Wednesday, August 3, 2016

The new flagship of Samsung: everything you need to know about the Galaxy Note7 … – BBC News

In the New York premiere of the flagship smartphone Galaxy Note7. New Samsung features a spacious (5.7 inches) and clear (Quad HD) screen, curved on both sides, strengthening the body, as well as a number of innovative features

In addition to the fingerprint reader, the gadget is equipped with a biometric sensor that recognizes the iris of the eye of its owner. “This is a more reliable system of biometric authentication to unlock the home page, enter the applications and make a payment when Samsung Pay Unlike a fingerprint, the iris can not be duplicated, because it has a unique pattern.” – Say engineers

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Quick review Note7 from the publication The Verge

As noted by The Verge, the new sensor is dependent on the infrared camera that works well in low light conditions, but worse – in direct sunlight. “He works fast, but you need to keep your phone close to his face, which is inconvenient,” – journalists shared their impressions

in general, in some situations, the biometric sensor may be more convenient fingerprint scanner, when, for example, your hands are busy or stained. It also provides an additional layer of security for the “Private Folder” – Special sections in the operating system, which can be folded confidential files and applications, containing information on payments, including online banks

On paper Note7 looks very promising device. Its basic specifications are: screen Super AMOLED (2560×1440, density – 518 pixels per inch), 64-bit processor with eight cores (4 cores x 2.3 GHz + 4 cores x 1.6 GHz), 4GB “RAM” ( LPDDR4), the battery capacity of 3500 mAh.

will be small, you can connect to Note7 “the microSD killer” If built-in memory (64 GB) – the memory card with a capacity of 256 GB with support for UFS 2.0 standard. Last month, Samsung demonstrated the world’s first line of removable UFS-compatible drives.

at the UFS standard speed sequential read data stored on the card, up to 530 megabytes per second – five times higher than that of the microSD. This means that the UFS will be able to transfer the film Full HD 5 GB for 10 seconds, and at a standard microSD-memory card UHS-1, this will take about 50 seconds.

in addition, Note7 able to work in the LTE-networks (Cat.9), supports wireless charging (WPC standards and PMA), a module 802.11 Wi-Fi (a / b / g / n / ac) and Bluetooth 4.2 LE, as well as a universal port USB Type-C. PHABLET have two chambers: the main 12-megapixel (f1.7) with integrated optical image stabilization and “frontalka” 5 megapixel (f1.7).

Works new target Android 6.0 .1 (Marshmallow), which can later be upgraded to 7.0 (Nougat). As noted by Engadget, Samsung slightly brushed shell the TouchWiz, removing unnecessary elements, made look interface like Google corporate design (Material Design), but from the camera application hid a number of the shooting modes and settings.

Samsung device smaller than the iPhone 6S Plus: 153,5 x 73, 9 x 7,9 mm, weight – 169 grams. His “body” made of aluminum alloy 7000-series, and the screen is protected by coating Corning Gorilla Glass 5th generation helps the glass to survive after falling from a “high selfi”.

unit housing, as well as a stylus S pen are protected against water and dust to IP68 standard. Handle electronic pen was more convenient, the diameter of its tip was reduced to 0.7 mm, allowing a thinner lines and double the sensitivity increased (4096 vs. 2048 levels of pressure in earlier models). New electronic “pen”, among other things, you can take notes on the screen is off, and draw “SIFCO” and increase the image with a single touch.

In Russia will start selling new items August 26 to the price of 64,990 rubles. It will be available in three colors: black, silver and platinum. Buyers, pre-order (you can do so today) to Note7, Samsung promises to give fitness bracelet Gear Fit2.

Source: Press Service of Samsung, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch

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