Samsung Galaxy Note7 review: Thinking Big

16 August 2016
All great speeches start with carefully prepared notes. For yet another year Samsung has taken the role of a modern-day orator, pushing for a return to personal handwriting against the trend of detached digital text.

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Okay, all fine, but I don't understand the Display part! Why on earth would Samsung make the Basic mode more saturated? The point of Basic mode is to have natural colours, I just don't understand why the results are worse than S7 or Note 5!

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    • Sohail
    • bJg
    • 16 Aug 2016

    The wait is finally over and we have the Galaxy Note 7's review! Yayyy! Thanks gsmarena! M gonna read it now :D You guys really work hard! All the best!

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      • AnonD-70078
      • 3Jb
      • 16 Aug 2016

      Anonymous, 16 Aug 2016Can iris scanner work when the phone is in the water?lol

        Always-on is a serious battery drainer...

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          • AnonD-335271
          • h$A
          • 16 Aug 2016

          Anonymous, 16 Aug 2016Can iris scanner work when the phone is in the water?In what world does it matter if the Iris Scanner is able to scan your eyes underwater? I am surprise you would ask.

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            • AnonD-190634
            • 8qW
            • 16 Aug 2016

            What's the point of 350hx s pen when it's give be running at 13fps xD (jk)

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              • Erns
              • 0tM
              • 16 Aug 2016

              The edge screen is really bad, 2mm lost on each side.
              And the small battery, Samsung is stupid or what ?

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                • AnonD-497816
                • fwA
                • 16 Aug 2016

                Note 7 is Legend of the Samsung phone was able to make an earlier phone to his era in which each piece is a jewel Samsung compete with itself

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                  • AnonD-42959
                  • Nh8
                  • 16 Aug 2016

                  PhoneFix, 16 Aug 2016It is nice phone but for dat price I can have on same level... moreThe Honor V8 Is sadly Not Worldwide Available ..

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                    • Anonymous
                    • XjS
                    • 16 Aug 2016

                    Can iris scanner work when the phone is in the water?

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                      • AnonD-551566
                      • PH0
                      • 16 Aug 2016

                      divis200, 16 Aug 2016Well, the warranty is void if you place your phone in water... moreoh don't get me wrong, i wouldn't jump into the pool with any phone even if they tell it's sealed like a tank... i just said that they showed it like that so ppl are not too afraid to get it wet even, about the warranty, in my country carriers service is awfull so when u buy a phone u expect to not go for repair (we must be extra carefull with our devices T.T) but no one is safe from an accident so i get ur point ;)

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                        • Martin
                        • gyc
                        • 16 Aug 2016

                        N4 same 90h endurance, 3220 vs 3500, and sunlight is bad against S7/S7E and S6E+. Let alone that he boasted to DisplayMate that has up to 1000 nits sunlight and worse.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • ty@
                          • 16 Aug 2016

                          AnonD-370043, 16 Aug 2016Even xperia z5 is better than note 7 leave alone xperia xp ... moreeven G5 is better than Z5, so you mean G5 is better than N7 ?

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                            • 16 Aug 2016

                            AnonD-13148, 16 Aug 2016Who else jumped straight to battery life page?Me?

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                              • Nikc
                              • PS6
                              • 16 Aug 2016

                              Finally a good time to say goodbye to my note 4

                                Imo samsung should stick to exynos only they are better choice for samsung than qualcomm

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                                  • AnonD-197520
                                  • mTW
                                  • 16 Aug 2016

                                  There is a mistake. Always on display can show third party app notifications also. It shows all third party app notifications for me. I am using the phone since 4th of August. Thats where Iris scanner is particularly very useful. If you get a notification on always on display, just double click it. The iris scanner will automatically get activated, unlock the device and takes you to the purticular app with notification. Super fast and convenient. In my experience iris scanner works perfect about more than 90% of the times .

                                    AnonD-481725, 16 Aug 2016Indeed, i think this is over feature, finger print scanner ... moreThe main reason Samsung add Iris scanner is for more secure than fingerprint scanner, i.e to open secure folder, private mode, login to mobile banking account.

                                      AnonD-551566, 16 Aug 2016yup IP68 is water resistant and not waterproof but... in th... moreWell, the warranty is void if you place your phone in water and there have been many cases of water getting into device breaking internals. That wouldn't happen if it was fully waterproof. They used the device in pool just for advertisement, but if they advertise it like that, it doesn't mean you should use your device like that too.

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                                        • AnonD-551566
                                        • PH0
                                        • 16 Aug 2016

                                        divis200, 16 Aug 2016The device is not waterproof. It's water resistant.yup IP68 is water resistant and not waterproof but... in the event they showed it under the water to test the pen in water so it does tell u that it can stand some degree of waterproof (i bet it's not deep though) and as the review say, how often u think u'll need to write under water? it's more focused on writing maybe in a rainy day or at the pool even ^_^