AT&T made things official this morning for Samsung Galaxy Note users by announcing the availability of an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update and Premium Suite from Samsung. While most of us know what to expect with ICS, the Premium Suite will give you access to a number of apps and new features including: the S Note app, which is a widget for quick access to S Memo features, and an app for creating customized notes and greeting cards with S Pen called “My Story”. AT&T also confirmed ICS for the Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
The update is a little hairier than most with the requirement that you connect your device to your Mac or PC and the Kies application. From there, you are hard resetting your device and will lose stuff like Bluetooth devices, Music playlists and apps folders.
The update is available now from Samsung, while a description of the new S Pen capabilities thanks to S Note is below in the full press release:
Samsung Galaxy Note with AT&T Receives Powerful New Functionality
With Premium Suite, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Upgrade, Premium Suite enhances productivity and creativity with new S Note and My Story™ applications and S Memo™ update
July 10, 2012 – DALLAS – As of today, AT&T Galaxy Note™ users have
access to Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and exclusive new features
with the Premium Suite upgrade from Samsung Telecommunications America
(Samsung Mobile) 1. The Premium Suite upgrade includes S Note, a new
application that enhances productivity and professionalizes
communications; a widget that enables one touch access to all S Memo™
features; and My Story™, an application which uses the S Pen™ to
create customized greeting cards and notes.
The S Note extends the S Pen™ capabilities to make everyday tasks and
communications simpler and more professional looking.
· New productivity features such as Shape Match, which refines
hand-drawn shapes – such as circle, square, lines and arrows; Formula
Match, which recognizes and completes complex math formulas; and
Knowledge Search, which enables the user to quickly research
information from a hand written note via Wolfram Alpha® database.
· To help to professionalize communications, S Note provides
templates for seven commonly used documents such as an idea note,
travel notes, diary entry, meeting notes and recipes. An idea note not
only captures ideas, it can record the creation process and replay it
in the order it was developed. Meeting notes captures agenda items and
attendees and will link the meeting to a calendar entry.
· S Note also allows users to import and annotate a PDF file
and convert dictated or hand- written memos to text with the Continual
Voice Input and Handwriting-to-Text features.
The S Memo upgrade includes one-touch access to all S Memo features –
including typing, writing, voice dictation, search and adding an
image. The user can place the widget on any of the multiple home
screens of the Galaxy Note, which makes accessing and using S Memo
faster and easier.
My Story, which is available through Google Play™, is an S Pen
optimized application that allows users to create personalized digital
birthday cards, thank you notes and sympathy notes by combining hand
written notes, video content, photos, text and voice.
In addition, the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich includes NFC
and Android Beam capabilities, better multitasking through the Recent
Apps menu, the Face Unlock security feature and data usage monitoring.
For more information on Premium Suite for the Samsung Galaxy Note,
visit www.samsung.com/galaxynote. To update the Galaxy Note, visit
http://www.Samsung.com/us/attgalaxynote/update.
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