back keys the loud stereo speakers blast audio from both sides and the camera actually faces me and not somewhere over my right shoulder. Reading in portrait looks ridiculous, and the device starts to tip out of my hands as soon as I grip it from the bottom. The Note Pro is meant to be used in exactly one way: landscape mode.
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