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eh what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and right off the bat you're going to notice it looks very similar to the Galaxy Note 3 at least in the fact that it's a large Samsung Android phone but upon closer inspection it is better in a lot of ways so for messing around with it and the quality time I got to spend with it today I'm going to go ahead and say 90% of the improvements to this phone are in the hardware department and the last 10% are in the software and I said this on Twitter but it's kind of hard to explain but I am now finally actually really impressed with a piece of samsung hardware and it's about damn time now the software it's super familiar essentially it's the same software we've already seen on the galaxy s5 it's TouchWiz on top of Android 4.4.4 kitkat hopefully it'll get the Android L update pretty soon and if you've handled a Samsung Android phone before you'll know your way around here pretty well I mean it's literally again nearly the same as a gs5 software but it wouldn't be a note without having a couple extra software tricks or two up its sleeve so one notable one is the multitasking improvements now you can swipe in from a corner to make smaller windowed apps and these windowed apps remain fully functioning applications like they're just a smaller version of the apps you use already and you can move them around and resize them the list of apps supported by this windowing feature is growing and you can have up to 16 of these windows going on at the same time not that you'll probably ever need to do that but you can definitely be super productive and have a whole bunch of useful things going on for example you're walking around the city for the first time taking pictures with the minimized camera but you have maps in the background open to keep track of where you are need stuff like that another software trick from being a note is working well with the improved stylus so the s-pen has a slightly updated design it's now actually a little bit thinner and it has this tip that's sensitive to many more pressure levels so when you're writing text and their Notes app the pressure levels will create a different type of script and of course it works perfectly with the note as you'd expect I'm personally not the biggest stylus user ever when it comes to using my Galaxy Note but they keep adding awesome features so you can use it just like you'd use your finger on the touch screen on side note if you go with an off-color Galaxy Note 4 like pink or something the stylus is also pink so that's a nice touch but outside of that I said this is almost galaxy s5 software with a few nifty improvements but there is a new wide-angle selfie mode a new shortcut to take a selfie using the new heart rate monitor on the back and there are a bunch of other features that I'll have to dig through the settings to check out but like I said the real improvements here the real improvements are absolutely with the hardware you can watch all the promos and commercials and videos you want but actually holding this phone was the only thing that convinced me of its premium build this Galaxy Note 4 actually has metal now aluminum sides and chamfered edges like we saw on the Galaxy alpha or even the iPhone 5s not that fake plastic looking like metal thing on the galaxy s5 or the note 3 but actual metal it's heavier it's much more solid and it makes a huge difference in the way it feels on the hand the back of the phone is still this softer touch faux leather look again but they got rid of the tacky fake stitching look and honestly seriously this is the best looking and feeling galaxy smartphone I think Samsung has ever made and I'm super impressed by that it still has a removable back so you can add to the 32 gigs of internal storage with a micro SD card and you can swap out that 3220 million power battery whenever you want also this battery now supports a rapid charging technology that will get you from 0% to 50% charge in half an hour and I got to say even the buttons are miles better than the Galaxy s5 the power button on the side is clicky and tactile and oddly very satisfying to press and the volume buttons have a nice feeling too also made of metal and the home button is also now a fingerprint scanner like on the galaxy s5 but it also is still really tactile unlike the galaxy s5 so that's another improvement there I just wish Samsung's fingerprint reading technology was better and less finicky but you know I guess that's part of software so it's a work in progress also the internal hardware is an upgrade too it has a Snapdragon 805 chip top-of-the-line and three gigs of ram oh and if you haven't noticed it has a new super sharp 5.7 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display putting at over 500 pixels per inch and basically making it the best display on any smartphone out right now so all of that it's super strap display new internal specs are awesome all that combined with the new 16 megapixel camera makes it a pretty sweet viewfinder and this new camera also has optical image stabilization which is a first for Samsung and that should allow for sharper photos better low-light performance and more stable video which is sure to keep it a top my list of best smartphones to shoot video with now a lot of these things that I'm spouting out at you are just numbers like you can say Snapdragon 805 you can say 2560 by 1440 you can say 3200 20 milliamp hours but I will definitely be putting these to the test for my full review this is this is just the first impressions so definitely subscribe if you haven't already if you want to see the video that it comes out sometime in October when this phone is released where I give my full review and all the things you need to know about this phone but like I said so far after just spending some quality time with it I am very impressed and I watched the presentation just like you guys rolling my eyes just just because you know Samsung presentations can get pretty cheesy but actually holding this metal in my hands changed my mind really fast so the Galaxy Note 4 continues the no tradition of baller hardware a couple months after the Galaxy S line comes out and these top notch specs killer features and now finally finally a seriously improved build and it's about damn time Samsung thanks for watching feel free to leave a thumbs up if you enjoyed and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace