Galaxy Note 8.0 Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Note is the most attractive electronic device of the modern age. The Korean company announced on Sunday in Barcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an 8-inch screen, putting it very close in size to the Apple's tablet, which launched in November with a 7.9-inch screen. It's not the first time Samsung has made a tablet that's in the Mini's size range: it's very first iPad competitor had a 7-inch screen, and it still makes a tablet of that size, but without a pen.

 The Note 8.0 fills a gap in Samsung's line-up of pen-equipped devices between the Galaxy Note II smartphone, with its 5.5-inch screen, and the Galaxy Note 10.1, a full-size tablet. Samsung has made the pen, or more properly the stylus, one of the tools it uses to chip away at Apple's dominance in both tablets and high-end smartphones. Apple doesn't make any devices that work with styluses, preferring to optimize its interfaces for fingers, mice and touchpads.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 technical specifications

• 8-inch WXGA (1280x800) display, 189 ppi
• 1.6GHz quad-core processor
• 2GB RAM
• 16/32GB internal storage, expandable up to 64GB (microSD card)
• 5-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front camera
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi direct, AllShareCast, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0
• A-GPS + GLONASS (3G version only)
• Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Proximity
• 4,600mAh battery