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the Samsung Galaxy mega 6.3 is big but how much phone is too much phone is that even possible find out in our review hey everybody I'm Chris look if you're like me and I know I am you might think it's a little weird that phones keep getting bigger and bigger when not too long ago the goal was to make them smaller now we have this the Galaxy mega 6.3 sure it's got a big screen but is that enough to make it worthwhile well let's get started by taking a look at the specs the Galaxy mega 6.3 has you guessed it a 6.3 inch 720p display it runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with a 1.7 gigahertz dual-core Krait processor and Adreno 305 GPU 1.5 gigs of ram and either eight or 16 gigs of internal storage expandable via microSD we're looking at an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera finally powering everything we have a 3200 milliamp hour battery there's no way around it the galaxy mega 6.3 is big now depending on your point of view and how you use your phone that's either a good thing or a bad thing but other than its general size this is still very much a galaxy device we're looking at here the power button volume rocker headphone jack and USB port are all exactly where you would expect to find them the general feel of the device is solid yet light like a much larger version of the Galaxy s4 and it's actually thinner than the note 2 its size is probably a minus if you drop it though because it might be easier to break so try to hang on to it with a resolution of 1280 by 720 on a 6.3 inch screen we're only looking at a pixel density of around 230 pixels per inch here which had me concerned before I really got into using the mega but it's surprisingly not that much of a problem text and icons rendered fairly sharply and so did video the display is a tea tl CD which is a little strange as Samsung normally uses Super AMOLED displays but I actually preferred this as the colors aren't quite so exaggerated the displays brightness is better than average and black levels are fairly deep to test performance we turn to our usual first tool of choice and to to benchmark we ran the benchmark not once but 10 times and took the average of the scores which ran from around 12,500 to around 13,600 our final average score was 13,000 309 next we turn to Epic Citadel running in benchmark mode first we use the ultra-high quality setting and ended up with an average frame rate of around 33 frames per second running in just high quality mode up the frame rate to around 57 frames per second while high performance only bumped it up to 58 frames per second in real world use the Megane never felt slow or laggy whether it was launching apps or scrolling through various screens and menus I tried to quick race in Real Racing 3 and though I may not be great at the game it performed just fine the Galaxy mega 6.3 runs Android 4.2.2 jelly bean right out of the box and it's overlaid with the same version of TouchWiz as the galaxy s4 so it feels very similar just - a few features due to the large size of this device it's nice to see a landscape mode included on the homescreen for when you want to use it more like a tablet now you don't have to use this but it's nice to know it's there this review unit didn't come from a carrier so it was free of bloatware unless you're counting the Samsung Apps like S Memo s planner and s translator which plenty of people happen to like it's also nice to see features like watch on included sadly I was a little disappointed by the camera eight megapixels didn't sound bad and even though this is no s4 I was expecting something pretty nice but the photos I took aren't very sharp no matter what the lighting conditions were and even using the LED flash didn't help here Samsung included a whole lot of camera functions like HDR and drama shot but they're not much use of the pictures aren't that great the 1080p video looks much better though the caller's tend to be a little flat motion is nice and smooth and the image is generally very sharp the Galaxy mega 6.3 is powered by a 3200 milliamp hour battery which is a bit of a surprise given that the note 2 has a 3100 milliamp hour battery but when you match it with the Snapdragon 400 chipset battery life is pretty good on the first day of testing I benchmarked and tested for a few hours before I set the mega down to work on something else I came back and grabbed it late the next day and it was down to around 15% basically as long as you're not constantly watching movies and using the screen all the time the battery should easily last you a full day and since the battery is removable you can always carry a spanner in the end it's easy to see that this is a big phone built for people who like big phones we would have preferred a 1080p screen but still we're pretty happy with the mega 6.3 in general if you'd like to know more we have a full written review of android authority comm you can find a link to the article in the description down below hey if you liked this video or found it useful maybe throw us a like or share it with your friends if you want to stay caught up with everything we do make sure to subscribe to our Channel I'm Chris walk for Android authority and as always thanks for watching