Samsung on track to bring UHD, dual-edge Galaxy Note 5 to the masses in 2015

In November of last year, Talk Android reported that the ball was already moving on squeezing over 700ppi into the Note 5’s AMOLED screen. A year before that, Samsung unveiled a roadmap during its Analyst Day to illustrate its ambitions for screen resolution advances in their devices, and projected that in 2015 at least one of its products would support UHD (4K).

Now, according to a recent leak provided to Phone Arena, it appears that Samsung is gearing up to begin production of a UHD Galaxy Note 5 with a whopping 748ppi! Not stopping there, the leaker indicates that there will also be a dual-edge variant of the device (though that’s not that surprising) with a bump up to 762ppi.

Production in August means that we will most likely see this 4K phablet announced during IFA 2015 in September. The dimensions of the phone, speculated by the leaker, will be 5.78″ for the dual-edge and 5.81″ for the flattened variant.

While I’ve never seen a point in going beyond 1080p in a regular smartphone, our very own Robert Nazarian said it best last year when describing the utility behind having 4K in a phablet capable of multitasking:

Overkill? Possibly, but with Samsung’s phones allowing you to display multiple apps at the same time on the display, it actually is utilized. It means that you could show 4 pop up apps on the display at the same time giving you a resolution of 960 x 540 (qHD) for each app. Displaying 3 apps at the same time would give you 720p each.

Now that the standard flagship for Samsung is being distributed to eagerly awaiting tech junkies, all eyes are now fixed on September for the next installment of the Note series.

Source: Phone Arena

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