Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Top 5 Galaxy Note 7 Replacements!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here and you may remember – you – may have seen the end of my galaxy note 7 review. Where i mentioned. If you have a pre-recall galaxy note: 7, that was exploding. You should return it. But if you have a post, recall galaxy note: 7, one of the replacements with the green battery, then you’re good, and then we saw a story of a replacement galaxy note, 7 going up in smoke and catching fire on a plane. Okay, so well you know. Maybe it could just be a fluke, sometimes phones have flukes or maybe actually it could have just been a non-replacement galaxy note 7, and somebody just said it was because they’re trying to drum up a headline or something, and then there was another one and another one And another one replacement galaxy note: 7s are now catching fire and exploding everywhere.
So the bottom line is this phone. The galaxy note 7 is not safe. So if you have a note, 7 old or new green battery or white battery original or replacement for your safety and for the safety of those around you, you should return. It and samsung has acknowledged this and they have stopped selling note 7 completely worldwide.
Rip. Note 7.. So let’s say you had a galaxy note 7, and you really liked that phone i mean it was a great phone. It had a great display, great camera. Great set of features high end specs great build.
What’S not to love, i mean it was a nice phone before it started exploding, and that was nice enough to get people to spend a lot of money on it. So what do you do now? These are in order of similarity the best replacements. For the galaxy note, 7, so the most similar to that phone.
So if you had a note 7 or if you were thinking about getting a note 7, these are the best alternatives that won’t explode. Number one is the samsung galaxy s7 edge. This, physically speaking, is as close as you’re going to get it’s like the obvious choice and it loses the fewest features from the note 7..
So you still get a big bright gorgeous amoled display. You still have the exact same camera, nearly identical software with the samsung ui on top of android, just minus the iris scanner and secure folder feature and a few minor things. You do lose the stylus, but you actually get a bigger battery than the note.
So if you love the note, you will love this. This is the equivalent of like a brother as far as products in samsung’s lineup goes number two is the regular samsung galaxy s7, not the edge. So this is a little bit of a further drop off and you lose a couple more features. You don’t get as big of a display or as big of a battery.
You don’t get the edge display features from the rounded sides of the galaxy s7 edge, but the thing is: there’s almost no reason to get the regular s7. If you were on board with the s7 edge other than maybe you discovered that your hands are too small to use a big phone suddenly or you just don’t like having a big phone anymore. In that case, the galaxy s7 is gon na. Do almost all the same things, but for most people you should still do the s7 edge. All right, so number three is the iphone 7 plus. So obviously this is now going a little bit outside the family.
But before you go crazy, the iphone 7 plus is actually a really top-notch phone and it keeps up in a lot of the ways that the note 7 was really good. The note 7 was a great high-end. Large phone and iphone 7 plus is another great high-end. Large phone you’ll still have a great battery life.
You still have a great camera and you’ll still have water resistance too. It’S not quad hd super amoled display, but it’s easily the best 1080p display in any smartphone. So it still looks pretty good and you’ll actually be keeping a lot of the super high end hardware and performance and features by picking up a seven plus. Now i don’t know how many early adopter super enthusiast. Note. 7 buyers would drop everything and buy an iphone.
Ios is obviously very different from android, but this is definitely still a rock solid choice and the full review is incoming for that too. So number four is the lg v20. So this is a phone that was actually competing directly against the note 7 in a lot of ways for your money, so it should be a very similar experience. So i’ve talked about it more in a second video, but this is a phone that’s flying under the radar as far as great high-end, big smartphones go, and it’s definitely big, no doubting that bigger footprint even than the note 7 itself.
But when you consider you get that big removable battery something the note. 7 obviously didn’t have expandable storage, a great camera or pair of cameras like the iphone 7 plus a really exceptional dac for great audio, and that unique second display up top for notifications and saving. You screen real estate on the main display, there’s a lot going for it.
It’S not water, resistant and obviously lg is packing. A very different set of features on top of android than samsung is there’s no s pen, but no other phone has an s pen. So i think, as far as big android phones go, you probably can’t really go wrong with lg v20 to replace a phone that was competing against. So number five is a bit more of a wild card, but it’s the google pixel xl – and this probably couldn’t be a much better time for this phone to come out of the heat of a lot of people coming out of the note 7. for the larger Of the two phones running pure stock, android, 7.1 out the box, a lot of people haven’t been paying much attention to it or giving it much credit, but the pixel xl is shaping up to be a pretty good big phone replacement. Now the caveat: is it’s not out right now so, depending on when you watch this, there could be a gap between when you order it and when you get it or not, but if you can get your hands on a google pixel xl, it’s shaping up to Look like a pretty good high-end smartphone, but you will be missing. Some features right off the gate. The pixel isn’t water resistant, it doesn’t have expandable storage, it doesn’t have any of the samsung features on top of android. Obviously, there’s no stylus.
The camera is sort of unproven at this point. It may or may not be as good it’ll probably match performance. It’S got that snapdragon 821 chip inside, but this is more of a distant cousin, despite being such a big high-end phone.
Of course, there are other big, great phones, there’s moto z, force, there’s htc 10, there’s even cheaper ones, but or you could even go with the galaxy note 5. If you just have to have that s pen, i mean obviously there’s other phones coming out, but no other phone is going to come out that has that stylus that s pen experience. So if you got ta have the stylus, then maybe you go back to note 5 for the time being either way.
The phones i’ve listed above are the ones that are closest in similarity to the one that we miss and loved, so dearly minus the explosions. Until then rip note 7, it was a great phone, it really was, but it’s gon na be missed. It’S a shame and until then on to the next one, thanks for watching i’ll talk to you guys, the next one peace .