Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review!”.
Hey what is up guys, i’m kim Bhd here and my daily driver smartphone for the last two weeks – has been the Samsung Galaxy Note. 4. So this is the follow-up, obviously to the note 3 and the biggest change between the two is hardware. So right off the bat you get metal. I talked about this in my hands-on video a couple weeks ago about how I was most impressed with the new feel on the hand of this phone and that’s all come through. You get the black metal band all the way around the device where it was plastic before and it’s chamfered at basically every edge every corner. So coming from that super rounded super seamless feel of the iPhone 6 plus.
This Note 4 actually feels kind of sharp at the corners and the edges, but it’s honestly definitely easier to hold because of the flat sides and also being metal. I have increased hopes for durability. Obviously, having a metal frame should fare better than plastic, and so far it’s held up well, so the back material is still pretty similar to what you had on the note 3. It’S this soft touch, faux leather feel that honestly feels fine. It’S pretty durable, too, even though it’s got a lot of crap for being not real leather, but it ditches the fake stitching, look and all that stuff from before. So it’s just one smooth piece now and it’s removable and is soft and flimsy when it’s not attached to the phone.
Obviously, but that’s the point, that’s what allows you to remove it and get access to that removable battery and the micro SD card slot. But if you’ll solve it and as soon as you put it back on the phone you’re good, so overall nothing can change the fact that this phone is still big right. It’S a 5.7 inch display and of course you add bezels, you add the home button.
You add the earpiece and you’re here again pushing the limits of what people will accept as a phone, something you can put in your pocket. So what’s interesting about it is it’s the same vertical height roughly as the iPhone 6 plus, but it’s a bit thicker to how’s that huge battery that I’ll talk about in a second and a bit wider from left to right. But for some reason, when going from the iPhone 6 plus to the note 4, the note felt kind of compact, despite having a larger display, which is weird, but I want to talk about this display, it is pretty gorgeous the Galaxy.
Note. 4 is rocking a 5.7 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display, so it’s big bright, super high-resolution super sharp. It has great outdoor visibility, super vibrant colors and basically any environment has great viewing angles: great responsiveness, basically, it’s the best display on any smartphone right now, the best one.
I’Ve used a lot, and this is the one I mean it’s, it’s extremely saturated. It’S not totally accurate. Yes, it has a strange pixel matrix, but I love this display because it’s the only one left that still impresses me every time.
I turn it on it’s a big part of why I love this phone, so much so crispy and then it’s up to TouchWiz on top of Android 4.4 on this guy to utilize all the space. This huge screen. Now, when you talk about software on these quad HD phones, which have really all been Android phones for the most part, there have been very few apps that totally take advantage of all those pixels. Of course, you know: there’s Samsung’s properties, so you get their crazy high resolution wallpapers and their icons and the whole TouchWiz user interface.
Everything there is optimized, but if you were expecting to download a whole bunch of games or watch a whole bunch of videos that are going to look way better than they do on 1080p phones, not so fast, I mean we’re still waiting for that. It’S still going to look good, it’s still a big bright, beautiful display, but yeah most games and apps out there are still scaling from 1080p. Actually, the one thing that looks better from a higher resolution point of view is web browsing. So all the text and images are definitely sharper and you can at least notice that and appreciate it now if you’ve used or you’re coming from another Samsung phone, like a note 2 or a note 3 or a galaxy s3 or s4.
The software experience here is going to be really familiar, Samsung’s added features, of course, and now it’s on top of the latest version of Android, but it’s actually promised to get Android 5.0 lollipop in a couple of weeks. So, of course, that will be skinned like this and it’ll look nothing like stock Android and it will continue to look like TouchWiz but touch which still has the quirks. I mentioned when I reviewed the galaxy s5 now preface this by saying my model. I I got very tired of Samsung’s launcher and keyboard, so I installed Google now launcher and a few keyboards, but everything else here is stock and for the most part, performance is great, as you would expect from a phone with a quad-core Snapdragon 805 chip and three Gigs of ram and a super high end GPU most stuff flies in app performance is great scrolling frame rates and gaming frame rates, and just navigating through the UI in general is very fast.
So performance is awesome. The only thing that seemed slow, pretty consistently is when I press the multitasking button, there’s always a brief pause before it opened my carousel and then another pause after I click the app and it waits a second before it brings me in it’s a little slow honestly. The occasional touch was jank lag. Is there when you’re pulling down the notification tray too fast or something, but that’s you usually few and far between.
So it’s a very fast phone other than the occasional TouchWiz jank. Now, when you have a huge phone with top-notch specs like this and a massive gorgeous super sharp display, you really want to take advantage of not just the extra pixels but the whole package. So the one thing Samsung has been improving from generation to generation. Of the note, lineup is the multitasking options.
So, of course, you still have the familiar holding down the back button and being able to use two apps at once. So you split the display in half between two of the supported apps, and this multitasking mode is smoother than ever before. It’S just as useful, since the display is so big, but you can copy and paste text and information back and forth between the panels. It’S more than just two apps at once, so it’s really great, but a new multitasking feature.
They’Ve added is windowed apps, so you can, with again supported apps dragged down from the corner of the phone, the top corner, to move your app into a windowed size. On top of everything else – and you can resize it and reposition it wherever you want and it stays a live app the whole time, so you can interact with it and keep it over stuff in the background and everything still works, so you can also minimize them Into these little icon bubbles, when you hit the homescreen and activate them anytime, you want by tapping on them again, so you can have multiple window taps open at the same time over the top of whatever you’re doing, which is pretty nuts. If you ask me – but this is the kind of stuff Samsung has been doing and building in – to take advantage of the larger display with all these extra pixels support for this windowed stuff – is still a small list of apps kind of like the half screen stuff.
So sometimes we’ll pull down from the corner window and it just won’t work. It actually happened to me a bunch of times. Also I’ll be one handing the phone and I’ll go to pull down the notification tray from the corner by accident, and it will shrink down the app I’m using or tell me it’s not supported.
I don’t know it’s an interesting feature with a slightly confusing implementation. At first, but it can be really useful in some niche situations. People will really like this when I get to know it so my battery life experience on the note 4 has been a little interesting, so I started off with the international version of the note 4. It’S a Korean phone, it has different radios and it’s looking for different signals than the US version would and it has an X nose chip inside. So it’s a slightly different SPECT model, but it’s a note 4. Nevertheless, but I was getting not so high battery life a little bit concerning that I had to plug in before the end of the day, I was getting three to four hours of screen on time, which is a lot less than I would expect out of a Phone with a 3220 milliamp hour battery, but then I switched over to the one from AT .