Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope - it's Samsung's Galaxy Note, a phone-tablet hybrid that makes the iPhone 4 look like tin cans on a bit of string.
Depending on how you look at it it's either the world's most powerful smartphone or the most powerful small tablet, but either way we think it's pretty awesome.
Here's what you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy Note.
Samsung Galaxy Note specifications
The processor inside the Samsung Galaxy Note is a dual-core, 1.4GHz model, which we reckon makes the Note the world's most powerful smartphone.
It's teamed with a 5.3-inch, 1280x800 Super AMOLED display with a 180-degree viewing angle. That's the largest Super AMOLED display ever fitted to a mobile device, but it's no porker: the Galaxy Note is just 9.65mm thin. That's slightly bigger than the Galaxy S2, but not by much: there's just over 1mm in it.
Samsung reckons that the Note "provides the optimal balance between smartphone portability and immersive tablet-like viewing", and that sounds about right to us: five inches is about as big as you can make a phone without making your customers look silly, and it's positively enormous in smartphone terms.
You can check out TechRadar's video impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Note below:
The processor and screen aren't the full story, either: there's an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash that's capable of full HD recording (and a 2MP snapper on the front), 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, and networking support includes HSPA+ for high-speed 3G and 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi.
It will come with optional NFC capabilities when it's released, plus playback support of nearly every known media type: MP4, H.264, WMV, DivX, Xvid to name but a few.
US consumers get 4G LTE support too. Last but not least, the battery is a 2,500mAh model - that's nearly twice as big as a typical smartphone battery pack.
The Samsung Galaxy Note display is nearly a retina display
Apple reckons that a pixel density of around 300ppi is at the limit of human eyesight, and rather conveniently the iPhone 4 exceeds that with a pixel density of 326ppi. The Samsung Galaxy Note is close, though: Samsung says it delivers 285ppi. By comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S2 delivers 218ppi, and the older Galaxy S 233ppi..
Samsung Galaxy Note features
The Super AMOLED display is a touchscreen as you'd expect, but the Samsung Galaxy Note also includes a stylus called the S Pen. This pressure-sensitive stylus enables you to scribble on screen, edit photographs, send handwritten notes and communicate via Samsung's ChatON communication service.
You can also use cool gestures to activate certain features; for instance, swipe your palm across the screen and you can take a screengrab of whatever you're looking at, or hover your hand above a movie to pause it without all that 'touching the pause button' faffery.
Samsung Galaxy Note software
The Samsung Galaxy Note operating system is Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, with Samsung's TouchWiz interface sitting on top.
Samsung has also included its own Social Hub, which integrates email, SMS and contacts, and you get a program called S Planner too. This program integrates the phone's to-do list and calendars, and we'd assume it's S Pen-friendly too.
Samsung Galaxy Note UK price
As is so often the case, the Samsung Galaxy Note UK price hasn't been announced just yet, but we'll bring you details as soon as we have them.
Samsung Galaxy Note UK release date
While we've seen the spec sheet there's no sign of the Samsung Galaxy Note release date either. We're hoping it's soon, because we can't wait to get our hands on it.
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