**A Closer Look at the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: A Review**

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is one device that has left me with mixed feelings. As soon as I first saw it, I knew it was going to be a conversation starter. The moment you hold it in your hand, the extra screen on the side seems like an afterthought, like it's just tacked on. But, as I started using it, I realized that there are some benefits to having this extra real estate.

The most noticeable feature of the Galaxy Note Edge is its Quad HD display. The screen is absolutely gorgeous, with deep blacks and vibrant colors. However, when comparing it to a standard Full HD screen, I have to admit that it doesn't feel like a revolutionary leap forward. In fact, it's only slightly better than a 1080p screen. That being said, when you're looking at an image or video with a lot of pixels, the difference is noticeable. The extra resolution makes everything look sharp and clear.

One feature that I do think is worth mentioning is the battery life. Samsung has always prided itself on its ability to deliver long-lasting batteries, and the Note Edge is no exception. According to Samsung's estimates, you can get up to two days of moderate use out of this device. Of course, this will vary depending on your usage patterns, but overall, I'm impressed with the battery life.

Another feature that's worth mentioning is Quick Charge, which is included in the Note Edge. This means that if you're using a fast charger, you can get back to full capacity in no time. It's not exactly revolutionary, but it's still a nice touch.

**TouchWiz and Google Now**

One thing that I do think about when reviewing the Note Edge is TouchWiz, Samsung's custom user interface. While some people love it, others find it cluttered and overwhelming. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of TouchWiz, but I do appreciate its flexibility. If you don't like it, there are plenty of other launchers available that you can install.

And speaking of launchers, Google Now is another feature that's worth mentioning. Samsung has announced plans to bring Google Now to the Note Edge as soon as this review is done, which I think will be a great addition. The Google Now Launcher is simple and intuitive, making it easy to navigate through your home screen and access various features.

**My First Impressions**

When I first got my hands on the Galaxy Note Edge, I have to admit that I was taken aback by its size. At first glance, it seems huge compared to other phones on the market, like the Lumia 1520. But as soon as I started using it, I realized that it's actually quite comfortable in your hand. The extra screen on the side is more of a novelty than anything else, and while it's certainly cool, it doesn't necessarily make the phone feel more substantial.

The big difference, however, will be when developers start to take advantage of the extra screen real estate. If they can come up with innovative ways to use this feature, then the Note Edge could become a game-changer in the world of Android smartphones. Until then, I'm not convinced that it offers enough additional value over the Note 4.

**Will You Want to Buy It?**

Ultimately, whether or not you want to buy the Galaxy Note Edge will depend on your personal preferences and needs. If you're looking for a phone with a lot of features and a unique design, then this might be the perfect device for you. But if you're not convinced about its benefits over the Note 4, then there are plenty of other options available.

One thing that I do think is worth mentioning is that the Galaxy Note Edge is definitely worth checking out in person before you buy it. Holding it in your hand and seeing how it feels can make a big difference in your decision-making process. And who knows, you might just find yourself falling in love with this device like I did.

**Conclusion**

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is a device that's hard to categorize. It's got some amazing features, but it also has its limitations. While the Quad HD display is absolutely gorgeous, it's not necessarily revolutionary. And while the battery life and Quick Charge are nice touches, they're not exactly groundbreaking.

Overall, I'm still trying to decide whether or not I think the Galaxy Note Edge is worth buying. It's definitely a conversation starter, but that might be where its appeal ends. As more developers start to take advantage of the extra screen real estate, however, this device could become a true powerhouse in the world of Android smartphones.

One thing is for sure: if you're looking for a phone with a unique design and plenty of features, then the Galaxy Note Edge is definitely worth checking out. Just be sure to see it in person before making any decisions – you might just find yourself falling in love with this device like I did.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone John rener from techno Buffalo here and I want to share my first impressions of the latest Samsung device this is the curvy Galaxy Note Edge let's get started whenever we do our reviews I like to use a device for at least five plus days to get a chance to really use it cuz my first impressions sometimes don't always carry through uh what ends up being the final result on the device but I can usually get a good sense of how I feel about a phone within the first 24 to 48 hours uh so you might have just seen the unboxing of this guy just go up we've actually had it for 2 days in all honesty I have no idea what I think about it I'm all over the board on it uh so we'll get into a ton more depth than review but I do want to share my first impressions if you guys are deciding whether or not to run to the store to pick one of these guys up so first the design and this is sort of a very new thing for Samsung I think starting with the Galaxy Alpha and the Galaxy Note 4 I really like the design Samsung has taken the way their phones feel from sort of a much a cheap plastic it's a really premium feel and that definitely carries through here with the not line um I love the way the edge feels at least the left side uh in the hand I like the way the sort of metal looks dark it just looks really cool um the left- hand side feels like any other phone the right hand side though where that edge screen is feels very strange in the hand it almost feels sharp hitting your side and by the sort of the very way of how your hand sits your uh Palm is inevitably going to touch that screen all the time so you have to sort of be very careful with how you hold it or even hold hold it in the opposite hand that you're used to he going to accidentally touch that screen uh that said though I really liked the way the phone looked it's very unique most phones out there now look the same some version of a rectangle uh this one's something totally different whether you like it or don't like it uh I do love and appreciate that Samsung's trying something new here and I give them Credit in order for us sort of move to something new in the smartphone World someone has to be the first to try something new and take a risk whether it works doesn't work and I give Samsung credit I'll be willing to wager we're going to see versions of this curv screen maybe on one side two different different sort of iterations of it over the next few years and the rest of Samsung's flagships so how does the curve work and doesn't add anything that's really my big question was what does it add versus the Note 4 it's almost the same spec for speec save for that little extra tiny screen there I'm not sure what it adds yet other than just a really a cool Factor uh a few things first it's not over responsive so to interact with it you can s of keep swiping um from the right to the left sort of access the new kind of ribbons they've called it um and it's fine it's same thing as having icons down below as having them on the side nothing really new there I like being able to have social media show up there sports scores are nice I don't know if it's going to sell a phone for me having that at least that's my first impression perhaps that will change sort of oddly enough though they don't always behave like two separate screens uh if I went ahead and let's say I wanted to open a website for example let's go to technobuffalo.com and you can see the screen there sort of shows up on the side if I swipe in it overlaps and comes on the top of the screen they're not totally separate you can see some of the words there are being covered by that side ribbon you can swipe it away and it goes away um but just know that it's not totally it's own sort of piece of real estate uh they do overlap a little bit so kind of bear that in mind uh it does add some cool kind of new features too uh when you go to the camera for example the whole screen is now a viewfinder kind of similar to a tablet and you get all your camera controls on that side screen it's neat it's a nice addition I don't know how much it adds or not but it is there and you go into settings and everything and it can to see how the side screen can interact with the main screen um so you know it's sort of how I feel about this device I'm not sure if it's a nice Edition or a bad Edition but I'm really really glad that it exists uh and I like what Samsung uh is doing here uh the Quad HD screen here is absolutely gorgeous I think Samsung has always made some of the best screens going and that's true here too uh the Note 4 screen is absolutely gorgeous this one is no exception the black it's like really black it's AMOLED uh colors are bright things pop it looks really nice uh but like I sort of found all Quad HD screen it doesn't look Leaps and Bounds better than a 1080p screen uh it looks like a really good 1080p screen unless you're looking at a you know a Quad HD image something has a lot of pixels and you'll sort of see it all fit on one screen the big difference when you went from think of your TVs from standard definition to HD was gigantic I mean you could really see it uh it is a fraction of that difference from uh 1080p to QHD and that's true for TVs from 1080p to 4K uh it looks nicer not a giant amount nicer uh but doesn't really matter cuz you really not sacrificing much here you s of get the benefit of that you're also getting really good battery life I like that quick charge is included here uh TouchWiz I'm not going to talk too much about um if you don't like it you can always try and change it uh if you like as soon as this review is done though you know Google Now Launcher might find its way onto this device my first impression on that screen I I like it would I buy it over the Note 4 I don't know yet and that's why really glad we're waiting to do a review cuz I'm really not sure what to think of this uh it's really a conversation starter everywhere I've gone and I've had this phone out people are like what the heck is that so that's kind of fun uh usually the only reason people stop me to ask about my phone was when I had just a gigantic huge phone like the Lumia 1520 that was 6 in which somehow now is starting to seem like a normal sized phone um so that's been kind of fun to talk to people about it and show them what it isn't show it what it can what they can do I think the big difference though is going to be over the next few months uh if developers try to take advantage of that extra screen real estate and try to do some cool things with it then it might be a huge advantage over the Note 4 but I think you're banking on developers at this point right now as is it's probably not much additional value other than kind of a wow factor but if you believe developers are really going to try to make use of this then you might want to consider the Galaxy Note Edge but one thing I can say go to the store and try it before you buy it see if you like it you might not like the way it feels in your hand or you might really really like it and that cool Factor might just do it for you I'm looking forward to keep testing this and seeing what I think or if my opinions change anything you guys want me to see see or show uh on this device for the review please let me know this is one of those things that I really don't know yet when I think about it which is kind of rare for me so it's it's also kind of fun and refreshing so anything else you guys again want to see let me know check us out of course technobuffalo.com lers and greatest Tech news I'm John rer see you guys next video byebye thank you guys for watching if you want to see more videos from TechnoBuffalo hit the big subscription button right here and if you want to see us play games and I'll admit it sometimes not so well check us out at twitch.tv/ TechnoBuffalowhat's up everyone John rener from techno Buffalo here and I want to share my first impressions of the latest Samsung device this is the curvy Galaxy Note Edge let's get started whenever we do our reviews I like to use a device for at least five plus days to get a chance to really use it cuz my first impressions sometimes don't always carry through uh what ends up being the final result on the device but I can usually get a good sense of how I feel about a phone within the first 24 to 48 hours uh so you might have just seen the unboxing of this guy just go up we've actually had it for 2 days in all honesty I have no idea what I think about it I'm all over the board on it uh so we'll get into a ton more depth than review but I do want to share my first impressions if you guys are deciding whether or not to run to the store to pick one of these guys up so first the design and this is sort of a very new thing for Samsung I think starting with the Galaxy Alpha and the Galaxy Note 4 I really like the design Samsung has taken the way their phones feel from sort of a much a cheap plastic it's a really premium feel and that definitely carries through here with the not line um I love the way the edge feels at least the left side uh in the hand I like the way the sort of metal looks dark it just looks really cool um the left- hand side feels like any other phone the right hand side though where that edge screen is feels very strange in the hand it almost feels sharp hitting your side and by the sort of the very way of how your hand sits your uh Palm is inevitably going to touch that screen all the time so you have to sort of be very careful with how you hold it or even hold hold it in the opposite hand that you're used to he going to accidentally touch that screen uh that said though I really liked the way the phone looked it's very unique most phones out there now look the same some version of a rectangle uh this one's something totally different whether you like it or don't like it uh I do love and appreciate that Samsung's trying something new here and I give them Credit in order for us sort of move to something new in the smartphone World someone has to be the first to try something new and take a risk whether it works doesn't work and I give Samsung credit I'll be willing to wager we're going to see versions of this curv screen maybe on one side two different different sort of iterations of it over the next few years and the rest of Samsung's flagships so how does the curve work and doesn't add anything that's really my big question was what does it add versus the Note 4 it's almost the same spec for speec save for that little extra tiny screen there I'm not sure what it adds yet other than just a really a cool Factor uh a few things first it's not over responsive so to interact with it you can s of keep swiping um from the right to the left sort of access the new kind of ribbons they've called it um and it's fine it's same thing as having icons down below as having them on the side nothing really new there I like being able to have social media show up there sports scores are nice I don't know if it's going to sell a phone for me having that at least that's my first impression perhaps that will change sort of oddly enough though they don't always behave like two separate screens uh if I went ahead and let's say I wanted to open a website for example let's go to technobuffalo.com and you can see the screen there sort of shows up on the side if I swipe in it overlaps and comes on the top of the screen they're not totally separate you can see some of the words there are being covered by that side ribbon you can swipe it away and it goes away um but just know that it's not totally it's own sort of piece of real estate uh they do overlap a little bit so kind of bear that in mind uh it does add some cool kind of new features too uh when you go to the camera for example the whole screen is now a viewfinder kind of similar to a tablet and you get all your camera controls on that side screen it's neat it's a nice addition I don't know how much it adds or not but it is there and you go into settings and everything and it can to see how the side screen can interact with the main screen um so you know it's sort of how I feel about this device I'm not sure if it's a nice Edition or a bad Edition but I'm really really glad that it exists uh and I like what Samsung uh is doing here uh the Quad HD screen here is absolutely gorgeous I think Samsung has always made some of the best screens going and that's true here too uh the Note 4 screen is absolutely gorgeous this one is no exception the black it's like really black it's AMOLED uh colors are bright things pop it looks really nice uh but like I sort of found all Quad HD screen it doesn't look Leaps and Bounds better than a 1080p screen uh it looks like a really good 1080p screen unless you're looking at a you know a Quad HD image something has a lot of pixels and you'll sort of see it all fit on one screen the big difference when you went from think of your TVs from standard definition to HD was gigantic I mean you could really see it uh it is a fraction of that difference from uh 1080p to QHD and that's true for TVs from 1080p to 4K uh it looks nicer not a giant amount nicer uh but doesn't really matter cuz you really not sacrificing much here you s of get the benefit of that you're also getting really good battery life I like that quick charge is included here uh TouchWiz I'm not going to talk too much about um if you don't like it you can always try and change it uh if you like as soon as this review is done though you know Google Now Launcher might find its way onto this device my first impression on that screen I I like it would I buy it over the Note 4 I don't know yet and that's why really glad we're waiting to do a review cuz I'm really not sure what to think of this uh it's really a conversation starter everywhere I've gone and I've had this phone out people are like what the heck is that so that's kind of fun uh usually the only reason people stop me to ask about my phone was when I had just a gigantic huge phone like the Lumia 1520 that was 6 in which somehow now is starting to seem like a normal sized phone um so that's been kind of fun to talk to people about it and show them what it isn't show it what it can what they can do I think the big difference though is going to be over the next few months uh if developers try to take advantage of that extra screen real estate and try to do some cool things with it then it might be a huge advantage over the Note 4 but I think you're banking on developers at this point right now as is it's probably not much additional value other than kind of a wow factor but if you believe developers are really going to try to make use of this then you might want to consider the Galaxy Note Edge but one thing I can say go to the store and try it before you buy it see if you like it you might not like the way it feels in your hand or you might really really like it and that cool Factor might just do it for you I'm looking forward to keep testing this and seeing what I think or if my opinions change anything you guys want me to see see or show uh on this device for the review please let me know this is one of those things that I really don't know yet when I think about it which is kind of rare for me so it's it's also kind of fun and refreshing so anything else you guys again want to see let me know check us out of course technobuffalo.com lers and greatest Tech news I'm John rer see you guys next video byebye thank you guys for watching if you want to see more videos from TechnoBuffalo hit the big subscription button right here and if you want to see us play games and I'll admit it sometimes not so well check us out at twitch.tv/ TechnoBuffalo\n"