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Traveling With The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 With Keyboard #ATTSeattle

March 21, 2014 by Momstart 3 Comments

You know I travel a whole lot. I love to travel and lately I’ve been in and out of the airport like crazy. I even had a day trip where I was down to Portland and back in one day. Well, when I travel like that I want to travel light and the Samsung Galaxy Note was perfect for my trip down and back. I had all the computing power I needed for my little day trip. I can easily enter data into my spreadsheets while on the go with Polaris Office. This productivity app lets you view and edit Word, Excel, PDF documents and more–wherever you are. And I have to say the Galaxy Note series is one of my favorite devices out there.

Quick Deets:

1.6GHz Quad Core Processor
8-inch Display
16 GB Memory, 2 GB RAM
microSD Card Slot (Up to 64 GB)
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS

One of the things that was really helpful was the stylus. I was able to write down notes as I was touring my top secret location on Monday. I still can’t give out details and I wasn’t allowed to take photos even though the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has a fantastic camera on it. With the Awesome Note app, you can manage your schedule and to-do lists in one convenient place. Awesome Note allows you to combine notes with To-do priorities, so you’ll always be on top of your life and schedule. You can customize Awesome Note’s appearance with different themes, icons, colors, and fonts. The 5-megapixel rear camera lets you take high-quality photos and videos, and a 1.3-megapixel front camera lets you video chat with your friends. After you’ve taken photos, you can edit them directly on the Note, and you can easily create and send a handwritten postcard. It’s so awesome!

The S Pen also opens up new ways of interacting with your tablet, thanks to built-in gestures. For example, by pressing and holding the S Pen button and drawing a less-than arrow, you’ll go back to the previous page you were on. Drawing different gestures will allow you to take screenshots, open a menu, launch a Popup Note, select text to cut and copy, and more.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 includes the latest S Note with Web Viewer app, which is a great companion for the S Pen. Take notes on the fly, and then access these notes and edit them from your desktop or another Galaxy device. S Note makes it easy and intuitive for you to digitally publish your experiences. It includes different templates for journals, photos, text, and more, so you can find the perfect template for your needs. By using the S Pen, you can freely handwrite into your tablet, and S Note will automatically convert it to text. You can also draw shapes and formulas, and they’ll be matched and converted by the software as well. S Note is compatible with Evernote and Dropbox, automatically saving and syncing your documents once you’ve finished.

Another thing I really loved was the use of the keyboard. The keyboard acts as a screen protector when it’s not in use and then as I’m sitting at a round table interviewing talent or taking notes it gives me the speed that I have. I’m a very very fast typer so when I’m not standing I prefer to use a keyboard. It came in quite handy. Plus I just get a cool factor by setting myself up at the table in front of everyone!

Quick deets:

Compatible Model: SamSung Galaxy Note 8.0 inch Tablet
Rechargeable, wireless, bluetooth keyboard is sleek, professional, easy to use, and easy to carry. Comes with USB charger cable
Versatile design allows you to prop up your tablet into comfortable typing and viewing position
Rubberized back provides extra grip to make sure your device stays put in your hands

Samsung Galaxy Gear It’s LIKE a Spy Watch

November 6, 2013 by Momstart 3 Comments

we received a sample that we have to return.

I’ve been using the Galaxy Gear watch for a few weeks now along with the new Note 3 which I received a few weeks ago. There have been a lot of negative reviews about this product but I don’t think the reviewers fully understand the full potential of this product. This is a well designed and nicely made 1.0 wearable digital device with limited software and application support. As the software matures and the number of apps increase this device will get better an better. The Potential is amazing.

The great features:

S-Memo – ability to make voice notes by talking to your watch and have them transcribed and stored on your device.
Camera – actually takes photos
Mail/SMS notifications – you can read them on the watch including mail accounts from gmail, hotmail, etc.
S-Voice interface to make calls, send texts, etc.
Build quality seems to be very good
Comfortable to wear – not as big and clunky as I thought it would be on my wrist

A few negatives:

Native support for other apps like gmail and Facebook are just notifications – you have to use your phone to read the content.
Battery life is about 24 hours
It Has Limited app support but I expect this to get dramatically better soon

My Overall impressions.

I think it’s really an amazing idea, I’m so happy that Samsung has put this device in the works. Like I said above it can only get better and better. Those of us that are glamorized by the spy world might wish for something much better right away, but for getting a device on the market at an affordable price is really cool. When I say affordable, it’s not the price of a watch, you have to remember that it does a lot, maybe not what you expect but if you did what it expected to then it would probably cost five times as much, so Give Samsung a break and if you are picky wait for a later version, but if you want some fun pretending to be a spy while taking photos from your wrist then you’ll be happy with the Samsung Galaxy Gear.

The Connection In The Palm Of Your Hand: My Samsung Galaxy S4 Story #VZWBuzz

June 29, 2013 by Momstart 3 Comments

Verizon gave me a Samsung Galaxy S4

I have to say, I’m really not going through a very good time emotionally right now. A friend of mine is going through an emotional time and it affected me emotionally and on the morning I was going to finally get to spend some time with her and be there for her I found out some terrible news. I was trying ever so hard to compartmentalize that my husband had told me but I couldn’t. I was in shock at first, then I was numb and then I cried.

My husband was looking at his phone and he saw on Facebook that my cousin’s grandmother was in the hospital. Well my first thought was it has to be his other grandmother. I couldn’t remember if she was alive or not so I was trying to make myself believe that she was and that it wasn’t my grandmother, even though in my gut I knew what was true. I took my Samsung Galaxy S4 in my hand and looked at the Facebook post that my husband saw and then looked at my cousin’s Facebook page and he hadn’t updated anything for a few days. I looked at my aunt’s Facebook page and she hasn’t updated for a few days. I looked at my other cousin’s page and she hadn’t updated. So, I made a phone call to my mom. As soon as she answered the phone I knew it was my Memaw because my mom was a mess. I could just tell in the sound of her voice. The first words out of my mouth were unkind. I was irritated, upset, in shock, but I should have remained calm. I wanted to know why she hadn’t told me. I should have been more worried about her and her feelings.

She told me what was going on and for the next two days my phone never left my hand except to recharge and you all know that I can go a while because I have the Mophie that Verizon gave me too. I was texting left and right. Answering my phone left and right and I was looking up webpages, playing candy crush as a distraction. I can work from my phone I was looking at photos and downloading photos from skype. I mean I was trying as much as I could to think of anything other than my grandmother and family. Then I finally decided with my husband that I needed to go to Texas. He bought my ticket, he got my car. I’m here. I checked in on my phone I mean I’m really relying on my Samsung Galaxy S4 to keep me connected. To keep my photos from my kids coming in, to keep my facetime with them from anywhere I am. It’s amazing what you can do on a G4 phone and all the apps at our fingertips. I couldn’t function right now without it. I need to be connected. I need to be able to receive pictures and letters from my children like this one.

Yes I’m writing this post on my laptop because of how fast I type, but I would be lost right now without my phone.

That’s my current connection with the Samsung Galaxy S4

Capture Life: Samsung Galaxy 3G WiFi Camera, Map, and Park Lines #ATTSeattle

June 25, 2013 by Momstart Leave a Comment

AT&T loaned me the Samsung with Wi-Fi capabilities, no I take that back it has even more than Wi-Fi capabilities, it is just like a phone without a microphone, so I can’t make phone calls with it, but I can take photos, edit them and upload them anywhere. The Samsung Galaxy Camera went to Disneyland with my family and I. We used it to take photos, as a map of Disneyland and for the park wait lines. Since the Samsung Galaxy Camera runs on Android OS, we were able to download apps so it became a toy for the whole family to enjoy.

Let’s start at the beginning though. We took a road trip and shared it on Facebook, Instagram and twitter as we traveled thanks to this Samsung Galaxy Camera that connects to the internet. It has a sim card in it and as long as there is an AT&T wireless connection then we shared our photos.

Then we finally made it to Disneyland and here is our first photo

I downloaded apps just like I would have on my phone, but the screen is so much brighter and it’s so much easier to look at out in the sun than your phone is. We checked out the wait lines for all of the rides. We found out where all of the princess were hiding out and took the path choosing the roller coasters that had the shortest wait lines along the way.

We took a spin in the tea cups, because the line was so short.

And along the way we ran into peter pan.

We shrank and became as little as the flowers then used pixie dust to grow back into our normal sizes.

My son fell in love with Ariel and asked her to marry him.

She reminded him that she was already married, so when he met Rapunzel he asked her first if she was married.

As you can see he was a little defeated.

Sleeping Beauty told them a story and then we were in tears leaving the park.

It was an amazing family trip all captured with the Samsung Galaxy 3G Camera

Product Description

Just remember you can’t make phone calls on it! Samsung have packed the GC100 with smart and innovative features. Photo and Movie Wizard takes advantage of the cameras processing power, offering brilliant editing capabilities on the move. Thanks to the built in microphone, Voice Control allows you to "Zoom" and "Take" photos without touching the camera, which is great for group photos. Partnered with a Samsung phone you can Quick share. Your phone can even act as a remote viewfinder. Also there’s Smart Pro Mode which makes it easy to take cool professional looking photos from the touch of the screen such Light Tracing. Being Android powered you can have Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and even Photoshop apps all at your fingertips.