Smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note Edge was presented in conjunction with Note 4 on the eve of IFA 2014. Models practically twins both in performance and in the software. But there is a Note Edge is one thing that completely changes the user experience and makes it quite different from peers – a continuation of the screen on the right side in the form of additional strip width of 160 pixels with a fully self-contained content. It is about a particular user experience and we are talking in this material.
The first concept of a smartphone with a curved screen we saw back in 2009 year. But from idea to realization passed integer (or only?) For five years. Among the business models Galaxy Note Edge – not the first smartphone with a curved screen, even in the line of Samsung. Firstborn company in this direction, Galaxy Round, however, to our market and our hands did not get. But Phablet competitors – LG G Flex – with the “correct”, in my opinion, I could bend in the year hold in your hands. But Galaxy Round, and G Flex were an attempt to improve the existing bike manufacturers (as well as to demonstrate the achievements of the national economy, and to throw fresh fuel to the segment is experiencing a crisis of ideas technique), the Galaxy Note Edge – it reinvented the wheel.
Before you read this review, be sure to read the detailed review of Galaxy Note 4 to have an idea about the characteristics and quality of the camera interface Galaxy Note Edge.
The remote control spaceship. Review of Samsung Galaxy Note 4
About the worst
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge – it’s definitely Phablet for large hands, people with small hands with him to do nothing. Even I, tsenitelnits sizes, with such a large smartphone control was difficult. That’s because when you hold Note Edge in his right hand and tries to reach the index finger to the opposite side of the screen of the palm touches the edge of the screen and the side of the device and any gesture interpreted as two-finger multitouch. Accordingly, the browser begins to display scale, the situation in the game varies depending on whether they have or have support for multi. Where it does not, a screen does not respond to touch. With classic Phablet this trouble happens as far rarer. Due to the nature of the screen there are difficulties with the camera, if we take the pictures while listening to music through wired headphones. As long as you aim to the subject, the wire from the headphones ten times poke at the screen and prevent bending to do ev erything quickly and smoothly. And one more thing – in the Galaxy Note Edge camera interface is as follows.
That is, all the controls are on the device side panel. To take a picture of an object, it is necessary to aim at it and dropped the device out of the hands at the same time. Camera – so far the only application in which vital functions delivered in the experimental area, and experience has shown that it is uncomfortable.
Not in the best place on the body due to the bending of the screen and the button went to unlock the screen – namely, at the upper end. This is not a tragedy, you can reach it, and you can also unlock the smartphone by pressing the “Home”. But honestly, I can not wait for the day when all Android-smartphone will “wake up” and “sleep” double tap on the screen. Then users will be absolutely care less where this notorious key.
Although the performance Note Edge with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 is not inferior in Note 4 to the latest version of the Exynos, the camera does not work here so quickly. Perhaps it costs nedopilennogo until our Semple software. Because the interface device while prone slow down from time to time, and charge the battery smartphone absorbs unnaturally fast, much faster than it did Note 4 and at approximately the same rate as the Galaxy S5 with earlier firmware.
Finally, the last negative – the smartphone really hot under load on the right side. Quizzes and games ways to raskochegarit almost to a state of Nexus 9, which is also not known for its “cold” temper.
Oh good
All the benefits of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge are the same advantages that and his fellow Note 4: this high-quality camera, and display with sky-high detail (in the tests and the beautiful game as much jaw falls away from such beauty), a beautiful and compact body, the interface with a bunch of fiction by the standards of the smartphone features. Admire the body can be in the gallery at the beginning of this article. The following quote screenshots tests Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. Smartphone them confidently takes the first place. Performance issues in any smartphone does not experience the problem, although from time to time may fall into a reverie, as I mentioned above.
As part of the photo and video flagship smartphone Samsung has already demonstrated a couple of years as one of the best results on the market, and this model – is no exception. Galaxy Note Edge received a 16-megapixel module with video recording as from up to 2160p @ 30fps 720p @ 120fps, next preset modes and dual flash. Although the day is not a smartphone to shoot as fast as Note 4 night and HDR-speed mode, it is clearly visible. Read more about the camera in Samsung’s flagship smartphone of 2014. You can read this and this material.
Gallery with photos in original resolution is here.
But all the same things nice and Galaxy Note 4. Therefore, it is time to go to the theme, which reveals exclusivity Edge. On the right side of the smartphone is the Quick Access Toolbar. In normal mode, it replaces the bar at the bottom of the screen, and allows you to post more useful applications. Among them – Daddy programs Google. Drag the most popular on the desktop can not, if you need them separately, you have to pull out a general application menu. But you can customize the panel. The menu of the smartphone has a separate item with panels Edge. This little – can download more from the app store Galaxy Apps. Panels to download a bit, and useful list of all I would do only two named. But once and for hours Gear line application was negligible, but now they appeared. Another thing is that the clock – not such an expensive accessory, like a smartphone Galaxy Note Edge, several of them and they clearly will be more widespread. But take the developers behind the panels to Note Edge – this question.
From the “native” panels Edge the most useful for me was the panel with a flashlight and other tools, and are available in the “night” mode clock with time alarm and informers. The fingerprint imposes specificity of work, but every time I every new smartphone looking for a flashlight, calendar and other instruments (Note Edge has even line that generally can be considered for luxury), and everything is at your fingertips and available in three clicks. Although I can not say that the comfort of all this pulls on a few extra thousand hryvnia. On the same panel displays the alarm clock, if your smartphone is already occupied by some other application, and an incoming call. Last – rather uncomfortable. Because to get to the right place on the big screen is easier than making the right swipe on the side panel. Although, again, I’ve buhchu after a week of using the smartphone, and in fact for twice already and could adapt himself.
Perhaps, having read this far, lefties think that Samsung Galaxy Note Edge – smartphone that they just do not fit. But it is not. In the settings you can specify the model to screen rotated 180 degrees when the device is deployed in the hands accordingly. Then all but the hardware buttons will be focused on the management of the other hand.
The bottom line
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge left contradictory impressions. On the one hand I immediately liked the idea of an additional screen that can be displayed useful information, without prejudice to the primary work surface. On the other – in its present form it reveals potential weak, at least, not on the money necessary to pay for the machine (although when you look at this miracle did not think that it should be cheaper). And it is unclear whether the open in the future, because I, for example, it is difficult to say that this I would like to see on a bend of the screen. Today, a simple bunch of Note 4 and any smart Samsung is working more convenient hours, and costs the same or even cheaper. In this body, this model will suit only those with large hands, the way will be uncomfortable with it. If we ignore the factor of ergonomics (important for a smartphone) and factor prices, it remains a powerful and beautiful device, with a strong camera, sophisticated user inter face to work with the S Pen and quality screen. But all the same, there are a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which has deservedly received from us the highest editorial award “Editor’s Choice”. If you want to Galaxy Note, then I would have recommended it a classic model. Galaxy Note Edge – a model for those who are willing to try something new without regard to the budget, to boast of their technologically advanced, as well as for those who for some reason wants his personal brand-new flagship Samsung is not on Exynos, but on Qualcomm. A folded these three factors we have a portrait of a typical boom.
| Specifications Samsung Galaxy Note Edge | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Google Android 4.4.4 |
| Display | Super AMOLED, 5,6 ”, 2560×1600 pixels, pixel density of 524 ppi, oleophobic coating, support for working with gloves |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 quad-core Krait 450 (2.7 GHz), Adreno 420 graphics |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Flash memory | 32/64 GB + card slot microSDXC (up to 128 GB) |
| Camera | 16 MP, autofocus, video recording 2160p @ 30fps, 1080p @ 60fps, 720p @ 120fps , double flash, optical stabilization; front camera for video calls (3.7 MP), simultaneous recording from two cameras |
| Wireless Technologies | Wi-Fi a / ac / b / g / n (2.4 / 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, IR (transmitter only) |
| Interfaces | micro-USB-enabled MHL 2.0 and USB-host, headphone output 3.5 mm |
| GPS | yes |
| Optional | stylus S Pen, fingerprint scanner |
| Corpus | 151x82x8,3 mm, 174 grams |
| Battery | 3000 mAh |
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