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what's up everyone John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo here's an unboxing for you of the latest from Samsung this is the Galaxy Note edge it's got a few tricks up its sleeve it's a close cousin of the Galaxy Note 4 say for a rounded edge on the side which use the secondary screen I'm really excited to take a look at this and see if it's just a gimmick or actually provide some utility go and get started so here's the box for the Galaxy Note edge gone is the fake wood we've seen on previous generations this is the T mobile versions going to be coming to Sprint AT&T t-mobile and Verizon got a bit of an e hidden on their Samsung Galaxy Note edge specs on the back but you're not here to read here for me to tell you what's inside the box with them specs are so let's go ahead and pull this sleeve off we've got kind of a mirror image right there US is sent from us sent to us rather from our friends at Samsung I'm really excited to see this Todd eagleton had a couple times had the opportunity have his hands on it with it but I have not let's go ahead and pop this off dramatically I was you could just feel the drama and here is the Samsung Galaxy Note edge and there is what its namesake is that is the edge feels really nice in the hand I push it off to the side real fast I will come back to you a promise my sweet edge baby she's also going to have inside of the box we've got welcome Start Guide merchandise return label some t-mobile Terms & Conditions we've got a Samsung wall wart with us be adaptive fast charging so that's nice up new there we've got a white charging and sync cable we've got words wonder what this thing is this is actually to remove the tip of the s-pen as well some extra s-pen tips and some headphones with inline microphone and different size your Jeff gives you got giant or baby ears but this sweet thing is why we are here it's go ahead and pull this off oh that was a pretty satisfying whooshing noise let me go ahead and try and find the power button on the right-hand side it's not going to be there it lives on top go ahead and boot this guy up here and run through all the specs on the Galaxy Note edge all right we got the sucker all booted up and look dad's got a screen on the side it's 160 pixels but before I just start talking about that crazy thing going on let me run through all the specs of this guy right here so this main screen is a 5.6 inch screen the resolution of 2560 by 1440 if you can have a good memory or do quick math that's a 525 PPI it also makes it point 1 inches smaller than its close cousin the Galaxy Note 4 we'll do a quick comparison with that at the end of the video it is a quad HD screen it's Super AMOLED so colors look really bright the galaxy note 4 screen I think is one of the best screens that I've seen in recent history so I assume it's going to look as good here Android 4.4 it launched power and this guy is a 2.7 gigahertz quad-core processor it's got pretty much every spec you could think of including three gigs of ram 32 gigs of internal storage but of course you can just go ahead and expand that with external 128 gigs on the back you have camera that is a 16 megapixel camera it also has smart optical and stabilization you can do 4k video also has a camera on the front which lives right there the 2.7 megapixel camera I can do 90 degree selfies or if you want to get a whole bunch of friends at 120 degree wide selfies 3000 milliamp hour battery here with fast charging all the latest Wireless stuff you'd expect a total 11 ABG and AC with 2x2 MIMO so it should be really really fast all right but enough about the specs let's just talk about this crazy screen on the side here so you can set it up a lot of different ways and how opened up API is do a lot of different things here so maybe I'll just turn it a little bit to get a better angle so you can see what this thing does so it is a curved screen which is really neat so you can use it just like icon shortcuts and you can sort of jump in two different things want to jump into messaging I'd go ahead and tap it just like I had an icon on my home screen opens it up right there nothing sort of revolutionary I guess from the icon segment but you can do a lot of other stuff with it if you swipe from this way you can see sort of different options that you've got set up Samsung's got some predetermined ones for you you can go ahead and keep swiping you've got some weathers and t-mobile stuff and tech messages to go ahead and swipe down from the top you can jump into some kind of cool stuff here so let's say you want to see how big something is hey go ahead and make that a ruler let's say you want to set it as a stopwatch and go ahead and do that I can do all kinds of cool little things here with it Sam some kind of built right in I think it's really neat when my favorite show is probably alarm functionality can use it just as an alarm clock and just have that part on at night it's pretty neat if you swipe up the other direction that's how you're going to get access to these settings you go ahead and hit that little gear icon this is where you can see what it's going to show is your edge screens you can manage your panels do all kinds of other stuff right here including that cool night clock mode I mentioned it's going to rotate hundred eighty degrees let's go into the other panels are going to have available to us and there are quite a bit of them so you can see you've got some from music you've got some for stocks you've got some for social media some for sports probably but I would use it for and a few other options here as well and hopefully more will be coming and you can still download more as well from Samsung if you choose to so a lot of things you can do here with that screen I'm not sure yet of it's going to be sort of useful or just kind of a cool novelty to have I will say though while the curved screen is very cool you have to make a few sacrifices to have sort of that nice novelty first you do not have the power but on the right hand side it now lives on top which is kind of hard to reach are they 5.6 inch screen also make holding it a bit awkward you might accidentally hit or touch when those icons are start scrolling so you got to be a little bit more aware of that as you use the device let's do a sort of rest of the tour here you've got that one main home button down at the bottom you've got a back button and you've got your multitasking button living right there case you want to jump into that on the left hand side you're going to have your volume rocker and that is going to be about it on top that's where your power button is going to live through per five millimeter headset jack you've got some microphones on there as well on the bottom that's where your charging port live as well as the s-pen the back is of course your moveable it's that same sort of soft touch almost fake leather that we've seen on the note 4 which I really liked has definitely a premium look to it I kind of dig what the top looks like with that cool angle I give Samsung a ton of credit for trying something new here whether you want this or don't want this sort of they've left it up to you it's not something that you want the offer the Galaxy Note 4 it's almost identical device safe for that screen but they're trying something new and I really have to sort of applaud Samsung for trying to bring new technology to the market I'm sure it'll get more useful as we get sort of more and more in depth with it and as developers get their hands on the devices but it's something neat and it's something new and something we haven't seen before so again I think Samsung should be applauded for doing that the rest of stuff is pretty standard we've seen it's almost exactly the same on the Galaxy Note 4 but of course we will put this guy there a full battery of tests mostly just checking that side little screen so I do want to do a real quick size comparison with the Galaxy Note 4 these two are very closely related say 4.1 inches smaller and 160 pixel science green speck for speck almost identical see what they look like side-by-side in case you wanted to cross shop when you go ahead and stack them we look at sort of the left side of both devices very similar story there on each on the right hand side though things a little bit different don't have a power and lock button here on the edge but you have 160 pixel screen on the top power and lock but on the edge turn they look almost identical same thickness that we've got on both the case you want to figure out which device is ready for you go to the store it's going to be available on all four major US carriers pick one up and see if you can pick the right one and that is going to be for you till next time I'm John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo of course Jack I thought a tec-9 Buffalo come ladies in greatest tech news and I'll see you guys in next video bye bye thank you guys for watching and hope you enjoy we are people just like 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