Review : Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Reviews - Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, this Phablet have the somewhat eccentric design concept for embedded curved screen on the right side. Specifications are embedded processor Snapdragon 805, 3GB RAM, 16MP main camera, Android 4.4.4 KitKat and battery capacity of 3000 mAh.

Well, you are curious about the advantages and disadvantages of the Galaxy Note Edge? consider the following full review.

Specifications

• GSM / HSPA / LTE
• Body: Dimensions 151.3 x 82.4 x 8.3 mm, weighs 174 grams, microSIM, Fingerprint sensor and the S Pen stylus
• 5.6-inch Super AMOLED screen resolution of 1600 x 2560 pixels, Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Curved edge screen
• Android OS 4.4.4KitKat, planned upgrade to 5.0Lollipop
• 805 Snapdragon processor, quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450, Adreno 420 GPU
• Internal 32/64 GB storage, 3 GB of RAM, microSD slot up to 128 GB
• Camera 16 MP, 3456 x 4608 pixels, optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash and 3.7MP front camera
• Battery Li-Ion 3000 mAh

Design

Broadly speaking, both the specification and design of the main Galaxy Note Edge is a derivative of the Galaxy Note 4. The design is quite sturdy and elegant. It was thanks to the use of a metal frame which surrounds the Galaxy Note Edge. While on the back is made of plastic but does not reduce the impression of elegant, because the surface has a texture like leather accents.

Because jumbo size with corners firm body, feel when holding it feels a bit stiff. However, Note Edge is still relatively comfortable and stable in the hand grip. Perhaps because the body is thin, light and the material is not easy to skid. Back cover can be opened to access the micro SIM card slot, microSD card slot and allows users to replace the battery.

At the top of the screen embedded front camera, proximity sensor, ambient light and LED notification. The bottom of the screen there is a home button flanked by multi-tasking button on the left and right back in. Interestingly, the home button now also has a fingerprint scanner function. While at the back, pinned 16MP main camera, accompanied by LED flash and speaker.

In the top section perch 3.5mm audio port, side by side with the mic and infrared port and power button are somewhat hard to reach because it is situated on top. While the micro USB port, mic and stylus two holes inhabit the bottom. Volume control is perched on the left. Well at the right unique because pinned curved display, curved screen on the outskirts Note Edge.

The question is how to hold Edge Note that the curved screen is not touched by accident? Relax, Samsung offers a hand to ignore the technology denial accidental touch, the song is also curved display it more often show information instead of shortcuts to applications. Overall design is very futuristic Galaxy Note Edge and unique. Samsung can be fairly successfully made Note Edge looks classy, ​​according to the high price.

Screen

The Edge Galaxy Note screen has 5.6 inch landscape with Quad HD Super AMOLED technology, the smaller 0.1 inch of Note 4. However, the screen is on the right side of this adds 160 pixels, the screen resolution Note Edge 2,560 x 1,600 pixels become, more Note 4 high resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, pixel density reaches 524 ppi (pixels per inch).

Carrying the latest display technology, the screen Note Edge does look very impressive, it looks very sharp, bright and pleasing to the eye with the brightness and colors. In fact, you can still enjoy this smartphone screen clarity even in the direct sunlight. Yes, we do not overdo the praise it because that's the reality.

Interface

Edge carrying the Galaxy Note Android 4.4.4 operating system KitKat (soon get Lollipop) with a touch of the latest TouchWiz interface that is optimized with a curved display. Area lockscreen minimalist look, there is quick access to the camera and open the dial pad (emergency) as well as the time and date information. You can secure the phone with fingerprint or fingerprints.

Go to the homescreen, by default you are presented with three pages, which you can add up to a maximum of 7 pages plus page My Magazine or Flipboard located on the far left. You can add application shortcuts or widgets on the homescreen panels as needed.

To display the homescreen settings, simply hold on an empty area of ​​the screen homescreen or by pinching the screen. Then the setting will appear immediately, there is an option to change the wallpaper, add widgets, further homescreen settings to change the transition effect and disable My magazine (Flipboard).

The main menu displays all the applications that you can personalize as you wish. You can change the layout of the application, create a folder, uninstall or disable applications and can also hide the application. Notification bar can be drawn from top to bottom. A wide selection of quick access appears at the top. Underneath there is brightness control, S finder and Quick connect.

Curved Edge Note display in the periphery is not decoration only. Yes, the screen can display notifications and some shortcut certain applications and features, simply wipe to change the information displayed. With the edge of the screen, Note Edge offers a new multitasking experience, because the main screen is fully dedicated to the display content. In fact, in some applications compatible, edge-screen display controls, such as the shutter to control the camera or playback for music and video player.

What is interesting is the variety of other content can also be displayed on a curved screen, such as news, results of sporting events, weather, time and date, access to S Note, social media such as Twitter, even if they are less games and user can download additional widgets store dedicated and go to settings to choose which one to presented content. At night, this curved screen can be used as an alarm clock. So, the user need not hold the phone or getting out of bed, because it can "peek" of the clock from the side.

Performance

On the inside of the Galaxy Note Edge pinned Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 805, with 450 four-speed core 2.7GHz Krait, Adreno 420 GPU which is supported by the capacity of 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage and a battery capacity of 3000mAh.

On paper, the Galaxy Note Edge does have gahar specifications, whether it performs really qualified? Yes, less is more so. Experience Galaxy Note Edge wear quite impressive, the performance is very smooth, movement between applications minimal pause menu, access the application can be done quickly, even though accessing the application simultaneously. Likewise, when playing games or playing video.

Camera

Galaxy Note Edge carrying the lens 16 megapixel camera (3456 x 4608 pixels), accompanied by LED flash, with auto and touch to focus. Embeddable also anti-shock features that OIS (optical image stabilization) of these features remain vibrant image quality is maintained even in conditions of sway. In addition, the Galaxy Note Edge rear camera has an aperture of f / 2.2 for capturing images in low light conditions better. Front camera 3.7 megapixel resolution Note Edge, equipped with a 90 degree lens, which allows taking photos with a wider angle. By default there are two modes of the camera, and a wide selfie selfie.

Camera interface has been adjusted, the camera controls and settings are on the edge of the screen. Behind the camera can take pictures with an aspect ratio of 16: 9 (16MP), 4: 3 (12MP) and 1: 1 (8.9MP). By default Note Edge is equipped with a variety of modes ranging from auto, beauty face, shot & more, rear cam selfie, selective focus, panoramas, virtual tours, HDR and dual camera. If still not, you can still download additional camera mode available in stores. To take pictures in addition to using the virtual keypad, the user can also adjust the volume button as a shutter button and also using voice control.

Galaxy Note Edge is also equipped with a variety of color effects are supported by the preview display. You can also get more effects, such as camera mode by clicking the download button is provided. While to capture moving images, you can record video with a variety of resolutions, such as VGA, HD, Full HD, Quad HD even Ultra HD. You also can shoot photos while doing video capture.

Other Features

Content photos and videos posted on the Gallery menu can sort by time and albums. Content can also be filtered based on the category of events, people, scenery, document, food, pets, vehicles, and flower. By utilizing the DLNA connectivity you can also see the content or throw the content to devices that support. There is a studio image processing application that has a popular functions such as collage, so you are not required to download third-party applications.

To play music content available default Music app and Google Play Music innate. Samsung ready to spoil the user's ear, the music player is equipped with Sound Alive a music feature that has equalizer that can be adapted to the environment as well as the genre of the song playing. Songs stored diperangkat can be categorized by title, artist, album, playlist and also folders. Embedded also Smart Volume automatically adjusts volume levels to the same song. Unfortunately, the FM radio feature absent. Other features such as congenital not miss Note comes with a full function with a variety of features such as, play speed, auto off, lyric, and others. The sound output through the speakers quite powerful although not so special.

Switch to video player, users can watch videos in a variety of popular formats complete with subtitle settings. Features pop up play and live video thumbnails can also find here. You can also see a preview of the video frame by placing a finger over timescroll ongoing.

Samsung still providing their artificial browser other than Chrome, who also attended the default condition. Browser performance made by Samsung is also not inferior to Chrome. The movement of the desktop version of a web page feels smooth, even when you do multitab although the process of change between tabs there is a little pause. Almost all of the standard features of this browser possessed, call it the New tab, Add to Quick Access, Add to shoctcut on the Home screen, Save the webpage, Share by, Find on page, Incognito mode, Desktop / Mobile view, print, and other advanced settings.

Samsung also equip Note Edge with a stylus called the S Pen inserted "sweet" at the bottom of the body. Note Edge offers the experience of the use of S Pen is perfect. Note itself is identical to the active stylus. Well, the latest S Pen has sensitifas doubled to pressure. Including haptic feedback on the screen and the ability to create a sense of 'write or draw on paper' that is more realistic. When tested, it feels a sensation that resembles the conditions written on paper, this makes it feel more natural handwriting. Coretannya accuracy can be fairly high. When you pull out the S Pen from their homes, a shortcut will automatically appear which allows users to run multiple applications supplied seed.

Features Air Command on Galaxy Note S Pen now displays four options. Action Memo, Screen Write, Image Clip and Smart Select. Action Memo and Screen Write still offers the same feature set. Action Memo allows users to write on the screen and give the command to run the application. Screen Write a quick memo application that lets users write any text on the screen and save it when you need to record something.

While Smart Select can be used to save or share items directly on the screen. Kotaki surrounding environment to be used to interact and images will be highlighted. You live store or divide. Image Clip is the latest version of the Scrapbooker, to vote parts of an image or screen for editing. Can recognize different forms of image that is used like the magic wand tool.

Ability Multi windows on the Galaxy Note Edge increased with some additional options. You can access it from recent apps menu to combine multiple windows or hold himself back button several times. In addition, you can also pull the corner of the screen to minimize the application. Multi Window can be used open 5 applications at once. Viewfinder cameras now can be opened in a multi-window mode and can also easily transfer files from one window to another window.

In addition to the S Pen, other features are S Note, the stylus can be a creative medium for writing, drawing, designing. S Note offers additional features such as Photo mode to add photos to the note.

In addition, other features such as, Scrapbook can be used to create photo collages. There is also PEN.U, a social networking style Instagram for Notes users share images that have been made. Smart remote via the built-in IR transmitter, also S Voice which works like Siri on the iPhone. Applications that are not less interesting is the heart rate monitor and S Health to support its sports activities. S Health, you can save the data using the accelerometer to keep track of and GPS to map out a route while jogging or cycling.

Next is the gesture features such as Smart Stay, Smart Scroll, Smart Pause, and so on. With holes infrared, you can also avail Note Edge instead of a remote control electronic devices.

Connectivity

• Single SIM (Micro-SIM) supports 4G LTE Cat6
• NFC
• Infrared
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac
• Bluetooth v4.1 A2DP, EDR, LE
• Micro USB
• 3.5mm Audio Jack
• Samsung Galaxy Note Edge has brought full connectivity, call it 4G LTE Cat6 300/50 Mbps. As for other needs as well embedded Bluetooth, Infrared, NFC, Screen Mirroring, Mirror Link and Wi-Fi Direct can be utilized as a means of connectivity mainstay.

Benchmark Results

• Antutu: 47 634 points
• Quadrant Standard: 12 113 points
• Nenamark 2: 59.7 fps
• Epic Citadel: 57.2 fps
• Multitouch Tester: 10
• HTML5test.com: 482 out of 555 points

Battery life

Galaxy Note Edge supported resource capacity of 3000 mAh battery, or about 7% smaller than the battery capacity 3.220mAh Galaxy Note 4. Standards indeed, yet durable enough to wear all day if not excessive to operate. Well, if the battery is low when there is no power source, then just activate Ultra Power Saving Mode feature. This feature saves battery life in the extreme, by changing the screen becomes black and white only. In addition Note also pinned Edge turbo-charging, charging enough within 30 minutes of battery will be charged up to 50 percent.

By utilizing Edge Screen, Samsung claims the power consumption when checking certain content can be minimized because it does not always use the main screen.

Based on our test results, test watch 1080p HD video: Within 1 hour the battery is reduced from 100 percent to 93 percent.

Excess

• Quad HD Super AMOLED screen
• Curved Edge display
• 3 GB RAM
• 32GB of internal storage plus a microSD slot
• 16MP camera, OIS
• S Pen stylus
• Fingerprint scanners
• NFC
• LTE support

Shortage

• Curved display more suitable for right-handed users
• Mono rear speakers
• No increase in resistance to liquids or dust
• Relatively High Price
• No FM Radio
• The casing is still dominated by plastic

Conclusion

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is a special smartphone that was announced with the Galaxy Note 4. Special for Samsung buried their latest technology. With spec gahar, superior camera, nan futuristic design and a variety of unique features to pamper users. And despite the large size, in fact, quite comfortable to wear Note Edge. Yes, there is no such price, which may be a major obstacle to bring home the Galaxy Note Edge is the price. To ask for her hand, you have to prepare pocket around USD 11 million.

Technically, a great leap conducted Samsung Galaxy Note Screen Edge Edge is on. Yes, Samsung managed to do so, apply a curved screen which is like a concept for us to Galaxy Note Edge.