NEW YORK – Apple is days away from announcing its new iPhone, and we’re expecting larger-screen models. Samsung is trying to get ahead of this announcement with two new giant handsets. Meet the 5.6-inch Galaxy Note Edge and the 5.7-inch Galaxy Note fourth
Galaxy Note Edge
The Galaxy Note Edge is a first-of-its-kind smartphone with a display That wraps around the phone’s right side. The screen looks as though it’s cascading off the phone’s edge, hence its name.
The curved part of the Edge Note’s display is independent of the main screen, but It’s also a fully functional touchscreen. In fact, Samsung has moved the traditional apps shortcuts found on the bottom of its phones’ homescreens – Such as the dialer, your contacts, Web browser, camera, and others – to the Edge’s silk screen.
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As a result, you get more room to view your screen, as the lower portion of the display is no longer obscured by app icons. What’s more, you do not have to back out of an app and go to the phone’s home screen to get to your favorite apps. Despite the Edge’s large size, I found it rather easy to navigate the silk screen with one hand.
The Edge’s silk screen works with a variety of different apps, too. So you swipe through to see things like Twitter updates, the number of steps you’ve taken in a day, the latest sports scores through Yahoo Sports, news updates through the Yahoo News app, and a host of other notifications. (Yahoo produces this site, Yahoo Tech.)
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Unfortunately, the Note Edge’s side display takes up the space Samsung traditionally reserves for its phones’ power buttons, whichhave been repositioned to the top of the handset. It takes a stretch to reach them now.
Beyond its silk screen, the Note Edge features a qHD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels. That means it’s bright and detailed, and far better than the 1920 × 1080 resolution screens found on most smartphones. Text, photos, and videos you view with the Edge look incredibly sharp.
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There’s one catch, though. Apps, TV shows, and movies are made to be shown at 1080p. The Edge actually has more pixels than a giant HD TV. So if you watch Game of Thrones on the Edge Note, you will not see any major difference in image quality versus a standard smartphone with a 1080p screen like theGalaxy S5.
In order for you to see any difference in image quality, app developers and TV and movie studios will have to start producing Their content for the higher-resolution screens.
Like the other members of Samsung’s Galaxy Note family, the Note Edge’s Samsung’s S Pen stylus. Using the pen, you can do things Such as capture images off the screen and edit them on the fly, take handwritten notes, and more.
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Samsung says it improved the S Pen’s pressure sensitivity, making it more responsive When taking handwritten notes.
One of the best parts of the Note Edge, though, is its enhanced multitasking. Instead of being able to open only two apps onscreen at once, you can now open and Several resize and reposition them as you like. At one point, I had as many as four Chrome browser windows open at the sametime.
It’s not all that practical, but it’s definitely fun.
Galaxy Note 4
The Galaxy Note Edge might have chair the show at Samsung’s press event, but the Note 4 gave it a run for its money. The follow-up to the Korean tech giant’s hugely successful (and just plain huge) Galaxy Note 3, the Note 4 features an improved design and a sharper 5.7-inch display.
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Like the Galaxy Alpha That Samsung unveiled in August, the Galaxy Note 4 features a metal frame design, a big step up from the all-plastic Note 3 The Note 4 overpriced gets a revamped soft touch rear panel That feels far better than the Note 3′s faux leather.
Together, the Note 4′s metal frame and new back panel combine to give the “phablet” (or phone / tablet, As such in-between-sized devices are sometimes called) a more premium design than its predecessor.
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The Note 4 overpriced gets an improved 16-megapixel rear camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and an 8x digital zoom. Optical Image Stabilization keeps a smartphone’s camera from shaking When You Hold It while taking pictures or shooting videos.
A Samsung representative Showed me an example of OIS’s capabilities by filming with bothering the Note 4 and Note 3 at the same time, and while the Note 3′s video bounced around, the Note 4′s was solid and unmoving.
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Selfie fans Should overpriced pray excited to knowthat the Note 4 includes an improved front-facing camera That can capture more subjects in the frame. Samsung says the camera alsooffers 60 percent better low-light performance.
And to make taking selfies Easier, you can now move your finger over the Note 4′s heart-rate monitor below its rear camera to take pictures.
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If you want to take really detailed selfies, you can use the higher-resolution rear camera’s touchless capture fashion, whichlets you line your face up with the Lens and takes a photo of you and your friends or cancel.
The Galaxy Note Edge is coming to AT & amp; T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon later this case, while the Note 4 will come to each of the Big Four carriers and U.S. Cellular sometime this case.
Both handsets look like They could ask some of Samsung’s best smartphone to date, and if you ‘re looking for phones with huge screens, These could be the ones to check-out. Stay tuned for our full reviews.
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