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what's up everyone John Bret endure from TechnoBuffalo here in a previous video we unbox this guy the world's first curved phone the galaxy round spectra spec it's almost identical to the Galaxy Note 3 so I figured it made sense put these two suckers head-to-head I'm not gonna run through the usual head-to-head stuff rant talk about app speed or quadrant score this one's all about the design and how this curve display either improves hinders or just sort of neutral for the overall experience of the phone it's gonna get started alright so do want to give a disclaimer out of the way we just got the galaxy around it in the office today so this obviously isn't a full review or speed comparison this is just focus on the design I always like to give full disclosure so before we talk about this crazy curved screen and what it does or doesn't do let's start with the back of the phones so Samsung made a bit of a move from the previous generation devices including the s4 of having those flat plastic backs to give it more of a textured fake leather feel and it feels still very plastic and it's very clearly still plastics or the fake leather is nothing more than you know facade I've got sort of the same thing here on the galaxy round at least from appearances it looks to be exactly the same however you feel it feels very different obviously hard to convey on video since you don't have fuelie YouTube videos yet and I imagine what you guys would do if we had them but it really feels much better it's a more tactile type feel to it and the material itself and pull off the back is bit thicker it doesn't have that easy Bend to it and while I've got this back off see that nice segue there we've got this battery it's a flat battery it's a 2800 milliamp hour battery versus a 32 hundred million power battery and the Galaxy Note 3 despite both of them having 5.7 inch 1080p screens so what Samsung did they pretty much acknowledged battery life is not gonna be overly awesome by shipping to batteries in the box an external battery charger so that should make life a bit easier but because the battery has to be flat the curve on the screen is really really subtle if you look at the phone straight on you can't even tell that skirt withold to the side and you can start to see it and you can feel it with your finger as you go back and forth so what does that curved screen give you well first when you put it flat down on a table you get a lot of flex and wrote so you got to forget if you like that or don't like that it I've not the curve display it's worth it the one thing the curve display does do that samsung has really been touting is quick notifications turn the phone on its side if you hold this down and then you go grab a cup of coffee and wait a while I create notifications here that they're gonna get gonna pop up you can see what you've got for email or messages missed phone calls and battery life they're not interactive you can't launch the applications that's right there to let you know they exist I do it on either side if you notice so it doesn't happen instantaneously it takes quite a while for us to queue up to get it to finally show and sometimes like right there doesn't always do it try that one more time and then it'll finally start to show what you have right there so it is very neat it's very helpful but the time it takes for it to actually show up I wonder how much quicker it beaters going this and see what you've got but it is new and it's there so you can decide whether or not something that you want to use of course the note 3 doesn't have any of that but it does stay pretty stable on a flat surface who else can hit the side corners get a little bit of bounce but no notifications when you go ahead and do that the note 3 is also a very big phones to put it in your pocket you know it's usually pretty visible it's got a really really big footprint without any curves or it sticks out to the side against the curvature of your leg with the galaxy round though you've got that curved display so it does sort of contour to your thigh very very nicely no matter how big or small your thighs are there's no doubt this absolutely feels better in your pocket so take that's for what it's worth after experience of the phone seem to be exactly the same it's the same TouchWiz with Android 4.3 that we've seen on previous devices it's fast it's got a Snapdragon 800 chip nothing really has changed from the experience just it's cool to hold a curved display it doesn't feel much difference in your hand either it does sort of contour to it on the back but not by much so let me show you what the contour looks like if you go ahead it's probably the best way to show it take the phone and stack the Galaxy Note 3 right on top you come down right below you can really start to see what that curve looks like in hell that it's a very very subtle and I probably would say that's because of that flat battery I'd assume now that Samsung has technology to make curved batteries that will see a much more pronounced curve on a phone whether that's more useful or not you know that is yet to be seen other than that that is really that much difference between the galaxy round and the Galaxy Note 3 aside for the fact that the round comes with 30 gigs of internal storage and is significantly more expensive to buy but if you guys are interested in the phone or you want to see what it looks like you know certainly check out our friends at Negri electronics they're the ones that got us the device they have everything unlocked and they have pretty much every phone you could think of them it's a really good source to get everything that you need from the world of electronics over all over for such impressions the Galaxy rounder it's really cool and it's sort of a novelty to see I've never seen a phone looks like this doesn't add anything more very useful doesn't take away from the phone you the dough so that's something there it's you want something that's new that's sort of no one else is going to have the galaxy around is definitely gonna be that for you because it's probably on eight of these in the US but if you live in South Korea have a chance to actually pick it up from SK Telecom yeah that might be different it's nice when I rush out to go use it probably not I don't know if the trade-off in battery is worse or that cool factor but you're not determine that for yourself and Reax let me know you think I'd love to hear your comments on the galaxy round leave them right down below until next time I am John Retton drew from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you next video buh-bye what's up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at TechnoBuffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more 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