The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is Samsung’s flagship phone of the year and went on sale on September for over 5000 RMB (813.39 USD). But just what is it made of? What secrets lie behind the design of this phone? Find out in this tear down.

Unlike its predecessors, the Note 4’ sports a metal chassis and can emit antenna signals through a hole in the phone. The chassis has been combined with the middle case.

The speakers and 3.5mm earphone jack are located at the top of the middle chassis.

Inside the phone are the L shaped motherboard and base motherboard. Both boards are connected using a circuit board and IPEX connector.

At the bottom are the micro-USB port, dual-microphone receiver, and antenna port. Of course, this is also where the fingerprint-recognition-supported Home button is located.

Samsung has said that the Note 4 sports the newest fingerprint scanner available.

The top includes the vibrator and receiver. The location of the processor in the magnalium-aluminium chassis is also covered by thermal barrier coating.

Most of the Note 4’s chips are on the L-shaped motherboard. All of them neatly and firmly held. Overall, it has a pretty nice design.

Here is a close-up of the Note 4’s 16mp rear-facing and front facing cameras. The latter comes with a light sensor and infrared sensor.

The Note 4’s 16mp camera is the first camera to use Sony’s IMX240 camera sensor and contains a built-in OIS.

Samsung is one of the few manufacturers that still use ISP. In the case of the Note 4, it uses the Winband Q32F. 

The Chinese release supports dual-micro SD, but the SIM and SD slots are not located in the motherboard but in blocks.

The Samsung Note 4 uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 805 processor and its corresponding SOC, marking it the Snapdragon 805’s Chinese debut. In the photo is Qualcomm’s new WCD9330 sound chip.

The SIMG 8620 MHL chip is a more advanced version of the S5’s SIMG 8420. It can support 2K video resolution.

The Qualcomm MDM9225M baseband does not have support for CDMA networks.

A close-up of the Skyworks 77597 radio frequency chip.

Close-up of the Snapdragon WTR1625L radio frequency chip.

The WACOM W9012 touch screen pad chip which has support for the 2048 sensor.

The ATMEL ATSAMG53 is based on the ARM Cortex M4 and consumes less power.

Samsung’s 3GB RAM chip and Qualcomm APQ8084 enclosed chip. The latter is actually said to be the Snapdragon 805.

Here is the the Qualcomm PMA808X power management chip.

A close-up of the Qualcomm QFE110 mobile ET chip.

A close-up of the Spreadtrum SC6500ES chip.

A close-up of the Avago’s signal amplifier chips.

That’s it. The entire family bows in gratitude for your patience in reading this tear-down. What do you think?

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A couple of weeks away from the official launch of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 at this year’s IFA in Berlin (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, or “Berlin Radio Show”), GooPhone has already announced an exact replica of this device. To create the Note 4 clone, GooPhone has used image leaks, dimensions and other details available of the original model as source.

This won’t be the first time that GooPhone launches a replica even before the original model has been released. The same happened with the i6 GooPhone, a clone of the already unavailable iPhone 6 released on the 1st of August, and with GooPhone S5, a clone of Samsumg Galaxy S5. So far, GooPhone has proven to do an excellent job replicating the features of other models.

The GooPhone’s new mobile phone will feature a 5.7-inch FullHD a Mediatek MT6592 processor, eight-core 1.7 GHz, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. The front and rear cameras will have, respectively, a resolution of 13 and 5 megapixels. The internal memory of this clone will be expandable via an microSD, which most probably won’t be possible in the original Samsung Galaxy Note 4. GooPhone’s new clone will use Android 4.4 (KitKat) as operative system, will be able to hold two SIM cards, and will be powered by a 3200 mAh battery.

Both the original Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the replica from GooPhone will go on sale next 15th of September. The retail price of this phone will be, of course, much lower than that of the original, although the final retail price is still unknown. One thing is sure, though, the cost will not be superior than 380 euros, about 500 US dollars.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 has not been released to the public, but now we’ve got the presence of the leaked information about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone, this phone will be released in the near future.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will reportedly have more nice specifications than Galaxy S5 smartphone. According to the CNMO.com. The upcoming Galaxy Note 4 mobile phones will have a screen resolution of 2K (2560×1440 pixels) and supports UltraHD. While the Galaxy S5 is only has 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution.

The Galaxy Note 4 will also have dust-proof and water-proof capability, as same as with the Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone, however, the processor used by Galaxy Note 4 will be powered with hexa-core Exynos processor made ​​by Samsung or may also uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and sports with 4GB of RAM.

According to the information this phone will also have a camera with OIS features OIS (optical image stabilizer) so that the central object will look sharp because the phone can reduce hand shake without blurry image.

The Galaxy Note 4 is reportedly has 128GB internal memory and runs Android 4.5 operating system, the phone is also support for 4G LTE networks connected to WiFi as well. While the distinctive features that will be present on this phone is the way to unlock the phone using its graffiti with S-Pen.

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camera centric smartphone will be more popular on 2014, that’s why Samsung has ready to rock the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4 will be packs with 20 megapixel camera modul.

According to rumor, the other smartphone is also ready to be release, and now Samsung is also ready to develop new camera modul  that ready to embed in the upcoming Nexus 5.

Samsung decided to continue to increase the number of pixels the camera as its main differentiator, after Optic Image Stabilizaation feature (OIS) is reportedly absent in 2014 Flagship smartphone.

Samsung targets 25% or about 90 million smartphones in the next year will be equipped with 16 megapixel camera module, but due to the high number of products and components supply constraints, the camera does not have OIS feature.

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