Samsung gave their latest Galaxy Note smartphone a stylish makeover. The Galaxy Note 3, unveiled at the Samsung Unpacked event on September 4th , has a soft, leather-like back. It feels like you're holding a fancy leather-journal. Grooves on the side of the big-screen phone make it easier to grip. I tested out the Note 3 for about 30, But I saw enough of the Note 3 to at least like its look and feel.

With its leather-like back and the stitching around it, the phone feels expensive and well made in my hands. The soft back can be snapped off the phone to reveal the battery. Samsung will sell replaceable back covers in several different colors, but the phone itself will come in just three: black, white or pink.

The Note 3 has a bigger screen than its predecessor, measuring 5.7in (14.5cm) diagonally compared with the Note 2's 5.5in (14cm). But it weighs less (167 grams compared with 182 grams) and is slightly thinner at 0.33in (8.4mm) rather than 0.37in (9.4mm).

The biggest changes are with the S Pen. The pen unlocks a new feature called Air Command. With that, you can open five other features:

• Action Memo lets you handwrite a note.
• Scrapbook lets you circle content you like, such as a YouTube video or a news article. It automatically saves and organises the content into a format that's easy to scroll through. Scrapbook, with its boxy format, looks a lot like social media site Pinterest.
• Screen Write captures a screen and allows you to write comments on that captured image.
• S Finder is the phone's search engine, to find chat messages, documents or other content on the phone.
• Pen Window, the most promising of the five, lets you access one of eight apps by drawing a box of any size on the screen. Let's say you're on a web page and need to calculate something. You can open Air Command, then Pen Window. Draw a box on the screen, and eight icons pop up. You then click the one for the calculator. Pen Window currently opens a limited number of applications: calculator, clock, YouTube, phone, contacts, a browser and two separate chat apps – Samsung's ChatON and Google's Hangouts. (Two different ones? Did I mention the phone's complicated to use?) It's possible Pen Window will support additional apps later.

The phablet is packed with features, Samsung has done a great job with TouchWiz, it has improved even more than the one you find on the Note 3, but I think this is enough for this post, I'll post a more in-depth review of the device, you'll find a YouTube video of a quick hands-on video in Arabic.

Are you going to upgrade to the Note 3? let's me know in the comments section below :)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 [First Impressions]

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