Which device from Samsung is the ideal purchase for consumers? We pit the the Galaxy Grand Note 2 against the Galaxy Note 2 to see which is better.
For the design and display, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo has a TFT screen with 16M colors and a resolution of 480x800pixels, respectively 186ppi. It has the following dimensions:143.7×77.1×9.6mm and weighs 163 grams.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy Note 2 has a 5.55 inches Super AMOLED HD with 16M colors, and renders a resolution 1280x720pixels and 267ppi.
For the hardware and OS, the Galaxy Grand Neo has a Quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 processor on a BCM23550 chipset, it has 1GB of RAM, 8/16 GB of ROM and it runs on the Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean).
Meanwhile, the Galaxy Note 2 is equipped with a Quad-core (1.6GHz) Cortex-A9 processor + Exynos 4412 Quad chipset + Mali-400MP4 GPU, being more powerful than its competitor. It has 16/32/64 GB of ROM, 2GB of RAM and it runs on the Android OS, v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), which is upgradable to the 4.4.2 (KitKat) version.
For battery usage and camera specs, the Galaxy Grand Neo is equipped with a Li-Ion 2100mAh battery and it allows users to talk for up to 11 hours and lasts 430 hours in stand by mode, while the Galaxy Note 2 has a Li-Ion 3100mAh battery, which allows users to talk for 16 hours on 3G and 890 hours in stand by mode.
The Galaxy Grand Neo has primary camera is 5MP, and the secondary camera is VGA, while the primary camera on Galaxy Note 2 is at 8MP (Geo tagging, image stabilization, Image editor, Face and Smile detection etc.) and the front camera is at 1.9MP.
The Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo 8GB variant costs $247 , while the Galaxy Note 2 16GB variant (5.55inches) is around $388 in amazon.com.
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