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hey this is dan from the verge and here i've got the brand new samsung galaxy note 7 the note 7 is a blend of last year's galaxy note 5 and this year's galaxy s7 edge it features a 5.7 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display but it's got a dual curved sides now which is a new for the note line much like the s7 edge you can see that curve on the both sides of the screen as well as on the back the back has the same type of curve as the front which makes it very comfortable to hold it also makes a phone 2 millimetres narrower than last year's model even though it still has the same size screen so it's a more comfortable device to hold the glass on the front and the back or Gorilla Glass 5 inside the phone is very similar to the s7 series there's a Snapdragon 820 processor four gigabytes of RAM the note 7 comes with 64 gigs of storage microSD expansion the camera systems are the same so 5 megapixels on the front 12 megapixels on the back with app 1.7 aperture lenses optical stabilization 4k video pretty much the same camera experience across the board note 7 is also ip68 water-resistant just like the s7 series the what there are does of course have unique hardware features the first major one is the iris scanner which is new to the to the note line which allows you to unlock the phone with your iris or secure content in a secure area on the phone which you can unlock with your iris of course you also have the fingerprint scanner option as well they can be used interchangeably to unlock your phone or access the secured content and since it is a note of course it also has an S Pen the S pen's been improved this year it's got a finer point it's a little bit more precise writing as well as twice as much sensitivity so over 4000 levels of pressure sensitivity which you can notice when you're doing writing and drawing and other functions with the pen there's a couple new software features that are really cool there's a bility to magnify the screen using the pen so you can zoom in a little bit in addition to magnify there's a translate option so you can translate text from a few dozen languages and then what's really cool is the new ability to make gifts from any video source so if you are watching a video in youtube or video that you've captured you can instantly create a gift from it using the smart select tool press record you can choose how long can be up to 15 seconds and you pretty much created a gift that you can share right away you can also annotate it you can add stickers you can draw on it add text etc and kind of style it up however you'd like so it's a really neat neat feature that's available on the note 7 one last S pen's feature that is new for the note 7 is the improvements to the always-on display and screen off memo so the note 5 you could draw notes on the screen when it was off now you can pin those notes so that they are always available in the always-on display mode it's kind of a combination of the screen off memo and always-on display from the s 7 series and you can hide your notes or expand them or you can trash it right there other upgrades from last year the note 7 is launching with Android 6.0 it's got a slightly redesigned interface every year Samsung kind of tweaks its interface makes it a little bit better to look at and this is no different the colors are more pleasant kind of a lighter theme Samsung's also upgraded the battery the battery inside is thirty five hundred million powers it's a five hundred million powers bigger than the note 5s and the charging is now done over USB C as opposed to microUSB still includes fast wireless charging as well as fast charging Samsung is going to be launching the note 7 on August 19th across the world pre-orders in the US will start tomorrow August 3rd you'll be able to get it from all four carriers so be available in three colors in the US a black a silver and then this new coral color which is kind of like a unique blue we'll have a lot more to say on the note 7 once we spend some more time with it and have a review unit so be sure to check out the verge comm and youtube.com slash the verge the big thing that they've added this year is improvements to the s-pen the s-pen is kind of the defining I'm going to try that again the software on the note sock seating software on the note 7 is based on Android 6.0 ma ma