Premium Suite packing Ice Cream Sandwich update officially available for AT&T Galaxy Note

Yesterday we let you guys know that AT&T and Samsung planned to make the Premium Suite with Ice Cream Sandwich officially available to Galaxy Note users today. The forums were a buzz last night with plenty of people reporting the update was already live in Samsung Kies. Nothing like getting your hands on i a bit early. In case you didn’t go and give it a shot out of curiosity, then you will be very happy to know that it is indeed there and available for you to install. They even released the official press release this morning to confirm it is true and not just a pre-leak test version like in the past with the Galaxy S II update a while back.

While the new additions brought forward int the Premium Suite, like S-Notes, and My Story are great, we are all a bit more excited that it is Ice Cream Sandwich. The new update also enables the NFC chip and adds in Android Beam. The cool sharing ability by touching together two Beam able devices to transfer photos, videos and other cool things.

Updating is pretty painless. Connect your Note to your PC, open up Kies and hit the update button, then wait and watch. If you still don’t have Kies installed, hit up Samsung for the download. It takes forever to install, so be patient.

Below you can read the full  press release if you do so desire, but we are more of you just want to go snag the update and play with it yourself.

 

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 Noteâ„¢ users have access to Androidâ„¢ 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 Memoâ„¢ features; and My Storyâ„¢, an application which uses the S Penâ„¢ 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 Playâ„¢, 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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[1]    Samsung is the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States and the No. 1 smartphone provider worldwide according to Strategy Analytics, Q1 2012 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipment and Global Smartphone Shipment Reports.

©2012 Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC.  Samsung, Galaxy Note, S Pen, My Story and S Memo are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google, Inc.  All other company names, product names and marks are the property of their respective owners and may be trademarks or registered trademarks.