Samsung Galaxy Note Edge By Emanuel Cruz
9/6/14What's up guys, it's Emanuel Cruz here with a review on the latest Samsung flagship, the Galaxy Note Edge.
Honestly, I feel like this is a very strange idea that Samsung decided to just throw out there. This extra display doesn't serve a huge purpose for the new device. In fact, I feel that it gets in the way with daily onscreen activities like playing games or even watching a video.
The Note 4 is very similar to the Edge with minor changes to specs and display (obviously). With the new Edge, you lose the privilege of a great battery life that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 offers. It is 3.8 mm wider and 2.2 shorter with a 5.6 Quad HD+ display (the "+" being the extra pixels for the edge screen). If you had ever held a previous Note, you would know that it's not a easy phone to handle. Adding a much wider screen with the edged screen on the right side of the phone doesn't make for better handling.
Samsung plans to give developers access to this SDK to manipulate this edge display into they're apps. Hopefully, creating even more ways to successfully use this feature. Then maybe I may find this phone a little more appealing. I guess I'm excited to see what developers will come up with. Though in my opinion, their isn't much you could do with this edged screen. Besides, using it to take photos, view notification, voice record, view clock, news feed, weather info, and access shortcuts.
So what do you guys think? Will this be the next big thing? Leave your comment down below. If you guys would like to learn more about the Note Edge please click the link below. My name is Emanuel Cruz thanks for reading and remember, Always be Awesome!
I think the Galaxy Note Edge and the Note 4 are pretty cool devices. I can see how a curved display can be useful, and the specs are incredible. They're really neat.
However, as I said before, smartphones are all about reliability, usability, and performance, not necessarily about specs.
I think Samsung makes amazing hardware, such as the gorgeous AMOLED displays, the monstrous processors and RAM, the unbeatable GPUs, the amazing cameras, and the ultra pixel dense displays. But some of these amazing specs are rather useless in the end because of TouchWiz.
TouchWiz is a terrible UI. Terribly unoptimized, it's unreliable, it's slow, and it just feels like it's crippled. It's infested with bloatware, and no matter how good the specs are on the phone, apps tend to lag and stutter, and it's just because of TouchWiz. I also think TouchWiz has a terrible UI aesthetic, but that's just me. Sure, Samsung said that it's improved, but if you saw the demo in the Keynote, some things failed to work. It was rather hilarious.
If I were to pick an Android phone, I'd choose the HTC One M8. With great specs and HTC Sense (which is far better than TouchWiz in every way in my opinion), makes an amazing Android experience. Or maybe the new Moto X+1 that was just recently announced, with even greater specs and STOCK ANDROID, it'll be the ultimate Android experience.
Also, you CAN get Stock Android on the Note 4 and and the Note Edge, which would be a certainly superior choice over TouchWiz.
On another note, Samsung and Motorola already got to showcase their new wearables and phones, but it's still Apple's move. Apple's keynote is September 9th and will be my deciding point whether to stay with iOS or move with Android, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels that way. Apple is already behind on several things and they HAVE to step it up, but we'll find out September 9th.
Anyway, well written blog. I liked it. Nice text, too! Keep them coming!
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