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buying a new smartphone is a really personal choice there are a ton of great options out there especially in the flagship range what I've got in front of me is two let's just call them kissing cousins for lack of a better word I've got Samsung's latest galaxy s6 edge+ which I'm just going to call the edge plus and the galaxy note5 I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo I'm gonna show you the differences between these two and hopefully help you pick the one that's right for you so first the specs they are spec for spec save for some curved glass and an S Pen identical which means based on the same android 5.1 lollipop same XE no 7420 octa-core processor same four gigs of ram available in 32 or 64 gig that same gorgeous 5.7 inch qHD display 2560 by 1440 make your mom proud too much the PPI is on that if you said 518 either have a good memory or you are much smarter at math than I am same 16 megapixel camera on the back same five on the front the exact same for better or worse 3,000 million power battery same wireless charging and fast charging capabilities so what are the differences between the phones let's start with what you can see and first the color I can say that this gold platinum edge plus is the most beautiful color I have ever seen on a phone it is stunning in person I know gold phone sometimes look a little bit feminine to people this one looks not masculine or feminine it just looks absolutely gorgeous it's a beautiful looking color unfortunately though I'm not available on the note which we've got neither black sapphire which is they should just call blue because it's blue so we have here or white pearl which actually is just white you can also get this in same black sapphire color but if you're getting the edge plus yourself a favor and for sure I get it in the gold so it's called the edge plus for a few reasons it really just one reason it curves the screen has an edge on it I loved the way the s6 edge felt in the hand this one feels even better than that it's not so sharp along the sides like it was with the s6 edge you can hold it without sort of feeling like you're getting a lot of pressure put on your finger it's a silly thing but you definitely notice it so the advantages of the edge are a few first Samsung giving you some sort of edge tweaks you can do so if you swipe in from the side first thing you're going to see is the ability to add edge apps or edge contact depending on which screen you've got well it's our that it's pretty simple you can just add shortcuts apps and you launch them that's the sign of it other over here you can get edge people and this is they're not like your edgy friends with like a nose ring these are just people you can set up we can get selective on colors for them you can dial them quickly right from here or if you turn your phone over when they call you'll see a glow come out of the side knowing who's calling you it's a small touch one that I really have yet to find a use for but it is kind of neat one of the other cool things about the edge is how it looks when you're playing video or taking pictures the video that seems to wrap around the side screen creating a really immersive experience I'm taking pictures it almost looks like you just have two bezels on the top on the bottom and you're just seeing through the phone it's a really cool effect and one that I really enjoy and the difference is of course price the edge is going to be more expensive but every carrier's got their own pricing schemes if I don't know what they're going to cost we'll put a picture of that up right now I like that cost as of launch but certainly check with your carrier because prices are always bound to change so let's move over to this guy the note so it is a little bit heavier 171 grams versus 153 on the edge plus but I really like the extra weight I'm just going to say it I'm not a big fan of this black sapphire let's just call it blue we saw it on the s6 it shows fingerprints like crazy I don't have like super greasy hands but like you know they get a little sweaty sometimes and you can definitely see every mark on the phone but the color aside I like the extra a little bit of weight on here so whether you love or loathe Samsung's design change they certainly went a different direction with both these devices keeping the design language of the s6 and the s6 edge but something unique here with the note is they curved the sides and they curved the back of it as opposed to the screen on the edge that sounds like something really trivial but it makes the phone feel incredible in the hand I know that's something that you hear quite a bit here for me quite a bit but this phone really does feel nice it's a really subtle thing but one that I'm definitely aware of whenever I hold the phone and I've really enjoyed it small tweak boots I really give Sam some credit for that the other big deal with the note is the s-pen I turn the screen off for a reason so it looks located right down here in the right and corn in the screen is now sort of spring loaded so you know what to put your finger in there and pop it out if just push it in and it ejects itself I'll go ahead and pull the pen out and show you you can do with it so it looks like my screen is off but I can actually draw on it if I want it to I'll do a little smiley face guy and one thing you're not gonna be able to hear I can pick up through the mic is that there's a little sort of faint noise as I drag the pen over the screen similar noise that you get if you took pencil on paper small tweak one that's really nice also it appears to be much closer to real time there isn't much of a lag as I do a little fine movements here with the pen so a cool tweak here you can go ahead and add notes and save it real quickly without having to turn the screen on I will say though if you want to get access this feature you have to go into the s-pen setting to turn it on it's not there I turn on your device so just bear that in mind so when you eject your pen which now you can other people in meetings by just clicking it doesn't do anything it does make a clicky notice that people are not going to like you for so we get a little icon right there you go ahead and sort of have your pen over it's called Air Command then you cap it you get a ton of options here these bottom two are customized we can set these for any app shortcuts you want I use Chrome and each studio so you get a few options your action memo is going to let you sort of just draw things like a memo I've done two imitation of these before but slice its say if you want to draw notes that's where you're going to go smart select I'll let you select things on your screen that you want to take shots of you do the whole screen and oval or serve like a lasso to select this particular part of it screen right I'll take a screenshot you're right right on the screen and that's notes kind of where all those things are going to live and all they're all going to be stored all your memos and things will live in there I will say the s-pen is neat it's been refined it feels better in the hand but it's something that I'm probably not going to use very often I've never really used the S pen's all that much it's that feature to have it's nice to know it's there if I'm going to use it's probably going to be that feature when the screen is off and just write a quick phone number down so that for me is not a determining factor for the kind of person likes to draw a lot of things on your phone or write notes there might be a reason to buy the phone but for me I don't really use it all that often when both these phones got announced I thought for sure listen I like the s6 edge the edge plus is definitely going to be the phone for me and as we go through the testing for the degrees reviews I'm spending time with each and I got to say is cool assisting looks and it looks incredible in person it's almost a conversation piece because it really has nothing else like it except for the s6 edge but I think if I had to pick one of these up I would pick up the note the extra weight feels really nice the curve on the back again is something subtle but it looks gorgeous if I could just get this in that color now I would be a very happy guy but unfortunately we don't always get what we want other things we'll cover I get two for review like battery life performance and the rest of it we want to give you guys a quick comparison of these two phones you decide maybe which one's going to be right for you thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed until next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo with the big subscribe bar we always appreciate it of course thumbs up always helps until next time see you next video buh-bye