Samsung Galaxy Note Edge bends and bends – PCLab.pl

Flexible OLED screens have been with us for quite some time and seem to be an integral part of gadgets, the future, but for now, designers have a problem with sensible use them in the present, because it looks that they are slightly ahead of its time. Experiments LG G Fleksami can be considered as reasonable, but the Samsung Galaxy Round … let’s say that the next generation of this model is unlikely to expect, because if the biggest advantage of a phone is how it is in your pocket, it’s probably something went wrong yes;) The second and slightly more serious approach to the topic of Samsung flexible OLED practical use-that is the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, which recently went on sale in our country at a price of 3500 dollars.

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is nothing like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (version with Snapdragon) in disguise. His curled on the right bank of the display has more pixels and a shorter diagonal (2560 * 1600 instead of 2560 × 1440 and 5.6 inches instead of 5.7 inches), and the battery has a slightly smaller capacity, so if you want to learn more about performance Note’a Edge, his camera, display properties, or about what you can do with the pen, I invite you to … Review of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (from the battery test results you have to subtract about 15% of the time). Seriously, virtually all of the differences between these models are due to the fact that the Note Edge “bend”, so in this paper I will focus precisely on this aspect of the phabletu.

Then bend the

At the beginning of this śródtytułu repeat the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is nothing like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in disguise. I can see it not only in its specification and (roughly) the functionality, but also in his appearance. Associations immediately occurred to me: This metal frame, leather-like surface of the back, stylus and so on. Note 4 How do the lifting. In other words, we get here a handful of proven, reliable and popular solutions with a touch of extravagance. Sounds like a recipe for success, right? Well, I first began to have doubts after taking Edge’s hand, because then it was revealed how much it unwieldy.

It is almost 4 mm wider than its more classical cousin and has the oddly shaped his right side, which initially was really hard for me to comprehend it. It turned out that I am not alone in these feelings, because almost every person that gave it to play, stated that there is something wrong with its ergonomics. It is true that after a few days I learned to handle it, and I got used to its quirks (although to this day I have a problem with raising him from the desk …), but still I can not phabletu be considered handy, and I have a very high tolerance to equipment of these dimensions. Those dimensions or what? To give it all perspective: Note Edge is almost as wide as 6-inch Nexus 6 (and wider than the 6-inch Ascend Mate7), and offers a work surface in practice very similar to the 5.5-calowca. This gives food for thought.

The specific right side of the Edge forced another change: the system lock had to be moved to the upper edge of the housing and it’s reach there definitely is not easy, unless you are a basketball player, or another volleyball player. Unlocking the screen still possible to somehow grasp with one hand, because Samsung continues to be placed under the display is its distinctive oblong button off display but that’s another story and it quickly developed a habit of reaching the “hyped” with the other hand, because every time you I tried to do this, in which I held the phone, I had a vision from the eyes of 3500 gold then disappearing from your account. It’s not the end of problems with the convenience Edge Galaxy Note, but several recent observations leave for later, ie at the time of completion of describing what one can do with additional columns of pixels.

Belts, beams and other such

Additional pixels located on the rounded edge of the display Note’a be treated a bit like a second display because they live their own lives, largely independent of what happens in the main workspace. They are always occupied by a bar with the words, controls, or with another widget. How exactly do you use this toolbar? A couple of things.

1. When you navigate the home screen is placed on the column of seven shortcuts to applications (of course possible to modify it.)
2. Moving your finger to the left or to the right, you can switch between configured widgets. There are several to choose from. Among them is a calendar widget, S Health , a preview of the share price, preview Twitter etc.
3. Swipe from the top edge to the bottom of a reference set of slides mininarzędzi and among them is the line (yes, yes), stopwatch, timer, flashlight and voice recorder.
4. When you enter the (almost) any application making it black and appears on the string.
5. For a few seconds is displayed on the received notification system, even if there is an application running full-screen.
6. Some programs Samsung transfer to a bending part of your interface. For example, the camera displays where all the buttons, movie player all the lights, and the S Note all the editing tools. You follow? I’m almost finished;)
7. Some music players (including Spotify ) can be viewed on the miniature and always available controls.
8. Well, the last function mode: bedside clock. When you turn it on the edge of the Note’a Edge … there is a clock that is displayed for a fixed amount of time (up to 12 hours), so theoretically you can put it on the table beside the bed and check the time without lifting the head up / taking the phone in your hand .

The end of the counting.

How does it work?

The most I like point 7 . Apparently, the same controls are available in the Android notification drawer, but in the case of full-screen applications to get them to be double swipe your finger from the top edge of the screen, and the Edge are always at hand. Super deal. I miss it here only to make it possible to somehow display the same buttons to control music playback and turn off the rest of the screen, because often I use the phone to use Spotify running on your computer, so this additional feature to me came in handy.

Item No. 1 is OK, because I do not like too many icons on the screen powystawianych home (and I’m usually all configured only one desktop), so this is always visible even today the shortcut bar I like. Only need to watch out for is that the normal length of the thumb is able to comfortably handle (without moving your hand) 4-5 buttons, and the remaining 2-3 are already out of reach, so in practice the advantage of this approach over the standard beam at the bottom of the screen is relatively small .

Two … hmm. It sounds like a sensible, but I miss something that would really encouraged me to use these widgets. The amount of information displayed on them is very small, and how to set them more, just reaching the needed requires a pretty good namachania the thumb, so I have doubts as to whether it actually is comfortable, or donate it better myself. For now, just none of the widgets did not convince me to him so that I somehow use it more regularly.

Point number 5 is a very cool idea, but I miss some things, to its potential to be fully exploited. Firstly, you can not go back to the notifications that have already disappeared. Just a new message arrives, for a few seconds, information about it appears on the beam and immediately disappears. And secondly, I’m missing here again showing them even when the phone is asleep, a little in the style of the Motorola Moto X.

Six is ​​… strange. That is to say pretty much rearranged interface elements makes sense, and after a few moments to take pictures forefinger of the right hand turns out to be reasonably comfortable, but really it is all possible thanks to the proportions of the screen (16: 10), rather than its curvature, so it is it’s more rediscovery that displays tend to have more square sense in some applications, which after all is known for a very long time. Not that I complained about it, but somehow it’s hard for me to excite. The more that the surface on which they are displayed in movies and on which you can write notes here is less than the normal Galaxy Note 4, so … I leave the conclusions to you.

Item No 3 . Look at the picture below and tell me what’s wrong:

This shows my next problem with your Edge, displayed on it text and default widgets are rotated according to the clockwise direction, which perhaps makes sense when the phone is held in the hand, but you absolutely do not have the phone on the desk. Theoretically it can be rotated, but only … together with the entire interface smartphone. I do not know who invented it, but I tried not to. I ask you to update software for setting the direction in which the text is to be returned on the edge in different situations. And more features available when the screen is off, but more on that I mentioned earlier;)

Wait a minute. It’s everything?

Yes, this is everything, and as you can see … more enthusiasm missing. Initially, there were more, but curved screen Samsung’s Edge and ideas for using it in practice is not passed the test of time with me, because the days went by, and I was less and less of them and I used increasingly annoyed me their problems and shortcomings. Most of them have been mentioned before, but for dessert, I left myself in my opinion, the most serious: during typical use much you need to be careful not to touch the underside of the hand bent portion of the display. Accidentally hitting and activating something unlikely to happen, but many times I wondered why the equipment behaved strangely and instead of a short single-tap the screen to detect double or long, or nothing at all to detect. The problem has always turned out that the “wrong” I held the phone. That is not enough that Edge Note by the width of an average compact housing and has a switch on the top edge, it still need to be careful how you hold it to the digitizer does not refused to cooperate.

I think it’s pretty evident what is my opinion on this phabletu. The idea itself is fine and glory to Samsung for the fact that he was trying to do something different. In times of continuous odtwórczości and stagnation, such risky experiments are very necessary and separate from the creative craft enterprises. Oh and do not forget that the Galaxy Note Edge is redesigned Galaxy Note 4, which is one of the best smartphones last year, so either way it is a very good handset in excess of their capacity, almost everything that can be bought. But, in my opinion, if you want a Galaxy Note’a, then buy the normal Galaxy Note’a because Edge – despite its uniqueness – it is simply worse. At the end of the test I had the impression that the screen is curved just because they could be curved, and then began to wonder how to use it and whether it even makes sense. Ultimately, it is the entire display to bend me more annoyed by how affe cted the ease of use when performing the most ordinary tasks smartfonowych than enthuse their capabilities (which are, and so far there is too much or are underdeveloped). In short, good, good, but this concept just does not convince me (maybe something smaller would make more sense?) And I can recommend Note’a Edge only to those who desperately want to have something different and new. And everything else I recommend buying Note’a 4, because although it is boring, it is the nausea goes to him for good.