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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Anonymous, 18 Aug 2016It's just another droid like thousands others. With the add... moreThose thousands don't have the spen

    Beware about the new Gorilla Glass 5. it's not as scratch resistant as before!
    see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=571pu66vEBc
    The new GG5 offers tougher against shatter, but compromises on the scratch resistant, because it mixes the glass with some kind of plastic. Glass is scratch resistant but not shatter resistant, but plastic is vice versa. GG5 tries to combine these, but resulting a pretty easy to scratch glass.

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      • Anonymous
      • HkV
      • 18 Aug 2016

      It's just another droid like thousands others. With the addition of a curved screen that distorts any content. Nothing different or special to see. Move on.

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        • AnonD-89381
        • 61S
        • 18 Aug 2016

        AnonD-551566, 16 Aug 2016cool review, mentioning pros and cons is always fun to read... moreRegarding the battery life, have you compared the battery test on each devices done by GSMA?
        And WTF dows USB type C has to do with Bluetooth headphone? This isn't iPhone 7.

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          • AnonD-89381
          • 61Q
          • 18 Aug 2016

          AnonD-13148, 16 Aug 2016Who else jumped straight to battery life page?I always do on every single review from GSMA.

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            • AnonD-367917
            • H3G
            • 18 Aug 2016

            Stondec100, 18 Aug 2016Very disappointed in the battery life of the SD20 version,... moreThose numbers, are at louder volumes and brighter screen..
            Pretty sure you could make it match, or do better, without giving up 'features'...

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              • AnonD-454209
              • tDC
              • 18 Aug 2016

              Cant wait for the trade up programme!

                Very disappointed in the battery life of the SD20 version, it's actually worse than that of the Note 4 and 5. As it is my Note 4's battery usually requires a recharge by midday and Note 5 lasts lasts a few hours longer than that but I still have to recharge at least once to get me through the day. If the Note 7 SD20 version really has a worse battery than these 2, it might be unusable for me.
                I don't understand people who claim their phones last a full day and then some, because I've never experienced that with any phone. Maybe such people don't use their phones much or turn off a lot of the functions, which for me, defeats the purpose of having a smart phone if I have to dumb it down.

                  Anonymous, 18 Aug 2016A fair bit of warnning. The edge screen is a make or break ... moreIf you've actually seen or used the Note 7, then you realize it hardly has any edge and it really hardly has any of the edge issues that plague the S7 edge

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                    • Anonymous
                    • MSF
                    • 18 Aug 2016

                    Anonymous, 18 Aug 2016A fair bit of warnning. The edge screen is a make or break ... moreThat is not right. I own a S7 edge and I don't have any problem with the edges. You do not own an S7 edge.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • uJ5
                      • 18 Aug 2016

                      A fair bit of warnning. The edge screen is a make or break feature. Got the s7 edge and totally hate it, edge screen way too sensitive, cant game properly because of that. Basically to got to change the way you hold your phone. So much for technology makong things easier.

                      On top of that tempered glass protector wont stay on, especially if you have a case that push against the side of the screen.

                      I love samsung but im swearing off edge screen.

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                        • Y6J
                        • 18 Aug 2016

                        No way,not when they are only going to sell the phone everyone expected in China only (6Gb RAM/128gb internal storage),and they tell the rest of the world-screw you (4Gb RAM/64Gb storage.Way to engender goodwill in your international market.

                          Kumar, 18 Aug 2016I am android Samsung flagship user from 2010 onwards. But w... moreWhether apple releases one or many how it justifies price of a phone.
                          If apple has one flagship policy what is 5c 6 and 6plus then
                          Are you trying to say they release less means their prices are justified.

                          I see it as samsung gives you choice of flagships
                          S7 s7 edge note 7 and not just one

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 4Js
                            • 18 Aug 2016

                            Kumar, 18 Aug 2016I am android Samsung flagship user from 2010 onwards. But w... moreYeah no. Iphone never looked that much better quality and you could always tell the difference between a flagship galaxy and their little cheap models.
                            Complete bogus excuse to side track their logical point

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                              • utN
                              • 18 Aug 2016

                              mmj321, 18 Aug 2016'this is not an apple iphone' in what way can you justify i... moreI am android Samsung flagship user from 2010 onwards. But when it comes to iPhone. Apple release only one flagship model per year and there won't be any other models from Apple. The price tag justifies flagship. And when it comes to Samsung there will be many models. You can get mini nano and some other models with same design. No one can tell by looking out is a flagship or simple model. Only the internal specs are differing. Samsung from starting onwards differentiating Asians with lower end internals for the same models for international users. Like that in so many ways Apple is far better. We should accept the truth

                                AnonD-148051, 18 Aug 2016But highlight in Note Series is S-Pen.....;) that's y I asked Ir ritating

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                                  • 18 Aug 2016

                                  Anonymous, 17 Aug 2016Even Xiaomi Redmi 3s prime have IR Blaster. Now I'm laughing :)But highlight in Note Series is S-Pen.....;)
                                  that's y I asked

                                    AnonD-259899, 17 Aug 2016A lot of Samsung marketing slide copy paste I see in your p... more'this is not an apple iphone' in what way can you justify iphone's price tag
                                    How is it any better than the s7edge forget the note
                                    Please bullet your points

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                                      • AnonD-367917
                                      • H3$
                                      • 18 Aug 2016

                                      AnonD-259899, 18 Aug 2016*Yawn* more of the same useless philosophical lectures, sav... moreHerein is the problem..
                                      You say "stick to it"
                                      Yet have dismissed many of my 'points' previously mentioned.
                                      (By ignoring them)...

                                      I am not trying to 'win' anything here..
                                      I do not 'get my kicks' from winning people over or telling them what they are doing wrong... nor antagonising random people I don't know... (maybe before I turned sixteen years old).

                                      My first comments to you -even before you mentioned "ad copy" was written implicitly to the exact opposite. I even said I don't buy into marketing speak.
                                      You have continued to tell me how wrong I am, without cleverness, or empathy... or anything but fandom -all whilst insisting the inverse is true.

                                      Dismissing others value whilst insisting your comments are of import is a joke.

                                      And not to 'cyber bully'; but the joke is on you.

                                      You think it is funny each time someone continues to give their time to your little project..-

                                      Take a long walk. (No psychobabble...)

                                        Please do not move to On Screen buttons Samsung! They suck!

                                        Continue making the bottom bezels useful and save us screen space that's used for those ugly on screen keys in other brand phones!

                                        Stay different!

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