Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Impressions! (& GS6 Edge+)”.
Hey, what is up guys, i’m kphd here – and these are my quick first impressions of the new big smartphones that samsung announced today. The main one you need to know about is the galaxy note. 5.. It is big, it’s bright crispy! It’S really dense and slippery. As hell, so here’s the breakdown just like every year. You know the galaxy note gets improvements on the inside and out and right off the bat on the inside on paper. The galaxy note 5 has a pretty dope looking spec sheet, so it’s the octa-core exynos 7420 chip from the galaxy s6.
It’S a bump up to 4 gigabytes of ram. It’S a 5.7 inch quad hd super amoled display that looks pretty outstanding. It’S a 16 megapixel camera with optical image, stabilization and the f 1.9 aperture, and it’s a 3 000 milliamp hour battery with fast charging and wireless charging and nfc and lte advanced and ac wi-fi, etc.
It’S even a new color with this sweet. Looking titanium gray, it’s a very complete looking spec sheet on paper, but in practice it’s not all perfect. So the main story with the note 5 is on the outside.
Obviously, the biggest change here is in the hardware design. It’S moved as we kind of expected into this all metal and glass thin railed. Look like the galaxy s6 and samsung says you know: premium materials, high-end, precise, build, durable, etc and they’ve even curved the glass on the back of the phone to fit better in one hand, so that actually works well and to top it all off.
It fits inside. The footprint of the galaxy note 4, since the bezels make it thinner and shorter and narrower than its predecessor. I agree that the shape is better. The shape is actually great, but the phone itself is super slippery in the hand. It’S just not really that comfortable to hold it’s like all the things that were slippery about the galaxy s6.
With that glossy back uh magnified in an even bigger body, just the feel on the hand, is, i guess, definitely my least favorite part of this phone. That and the fact that you now have all the internals sealed, meaning there’s no removable battery and there’s also no expandable storage. Those two things will be a pretty big deal for some people. I don’t mind them as much, but i actually do care a lot about the way it feels in the hand. There’S also some pretty neat new features, though, that really make it a note. First of all, the s pen is improved and you may be looking at it wondering how do i get it out of the phone if it’s embedded like that? Well, the stylus actually has a clicking button on the back and it just clicks and pops out of the phone just like that, and it is an improved stylus made with more metal now. You know it has a little bit more weight to. It still has a button uh and that multi-level sensitivity and as a bonus, you can keep clicking it even when it’s out of the phone no functionality there, but it is kind of addicting and the s pen, functionality itself is actually improved too.
You can see the menu looks a little bit different when you take it out the phone and going into and triggering the s pen actions works the same with the improved pen uh. It just feels a little bit more natural to write on the screen. At the end of the day, i usually like see all these features, and i use them a little bit when i first get the galaxy notes, but then i use them less and less as time goes on, but today they showed me one feature that i really Like and will definitely try to use more, you can bust out the stylus when the display is off and then immediately start writing on the screen. So, if you’re ever in a binding, you heard something that you just have to write down.
You have to just break out your phone and start to write it. The s pen lets you write it down real, quick and when you put the pen back, it closes and saves that note. That is actually a really good idea. I like that, there’s also stuff added to the galaxy note, improved ways to take like taller, screenshots and ways to annotate and share what you create with this pen.
All of it makes sense, and all of that is what makes it a note, but all the rest is in your brand new design. Also, i mentioned the phone is thinner with this new design, which means the battery, as i mentioned, is actually smaller than the last galaxy note at 3, 000 milliamp hours and non-removable. Now they do try to make up for this, and you can decide if it’s a good enough replacement or not with wireless charging and fast charging and get this fast wireless charging, so samsung’s new wireless charging technology lets them get around 90 of normal fast charging wired Speeds without the wire i personally would rather still have a larger battery and a thicker phone.
That’S just me, but you know we’ll have to see how good this battery lasts, with the quad hd display in the full review and that’s the real sentiment here. I didn’t get to play with these phones for too much time, but i’m looking forward to getting my hands on them like permanently for a full review experience, preferably in this darker titanium color, to test things like the battery life to test the performance to test things. Like the built-in youtube live streaming directly from the camera app at up to 1080p, i mean this seems like it’s supposed to be a periscope killer, but i won’t really know it until i try it.
Uh certainly seems really convenient for people to live stream from their phones, especially since this is one of the best cameras in any smartphone. I’M not sure. If i’m looking forward to testing this, though, what year is it again, but you know what i’ll give it that shot and actually try to use it before i dismiss it entirely.
Overall, the note 5 gets my hesitant but optimistic, wait and see. Also, there was another phone announced today: the galaxy s6 edge, plus this one’s easy, it’s the galaxy s6 edge, but plus it’s bigger, or you could also call it. The galaxy note 5 with curved edges.
Both descriptions would be correct. It has the updated specs and it’s the bigger 5.7 inch display from the galaxy note. That is also curved. On each side, i’ve used the galaxy s6 edge, smaller version as a daily driver for a while, so i’ll be interested to see the new features.
One of the new features of the s6 edge plus is the ability to put not just your few favorite contacts in the edge on your home screen, but to put any of your favorite apps in there as well, and also to have this available on any screen. So it’s sort of like a mini launcher of any apps. You want no restrictions.
This will certainly be nice to have so there you have it thanks for watching and feel free to share this with others curious about samsung’s, big new flagships. I’M definitely interested like. I said in using these full time – and this has just been my quick impressions and hands-on again, thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys, the next one peace you .