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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review
MojoKid writes Differentiation is difficult in the smartphone market these days. Larger screens, faster processors, additional sensors and higher resolution cameras, all are nice upgrades but are only iterative, especially when you consider the deluge of products that come to market. True innovation is coming along with less frequency and Samsung, more so perhaps than some other players, is guilty of punching out so many different phone models that it's hard not to gloss over new releases. However, the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge may offer something truly useful and innovative with its supplementary 160 pixel curved edge display. The Note Edge is based on the same internal platform as the Galaxy Note 4, and features a 2.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC with Adreno 420 graphics and 3GB of RAM. What makes the Galaxy Note Edge so different from virtually all other smartphones on the market is its curved edge display and what Samsung calls its "revolving UI" that offers app shortcuts, status updates, data feeds and features all on its own, but integrated with the rest of the UI on the primary display. You can cycle through various "edge panels" as Samsung calls them, like shortcuts to your favorite apps, a Twitter ticker, news feeds, and a tools panel for quick access to the alarm clock, stop-watch, a flashlight app, audio recorder and even a digital ruler. The Galaxy Note Edge may not be for everyone, but Samsung actually took curved display technology and built something useful out of it."
Only 3 gig of ram? Is this 2010?
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For inventing a phone that's not only even easier to crack the screen on than a regular smartphone but also can't be held on both sides AND can't use a protective case.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Innovation and invention requires there be a problem. The first principle in the utility of a claim to actually solving a problem is a new idea or novel innovation. The highest embodiment of the solution to the problem is the invention.
What's the problem? I don't see a real use case that this Samsung UI solves.
Until the 4K TVs become popular, 1080p is the limit your camera can successfully show to you. Any other pixels are a waste of disk space unless you're saving everything for the future.
Did Samsung pay /.'s new owners to pretend that anyone gives a shit?
The summary is completely correct. It has 3GB of RAM (as in system/processor memory), which is actually as big as it gets these days for premium smartphones. 32GB of Flash storage is what you're thinking of, which is not RAM, obviously. And yes, the device has a 32GB Flash setup. So, you're wrong and that's what else is new I guess.
Here's the use case problem I think it can solve better, or at least somewhat. When you're actually in an app, you can pull up shortcuts to other apps as well as use edge panel apps simultaneously, without having to go back to the home screen. Other phones offer split screen or windowed views but this is a different and in some cases better (in some not) way of multitasking.
Soit’s like a desktop switcher, for your phone?
They just don't need the same kind of RAM as systems. Remember this is RAM, not the flash storage. That they have 32 and 64gb of.
As a practical matter all but a very few ARM processors are 32-bit and so can't address all that much memory anyhow without some kind of paging.
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or Happy Chanukah!
Does the processor need a heatsink and fan? Water cooling? Just kidding.
...Galaxy Note in a sentence I immediately lose interest. It's just another gimmicky overpriced device from samsung. Before you say "oh look there's an apple fanboy" their shit is overpriced and gimmicky too. Innovation in this market is dead.
While the idea is neat in general it seems to only make the biggest complaint I have with my phone even worse, accidental touches of the frame.
The industry is chasing ever narrower bezels and ever more sensitive touch panels to the point where phones can only be easily held with the palm. I have to disable the sensitivity boost on all the Galaxy phones I own (impacts the ability to use hover preview functions which are great if I'm cooking and someone sends me a txt) because I like using my phone upside down. When I use it upside down I grip it. When I grip it it registers as a touch on the screen edge making scrolling or using the keyboard difficult.
Now they're actually giving us content to accidentally click which will just make it worse.
Did you try a long press of the home button?
On Android it gives you access to the task switcher.
That depends on the device and how it's set up.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Since most of Samsung's UI attempts make me want to place pencils in my eyes and slam my head into my desk...but the underlying specs are usually worth rooting...maybe in a few months some root might come up with some actual, useful ideas for this. Personally I'd like to have that edge have some decent music controls as one pane, and be able to send specific apps notifications to it. Like my various server health checks, so I can just look at the side of the phone and see green / red / yellow dots like the app I'm using now.
I wonder about a case however...it might take awhile before skinit gets a cargo case for it. That's about the only brand I buy or recommend, I've dropped that phone on it's side, face, into 1-3mm of water, tumbling onto the ground up under my jeep when I forgot it was sitting on my lap when I get out...still very few scratches or anything after almost 2 years of the S3.
But ATnT can go fuck themselves with this phone sideway up their ass, after spending some time as a CSR for them and watching the draconian 2gb to 3gb forced upgrades via over charges I'd not use them even if they paid me to. I'm already at 2.1gb this month, with 17 days left to go..it says unlimited on Tmobile but I don't pay the bill anyway. Even still, I wouldn't allow anyone else to give ATnT Mobility their money either if I can help it. Handset exclusivity is another reason AtNt can suck it and choke. Just like their semi-illegal ISP exclusivity contract they have lied to and convinced my apartment is completely legal despite FCC rulings to the contrary since 2007.
The only decent thing AtNT has done in the last 20-30 years was when I gave out over $16,000 in "adjustments" to customers in one month during the Christmas season. I was the "top rep" for refunds in the entire company, like 10X higher than #2. But since we had so much overtime and constant calls, I rarely went over the $250 "soft limit" and ALWAYS documented why I did when I did in the ticket. Corporate even had some investigation but by then these people where sending in "kudos" notes, emails, and surveys for me and the documentation was tight so it was much fun.
I kinda look at it like SCL Punk's ending lines of hitting them from the inside. In the pocketbook where it hurts the worst LOL.
> Differentiation is difficult in the smartphone market these days.
> all are nice upgrades but are only iterative
Please give us one huge upgrade - simple QWERTY. Last QWERTY phone is N900 from 2009. The next will be Jolla+TOHKBD in 2015 just thanks to a community funding effort (but still with weak hardware from 2013). Everybody in forums wants QWERTY but no single manufacturer makes one.
Interesting both QWERTY phones also run Linux OS (that is not Android) despite both features are technically completely unrelated. And there are very few non-QWERTY Linux OS phones.