12.2-inch Samsung Galaxy Note Pro will cost $750, available February 13

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Android By Lee Mathews Feb. 4, 2014 10:29 am
Remember the 12-inch Samsung tablet that DigiTimes said was going into production a couple of months ago? It’s called the Galaxy Note Pro and it’s going to hit retail stores next week for $750.
That’s a lot of cash for an Android tablet, but this isn’t just a stretched-out Nexus 10 competitor. The Galaxy Note Pro is aimed at professional users — the kind who might have opted for a touchscreen Ultrabook or convertible but wanted something a bit lighter… or something that didn’t run Windows 8.1.
$750 for a 32GB tablet does seem a bit pricey. But with a 2560 x 1600 resolution display and an integrated Wacom digitizer, it’s actually a pretty good buy if you’re in the market for this sort of device. Wacom’s own tablet will cost you at least $249 more.
The 64GB Note Pro sells for $849. Again, that seems high, but it’s not that much more expensive than a 64GB iPad Air — which lacks the Wacom digitizer and has a lower-resolution display.
There’s more to the Galaxy Note Pro than its beautiful display and digitizer, however. The WiFi model features Samsung’s octa-core Exynos processor clocked at 1.9GHz, 3GB of RAM, and a massive 9500mAh battery. That should provide plenty of power: it’s about 20% bigger than the Galaxy Note 10.1′s battery, so squeezing out two full days of hands-on time should be no problem.

Samsung’s also added some nice software touches to the Galaxy Note Pro, like the ability to drag and drop files between the tablet and your desktop computer. There’s also a built-in remote desktop app for those times when you need access to your programs and not just your data.
Throw in six free months of Cisco WebEx conferencing and a 12-month subscription to Businessweek, and it’s enough to see why Samsung figured the Galaxy Note Pro was worth building. It’s a device that will get a lot of looks from high-powered execs, photographers, graphic designers, architects, engineers, and medical imaging pros.
Plenty of people will have no problem justifying $750 for Samsung’s new 12-incher.



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