Samsung Galaxy Note7 review Comments
- Anonymous
- krW$
mmj321, 17 Aug 2016'this is not an apple iphone' in what way can you justify iphone's price tag How is it any be... moreLol right
- mmj321
- 7kHA
MHanz, 17 Aug 2016How much is your pay for the schilling? Just curious.
Nope $839 is just not worth it for th... moreDon't you think these are the reasons the note 7 p**ps over note 4?
Water resistance
Edge functionality
spen
dual sim
Looks
Gorilla glass 5
Screen to body ratio of 78% vs 73%
64 gb internal storage
280 mAh more battery
Usb type C
Available colors
Better sunlight legibility
- viveksubhash
- utN}
an interesting phone...not for many i suppose..i use an s7 edge...an 'm not inclined to another phone untill and s9 i think..2 years on a flagship is good. people whole got the nnote went for 2 things, the larger screen or the s pen..if you dont want it go for something else..if you dont wat the iris scanner(how the hell does it work when your pupils are dilated, i wouldreally like to know that algorithm) get something else...get the lg g5..s7, oneplus3...there are so many options..i dont see why people are crying about cost?
- mmj321
- 7kHA
'this is not an apple iphone' in what way can you justify iphone's price tag
How is it any better than the s7edge forget the note
Please bullet your points
- viveksubhash
- utN}
PedroDNeighbor, 17 Aug 2016Good question. But I don't think so since it is not working when the finger is wet.leave the fingerprintscanner...what happens to the water that fills in the hole for the spen, when it is used underwater?
- Anonymous
- XMV{
Note 7 will go down in history as one of the best smartphone ever made.
- Umer
- sBUs
Brilliant! So the Apple Fan Boy's will start comparing the feature set and create a Hate List!
That is to be expected as Apple's Sales are getting hammered due to having 0 to No innovation for past few years and in the future as well!
Its funny when an Android is released on a new device with amazing feature set and usability for less the price charged by Apple, people blame the innovation but pay for Stature!
I hate the Apple Eco System and the fact that we have to pay for even the small luxury as even a camera mount will set you back a 100$ whereas we can have a great working android for that price!
I would Urge people to try it by only for this iteration of Android (Galaxy Note 7 is a great device and 7 series of Samsung phones provide a beautiful Android Experience)
- MHanz
- M7r0
whitedragon, 17 Aug 2016You certainly do not represent the view of 7 billion people. Whilst I do generally agree that... moreA lot of Samsung marketing slide copy paste I see in your post as expected, nothing original, like I said nope it's a gimmick on a smartphone just because. HDR has a place in proper monitors for gaming and CAD not the smartphone. I represent the vast majority of people who don't care for bullet points on a market slide deck. The only people who care for this are shills and Samsung PR, for obvious reasons. The phone needs to be usable and deliver good battery life for the price they are asking. People don't gawk on the phone all day long for 800USD, this is not an Apple iPhone. When your product has no discernible improvements in overall usage over what was released nearly 2 years ago, it is a money grab pure and simple. An improvement in camera doesn't justify the price.
- ljames
- vpd9
whitedragon, 17 Aug 2016You certainly do not represent the view of 7 billion people. Whilst I do generally agree that... moreDon't bother with him. He's the one that isn't worth it. While the note 7 will reap in tons of cash for samsung and give consumers the satisfaction of quality and utility, he will wallow in the insignificance of his existence. Just saying.
- ljames
- vpd9
But i digress, some people are just deluded deviants that think they know it all and that anybody who thinks differently is an instant marketing sheep. Stay unhappy and dissatisfied. Nobody cares about you anyway so it doesn't matter to us at all.
47058- whitedragon
- H3G8
MHanz, 17 Aug 2016HDR is gimmick for smartphones. only place HDR actually will matter is in game engines support... moreYou certainly do not represent the view of 7 billion people.
Whilst I do generally agree that much things on 'bullet point lists' with new product launches are 'spec sheet bragging rights' often with little real world merit, and even felt the same way as yourself with regards to HDR in this phone,.. upon reading DisplayMates screen rundown, I was pleasantly surprised...
Knowing that HDR has no set standards in place, most HDR implementations will prove completely useless, or have no practical benefit.
Once I saw the brightness capability for this phone, and understood the colour range the screen was capable of, I instantly knew that HDR would be awesome for many users.
When I found out that the dedicated HDR chip could uprender all video files, videophiles like myself start to get VERY interested.
Truth is the HDR will be a great feature and is implemented well.
Just because you have no interest in the feature does not make it useless to many.
The only question I would pose,.. (and it isn't really a concern to me), is if the 'offboard' (to the video processor) HDR chip will be able to feed back, to the main renderer, a split screen 'HDR upscaled' image,.. or else it will serve no practical use for VR movies,.. and that would be sad for people using a VR headset as an environmental light control..
A screen against the face makes this image appear bigger than the 'loungeroom TV', and lets face it; Samsungs OLED panels on these flagships are vastly better than what most consumers have in their loungeroom.
For many this will be the only HDR device they ever get to actually use..
I know when I got my Note 4/Edge, the panel was superb.
I started watching sitcoms not on the $8000 projector, nor the flagship loungeroom plasma (both in light controlled spaces- I calibrate screens as part of my profession!), but on my phone,.. loving the skin tones and black!
- ljames
- vpd9
Lol whoever said the battery life of the note 7 is subpar is seriously looking for straws to grasp. It's not excellent admittedly, but it isn't below expected either. It's just right. As for hdr, iris scanner, enhanced s pen, gorilla glass 5, ip68, and the use of the most powerful chipset to date, these things make the note 7 a significant upgrade to say the note 4 or even note 5. All that for just a few bucks more. Not worth it? Stfu.
- MHanz
- M7r0
whitedragon, 17 Aug 2016If the long comment awaiting moderation does come through.. let me just add HDR chipset is a ... moreHDR is gimmick for smartphones. only place HDR actually will matter is in game engines supporting it for HDR capable monitors and of course CAD work with tools supporting HDR natively. There are a lot of junk on smartphones just because, all of which are to merely trick the naive into buying the marketing hogwash wholesale just like you have, Nope nothing to see there.
- MobiFix
- mxxS
Anonymous, 17 Aug 2016I could see about 10 things the note 7 has that the honor V8 doesnt have, do you hate Samsung ... moreSo tell me those 10 specs ..
- PedroDNeighbor
- NyjD
Anonymous, 17 Aug 2016Could the finger print scanner work when the phone is under the water ?Good question. But I don't think so since it is not working when the finger is wet.
- Anonymous
- ty@X
Could the finger print scanner work when the phone is under the water ?
47058- whitedragon
- H3G8
MHanz, 17 Aug 2016How much is your pay for the schilling? Just curious.
Nope $839 is just not worth it for th... moreIf the long comment awaiting moderation does come through.. let me just add
HDR chipset is a feature,.. and doing HDR correctly is something many screens (especially non OLED ones) will have a hard time doing.
Given this has a colour gamut upscaler for regular files to make use of this HDR chip,.. movies will rock.
As you didn't acknowledge HDR, I think you may have missed, like many will,.. that it is vastly different to HDR shots for camera. Same principle,.. different applications.
47058- whitedragon
- H3G8
MHanz, 17 Aug 2016How much is your pay for the schilling? Just curious.
Nope $839 is just not worth it for th... moreIn the scientific world it is true with observe often what we wish to see, or expect to find.
I also have a Note 4 (note edge, but for comparisons, fair enough)..
I see enough here to warrant an 'upgrade', though not at the prices of these phones if we assume they hold no resale value, and 'spec sheet' is all we are comparing.
Let me first start with the price.. in my market the Note 7 has a vastly higher 'effective' price than what you list.
Samsung cannot just lower the prices on new units (they can, but), as carriers often replace units that were sold previously.. Myself as an example,.. my Note Edge was a $1450 phone on release.. the Note 7 is a $1350 on release (Australian dollars). The Aussie dollar may have even been stronger when the Note Edge was released... I argued with sales people for my telco that the new models plans should not in fact be 'higher' (they are by a considerable amount).
This is what happens when fashion creeps into 'high end'.
I have always had $1500 'business' phones. (yes, Australian dollars).. not always $1500, true, but the price point north of $1000 is what I am talking about.. So things like Nokia Communicators ( I had three), in fact my Psion 5MX required an infrared modem attachment to a 'cheap' Sony Ericcson so I could get on the internet (GPRS being the 'awesome' thing at the time..).
I expect for 'flagship prices' to get flagship technology.
A lot of what is built into this phone isn't listed on the spec sheet.
Samsung are not so silly as to advertise what is now a fashion item (as well as a functional item) to techheads.
They can garner many more sales by selling it based on cool ad campaigns that make the audience laugh (thankyou Christoph Waltz)...
What improvements would I get it for....
At a software level (things you can easily dismiss, as ideally these WILL make it down the food chain), are RAW mode photos (no software mismanagement of the capture), Spen translate and 'gif', Grace UX, and a rapid deployment of Nougat (Samsung having moved many usual apps to the store).
Hardware; well for the Spen,.. the digitiser is at 340hz; wicked!
4096 level of sensitivity. And a refinement in the Pen (not breaking if upside down, waterproofed, and a finer 'nib')
The screen brightness might just be Samsung being willing to not attempt longevity of the OLED, or perhaps they didn't get enough complaints about screen etching/dimming on last couple of models, so they are pushing the screen a bit harder (this might be a case of 'wait and tell')
Gamut on DCi being 95% is insane.. and having a front and back camera assess light for screen auto optimisation is a clever piece of tech, not implemented in a phone previously to the best of my, or 'displaymate', knowledge.
I am into photography and audio.. so, having acknowledged the camera (being a massive improvement over the Note 4, the autofocus tech coming from CANON, and the lens being vastly faster, and a better sensor, which is impressive cause I like the SonyIMX240 on the Note 4s),.. lets look to audio...
The snapdragon gets an offboard DAC. This is unusual. .only a couple of phones have done this previously,.. (Sony Z3/HTC 10/Axon 7 to as quick examples),.. this should prove great, as my Note variant had the snapdragon chip and my old voodoo modded Nexus S (with Wolfson dac) chews it up and spits it out. Just an 800mhz, 8Gb of slow storage that cannot easily play FLAC files, just doesn't quite cut it for me; I want 'one box to rule them all'.
I get an Exynos variant in my local market. That is usually paired with an outboard Cirrus DAC. Cirrus bought out Wolfson, and documents I was reading, quite awhile ago, suggested that Sammy had something awesome in store for us,. and that didn't make it into the S7s so I am excited for this one....
Case...
I like the Note 4 'faux leather' back. It feels nice. My Note Edge is quite wide and unwieldly.
Most reviewers are stating that the new Note 7 is the NICEST SAMSUNG MOBILE they have EVER touched. (Not shouting, promise)
It is svelte in the hand in a way that a phone with a screen this big does not normally feel.
This is a biggy.
Coming from a PC/IT background, miniaturisation is a costly thing to do well.
What about other improvements? There are plenty more.. we only have to look around at what each user is acknowledging about this handset.. there IS/ARE a lot of compliments being made.
As I started this 'rant' with; just because you don't see them doesn't mean they are not there...
Now,.. as for whether it is value..
That is for any given user to decide.
Samsung throwing in a state of the art high capacity micro SD card is a nice bonus for early adopters who are buying based on 'trust' that the phone will be 'ALL THAT'.
I take that card, as it bests my very expensive top of the line Sandisk in a few areas (and is four times my present capacity).
Fast cards are important, and the reason why we lost MicroSD slots for a year..
when users were pairing cheap cards, and Androids capacity to mount them and move media to them.. a lot of people were losing photos and were unable to record 4K video.
Why do you think Nexus devices do not include this feature? (Simply not worth the hassle trying to support unhappy users and taking the flak).
For anyone with a carrier who gets a phone.. this phone is an easy choice.
Given a lot of people skipped the Note 5 (last model) which wasn't available in a lot of the world, many people are ready for an upgrade.
Even if it doesn't appear, by spec sheet, to be much..
Most reviewers are extremely happy, and calling it what it is...
The only Naysayers? People NOT using it!
- Anonymous
- 4Js2
MHanz, 17 Aug 2016For $839 that battery life is subpar, Might as well hold on to the Note 4. Camera seems good l... moreOh...it's not a whole new device so I can sit hit here and whine and act as if there is nothing good about it like I do on every page
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