Samsung three years ago surprised many and caused hilarity among many others to announce the launch of its first Samsung Galaxy Note. Straddling his success with the Galaxy range dared to format that no one so far has dared to sink your teeth (the over 5 inches) and incidentally caused the creation of the most infamous term coined in the technology world. The phablet (Jesus)
October 2011 , the Once Samsung launched its first Galaxy Note, Apple presented its iPhone 4S, the antithesis of the form factor of the phablet Samsung . The 4s featuring a 3.5 inches compared to 5.3 of the Note, a weight of 140 grams compared to 178 and less than half a millimeter thick. A tank in front of a dragonfly .
But eventually the tank proved more popular from the makers of Cupertino and the rest of the industry could imagine. No longer the owners of the Note was looking over his shoulder, that is envied ample space for typing and viewing the screen, this smart pointer. Soon the first phablet Competition began to appear. But most important this year is not only the launch of the fourth generation of Note. The most important is that Apple has surrendered .
After three years of condescending look sufficiency the birth of the first Galaxy Note Cupertino makers have seen the wolf ears and have launched their phablet : The iPhone 6 plus, your own “tank” of 5.5 inches and 172 grams. Certainly do not do anything wrong. The fact is that Samsung continues to demonstrate this new family come to are able to offer something Differential not only depends on the number format.
And although many have copied device size, none has yet dared to imitate product philosophy . Because the saga of the Galaxy Note is distinguished not only by the size of the device, which has fallen victim of a pocket sadly frayed. The real differentiating factor of this range of products is the S-Pen, the active pointer that does more than facilitate we mark or select in the display.
After a review of made the short history of Galaxy Note is just that we focus on the newcomer to the ring of the heavyweights. For the first assault We will look at the design and appearance, which already proposed is really impressive. The new Note has more in common with his little brother Galaxy Alpha with its ancestors Note family, although her appearance is very similar to the Note 3 .
The reason is that for the production of this new model has chosen an aluminum instead of commend both the plastic. You notice immediately at the touch of edge, the extraordinary rigidity of the terminal and as less positive note, the somewhat rough of the edges if we played in the front.
On the other side of the back cover is designed with a plastic material to get a very similar feel to the synthetic leather . The texture is actually achieved and that makes the metal frame together with the phone have a look and feel really premium . The ensemble is crowned by a Gorilla Glass screen 3 very high quality.
Alpha Galaxy left and Note 4 To the right. Much in common.
As always the device can be opened to insert MicroSD memory , replace the battery and insert the Micro (not Nano) SIM in line with the philosophy Samsung terminals. The general feeling is that the Note 4 despite the increased screen size, just have differences in management with Note 3 . It is also usable with one hand and a substantial difference in weight or dimensions do not notice.
The data bear this out. If the Note 3 had a size of 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm the new Note is roughly conforms to these measures and even cut width with dimensions of 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5 mm with the same screen size (5.7 inches). A pity that not been able to eliminate the bumps , especially the camera.
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to the left and Note 3 to the right. Few differences in sight …
If on the other hand we face with the iPhone 6 plus Samsung device earn slightly compared with . The Apple mobile has a size of 158.1 x 77.8 mm, so is higher and almost equal in width despite having a two-tenths of an inch smaller screen.
In short the look and usability of Note 4 is outstanding . As usual with Samsung, the Korean company has done a great job both designers and engineers and listening to its users and has improved many aspects of the previous generation, sometimes subtly and other Major changes .
On the back as we always open the lid to easily access the battery, the SIM and SD card, battery is elongated design , as in the latest models of Samsung and unlike the Note 3. This allows best reception of the various antennas on the other hand allows to make room MicroSD slot without removing the battery.
But while the design is great protagonist, the truth is that a of the most striking features of the new model is when you see the screen in action . Samsung has managed to cram in 5.7 inch point density of 515 dots per inch (compared to 400 the iPhone 6 plus) .
This is a Super AMOLED display offers a whopping 1440 x 2560 pixels . That is, if at home (like me) your living room flaunts a TV Full HD on Galaxy Note 4 abundantly exceed the definition of your screen and who knows, you’ll end up watching football on your Smartphone for no losing detail.
The color saturation exceptional is a spectacle and enjoy photos and movies on a panel like this. They have also succeeded, despite the limitations in this sense of the AMOLED screens, beyond numbers brightness of his predecessors obtaining an even better readability under direct light. In fact much better than its predecessor Note 3.
On the contrast quality is outstanding Thanks to the ability to turn the panels AMOLED pixels that should show black portions. Working with text also benefits very clearly with this significant increase in resolution . The definition of each character is especially noticeable if you have to work at close range and helps the screen to be useful for work.
Samsung has done on the other side of an outstanding job for a screen this size and resolution is not an issue when it comes to autonomy. Still retaining practically the same battery capacity, the duration of the same is greater than the Note 3 was already one of the longest in its class.
So once more can get nearly 48 hours of normal use without reloading, that without resorting to energy-saving mode. Besides Samsung has a built Meth
do quick charge for which it is possible to reach 50% charge in just 30 minutes. This autonomy is a point at which the Note range has always distinguished, and Note 4 does not disappoint in that regard.
Another point that Samsung has taken special care is the redesign of the new S-pen . This characteristic of the pointer models Note Samsung has been one of the workhorses of the Korean company since the release of his first phablet . In Note 4 have been improved both the design and the functions.
First, the new S-pen is more manageable and thinner than the previous with a rough texture which makes it more comfortable to hold and less likely to slip from your fingers despite its smaller size. Changed the design of the making it more responsive and usable .
Part of the Samsung device has improved sensitivity to S-pen incorporating a digitizer that can recognize up to 2048 different levels of pressure . That is very important for applications such as signature recognition, in which not only the stroke is stored but also the pressure applied at all times .
To accompany these advances in the hardware side Samsung has also incorporated changes in the software . As in previous versions only extract the S-pen a special pie menu where can choose several options , such as the Action Memo (enhanced), Smart Select (allowing multiple selection) is set, Image Clip and Screen Write, to write immediately and without activating any other application handwritten note or drawing.
The application S-note by her side has been improved Also . It is now possible to make such a written document a photo. The application will direct the picture and then perform character recognition so that we can edit, send, or whatever you want with the text so recognized. Another feature we love it is the ability to leave notes all at the desktop .
Activated features happening on certain points of the applications (such as calendar dates) without touching the screen with the pointer has been maintained and improved. Also provided within the interface and has been enhanced multitasking and the handling of multiple windows.
Now you can set the window size we want display on the screen, move content from one window to another and change the space assigned to each. It also provides a way of handling a hand on the phone shows a smaller screen leaving the rest in black. Also a special menu will appear on the side we choose to handle it with your thumb. Even in this mode actually have more resolution on some terminals …
The section of improvements is endless, and leave some “peccadilloes” to the end . Another interesting development is the voice recording that can capture sound from eight directions and attenuate one to record what interests us. Even this can be done a posteriori . That is, for example recording the conversation at a table and play just listen to what someone says.
It has a built in fingerprint sensor last is in the front button . In this way we can store up to three tracks that allow us to unlock the phone without having to remember passwords or movements on a grid. Yes, always can have that possibility if you do not recognize our tracks.
It also has increased the number of sensors incorporating reader capable of measuring blood pulse saturation A UV meter (with the phone advised us whether to use protection or not) plus the usual sensors like accelerometer, GPS …
In the section of the phone features has a Quad Core processor 2.7GHz , 3 gigabytes of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and up to 128 MicroSD storage. In our tests it outperformed the Note 3 in all sections not show on-screen graphics , but keep in mind the resolution offered by the new model. Still nothing to particularly impress, but the handling of multitasking does seem somewhat optimized (though not as much as in the Alpha).
The camera is otherwise another impressive piece of hardware . While it is true that other manufacturers offer more, the 16 megapixel camera Note 4 image stabilizer and video recording at 2160 points make it a very respectable camera. The results are very good, although not up to the best Sony or Nokia as missing is less to catch up.
When they arrived at the bottom of analyzes we need to talk negative part . Surprisingly, after that it seems that Samsung models had already adopted the MicroUSB 3.0 this model back to version 2.0 . We suspect it is an issue related to the rapid charging voltages, etc … but we could not find any information about it.
On the other hand, and although the sound in question is very good, Speaker rear is not as effective as the Note 3 . Perhaps it is due to the different layout and size of the battery with respect to the predecessor. Another disappointment is that they did not incorporate resistance to water and dust as the S5, but that already belongs to the category of “Letter to the Magi” .
Conclusion
Findings can not be more positive s. Samsung has that rare ability that we hardly realize the transition from one model to another, but if we compare the latter with the former we’ll have a clear idea of all that has been improved . A fantastic display, excellent battery life (rapid charge), an s-pen increasingly useful …
All applications with a becoming more established and useful , as the s -health of almost scary the control can have our vitals. And of course the use of the S-pen, more profits, better handwriting recognition, best performance. ..
Words fail to describe this stunning model Note 4 by Swarosky
Clearly Samsung want to continue to innovate in the subject of writing on screen and seeing what we are getting really interesting achievements. Finally, a terminal for continuity path seemingly manages to offer very important news without detracting one iota to usability and quality that is usually found in these terminals.
If you’d just polish some finish defects of the edges of aluminum, the theme of the MicroUSB and other minor complaints latter reached the Note saga clearly overtake all rivals. And of course the S-pen is a differentiating factor that has grown from anecdote very interesting reality.
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