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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here 34 you have one of the most unique looking phones of the year this is the Galaxy Note edge go ahead take a look at it and see if it's more form of a function that translates into a really good package so as I do with all my reviews let me give a disclaimer I use this for five straight days and then about three days on or off in Southern California on t mobile services sent to us from the folks at Samsung to review so usually with uniquely designed phones there's a compromising usually it's a big one to be made the edge essentially is a note for yeah it's point 1 inches smaller than the screen size with 5.6 display the battery is a little bit smaller to at three thousand million but other than that this is a note for through and through it's the same gorgeous qhd display the same three gigs of RAM is a ridiculously fast quad-core processor same 16 megapixel camera same s-pen same everything it's just a note for with a couple cool new things added to it so let me just touch on performance a little bit here if you want to see more about the device and get some more granularity about how the phone performs and quadrant test snack kind of stuff check out our galaxy note 4 review we put the link to that right down below but I'm gonna sort of give you the highlights from that video first the screen is absolutely gorgeous I think Samsung is long had some of the best screens out there and this I think is the pinnacle of their screen pneus the blacks are really black the colors are bright and vibrant text looks absolutely gorgeous I don't think it's a stretch to say that this is probably the best phone screen out on the market I so don't see a huge difference between qh Jean a really good 1080p display but this is still a really really good screen out there so I wasn't sure what to make of the edge and I want to see it looked really cool it was definitely a conversation starter not many phones people look at it like what the heck is that in all candor though I wasn't sure what to make of that curve screen all honesty I'm still not sure what to make of it it's definitely new eat it's unique let me explain a little bit about what it does and what it can do so it kind of serves to mutant purposes first like an entirely separate screen you can read information interactive ice on it the screen can act as a shortcut bar giving you sports scores or stock quotes it got that really cool alarm function as well just give you more real estate interactive your device like the camera goat up the camera control is no longer there on screen there on the side screen right now though they're only a handful of screen configurations available but Samsung is hoping Deb's gonna be like hey that's cool let's get on board so they provided an open API so hopefully more will come this cool factor though does come at a price and not just talking about the hundred dollars or so premium versus the note 4 so it moves the power button up to the top because obviously it can't be on the right hand side it makes advice a little bit hard to hold left hand side same square design we've seen before a little bit of an angle here on the right so a little bit difficult to sort of pick up you want to pick it up from there right side you got to kind of scoop it up and a bit awkward just to hold in one hand here build quality though is really really good Samsung is up there build quality tremendously if you held the sort of old misconceptions I've got Samsung's all sort of plastic and bad build those are gone now this is a well-built phone much like the Galaxy Note 4 it's got the same start a faux leather back but it's not the same that we saw in the note 3 it's got more of a soft touch more premium feel to it the phone just feels really nice battery life is not a Stella on the note 4 but I can't get through a full day with about fifteen percent left again about 220 million hours smaller in my day usually comes off a charge around 7-730 and picked it's a Wi-Fi at home or at work almost all time our nap two hours a phone call I've got YouTube videos going playing some games since it was tmobile I'd Wi-Fi calling on board here a lot of camera texting and I was definitely using that side screen quite a bit so you can't get through a full day but yeah if they're gonna hit a bit of a premium versus what you've got with that galaxy note 4 so bear that in mind battery life is not going to be absolutely outstanding the best you've ever seen but getting charged every night po enough to worry too much about it this is a really interesting device for a lot of reasons I think in order for us to get tour going eventually with foldable displays and curved screens devices like the Galaxy Note edge need to exist I know it feels more like a production proof of concept but I give Samsung a ton of credit for bringing this to market a lot of products like this never see the light of day to consumers usually they're showing behind closed doors at trade shows or meetings so I really give Samsung is a hue huge huge amount of credit for bringing this device to market so here's what this boils down to if you're willing to pay the premium for the curved screen try it get it if you're banking on developers taking advantage is that curve display you're going to get a lot of potentially new functionality out of it you want have something that's neat licks there than any other phone you're really going to appreciate this again even that novelty factor wears off let me reiterate you are still getting a well spec device there are no compromises here I think Samsung deserves credit for that if you decide to get the Galaxy Note edge I don't think you'll be disappointed thank you guys for watching hope you enjoy we are people just like you who love technology if you want to keep up on the latest in the world of electronics hit the big subscription button right down below fanaa sigas play games alone italy 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