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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from PocketNow about a year ago Samsung released a phone for the fans the Galaxy Note Fe also known as the fan Edition and undoubtedly this is one of the most beautiful phones that you did not buy because it wasn't available in most markets but you could get it on eBay for about eight hundred and twenty bucks there and you would have it imported from South Korea in fact this is the SK Telecom model but it works just fine on AT&T here in the US but it was expensive but it's also stunningly beautiful and of course it's based off the samsung galaxy note 7 which was discontinued and as the note 8 has come out and the note 9 is right around the corner you can pick up this phone for not that much money still on eBay and it's just the same beautiful phone that the note 7 was and this particular model is really stunning because it's the blue coral blue version and it has gold accents on the side so blue and gold very complementary colors just looks absolutely fantastic I love how this phone looks and it works really great stuff it's got a super-fast processor plenty of RAM nice big battery that's a little bit smaller than the note 7 but still plenty capable of getting you through the day so in this video I wanted to take a look back at the Galaxy Note Fe fan edition so this phone actually has really good specifications even for today's standard the hardware is based off of the note 7 as you can see but the specifications are that of the galaxy s7 era phones so you've got the Exynos 88-90 octa-core processor 4 gigs of ram 64 gigs of storage 3200 milliamp power battery which is down from the note 7 but still plenty to get to get you through the day and it's just a gorgeous phone especially on the front where you have the appearance of a nearly bezel this display on the sides you just have screen and a top and a bottom chin that just gives this immersive experience unlike any other phone we have the 5.7 inch display it's AMOLED of course 2560 by 1440 for a really good PPI of 515 and if you remember with the note 7 Samsung reduced the radius of the corners on the edge so that the screen would be a little bit more flat for the note that way you could more easily write on the edges and not have to worry about kind of the s-pen falling off the edge like it would um like the s7 edge for example with that tighter screen radius just a stunning stunning phone got the glass back as the wireless charging of course and there it says Galaxy Note fan Edition this is the coral blue model it's got a super nice Sheen to it with these beautiful gold accents if you take out the s-pen the s-pen is blue too so super nice and of course with the note devices you get screen off memo so you can say things save it for later right now I've got this running action launcher cuz I'm not a huge fan of the Samsung stock launcher and it just works great it still works really great I can get on LTE in the US on 80 even though this is a South Korean foam everything works wonderfully and if you go into software information you can see that this phone is running Android 8.0 unfortunately not 8.1 and you know Samsung isn't really doing a good job updating the note FV I just got a software update today actually and it's her the April 1st security patch and it's already July so you know this isn't a phone that I think Samsung cares that much about it was a phone for the fans hence the name fan Edition but you still get all the really cool aspects stuff like this little hovering thing where you can create notes you can do smart select you can write on the screen or you can add shortcuts for a variety of things so you get the utility of all the S Pen functionality plus you could use this as another form of input kind of like a mouse just to navigate through the UI I mean it works really really well and it's just a beautiful beautiful phone I mean look how immersive it is if you look at it straight on it doesn't look like there is a it doesn't look like there are any side bezels and something that I really love about phones from this era from Samsung is that it has a hardware button on the bottom which of course doubles as a fingerprint scanner you can double tap it to get into the camera and plus you've got the recents button on the left and the back button on the right so you're not taking up any screen space at all for on-screen keys the downside to that of course is that you cannot switch if you like your back button on the left while you're stuck with it on the right you can't change it with software but the but the upside is that because there are no on-screen buttons you really get to maximize all 5.7 inches of this screen and you really want to do that because this phone is just so gorgeous we look at this thing turned off it's even beautiful we've got the always-on display I've got the beautiful gold accents on the color wheel blue and gold or blue and orange are complementary colors so this is just a perfect match on the bottom we have a kind of quiet speaker headphone jack and USB type-c which is nice one of the one of the early devices from Samsung to have USB C was the note 7 and then the note a fee just a really beautiful device you can still get it on eBay they're still pretty expensive because they didn't make that many of them but you still have to import them from Asia if you really want this phone although you might be able to get one used for not that much money so that's the note F II a phone that you definitely didn't buy because it wasn't available in your market or it's too expensive or you just didn't even think about it or you're just not a big enough fan of Samsung phones to rock the FE fan Edition but nevertheless definitely one of the most beautiful phones I think ever made it's just a stunner and it's really a shame that the note 7 couldn't survive so hope you guys liked this video what did you think about the note Fe did you ever consider buying one do you think you might look into it now that you've seen this video are you looking forward to the note 9 let us know in the comments and thanks for watching that's it for now