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this is Dan Seaver with The Verge and I'm taking a look at the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 it's the latest in Samsung's note series of smartphones they should look familiar because it looks a lot like a note 4 and galaxy s6 combined together it's a familiar 5.7 inch qHD display but everything is smaller on the note 5 it's narrower it's shorter it's thinner than the note 4 was which makes it quite a bit easier to hold and use in one hand but it's still a big phone it's definitely a phablet style device here you can see it's the gold color that's coming to the US I also be available in black the back of it has this kind of curved finish makes it a little easier to hold in one hand but the details are very similar to the galaxy s6 you've got your HOME key here your back key and multitasking this of course is a fingerprint sensor which will work with Simpson K when that's available up front you got a 5 megapixel camera for the front-facing camera there and around back you got this 16 megapixel image stabilized camera it's very similar to the s6 as well as well as the flash there and the heart rate sensor on the back inside there's a the same Samsung Exynos processor as the galaxy s6 this time it's paired with four gigabytes of RAM this is a considered a higher-end device and you can get it with 32 or 64 gigabytes of storage notably there is no micro SD card slot on this which isn't a huge surprise but it is something that's changed from last year's phone and the battery inside is 3000 milliamp hours which is a little bit smaller than no 4s battery but this time around it's got built-in wireless charging for both qi & PMA as well as Samsung's quick charging mode that's a they say will charge the battery as quickly as the galaxy s6 even though it's got a larger battery inside of it for software it's running android 5.1 lollipop it's got Samsung's pretty familiar by now software interface on top of that it's very similar to the galaxy s6 of course what makes us a note though is the s-pen which you can see right here S Pen has been slightly redesigned it's a higher quality to pen now it's metal a little bit nicer to feel it's got a little spring-loaded action on it one of the new software features is the ability to draw on the screen when it's off so you can take notes immediately from when you take pen out of its holster otherwise you can activate the air command types of features these have been slightly redesigned little more options now you can set favorite apps that you want to use often with it and you can access these pretty much anywhere you're using the phone in any app that you're in via these widgets one of the new features of the S Pen is called scroll capture it lets you capture things that are longer than just a single screenshot so if it's a webpage or a map or something like that you can progressively capture more and more of the display that you can save offline you can notate it etc so if you are trying to save your data usage or just capture a long page you can see a preview of it here and then you can go back and review it down see no files gonna be available in the US on August 21st it's gonna be available on all four carriers you'll be able to get it in black or gold like I've got here and you can expect to be priced around the same as the note 4 and prior note models