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it seems like there's a new smartphone coming out about every six minutes and some tick some boxes some takeo thers but very few going through and take every single box of what would make an almost ideal smartphone and the Galaxy Note 7 looks to be one of those devices so instead of testing in a vacuum I wanted to use it as I would any other phone so a few days after this device came in I was off on a family vacation with my sisters and my parents there were seven kids under 70 years old including my three-year-old and six month olds you're gonna get a chance to see what things are like behind the scenes and actually see the phone get tested and by angellist review I launched the question should you buy the Galaxy Note 7 let's go to Maui if you want any more information on anything I'm going to talk about like software hardware or even detail and specs hit the link down below and check out the full written review by Todd Hazleton whenever I test a new phone the first thing I always noticed is how does the phone feel in the hand is make you feel anything does it look like a generic slab does it feel premium the note 7 absolutely feels incredible completely coated in Gorilla Glass 5 the dual curved edges this phone looks and feels absolutely premium I love the way the curved edges look on the table I like the way it feels when you pick it up now the curved display is of questionable utility I don't really use the edge panels all that much maybe maybe you do but for me it's totally at settings and I think it really works here say what you will about Samsung with you love them Hayden we're a totally ambivalent they make the best displays in the market and the note 7 display is their piece de resistance it looks incredible it almost looks like a sticker on the phone as opposed to an actual display that does stuff it worked really well it was even pretty visible in direct sunlight which is better than I've seen on previous gen Samsung devices Samsung has got a few tricks up their sleeves as a note 7 one of the big ones is the iris scanner built-in and it works it was easy to set up but when you started going out in direct sunlight having sunglasses on it got a bit squirrely so I ended up using it in conjunction with the fingerprint reader and that was a pretty good combo also oddly my son likes to set timers so it has that built in to that time of five minutes one of the coolest things for me about the note and reason I think it fits well into my lifestyle is it as ip68 and things around me are constantly getting dropped wet and generally thrown around what better way to test this with water proof I've actually taken the water COF does in the ocean did happen video coming out of that 12 megapixel sensor looks awesome this is exact I'm eating carrots you want to say buddy what is that girl doing pictures look incredible I think this is still one of the best cameras I've ever tested and I said that when it was found in the galaxy s7 galaxy s7 edge when you've got great light the photos look really bright vivid and vibrant even you've got low light it just look really good and you've got sort of Ishi light and then that's a word maybe not great the camera still manages to find that sweet spot the Maino controls are there and they're nice I mostly had this thing in autos it's trying to snap pictures of my kids as we were running around I also really liked oh is so if you constantly chasing little ones around or maybe got to shake your hand you can appreciate that here as well some folks might be disappointed with only a thirty five hundred million power battery and I'd love to tell you I conducted thorough video tests running down the battery and I left it on hold for five hours see how in Haynesville but the reality is my kids were napping for hours at a time so mostly I was just playing pokemon go on the patio to deal with this guy and the battery was decent but not great I generally by end of the day I was down to ten fifty percent usually about 10 percent lower than it ordinarily am now with new phones additionally we hit him harder than you ordinarily do and as the week wore on the battery did tend to get a little bit better fortunately though quick charges here and when plugged in I almost got 1% of battery life per minute one thing to note though while using the phone whether you're playing games or watching video or just making a phone call the phone does get warm and it's noticeable in your hand it's not gonna fry off your junk in your pocket but if they're gonna feel a little bit of warm and hope Samsung is shielding that radiation since it's so close to your heart one of the other big selling points for the note 7 is the s-pen this time around it's also waterproof which I I never I never used but you can write notes now underwater the S Pen works very well and it's got thousands and more points sensitivity and that just means when you're right on the screen actually doesn't have any sort of lag there's no delay and it almost looks like one to one as you move a little bit makes a little bit of a note on the screen I like it the s-pen doesn't add any extra bulk I didn't use it too much but that's add some cool features you can magnify you can translate things in real time if you're big on taking notes or you want to stylus on your advice the s-pen this generation is pretty solid and also you can't put it in backwards they don't they don't like a lot stew made about the phone scratching how Gorilla Glass 5 is going to perform I'd any scratching issues I took it at the beach and I had sand on it which ordinarily would scratch most phones and this thing came out looking really unscathed by the time the trip was over I was ready to go home chasing kids around especially a cranky toddler who was 3 hours at her timezone is exhausting spoiler alert he needed a nappy so if you couldn't tell I really liked the note 7 my favorite things about it I didn't have to think about how to use the phone I wanted to take a picture in the water I could take a fixture in the water by drop doesn't have to worry about it cracking I felt really good using it in fact the best endorsement I can give a phone is to put my own money behind it and I did I picked up a galaxy note 7 for myself if you find yourself drawn to note 7 features but don't want to pay the astronomical almost 900 bucks after taxes you might want to look at a discount of galaxy s7 or galaxy s7 edge what do you think about the note 7 is it for you did you pick one up leave in the comments down below if you want to see more note 7 coverage give the video a thumbs up to let us know until next time Jon render from TechnoBuffalo