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it's a pretty unique feature but just how useful is the edge display samsung's new Galaxy Note 4 edge is named after a michael fisher with pocket now eddie for 2014 let's find out as we showed you in our galaxy note 4 edge hands-on earlier in the week the edge display adds a 160 pixel wide column to the right hand side of this Note 4 screen it's normally dormant but it illuminates with notifications and you can also manually bring it to life with a quick side swipe though it takes some practice to get used to the idea behind the edge display is to create a special piece of screen real estate for things like notifications useful when you're viewing a movie in full screen or something like that but it also serves as a launch pad for a customizable catalog of apps both full screen titles and a variety of miniature apps you can summon with the sideswipe these include a flashlight toggle various timers and stopwatches voice memos and even a ruler which is just the kind of novel touch we'd expect from Samsung finally and also typical of Samsung you're able to change the wallpaper to suit your desires and you give a not just one but a bunch of plugins for glanceable tickers from sports scores to the news and in the touch shutter functionality and the ability to glance at notifications while the phone's still in its case if you're a holster kind of guy and the note 4 edge becomes a lot more interesting just how useful any of this is we'll have to wait for our full review coming very soon for much more from Aoife including more note 4 and the edge hands-on coverage check out our ePub at pocketnow.com and the rest of our videos here on YouTube so next time this has been michael fisher with pocket now with taylor martin work in the camera see you soon with more from Berlin