The novelties of the South Korean company Samsung for the final stretch of this year have not only been carried out by the expected Samsung Galaxy Note 4, but we have also witnessed other surprises such as, for example, the presentation of the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. The Note Edge is a high-end smartphone that incorporates a side screen that works independently from the main screen, thus allowing the user to access certain options and applications without having to abandon the content they are viewing on the main screen.
But the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is far from being the first mobile with an additional screen of Samsung, and to find the first evidence that this company did with auxiliary screens on smartphones must go back to the month of November of the year 2010. We are talking about a time when the Android operating system was still beginning to walk with lead in a mobile phone market that was light years ahead of the user quotas that large companies handle today. In the midst of all this scenario, Samsung decided to launch the Samsung Continuum, a smartphone that not only came standard with the Android operating system in its version of Android 2.1 Eclair but also incorporated an auxiliary screen located below the main screen.
To be a mobile from a time when there was still so much interest in smart phones the fact is that the system dual-screen of Samsung was a step in innovation within the market of mobile telephony important. In a similar lateral screen the way Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, the screen assistant 1.8 inches with 480 x 96 pixel resolution of the Samsung Continuum served to show notifications RSS, Twitter and Facebook, as well as allowing also control playback music andcheck incoming emails. Among the technical specifications of the Samsung Continuum we could meet with features such as a processor Exynos 3 of a core operating at 1 GHz, 336 megabytes of memory RAM, 2 gigabytes of internal storage, a main chamber five megapixel and a battery with 1,500 mAh of capacity. The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, meanwhile, comes with specifications such as a quad- core processor running at 2.7 GHz,3 gigabytes of memory RAM, 32 / to 64 gigabytes of internal storage, a main chamber 16 megapixels and a battery of 3000 mAh.
Leaving aside this curiosity, let's remember that the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge presented this week by Samsung will hit stores at the end of this year 2014. At the moment the availability of this smartphone in the market is unknown, and in fact it remains to be confirmed if it will reach the European market. The only thing that is clear at the moment is that the Note Edge will be available in two colors: carbon black and frozen white.
