Samsung Galaxy Note 7: Our first impressions – Articles – Chip.pl – CHIP

For errors to perfection?

Let’s start with the things that may seem trivial, but trust us – this is one of the most important features of the phone in terms of its everyday use. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fits perfectly in your hand – much better than Note’a 5 or S6 Edge Plus, which have very similar sizes. Why? Because Samsung apparently decided he made a mistake by launching the strong curvature of the screen and in its latest superflagowcu almost resigned to him. Almost, because the curvature is, but actually symbolic. Instead of a clear cascades of glass, as in S6 / S7 EDGE or Note Edge, we have an arc-like rather rounded edges fashionable now in mobile.

It was an excellent decision, resulting in a whole lot better ergonomics hold a lot more space available for work no stylus and larger surface area of ​​the screen where you can view anything without glare and distortion. A big applause for this change. When Koreans still decide to move the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone, their way to the perfect design will be completed by …

The new Note is not the lightest handsets on the market (weighs 169g), which for some will It will be negative, but that’s a personal preference, which are hard to discuss.

waterproof

Another important point when it comes to new Note’a is waterproof. The phone boasts a degree of protection IP68, which means it can withstand immersion in water to a depth of 1.5m, approx. 30 minutes. In practice, this means that you can take it with you into the shower and use the stylus to write the “golden mean”, when the screen is pouring water out of your battery.

Scanner retina

Another novelty, which surely fall in love with lazy users is the scanner of the retina. It works on infrared (as well as a scanner mounted in Lumiach), the action requires the visibility of both eyes and allows for non-contact phone unlocking, login to websites or unlock the protected content, local phone. While fingerprint scanners can cheat in a relatively simple manner, so much the scanner of the retina has a great chance to be enough to secure authentication mechanism that the technology is already interested in the largest banks. Great to have such a toy phone.

Display

Note’y are known for their large size, so it should not surprise anyone that in Note 7 we find a screen size of 5.7 ” . the image is, of course, a resolution of QHD (interestingly, it may be reduced in power saving mode). protective glass is Gorilla Glass 5, which in theory should provide greater resistance to falls (but as is the case with phones at this price – we do not recommend this check.) the screen has a very user-friendly option – it comes to filter blue light, so that the user’s eyesight gets tired much slower rate during longer sessions with the phone in his hand. the fact that the screen is much less curved than in Samsung’s previous models we wrote above, but to emphasize the information we mention it here as well.

stylus

with a screen size of 5.7 “using the stylus no longer makes sense to Samsung arranged for several improvements in relation to Note’a 5. In seven of the tip of the stylus is twice thinner (0.7 vs 1.6 mm), has twice the pressure levels (4096 vs. 2048) and lower latency (50ms vs. 70ms). For this integration software phone with stylus stands on a much higher level – for example, can use it to create a note from the locked screen. But this is not the most effective use of the stylus. It’s hard indeed to choose its most impressive feature, because there are just a lot. For example, we select any text on the website (which stylus takes much less time than doing it using your fingers) and translate it immediately (function currently works with 37 languages, including Chinese). Stylus in Note 7 also offers special tools designed for drawing, handwriting writing, creating lists, and so on. And not only that, we can use it under water, it is still not possible to put him badly. If someone is looking for a convenient smartphone integrated with a stylus, it is currently on the market there is nothing better.

Camera

One of the most important (for some of the most important) function of the phone. Here awaits you minor “disappointment.” Why the disappointment? Because this is exactly the same camera, which debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S7. F / 1.8, 12 megapixels, image stabilization – is nothing new. This of course is still one of the best cameras currently installed in smartphones, that this was a new, more convenient interface based on gestures – move the screen to the right, there is a menu with a choice of modes, move the screen left – you will see a menu filters. Note 7 to this software rather can improve the video during its recording and shooting video in HDR mode. To say more, we will have to test it. The biggest downside of the camera is that, like the S7 – it protrudes from the back over the case.

Battery and other

Battery Power Note ’7 has a capacity of 3500 mAh. It’s hard to judge whether too much or too little, without testing the phone for a couple / few days, so if you have to settle for “dry given.” For a mobile loading from 0 to 100% in 95 minutes! To charge we will need a cable with a USB connector type C, which should not surprise anyone.

When it comes to the internal memory, it will be available only one option, with a built-in 64GB. Note 7 will support microSD cards with a maximum capacity of 256GB.

Cases will be available in four colors: black, blue, silver and gold. The last color will not be officially available in Poland. Just like Dual SIM model, but what are auction sites?

Games fired at Note 7 will use APIs Vulkan, which also should not be a surprise to anyone. And now we finish this post photographs of the new, improved, androidowego interface Samsung, have a nice view: