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hey what is up guys I'm Kay Bhd here and first of all yes there is a ps4 in the house a lot of people are asking so thumbs up if you actually want to see me cover that let me know but this is a first look at a curved smartphone this is the Samsung Galaxy round actually personally a bit more excited for the LG G flex because that seems way more unique than this Galaxy round is as a product but there's still a lot of interesting things that we can look at in the first available curved display smartphone so not any further ado let's go and take a full look so at first glance the galaxy round actually doesn't come off as all that crazy of a product it seems like just your typical Samsung smartphone in fact it looks like it's older brother the Galaxy Note 3 quite a bit it has that same 5.7 inch 1080p AMOLED display on the front the same faux leather stitching on the back though a slightly different more brown leather color and it really actually shares a lot of the specs and hardware with the Galaxy Note 3 like the excellent 13 megapixel camera and the flash you know what that's exactly what this is a curved display galaxy note 3 I'll have my full galaxy note 3 review right below that like button if you want a refresher on how awesome that device is but because this galaxy round is curved it makes a few trade-offs and it comes back at those with a few bonus features so here are all the differences between the galaxy round and the galaxy note 3 number one is the backing the back of the Galaxy Note 3 is obviously flat and of course has that leatherette stitching pattern we all know on the back the back of the galaxy round is a little different when you take it off it's actually a bit more rigid more bent into the curved shape of the round to fit the back of the phone now it's obviously still plastic it's not some crazy new material or anything like that it's very familiar but it's a little bit more rigid because it's bent into that shape now of course when you remove the back you reveal numbers 2 & 3 that are different the speaker and the battery now the speaker is obviously it's just a little bit bigger it fires out the back of the phone instead of the bottom like on the note 3 but the battery is a bigger difference so it's actually a bit smaller in fact it's a totally different shape and it's shrunk down from 32 hundred milli amp hours to a tall slender 2800 milliamp hours this is because the phone is curved so you know there's less room to fit a back in the phone when you curve it like this now even though that's only a relatively small difference it's a 400 milliamp hour difference now I still get all day battery out of this phone with a twenty eight hundred million power battery but Samsung want the extra mile here to bring us to number four which is the included accessories Samsung bundles an extra battery and a second battery charger like an external battery charger for this galaxy round that's why the box looks so much bigger than the galaxy note 3 box you get all these extra accessories with it so this battery charger it charges your secondary battery by USB 2.0 you still can charge the phones via a USB 3.0 but I mean that's nice that's a nice touch I'm glad they threw an extra battery in there now another difference in accessories is the obvious lack of an S Pen in the galaxy round it's not part of the note line technically but I mean it's also curved so there's really not that much space to put an S Pen so the next difference is by the numbers the galaxy round is technically a little bit thinner and a little bit lighter than the note 3 but not really by all that much it's it's about more of the way it feels in the hand it just feels slightly more compact but that's not because of the thinness and the lightness that's because of the biggest difference between these phones the display now again on paper it starts off very similar they both have a 5.7 inch 1080p AMOLED display and they're both gorgeous and very vivid and very bright but the slight curve radius on the round makes it stick out quite literally the shape is actually really slight very subtle almost seems like the middle of the phone is still flat while only the sides curve up a bit it's a really interesting shape and after using a phone for more than a week I'll tell you what don't judge me I totally got used to it you don't really notice the curve when looking at the actual images on the display after about a day or so but you can still always feel the curve with your finger and it feels nice now this curve radius does a few things one I think it actually improves the extreme viewing angles by a tiny bit which isn't particularly useful for a lot of people but hey that's a thing that I noticed and it also creates some weird reflections to this day that distracted me a little bit when I look over on my desk and I see this warped reflection looking back and make kind of strange and number three it actually shrinks the amount of stretching you have to do to use this phone with smaller hands and I feel like it made a significant especially noticeable when typing typing on this keyboard in the display is way easier on the round than it is on any other similar size splat smartphone now the galaxy round has pretty much identical software to the galaxy note 3 in the Korean market but Samsung threw in this neat software feature called the roll effect so basically when the phone is sitting with the screen off you can roll it onto its side and get a quick glance at your notifications and the time and the battery status it's sensitive to the accelerometer too so you can literally just lift it up sideways and get the same effect unfortunately it's hard for the phone to determine when this is being done on purpose so there's like a really solid delay between you tilting the phone and showing the preview and that sucks because I think it's going to prevent people from using it especially when it doesn't take much more effort to just simply tap the power button and check your notifications the regular way but besides all the Samsung gimmicky stuff I am seriously a fan of using the galaxy round I really enjoyed it I got judged so hard on Google+ and Twitter for admitting that I really am into this I'm excited to see what other form factors sort of emerge that we see in 2014 that aren't the usual slab form factor you should be too but yeah at the end of the day when it comes down to it the curve is quite subtle the actual curve radius is a lot smaller than a lot of people have made it out to look and a lot of the images but it essentially feels a lot like a slightly more compact galaxy note 3 so I guess that makes it a pretty well-rounded device in other words you leave your comments down below and more importantly I want to hear which one you think you would like better the LG G flex which curves vertically or the galaxy round which curves horizontally let me know in a comment below and I'll be sure to get my coverage of the G flex up soon and if you guys want the ps4 thanks for watching guys basically