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Those are a number of the words much more than two dozens of people used to express the experience discussing on the Samsung Galaxy Mega, which AT&T began selling today for $149.99. The phone is essentially similar to the well-known Samsung Galaxy S4, with one exception: It is immense. Definitely immense.

The Mega has a 6.3-inch screen, making it among the biggest smartphones on the planet -- among simply because the Sony Xperia Z Ultra has a 6.4-inch screen, winning the bigger-is-better award by a hair. Both equally are in some ways too big. Hold the Mega to your ear and the other end of the phone will jut comically far into space. Consider holding a shoe box to your head and you'll feel as ridiculous as I do with this thing. And also walking around New York City with it yesterday, New Yorkers were fast to point that out.

Indeed, the Mega is a ridiculous smartphone. But it's smart however.

Here is the point: When are you truly on the phone? People in america are increasingly skipping calls and opting for emails and text messages nowadays. It's particularly true among people under 21. So overlook that it's sort of silly as a phone and consider the other factors. That's where it gets exciting.

Lots of people carry around a dizzying array of gizmos right now: a smartphone for chatting and text, a Kindle or other e-reader for digital books, a tablet for, well, still other things. The Mega is designed to replace all of those, with a screen large enough to read on that's somehow still a cell phone.

The 6.3-inch screen perfectly bridges the gap between small tablets and large smartphones. It measures almost as big as the 7-inch Galaxy Nexus 7, that is widely hailed as the reigning mini tablet. But it's far bigger than even the biggest smartphones out there; your next game of Candy Crush is going to be far more enjoyable when scaled up.

The screen isn't the sharpest or best out there. That Nexus 7 comes with a 1080p screen that smooshes 323 pixels into each inch. The more pixels per inch, the sharper and crisper the screen display. The Galaxy Mega has a 720p screen with just 233 pixels per inch. Obviously, crisper is better. But in reality, most screens are of a high-enough quality that you're unlikely to register that distinction.

The device is relatively competitive in other regions, with an 8-megapixel digital camera, a dual-core 1.7-GHz processor, and Android 4.2.2 software. It felt peppy in my testing, although it's not as fast as the S4 or other top of the line phones.

The Galaxy Mega's interface is essentially similar to that on the S4, save one or two items. The company overlooked a feature that lets you control the phone by waving a hand in the air above it, as an example. That's for the most effective. In my testing, that feature didn't work so well anyway.



One notable feature: the capability to run two apps side by side, thanks to a fly-out menu on the left hand side that holds icons for common apps. It's something seen in other Samsung phones, but becomes far more practical with a screen this big.

That said, the phone itself is impractical. The sheer physical bulk of it means it may or may not fit in your pants pocket. It fit the pocket in my Gap khakis, for example, but not my Levis. Indeed, pants manufacturers have struggled in recent years to keep pace with the growing size of ordinary smartphones. The design director at Dockers told me in April that he had to upsize the pockets in his pants to deal with these devices. Really.

That scale means movies look great on the Mega, an whole webpage will fit on a screen, and those distracting games will be even more distracting. The Mega may seem absurd at first. But it fills a clear niche -- a really big niche, in any case.








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