Monday, October 19, 2015

Overview of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 5 – Ferra

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Successful smartphones did not come into the world at random. Before thunder announcements and journalists trumpeted the outstanding qualities of the new products, manufacturers of mobile phones goes a long way of trial and error. Therefore, we are not pet a beautiful story of creation smartphones (well, except Apple) – very few people interested listen, “Well, here we are doing-doing-doing smartphones, and then trimmed here and here – and we’ve got the flagship».

That’s Galaxy Note in 2011 seemed something strange: 4 years after the release of the first iPhone, which buried all devices with a stylus, the Koreans launched a huge (do not laugh – if 5.3 inches diagonally impressive) PHABLET with an electronic pen. After that, all and sundry, have begun to point the finger at “a ridiculous mixture of the tablet and the device” and wonder why on the capacitive display generally requires additional input devices.

It turned out – need, and even more than could have imagined Samsung! Exotic smartphones diverged millions of copies: Note 4, for example, scattered in an amount of 4.5 million copies per week. Take a look in the corner of the room / transportation / the street and try to imagine even a stack of thousands of mobile phones.

 Samsung Galaxy Note 5
Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Only here the Koreans themselves were not up completely sure whether to buy exotic models for their “art-zametochnye” quality or simply because it’s gorgeous Samsung’s large screen. Apparently, the second category of buyers was much more numerous, and the experience of sales S6 edge, which proved to be wildly popular model (Samsung expected that 80% of sales will fall on the flat S6, but the edge cut off itself 50% of the audience’s flagship), Samsung made conclusions.

Therefore, all who seemed stylus single toy out of the “tried-and-forget”, now addressed to cool and fancy S6 edge + with curved display. A Note 5 has not changed in essence, but added to the beauty and power, simultaneously losing practicality. Send any changes to his advantage, whether to update the Note 4 Note 5, and stand if he compete with the edge + – We will understand in today’s review.



Features

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samsung Galaxy Note 5

 

 

Operating System

 

 

Android 5.1 Lollipop

 

 

Screen

 

 

5,7 inch, 2560×1440, IPS, 515 ppi

 

 

processor

 

 

Exynos 7420 2.1 GHz (8 cores, 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A57)

 

 

Graphics

 

 

Mali-T760 MP8

 

 

RAM Memory

 

 

4 GB

 

 

Permanent memory

 

 

64 GB

 

 

Contact

 

 

4G (LTE Cat.9), 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 (IEEE 802.11 b / g / n / ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS

 

 

camera

 

 

16 MP – basic, with auto focus, video 3840×2160, front – 5 megapixel

 

 

Battery

 

 

non-removable 3000 mAh

 

 

Dimensions

 

 

153x76x7,6 mm

 

 

Weight

 

 

171 g

 

 

The price at the time of publication

 

 

60 000 rubles

 

 

Price data price. ru

 

Price request: Samsung Galaxy Note 5 2801 1

Design and Management

Even clever with time beginning to meet on clothes – for the lifetime of the conveyor face of our hero several times pulled up to company standards, while We did not come to the current premium design. However, at any earlier debacles Galaxy Note model remained practical – as if one of the thousands of computers in a giant corporation. However, in the case of the fifth generation of Samsung courage to shut his eyes to such conventions.



The main claim connoisseurs Galaxy Note to a new model became notorious non-removable battery and no slot Micro SD. But such a trend – every year the smart phones are added in power, but it does not become universal, and transformed into a “thing in itself»

It is hardly necessary to grieve about it – before, of course, and a TV can be with a soldering iron and obscene spells to fix, and from time spent in the garage, a large part was assigned to a buffet table rather than servicing the car, but those days are gone forever.

At a time when the two-year Galaxy S4 outdated morally before than time to grow old physically, nobody rushes with practicality at the forefront in the development of smartphones. Travel distributions with applications to the case of “if suddenly something glyukanёt” Today, no one is eager, photos and videos are sent to the cloud / social networks and favorite music comes out more often than the time to get to a computer and a cable sent to the appropriate smart album. The few “partisans enthusiasts” champions of practicality, which for years reflash, rebuild and lead to a feeling of outdated smartphones, still do not cash in sales flagships. So, alas, they do not care about the opinion of manufacturers of mobile phones.

But it’s the lyrics, and now the case. The new Note is noticeably narrower and thinner than its predecessor. Given the microscopic size of the smartphone side frames meet the most 5.5-inch PHABLET instead of “uncompromising league” okoloplanshetnymi models with screen sizes and dimensions. However, it should be recognized that the S6 edge + due to frameless design is still perceived by a miniature model.

Once a Note has replaced plastic housing and “leatherette” on a mixture of aluminum and glass, he began to look much presentable – the old model on its background looks like computers 90s (those with the monitor on top of the “system unit”) near the modern samples. But that’s a scratch on a noble dark-blue body appear quite quickly – during the test a couple of them settled on the rear panel. On the other hand, to wrap up a beautiful smartphone in the next case, too slippery poor have no desire to. Stalemate.



Screen

More recently, we would say that the displays in the new flagship Samsung – record heaped on all parameters. But after the release of Xperia Z5 with sometimes 4K-display leadership on a formal definition images taken over by Sony. Therefore, Note 5 satisfied “only” 23% better image detail than the iPhone 6s Plus, for example.

Beyond the display resolution in our smartphone is supported by a high level of brightness – 420 cd / m2. Samsung says that the direct rays of the sun automatic brightness can jump up to 700 or more cd / m2, except that it will last long (the display becomes very much greedy in this mode), and will be only short-term help in the sun. One need only consider that the screen Note 4 (which is very nice too) far behind in terms of brightness by almost 20%, while many competitors (LG G4, Huawei P8, ASUS ZenFone 2) can not boast such an outstanding potential.

The color gamut of the display is close to the ideal – it means that the pictures and videos on the screen Note 5 will look exactly as conceived manufacturer: not too dark, bright or contrasting, as well.

Color Mode at the screen as many as four, with opponents’ yadrena “color Super AMOLED matrix can immediately select the” Main “mode and get a balanced picture, while specialized modes for photo or video matrix is ​​already open opportunities more widely, albeit slightly at the expense of reliability colors. In any case, your friends and family will not be like the leaders of the Indians – differences in saturation fit into the concept of “the taste and color».



Sound

Our hero boasts a very high quality sound headphones and loud ringing speaker, able to disclose ringtones without noticeable distortion.

Let’s start with the speaker – it is located on the lower face of the body, whereas in Note 4, he was given a place on the back cover. It has become much easier: now the owner of habit putting a smartphone in your pocket “upside down” (because that connected to the lower edge of headphones otherwise inconvenient) is no longer in danger mute the ringer volume to a minimum.



The quality of the sound and the musical potential of the smartphone is identical S6 edge +, and it is a compliment

The music player in the Samsung Galaxy Note 5

As for the volume – Note 5, “shouts” a little better than its predecessor but the main difference is not even in decibels, and the coloration of the sound. Still, the speaker in a plastic and metal case – are two big differences.

The headphones sound quality is comparable with the specialized music smartphone and is only slightly inferior to the elaboration of models c dedicated audio chip (the same Meizu MX5, for example) . It is not known whether there is to the credit of iron (probably built in the Exynos 7420 audio processor itself is so good), but it is obvious that a lot of improvements on the part of the sound quality were carried out at the program level.

Audio Player in Note 5 calibrates the sound for specific earphones: a smartphone including several varieties of sound and if the doctor several times asked, “Can you hear me now? And if you do like this, still you hear me? “And then corrects amplidutu separately for the left and right earpiece. A trifle, but it really works.

Another useful tool is on the part of the audio function UHQ Upscaler. In theory, this option should pull rank and file to high quality MP3 tracks, and high-quality, in turn, raise the level lossless. But subjectively Upscaler just intelligently adjusts the software equalizer and adds a little bit of everything: definition, bass and volume. Automation is working properly – to go into the settings and turn the sliders manually does not want.

The rest of the audio function – an amateur. SoundAlive + oversaturates music volume, if it is a live recording. Apart from the fact that the live recording without the noise of the crowd – this is nonsense. A “Tube Amplifier” brings to an excess of sound compression. Simply put – the music “hammer” so tightly that all possible sliders equalizer battened down the top. Effectively, but quickly tires.



Hardware

Korean vosmiyadernik Exynos 7420 is built on the classic design big.LITTLE: Four-efficient core Cortex-A53 are combined with powerful four-core Cortex-A57. By the way, a powerful unit manufacturers processors this year, came confusion – in conditions, when the chip is manufactured on process technology from 20nm and above, an attempt to build a powerful processor in 2015 led to a constant overheating (as Snapdragon 810).



Samsung managed to create a really cool the processor – in 2015 none of the competitors could not surpass the Exynos 7420 for the power and stability of

Qualcomm still lacks the courage to repent the instability of the chip, so the processor giant escaped the release of the infamous “trimmed” six-core Snapdragon 808. But the Chinese and Taiwanese (Huawei HiSilicon and MediaTek, vestimo), looked like a competitor walks on a rake, and do not take the risk. Today, they are simply abandoned the powerful bloc of the A57, so the new Hisilicon and MTK uses processors with 53-of nuclei at different levels of acceleration.

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Performance of the entire system (test Antutu Benchmark)

However, Samsung CPU factory is much more sophisticated than those of competitors, so in their new processors Korean engineers have achieved high power and, most importantly, moderate heat. Samsung says its processors are 14-nanometer, although this is not entirely correct (because of parts BEOL processing is still 20-nanometer, if anyone is interested).

There is nothing more powerful in smart phones is not usual – MediaTek with his desyatiyadernikom very long “harnesses», Huawei plans to release Kirin 950 “ever then “, and NVIDIA Tegra X1, although powerful for gaming part, is found only in a few tablets and game console itself NVIDIA.

The lack of slots Micro SD Samsung justifies the presence of super-fast storage in main memory. We must admit that speed “RAM” and the new Galaxy phone memory is really very cool. Yes, and most are now in the smartphone RAM 4 GB, and that’s good, because even without running Android and services firm shell eat 1.6 GB.

From wireless modules in Note 5 we got a double situation. On the one hand – the sensitivity of Wi-Fi is excellent, and the level of acceptance of satellite navigation is the coolest of all the champions in 2015. But 4G network and the 3G-smartphone test caught a little less confident than even S6 edge +. Where most of the competitors showed a weak, but LTE, Note 5 has jumped into HSPA +. In cases where coverage was limited to the poor EDGE, Korean flagship still clung to the cellular network, but occasionally mangled voice talk time. Not that the difference was unacceptable and conspicuous, but edge + definitely boasted the best level of reception. Perhaps we were just unlucky with the test sample.



Software

Tools for working with a stylus in the Samsung Galaxy Note 5

In Samsung Galaxy Note Android 5.1.1 5 is coated with a proprietary TouchWiz. Shell interface is the same for all the new Samsung, differ only in minor strokes. In the case of our smartphone obvious change was the adaptation of the interface to work with a stylus – after removing the electronic pen on the screen a context menu consisting of skrinshotera, program notes and graphical tools to highlight areas of the screen. In the selection you can always something to add, to finish and, if necessary, send a friend.

Interface shell TouchWiz to the Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Calling special Teams for the stylus by pressing a key on it, or after clicking on unobtrusive range of pull-down element.

Pen and its bells and whistles – an essential feature for those who represent something visually usually comes out easier than to fill information in text form. However, those who have never regretted that the screen has to poke his fingers hardly find additional functionality useful

Among the other bells and whistles the firmware can be noted “gifts Galaxy» (large discounts or free applications for customers flagship Samsung) catalog appliances Korean brand, a pack of applications for social networks, and with Microsoft Office.

Camera

Note 5 is equipped with a camera with a resolution of 16 megapixels at the rear, and a 5 megapixel sensor at the front. Start the camera by double clicking on the “Home” even when switched off, the smartphone, and the run is the camera with those settings that were left from the previous run (as opposed to smart phones Sony, which is always imposed on the “Super-auto mode” after pressing camera).

The rear sensor Sony Exmor IMX240 in our smartphone is the same as that of S6 and edge + – with all its software tokens, which you can read here.

An example of a photo taken at a rear camera Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Interface shooting is convenient, automatic shooting mode is very clever – HDR turned on automatically when it is needed, exposure is caught ” on the fly “, the focus is very fast

You may want to zamorochitsya, including manual setting ISO, exposure and shutter speed, so you save a picture in RAW for easy editing on a computer.

In the night shoot camera pleasantly surprised: the viewfinder is inevitable “noise” in the dark, which is why it begins to seem that the photo shoot on the phone at this time of day – stupid idea. But the finished picture as a result look much better than had been expected when shooting! Affects photo processing, while maintaining the difference in exposure before and during the shooting.

As for the video – here, too, “full” minced: there shooting modes in 4K at 30 f / s, image stabilizer, available resolution and Full HD mode to Full HD 60 fps for fixing fast motion in the frame.

The front 5-megapixel camera by today’s standards is not the coolest (we live in the era of 13-megapixel “frontalok” wonderful time), but Quality images selfi give odds to most rear cameras in smartphones to 15 thousand rubles. For the video, of course, its ability is more than enough.

An example of a photo taken on the front camera Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Endurance

«Not only is the battery non-removable – so also reduced by 200 mAh capacity” – in one voice indignant owners Note 4.

 

 

Application Mode (brightness of 200 cd / m2)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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