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my list of the most interesting products to stop this CES the Samsung Note Pro occupies a prominent place. I could only try a few minutes but are enough to realize that there is a significant strategic stake in it.

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positions it as a “professional tablet”, ie, a tablet with which you can work. For me this kind of distinction, which Microsoft also likes to do, is absurd. Part of a fallacy that the tablet is a device “for consumption.” There are many people today can work or already working using iOS or Android tablets and phones.

problem of productivity on the tablet, in my view, is the generalization of specific cases (“I do not feel comfortable or can not work with a tablet, so this is not the ideal device for that no work “) and the persistence of acquired habits after decades of pointers and windows (” I need to work to have two things open simultaneously on both screen and an operating system like Android, Windows Phone or iOS me no good unless someone make some changes. “)

Of course there are jobs that the tablet will never be the ideal device and others that need specific accessories. Journalists walked many times in the second case. Without an external keyboard to type long texts is uncomfortable, but not an insurmountable obstacle. But each of these occupations are others that are perfectly served, or even better served by a tablet or mobile.

mobile operating systems, moreover, are still evolving, and trying to integrate some of the features we took for granted in the PC era, as the simultaneous use of on-screen applications.

This is precisely the premise which is part Note Pro Android Android but an unrecognizable because MagazineUX , use the new interface replacing TouchWiz, which have so far used the products Samsung.

MagazineUX home screen divided into several tables may contain specific tools. Somehow supposed death of the traditional “widgets” Android and icons apps in favor of active areas with updated information. You are essentially similar to those used in the Microsoft Windows Phone operating systems and especially in Windows 8.

use the tablet can split the screen into two, three or four sections and assign each of them an app , provided it is compatible with your system. Thus, for example, be possible to surf the net with a spreadsheet or text document next. In small tablet screen space can stay short but something like this Pro models, with 12.2-inch screen, is not such a big commitment.

just minutes test is too early to know whether this is a useful idea but as a proposal is interesting, especially because in paragraph usability Samsung distance from other manufacturers of Android tablets and phones field, including Google increasingly interested in enhancing the Nexus brand and their own tools and services.