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you know we've never been on video at the same time in the same place before yeah I know I realize that I know thank you been here for I've been on the channel for a couple months and like I've been for a couple of years yes that's that's never happened so we should we should we should probably rectify that we just came back from the notes of an event we obviously have our first impressions and I think it's time to change that it's time to fix it yeah I'm one Carlo swag now for Pocket now I'm Jaime Rivera and let's discuss what we liked the most and didn't like about the Galaxy Note 7 I think it's only fair that we begin this video by the things that we actually like yeah let's start positive because we were really skeptical when we walked into this event we kind of already knew what was going to happen you were underwhelmed over the lack of specifications in theory but then we actually had the opportunity to hold the note 7 to see all the features that were added and I'm gonna be honest with you if you've ever held a note 5 probably what I loved the most about the note 7 is the build the design sure it looks like a galaxy s7 edge in every way but that's actually a good thing well and it's it's great watching the evolution over the s7 edge right that's symmetrical rounding of the glass on both sides I thought was a really nice design touch it shows that Samsung isn't quite as stagnant as some of our commenters might feel that they are odds just don't know so there are these tiny little attention to those details across the whole phone actually what I like the most is I don't I didn't even feel the metal holding it although it was funny listening to someone complain about that too so it's definitely gonna be a personal preference thing but I thought that was a really nice way to keep the design fresh keep feeling them yeah I feel that probably again Samsung phones are beautiful lately they've come up with great designs I don't think there was really more to be done with this design I'm actually happy that they pulled the s7 edge and just added more features here that's probably what I like the most well and we definitely move on from that weird split that we had last year with the note and the s6 edge+ where they were sort of mirror images of each other yet out a glass on one side and flat glass on the other and the note walks away from that completely it's it's own unique entry into the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem samsung galaxy goes this and that's the perfect segue for the next one but of course no phone is perfect and walking away from even a first impressions there are definitely some things that I think will give some of our viewers some concerns over a device this expensive you know it's a laptop a low-end laptop priced mobile device and and initially it was just the the funny situation of trying to shoot in a really packed environment the lighting was terrible the lighting was terrible we did our best to not like blind you guys with reflections all over the place but it was really that issue they had people standing at every station just so they could wipe the phone down oh yeah every time you touched it and that's not really how these devices are gonna aged and so you can watch in our videos like the progression of fingerprint smudges and you and I are much central than normal weird sweaty manly dudes yeah but I don't know I for me I'm already used to the glass on glass I actually like it I'm used to the whole wiping and stuff what I don't like is the fact that you know the note was always the vanguard phone it was the phone which Samsung used to showcase the latest version of Android it was the phone that was used to showcase the latest hardware it actually allowed you to continue using that note whenever the next s device came and you were still proud that you had a very powerful phone you weren't worried that the Galaxy s8 or galaxy s7 would overshadow what phone you had and the sadly the note 7 is again a note 5 it pretty much pulls on everything that the S lineup comes with only with added features that's probably what I didn't like about it absolutely agree that there's there's a perception of what the note used to represent especially like I've reaching the pinnacle at the note 4 and that script got flipped with the galaxy s6 and the note 5 I'm so happy we don't have to do the math on s6 note 5 yeah 7 across the board so that will give them a thumbs-up for the naming yeah but absolutely agree you do walk away from this feeling like the note pedigree has been somewhat diluted and with you're picking up a note now what's going to be coming out next year early next year which is going to leapfrog the note again and in buying a phone at the tail end of the year yeah as you're getting into those back-to-school sales maybe this is a holiday purchase something like that knowing that something else is right around the corner it does it I'm not saying it should but it does give someone a little pause before dropping that much cash on a premier flagship device it's pretty much what happened with the Galaxy s7 edge I mean I was really happy with my note 5 and then Sam's like just completely blew the note 5 off the map with the s7 edge up it's the point where I just stopped caring about it so really for me I feel that Samsung could have tried harder obviously certain chipsets aren't ready I mean there isn't any phone with the Snapdragon 80 to 3 yet or a 21 or a 21 so I think that this was not really Samsung's fault but as reviewers and obviously that's the problem we live in a bubble we live in the bubble where we know that we're gonna review the next the next s8 so probably this for us was a bad thing but not necessarily for the average consumer this does not mean that the note 7 was a bad phone in every in any way I don't know it's just I guess from our perspective could've been well and it's also just it becomes an issue of timing and what your budget and your needs are yeah there's no doubt in my mind that the note 7 is going to be one of the best phones of 2016 that it's gonna be one of the top sellers of 2016 those really aren't our concerns it's for those members of our audience especially the folks out there who are responsible for making the purchasing decisions in their family like you're the resource that people turn to when they have tech questions because you watch our videos and drive so within those kinds of situations that's where we kind of feel like there needs to be that little bit of advice and that's I think it's gonna be a really precious situation for a lot of people given the price point on this phone knowing what else is out there in the ecosystem and if you don't have need for those specific features that the note brings to the table you're perfectly well served with a Galaxy s7 or an s7 edge yeah that's pretty much and speaking of the signature element that makes a note a note let's talk about the s-pen yeah I am one of those users that does not care about it I just never loved the stylus I never use it but I think Samsung has progressed the s-pen to a lot of really cool things first of all I love that they made the tip oh yeah it's a finer point it's a finer point so if you've ever do you remember those old markers those marker pen pens from back in the day from the 90s I loved writing those things and this s-pen feels just like that yeah a really good handful it feels like if you're not like if you grab the Apple pencil you feel like if you're writing on glass it feels unnatural I feel that the s-pen is probably this s-pen particularly is probably the one that mimics the feeling of writing with a marker absolutely and I also love the fact that yeah Samsung brings a lot of the old features of the note 5 that I like like being able to write on the display with it being off what I like the most is the finely consolidated apps like scrapbook that I never use those like crazy suite of applications and now it's just one Samsung notes yeah genius move especially cuz I mean that's definitely been a Samsung criticism in our audiences for a while is the Samsung float and I think for the note the s-pen application suite was a perfect example of a number of features that people were probably not going to use cohesively but they might like one little piece yeah we might like this one little application so it made perfect sense smash them all into the same little bucket and that way you don't have a hole you don't have to have a folder just for your S Pen apps yeah they already did that for you yeah yeah I again I feel that Samsung I just think that they took it to the next level I'm not saying that it's gonna be more useful I love that translator feature yeah you know it's it's a nice feature it's a nice feature I feel that again the more that Samsung adds functionality to them to the s-pen the better it's gonna be like signing PDFs on the note 5 was awesome alright this is coming with this with this new note and again whatever the company can continue doing into making the phone useful because that's when you move things from being a gimmick to actually being something that you will use yeah the entire the entire year for Samsung has really been focusing on those details the attention to details and s-pen was another perfect example of how they could refine something which was already pretty functional for a number of people out there so the translator feature if your productivity focused business travelers something like that's gonna come in handy and you're definitely gonna be making use of that that's what the note the pedigree of the note is designed around is an uncompromising mobile office solution in the palm of your hand that fits in your pocket yeah and it's all the other little details that go into that too like they address the pen gate we actually tested that oh god okay so we got this email from Tony reddit we're right at the events and we get this email from Tony and he's like dude can you please test that S Pen backwards and I'm like I am NOT getting kicked out of the show so while his back was turned I grab like alright fine we didn't get kicked out so but but it was it was a way they addressed it though it was a beautiful attention to those little details which I feel we didn't get last year with the s6 or with the note 5 because the body changes were so significant there were a lot of these little rough edges around in each of those phones we don't have that with Samsung this year and that's where I think we really need to celebrate them it's less exciting because we don't have the significant changes in design and aesthetics but you end up with a better device you end up with a more polished device and that I really want to applaud Samsung for also the the last point on s-pen for me was making sure that the pen itself was water and dust resistant yeah so that the entire device the entire little ecosystem of smartphones is survivable in little bits of water you know for dusting dress protection things like that it's by no means rugged yeah but you're a business traveler you're on the go you're using this in really harsh conditions you're you know you need to rely on this thing so those little details matter when you're on the go and you can't have something like that Velen and I think that's like the perfect segue for the next segment indeed the surprise and of course with being the hip cool savvy gadget guys that we are it's always nice when a device can surprise us you know in that first impression you think you go in knowing everything that you need to know about the device but there's always one or two little things that take you by surprise in that that's what makes this job so much fun and for me it was holding the note 5 and holding the note 7 and knowing how similar they were in terms of spec and screen size and seeing that Samsung still managed to make the note 7 a little bit narrower yeah you know those wraparound edges really do contribute to making this not feel like the behemoth that previous note phones have felt like in the past and then I was very surprised at how well the iris scanner did I was training it on the floor crazy lighting and it worked I mean it just worked I mean that's always a happy situation when you don't know how looks something like that's the thing about the iris scanner I was recording to recap two weeks ago and you know one of the commenters immediately came in and said the purpose of the iris scanner is awesome of year in the winter you're wearing gloves you don't you don't have to take your gloves off wipe your fingers because they're sweaty and then unlock your phone to be able to interact with it you can simply lift it up to your face and unlock it and I was like oh my god this is the best comment of the year this is so true what if this is awesome but there are other purposes like for example I know cases of people that have their smartphones and you know they authenticate with their fingerprint but they probably add their kids fingerprints yeah to certain things just because you know they lend their phones to the kids and the iris functionality and the way Samsung Knox is built is you can literally only use one pair of irises on this phone so if there are even more secret things or private things that you want to hold in that Samsung private folder um the cool thing is you will know that there are certain things that only you can unlock absolutely I was really surprised by that and again just how fast it worked oh yeah I was like you know knowing Samsung the Samsung that we knew from the galaxy s3 galaxy s4 I was gonna be like oh my god and all we need is the tap dancers at the end of the event it is gonna throw everything off but no no II think we didn't get that dancer you know in our impressions from Barcelona in our impressions from this unpacked this is a very different Samsung yeah this is a company that's more focused in making products useful I am really surprised and I feel that the company really deserves the popularity that it's gained this year mainly because it's dedicated itself to refining what we have yeah and it's very humble in their press conference yeah oh yeah we don't have a Samsung talking about this is the most amazing things ever we have the Samsung that's out there we're listening to you very humbly compressing your your concerns we've brought back features that you said you cared about from from previous phones and this also really demonstrates what the note represents you know like fingerprints that's maybe not always the best password if you think about it yeah everything you touch has your password on it yeah so for a consumer facing products there are definitely some applications for an iris scanner that be fun but this is really like if you have corporate concerns business concerns government concerns that you need to lock down information that's where this becomes a lot more impressive that you have multiple modes of authentication so that's what pushes it beyond just being a gimmick yeah you know it's the best of both worlds fingerprint iris if you want to encode you can just go with a pin you can choose you're not obligated to use it but these are always things night they're nice to have and I think that's that's the best segue for the question of this video because we would really love to know what you think about the note 7 is this really a phone that appeals to you I know that it's gonna be a tough buy mainly because this phone is literally worth $900 $900 it's expensive yes it's not an inexpensive note and I know a number of people in our audience are gonna look at things like screen resolution the processor Ram camera prowess and they're they're ready for that that really claw and tooth comparison between a Galaxy s7 edge yeah but we would really love to know would you be interested in buying the note 7 does it appeal to you or are you gonna wait for the s8 with all the rumors of 4k and everything please leave us a comment down below we cannot wait to respond to your comments and hear what you think that is it for our first impression video of the Galaxy Note 7 so far we were surprised but obviously there is much more to come our review units should be in very soon and there's a lot more coverage coming very soon so make sure you follow us on social media hit that subscribe button down below for more videos like this one you can follow me on Twitter Jaime underscore Rivera you're buying me at some gadget guy and we will see you on the next video very soon