Wicked Leak Wammy Note Vs Samsung Galaxy Note: David and Goliath Fight Begins

Indian smartphone market nowadays is witnessing launch of slew of interesting tech devices from various homegrown manufactures to directly rival the hefty gadgets brought by global tech consumer goods manufacturer, which are actually securing high market shares in the arena.

Following on the same lines, Wicked Leak, an Indian tech start-up has also launched quite innovative devices in the recent past to the likes of hefty Android devices by popular tech giants like Samsung and HTC. Recently, the company has directly challenged one of the hottest selling gadget of the Korean giant – the Samsung Galaxy Note – with the launch of their latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich flavored phablet Wammy Note.

Here is a spec comparison between Wicked Leak Wammy Note and Samsung Galaxy Note – to find out how the newly launched phablet by Wicked Leak will compete against the beefy Samsung Android phablet.

Form Factor: Launching on August 30, the Wammy Note carries a dimension of 144 x 89 x 12 mm and weighs around192 grams, which is heavier as compared to Samsung Galaxy Note, as it carries a dimension of 146.9 x 83 x 9.7 mm and weighs around 178 grams.

Display: While, Wammy Note sports a 5 inch Super HD capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and pixel density of 186 ppi. On the other hand, the Galaxy Note has bigger 5.3 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with a better resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels and 285 ppi pixel density.

Operating System: In this segment, Wammy Note scores as it runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, however there is no word from the company on the Jelly Bean upgrade. While Galaxy Note, which was initially released with Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS on-board, however recently, Samsung has updated the phablet to Ice Cream Sandwich and same as the former, there is no news on the Note's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade.

Processor: Wammy Note is equipped with a 1 GHz processor and a separate PowerVR GPU. On the other hand, Galaxy Note houses a more powerful dual-core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a Mali-400MP GPU under its hood.

Camera: Both the devices are equipped with 8MP rear camera. However, Wammy Note has a 0.3MP front camera, while Galaxy Note has a better 2MP front-facing camera.

Memory: On the memory front, Wammy Note is equipped with 4GB internal storage and 512MB RAM while Galaxy Note comes in two variants – 16GB and 32GB internal memory, both accompanied with 1GB RAM.

Also, both the phablets come with an external micro SD card slot, which supports up to 32GB expandable memory.

Connectivity: Wammy Note is packed with features like Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and micro USB 2.0, while the Galaxy Note comes with HSDPA, 21 Mbps, HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and EDR, Optional NFC, micro USB v2.0 and USB on-the-go.

Battery: Both the devices are actually loaded with the same 2,500 mAh Li-ion battery. However Wicked Leak has claimed that Wammy Note will provide an average talk time of 8 hours and a standby time of 260 hours. On the other hand, Samsung has claimed that Galaxy Note will provide a standard 13.5 hours of talk time and 820 hours standby time.

Price: Wammy Note is priced quite inexpensively at a cost of Rs 11,000, while the Galaxy Note will shell a huge amount from your wallet as the huge device is priced at Rs 32,700 approximately.

Verdict

Wicked Leak Wammy Note is a phablet providing decent specs at a budget range, as compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note. So anyone, who has a craze of owning a phablet can go for the former device, however if you are too concerned about the specifications of the device, then suggestion would be pointed towards the Samsung Galaxy Note. After all, the specifications and performance depend on the price that you pay for it.

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