Sneak Peek Samsung Galaxy Note 7 – Tek.no

Today Samsung launched another Galaxy Note and this time comes teknobeistet to both Europe and Norway. Galaxy Note 7 is expected to emerge in Norwegian stores about a month’s time, ie in early September. So what is it you can expect when the time comes?

Most of the rumors ahead of the launch proved to be true, and had it not been for the size it would have been easy to mistake Galaxy Note 7 and current top model Galaxy S7 Edge in butikkyllene. The new Note model has in fact virtually identical design, but with some small changes.

Waterproof and USB Type-C connector

Here’s curved glass front and behind, and new Galaxy Note is waterproof, just like its little brothers in Galaxy S7 series. That despite the fact that it has a gaping hole on the right side below the screen. There was some doubt about the rumors of water tightness just because this hole that houses the S-Note pen may be difficult to properly close.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Size: 15.3 x 7.39 x 0.79 cm
Weight 169 grams
Display 5.7 inch Super-AMOLED, 2560 1440 pixels
Hardware: Exynos 8890 Octa, eight cores, 4x Mongoose @ 2.3GHz + 4x 1.6 GHz Cortex A53, Mali T880 MP12 GPU, 4GB RAM
Storage 64GB (UFS 2.0), support for memory cards
Operating System: Android 6.0.1 + Touch Wiz
Technology Iris Scanning, BT v. 4.2, ANT +, WiFi 802.11 AC with MIMO (up to 620 Mbit / s )
Camera 12 Megapixels, dual pixel, optical stabilization
Battery 3500 mAh

Price: Advance sale from 16 August, available from September 2, indicative of around 8500 million

They must therefore have managed to seal the entire phone well, and it includes the first USB type -C connector we’ve seen in a waterproof phone. This is also the first time this connector is used in one of Samsung’s Galaxy models.

There Galaxy S7 Edge frame pulled pretty far toward the rear, sits roughly in the middle Galaxy Note 7. It provides a more symmetrical phone, but those in attendance to view we were on was already talked about that not absolutely everything in the frame was symmetrical. You should probably look very closely before it bothers you that the data port, microphone hole and the speaker at the bottom is not fully in line.

By the way does your phone just as sturdy and well built as the current Galaxy S7. Here there is nothing that gives in, and everything feels very well composed. The answer of such obtained as known not before a phone was in his pocket for a few months, but initially everything seems to be well within here.

your eyes is the key

Silver and korallblå are two of the varieties Galaxy 7 comes in. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

One of the big news of the Galaxy Note 7 are in the form of a small diode on the front of the phone. The diode throws himself IR light, so the camera in front shall be able to read the unique pattern in your eyes. Iris scanning is not brand new, but again it is the first time it is found in a Galaxy model.

Previously, we have seen similar features in tablets from Microsoft and mobile phones from ZTE, to mention a few examples .

however, there have been rumors that Samsung would adopt more so-called biometrics earlier. At that time it was speculated that they failed to get the technology to work in all lighting conditions, or with glasses, and that it thus was scrapped.

The function in Galaxy Note 7 warns that glasses and contact lenses can go in the way of its use, but Samsung’s husband proud still plenty of function to demonstrate the just with your glasses on.

Iris, code and fingerprint

Iris Scanning used beside code and finger reads as collateral in Note 7. the works actually spectacle fine even in the dark, but bright sunlight can prevent it. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

When I got to try so it really seems to be a habit to use this feature. Wrong angle or distance led to that it failed to read so much, but after a few minutes and four to five attempts I also began to hit. Given developments fingerprint readers have had the last few years I guess this will be very much improved over time, but a good beginning is it, anyway. And the solution seems good enough to replace your finger where you may not have ample opportunity to use it, for example in cold climates with gloves on, or with greasy fingers after a run.

candlelight vigil will actually bright sunlight be worse than darkness. Total darkness is supposedly fighting good lighting for security solution, since it has its own brought with IR light. Since much of the sunlight is in the infrared spectrum can affect the function and make it more difficult to be recognized.

Whatever laws Samsung that this function works with both finger reader and tag, so you always have a way to unlock your phone on.

HDR support, but where’s the content?

You can use the stylus to activate a new app while the old forms a tiny preview bottom. As long as the pen is near the screen you are working with the new app, but as you take the pen away from the screen pops the old back up. The solution actually worked out very well. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

Another novelty is far less visible. Galaxy Note 7 is supposed to be the very first mobile phone with HDR support. Super-AMOLED panel used in this game is very bright, all 800 NITS, and in normal mode it can go right up to the maximum strength. But in HDR mode must be able to show the enormous contrast range as an HDR transmission requires, with the rest of somewhat faded and full blast is reserved for powerful flash of light as the sun and explosions.

The downside to launch such an product today is that there are hardly any services or content available, so when we asked about getting HDR function demonstrated we were notified that the phone is ready for HDR, when the content once appear.

Per today it Netflix or Bluray concerning whether to see HDR content, and the latter is a plate anyway not work as well against mobile phones, Netflix a generic Android app for all mobiles. It has thus far not HDR support.

When we tried to ask if there would be a Netflix app specifically for Note 7 we got the response that there was no such agreements yet. What will come is uncertain. As of today must have been achieved in one of Netflix ‘smart TV apps to stream 4K from service. Neither mobile app or Netflix Browser provides the same high resolution.

Finally, someone cleaned the settings

A much tidier setting menu has been space. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

We may need to talk about what is happening on the screen as well. Galaxy Note 7 has Samsung’s customary Touch Wiz menus but once again Samsung has made some changes.

In recent years, several manufacturers, Samsung included taking steps to simplify menu systems their bit. This time the setting menu which has fallen victim to a powerful slimmers, and the result is … well, it’s actually downright straightforward. Not bad, considering that normal for this menu is that it only becomes more and more cluttered with every year that passes.

In Galaxy Note 7 are all thematically arranged with headlines and keywords below and that I stumbled into my error subdivision from time to time due to the fact that I’ve got used to the old system of preferences for similar functions scattered a little everywhere.

Otherwise, this is largely as using a Galaxy S7 until you pick out the pen.

New and improved S-pen

So Once you pull out the S-Pen dolls this menu up. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

the pen has also been new this year, and will feel more natural than ever to write with. And that makes it fundamentally. Just like Apple Pencil-dings you get a sense that there is resistance in the shiny glass screen when you stroke S-Pen over. It makes it far more pleasant to deal with than older digital pens that unobstructed Svinsa over large display areas. It feels a bit more like writing on paper.

As in the settings menu Samsung has cut down on the wilderness of software that supports pen. Now it’s just a note application on your phone, and it supports most things you’re likely to do with the pen, whether it is to write your shopping list or to Van Gogh in the industry.

Besides the note application can pen also used on the screen when the phone is in standby mode. Here it is possible to use the idle screen as a kind of refrigerator door, with your main scribbles hand. The system seems to be quite so convenient.

Use your phone to make GIF snippets

You can use S-Penen to capture video to animated GIF files. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

Pen functionality is also built into the menu system, allowing you, for example, can take screenshots with annotations and scribblings around with ease. This time you can also create a kind of screenshot of video.

Galaxy Note 7 can actually create their own animated GIF images from the content you are watching. Here are focussing however on the same type of solution as all common forms of screenshot from your mobile phone. This means that services that prevent such will not allow themselves to be photographed this way. Gazing for example said Netflix on your phone, you will not be allowed to take screenshots of the service, and you will not be able to create GIF images – unless there would emerge a appvariant specifically Note 7. It is not unthinkable, given that it probably is the only HDR support for some time into the future.

Otherwise, the phone at most show a big Galaxy S7. It is fast and good to use, and I did not notice any lags in the menus. The camera is the same in this as in Galaxy S7, but Samsung has made some changes to make the app easier to use. Here is the swiping applicable, and although it seemed quite okay to use initially, we have also learned that sweeping is not always as simple as it may seem in a stressful shooting situation where the subject might have run away before one has had time to get the app ready.

This is the first Galaxy Note model, and one of very few others we know of, that comes in a two-tone version. The korallblå edition gold colored frame. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

A Galaxy S7 on steroids?

After the Galaxy Note 5 never came to Norway, and Samsung now has skipped a 6 in the series, we are looking forward actually to become more familiar with this phone here when it arrives.

it is a fact that very much here feels familiar, considering how similar the Galaxy S7, yet it has a number of small and big news in store that allows it to be a pretty alright upgrade. At least for those among us who prefer the biggest screens.

And that design is now in a kind of third round since Galaxy S6 Edge is maybe not so careful, when we anyway talking about one of the most conspicuous mobildesignene on the market.

Samsung brought with them the entire Galaxy Note series then they should show off the latest. Photo: Finn Jarle Kvalheim Tek.no

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