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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and these are my quick first impressions of the new big smartphones that Samsung announced today the main one you need to know about is a galaxy note 5 it is big it's bright crispy it's really dense and slippery as hell so here's the breakdown just like every year you know the galaxy note gets improvements on the inside and out and right off the bat on the inside on paper the galaxy note 5 has a pretty dope looking spec sheet so it's the octa-core exynos 7420 chip from the galaxy s6 it's a bump up to four gigabytes of RAM it's a 5.7 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display that looks pretty outstanding it's a 16 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization and the F 1.9 aperture and it's a 3000 milliamp hour battery with fast charging and wireless charging and NFC and LTE advanced and AC Wi-Fi etc it's even a new color with this sweet-looking titanium gray it's a very complete looking spec sheet on paper but in practice it's not all perfect so the main story with the note 5 is on the outside obviously the biggest change here is in the hardware design it's moved as we kind of expected into this all metal and glass thin railed look like the galaxy s6 and Samsung says you know premium materials high-end precise build durable etc and they've even curved the glass on the back of the phone to fit better in one hand so that actually works well and to top it all off it fits inside the footprint of the galaxy note 4 since the bezels make it thinner and shorter and narrower than its predecessor I agree that the shape is better the shape is actually great but the phone itself is super slippery in the hand it's just not really that comfortable to hold it's like all the things that were slippery about the galaxy s6 with that glossy back magnified in an even bigger body just the feel on the hand is I guess definitely my least favorite part of this phone that and the fact that you now have all the internals sealed meaning there's no removable battery and there's also no expandable storage those two things will be a pretty big deal for some people I don't mind them as much but I actually do care a lot about the way it feels in the hand there's also some pretty neat new features though that really make it a note first of all the s-pen is improved and maybe looking at it wondering how do I get it out of the phone if it's embedded like that well the stylus actually has a clicking button on the back and it just clicks and pops out of the phone just like that and it is an improved stylus made with more metal now you know it has a little bit more weight to it still has a button and that multi-level sensitivity and as a bonus you can keep clicking it even when it's out of the phone no functionality there but it is kind of addicting and the S Pen functionality itself is actually improved too you can see the menu looks a little bit different when you take it out the phone and going into and triggering the S Pen actions works the same with the improved pen it just feels a little bit more natural to write on the screen at the end of the day I usually like see all these features and I use them a little bit when I first get the galaxy notes but then I use them less and less as time goes on but today they showed me one feature that I really like and will definitely try to use more you can bust out the stylus one the display is off and then immediately start writing on the screen so if you're ever in a bind and you hear something that you just have to write down you have to just break out your phone and start to write it the S Pen lets you write it down real quick and when you put the pen back it closes and saves that note that is actually a really good idea I like that there's also stuff added to the Galaxy Note improved ways to take like taller screen shots and ways to annotate and share what you create with this pen all of it makes sense and all of that is what makes it a note but all the rest is in your brand-new design also I mentioned the phone is thinner with this new design which means the battery as I mentioned is actually smaller than the last Galaxy Note at 3000 milliamp hours and non removable now they do try to make up for this and you can decide if it's a good enough replacement or not with wireless charging and fast charging and get this fast wireless charging so samsung's new wireless charging technology lets them get around 90% of normal fast charging wired speeds without the wire I personally would rather still have a larger battery and a thicker phone that's just me but you know we'll have to see how good this battery lasts with the quad HD display in the full review and that's the real sentiment here I didn't get to play with these phones for too much time but I'm looking forward to getting my hands on them like permanently for a full review experience preferably in this darker titanium color to test things like the battery life to test the performance to test things like the built-in YouTube live streaming directly from the camera app at up to 1080p I mean this seems like it's supposed to be a periscope killer but I won't really know it until I try it certainly seems really convenient for people to livestream from their phones especially since this is one of the best cameras in any smartphone not sure if I'm looking forward to testing this though what year is it again but you know what I'll give it that shot and actually try to use it before I dismiss it entirely overall the note 5 gets my hesitant but optimistic wait and see also there was another phone announced today the galaxy s6 edge+ this one's easy it's the galaxy s6 edge but plus it's bigger or you could also call it the Galaxy Note 5 with curved edges both descriptions would be correct it has the updated specs and it's the bigger 5.7 inch display from the galaxy note that is also curved on each side I've used the galaxy s6 edge smaller version as a daily driver for a while so I'll be interested to see the new features one of the new features of the s6 edge+ is the ability to put not just your fever at contact in the edge on your homescreen but to put any of your favorite apps in there as well and also to have this available on any screen so it's sort of like a mini launcher of any apps you want no restrictions this will certainly be nice to have so there you have it thanks for watching and feel free to share this with others curious about Samsung's big new flagships I'm definitely interested like I said in using these full time and let's just spend my quick impressions and hands-on again thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace you