There's no word on whether this will be enabled at launch or if users will have to wait for a software update to enable them. In addition, the Exynos 5420 also enables a fix to the cache coherency interface, enabling the CPU cores to work more efficiently with the Mali T-628 GPU. In this model, the kernel is aware of both the quad-core A7 cluster and the quad-core A15 cluster, and a heterogeneous aware scheduler will run the cores independently as needed. It can use the Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) big.LITTLE model, which will allow any or all of the cores to operate at will. The CPU itself is pretty special, because of its capability to be a true eight-core processor. The 3GB of RAM is easy to understand, you have an extra GB to do more things faster, making the TouchWiz experience better. This makes the internals the pinnacle for spec junkies and hardware nerds alike, because this is the first we've seen of either. Under the hood you have the Exynos 5420 paired with 3GB of RAM.

It's not as if you're going to use a 10-inch tablet one-handed anyway. The position of everything is fine and reachable. The bottom of the device has a microUSB (not the 3.0 version in the Note 3) smack in the middle, a microSD card slot and speaker grill on the right, power, volume and IR across the top, and a 3.5mm headphone jack and second speaker to the left. Nestled along that chrome-styled band are the controls, ports and speakers. This is one of the nicest full-sized tablet screens out there Our unit is in bright white, which seems to be easy enough to keep clean. The corner radius is also smaller, making the Note look rectangular over all. All the edges are rounded, but you get an angular feel rather than the rounded feel the last generation of Note devices gave off. The plastic rolls over the edge of the trim band, and the trim band rolls over the edge of the glass. We mentioned the band around the edge of the tablet as well as the textured (leather-textured, if you will) thicker back, and they all meet on the sides of the Note nicely. A 10-inch tablet is one jumbo piece of glass, and presenting it the right way is important.

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