You might feel like calling this the Note 7 Edge. The Note 7 will be available in a variety of colors, including silver, black, gold, and coral blue.
The S-Pen is still the best little smartphone accessory for anyone who needs to sketch and take freehand notes. It still has that satisfying clicky top, too. It offers a nice bit of resistance as you drag the tip across the screen, so artists and novice doodlers should be pleased. You hover your pen over the screen and click its side button to bring up this quick menu to various often-used app.
In the new Air Command, Samsung consolidated the S-Note and Action Memo app into one item, and added an instant-translate feature to the menu. This new feature lets you translate individual words by simply hovering over them. My favorite feature of the Note 7 was introduced in the Note 5: the ability to write on the screen without unlocking the phone. If you need to take a note, just pop out the S-pen and start writing. The TouchWiz UI still features a blue wallpaper by default, but everything else has been painting a grayish white.
Samsung has had an uneven track record in making intuitive interfaces, but the Note 7 mostly gets it right.
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I also appreciate the Blue light filter option in Quick Settings that makes the display easier to read in dark environments. This makes it easier to see the screen in darker environments. You can have a total of nine different Edge panels, including a Tasks Edge which adds shortcuts to oft-used tasks and Apps Edge which offers quick access to favorite apps. The Edge panels are supposed to make it easier for you to use the Note 7 one-handed, but they really only work if you train yourself to take advantage of the specific shortcuts.
The Iris scanning is actually quite fast, and all you have to do is hold the phone up to your face to unlock it. It might not be a major improvement over the Note 5, but it offers so much more than other smartphones in its price class. This version of the chemically strengthened glass promises to withstand 1. That's only Corning's promise for a straight sheet of the stuff; it makes no claims once a device maker has shaped the screen like Samsung does here.
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Prepare to buy a screen protector and a case to guard your investment. The Note 7 runs Android 6. Samsung's refreshed custom layer is a more colorful, trimmed-down take on its TouchWiz software interface, and feels cleaner and easier to read. If you don't like digging around, simply search the app tray and settings menu for what you need. There are bonuses sprinkled here and there, like adding apps to home screen folders with a tap rather than a drag-and-drop , and more visually accessible data in subsettings like the battery and memory meters.
The setting to keep the phone from turning on in your pocket or bag is clutch. The Note has the same cameras as the S7 and S7 Edge: 12 megapixels on the back and 5 up front. As on those phones, this is one of the best all-around cameras we've used. If you're worried that the Note 7's megapixel camera pales in comparison to the Note 5's megapixel shooter, don't be.
Just like the S7 and S7 Edge, the Note 7 takes clear, bright, crisp photos in indoor, outdoor and low-light settings. Selfies are generally good, too, especially when the screen lights up as a flash for dark environments. The extra-wide selfie works like panorama mode and is impractical for group pics that require others to stay still. There are tons of filters and editing features; shortcuts make photos easy to share. The camera app gets a jolt with new gestures. Swipe up and down to switch between front and rear cameras, and swipe to the sides to bring up filters and effects. This usually works well, and I liked the instant gratification of previewing the filter effects before choosing the one I wanted.
But my fingers kept accidentally tapping the Back and Recent buttons, which kicked me out of the app. Sometimes my swipes zoomed the photo or slid a vignette control instead of calling up the other menus or switching cameras. Mistakes like these are time-wasting and annoying. The Note 7 has many of the same hardware guts as the S7 Edge, but performance and battery life slightly lag see full specs list below. Its barely smaller battery ran 2 hours shorter in our looping video drain test; an average of 17 hours, 40 minutes versus the Edge's 19 hours, 40 minutes.
In real-world tests, I got a solid day between charges and topped up in between using either a wireless charging pad sold separately or through USB-C cables at work and at home. Samsung gives you one in the box; I recommend buying a spare. Depending on your region, the Note 7 comes with either Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip or Samsung's housemade Exynos processor. I tested the Qualcomm version, and my colleague in Asia ran benchmarks on the Exynos version as well. Both scored high compared with most phones, but weirdly, the Qualcomm version was a little lower on the graphical benchmark test Geekbench 3 than the S7 Edge.
In real-life tests, the Qualcomm-outfitted Note 7 is a pretty snappy device. It gamely handled fast-paced, graphics-heavy games, launched apps and downloaded and uploaded content quickly. But when I started using the drawing tools heavily, it lagged. Not much, but enough to notice. Be aware, a security flaw in Qualcomm's chip may affect this phone and millions of other Androids. Also a quick breakdown, as well as how the specs stack up, is below.
Note 7 versus S7 Edge : The Note 7 costs more, has the stylus and doubles the Edge's onboard storage. However, microSD cards are affordable, and if all you really want is a large screen, the S7 Edge does a fantastic job for less. Get the Note 7 if you'll use the S Pen. Otherwise, go for the S7 Edge. Note 7 versus Note 5 : Compared with the Note 5, it brings a more sensitive and powerful pen, water resistance and an external storage slot on a sexy, curved-screen design. If you can be patient, it's financially prudent to wait.
Note 7 versus Note 4 and earlier : The Note 7 is a great upgrade for any Note older than a year.
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Seriously, everything is better. Our favorite midprice Android phone lacks the Note 7's features largesse, but it does share specs like 64GB of built-in storage and an identical processor. Get the Note 7 if you want a pen plus expandable storage and the OnePlus 3 if you're happy with an all-arounder. If you're looking for large-screen luxe, the S7 Edge will do. Note 7 versus iPhone 6S Plus : With the iPhone 7 phones coming in a matter of weeks, don't even bother.
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Wait to see what that large-screen phone holds, and keep in mind that the 6S Plus' price will drop after the iPhone 7 Plus goes on sale. The middle of Samsung's new Galaxy S20 devices is powerful and large, without being ridiculous. New cameras, longer battery life, Night Mode, a goofy selfie feature and a price drop Premium, pocketable and packed with all the features you need to level up your photography Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.
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