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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here at they for review for you of the latest flagship phone from Samsung I can't say their biggest phone because the mega exists this is the Galaxy Note 3 ok I put it through its paces see if it's worthy of taking up a very large spot in your pockets with all my phone reviews let me give my disclaimer I use this as my daily driver for five days in conjunction with the galaxy s4 for three more days on top of that did the review testing both AT&T and Sprint models let's go ahead and jump right and talk about Hardware in design so first I put a lot of stock how a phone feels in my hand I've been really particular about that and I've given Samsung pretty much plenty of grief for the plastic rounded corners that made their premium devices feel super low range but just like an criticize I can also give credit where it's due and the subtle change toward a flatter textured edge makes a huge difference on the note 3 it's probably the best feeling Sami device I've tested yet so hats off to Samsung more importantly though it's a sign that Samsung is looking to change its build so I'm taking it as a very positive sign for their future devices hopefully maybe an s5 will come with a similar design structure so hardware wise this thing is pretty much a beast it's packed to the gills with the latest awesome tech stuff the flagship here the heart of the phone is a 2.3 gigahertz Snapdragon 800 chip that as expected is just crazy fast the old way of doing reviews where I would see how fast apps open to that kind of stuff just doesn't work anymore this phone is blazing fast apps open fast performance and gaming is awesome everything just feels really really really quick I don't know if three gigs of ram is overkill but i never had to worry about doing any app management at all usually two gigs which seems crazy anyways comes standard for flagship Android devices three just seems like extra icing that delicious cake you should never have to worry about any app management at all things are just buttery smooth and scrolled perfectly no issue at all when it came to ram attended anything on the phones gonna use three gigs of ram but it's kind of nice to have it right it's like having a v12 how chance some chances you get to actually open that thing up but it's kind of nice thing you got it let's talk about this ginormous glorious bee beautifully seductive Super AMOLED screen that's now a full 1080p which means 1920 by 1080 and it looks awesome pictures pop with really bright colors darks look really dark videos look pretty baller it's not even so awful in direct sunlight which means you can still kind of see the screen but don't plan on reading any sort of log messages at all so a cool thing here is samsung added point 2 inches to the phone without really making the device much bigger at all so hats off to those engineers it's almost the same footprint as a Galaxy Note 2 of the bigger screen which was pretty surprising they're able to do that so obviously bezels got a little thinner and the Vice is kind of matured so the back of the phone it looks like a leather went down to the stitches on the side but it is most definitely not it's the same plastic back Samsung has been using for years just textured and perhaps it's psychosomatic but it really does feel better maybe it's just that texture device I think it's leather but it still is that same plastic back so for a device at this price earlier with Samsung I'm just include wireless charging right out of the box and not make us pay extra for a backplate it's not even widely available yet I love wireless charging Samsung give it to me in the box please and lastly with the hard works I know you want to know the quadrants cord listen I know it's not the most scientific way to benchmark Android apps but I do use it in every single Android phone I review fleece it's sort of a sense of how fast or slow a device might perform in hypothetical set of circumstances the quadrants core of the Galaxy Note 3 was a pretty whopping 21300 so boom so I'm Hardware it let's talk about software with Samsung devices there's usually a lot to talk about the software it seems like Samsung's offers philosophy is just throw more and more and more in there and maybe the user will find one or two features that they really like I do like the shortcuts in the pull down and the eye tracking is kind of neat but for every awesome feature that they added here is one that really makes a scratch your head like Samsung what like s-voice why have that when Google searches arguably the best digital assistant around and don't an app they just ignore if you just hold the button or double tap it you get s voice and it pops up and it makes you use it even further if you want to get a Galaxy gear which only works with the note 3 right I have to rely on s voice for any sort of voice and that just didn't make a sense to me so despite being so UI heavy there's really zero slowdown at all this phone feels as fast they stock Nexus device that's what the testament to the insanely awesome processor and RAM combo as well as the software engineers at Samsung are usually with previous you know totally skinned device you can feel a little bit of lag but zero lag here at all three gigs of RAM and that awesome Snapdragon under this thing is an absolute beast so I know a lot of you buy note devices for the S Pen and I just want to be honest not a lot of state I don't really use it I tried it enough to know what it does and it's meat just not my cup of tea but you might not be like me and if you are one of the people that like the s-pen there's a lot to like about it this is the best iteration around first it's reversible which is kind of nice and it's now chalked with way more features you can do a ton of stuff here at the s-pen so as soon as you pull it right out of its little S Pen holster you're greeted with five menu options you're kind of neat you can access and without ever really having to touch the screen to see what they are so first you've got action memo I which let you sort of write a phone number or write down an equation they'll sort of convert it something you can actually use if write down a number you can dial the number right from there it's very handy a nexus scrapbooker if you like to sort of keep scrapbooks or draw sort of certain things i'll great please keep all that stored a nexus screen right that one's pretty obvious i found that actually really handy with mac's take a picture of google maps right where you want to go and you can save it you can do s finder which is kind of me you could search for all kinds of stuff and just write it out it shows up there and kind of the weirdest one for me is pen window if you select that I just draw a box on the screen you get shortcuts to different things which are kind of neat but certainly the steps it would take to pull the S Pen out select that draw a box then select the icon you want to make it quicker to just open up the app drawer and select the application there but it's kind of neat did find myself sometimes using it just to scroll through the homepage or scroll through web page without use my fingers kind of neat again though I'm not really a big S Pen guy but if you're a person that likes that like to draw on their phone this is hands down the best iteration of it so battery you got a big phone with a big HD screen is three two hundred million power battery is much like the phone itself pretty awesome I was able to get the end of day with about forty percent let me tell you a little bit about my usage they take the phone off the charger around 7:00 7:30 depending today pretty heavy phone usage maybe four ish hours on the phone it's on Wi-Fi most the day when I'm at home or at the office some web browsing it's pulling in emails about every five minutes got two separate accounts a lot of social media going on I don't take it easy on my phones at all I keep my brightness usually around 75% I don't keep it on auto so pretty big testament to that thirty two hundred million power battery you won't have any trouble getting through a full day if you do some management probably two days but I always recommend charging it every night let's jump into the camera so Samsung hasn't really talked about it a lot but there's a 13 megapixel camera on the note 3 that actually shoots 4k UHD video let me just say that again this little guy right here she's freaking 4k video it properly defaults to 1920 by 1080 in the settings but he visit the settings option there you can up its to 3840 by 2160 the resolution that can be displayed on 4k screens which is just wacky obviously though you can't play the 4k back and 4k call it on the note 3 I didn't have access to a 4k screen so I couldn't really test it for you but it's kind of a nice feature proofing and if you have a 4k screen you want to take the best quality video you know you can definitely do that here with the note 3 which is kind of cool I love note that you can't capture photos at the same time recording a video in that mode just a friendly heads-up a 13 megapixel sensor on the back though when it's not shooting crazy high res video pretty much the same as at one of the Galaxy s4 so as far as we can tell pictures look about the same we have noticed though it does have some issues with motion blur a lot of the time and there's a lot of noise and low-light shots but we generally like the camera if you guys want to see a full gallery of pictures and what they look like hit the link down below to go to the written review you can see a full set of how the pictures look like on the Galaxy Note 3 so what's the verdict on the Galaxy Note 3 I love this phone I love the original version I love the sequel and I love the trilogy this is the best version of that line to give it to the best endorsement I can I'm going to use this as my daily driver TouchWiz is heavy but doesn't slow the phone down at all it works very well like ignore the features that I don't want to use I wish I wireless charging right out of the box that is a very very very small gripe they made the phone feel better they improve the screen everything about it it makes it a great quality phone the phone gets a really solid 9 it's one best phones on the market to get that nine half and ten everything has to be perfect on we're just shy of perfection but bringing right next perfect about as best as I can give a phone you're really not going to regret picking up a Galaxy Note 3 is probably my favorite device so far the past few months definitely be gracing my pocket for the foreseeable future so what'd you guys think do you agree disagree I want to hear your thoughts leave it in the comments right down below see what you guys have to say until then I'm John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you next video what's up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you 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