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Contents:
- Introduction
- Appearance and materials
- Dimensions
- Screen
- Pros and Cons TouchWiz
- Performance and heating
- Perot built headset, corporate cover-book and support USB 3.0
- Camera
- Autonomy
- Conclusion
Introduction
I believe that in 2013 there were three classrooms smartphone: LG Nexus 5, iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy Note 3. About his impressions of iPhone 5s I wrote, he borrowed Nexus 5 a long time could not (but we have a detailed article by Roman White), and that after four months of use, I decided to tell you about their experiences with Note 3.
Honestly, ruler Note I liked since the very first model, not to mention, the first Note was a breakthrough and a pioneer of the whole niche. Note 2 But I did not like, first of all their materials and the fact that Samsung did not increase the screen resolution. Waiting for the third version was calm, I was already mentally prepared to see that Samsung somewhere necessarily spoil anything, so little hope of Note 3 is not pinned. And for good reason. The company did everything right – get rid of the horrible glossy plastic, to increase the resolution FullHD and even managed to slightly increase the diagonal, while maintaining the same dimensions. And to share MegaFon was altogether unexpected attraction generosity. The format of the operating experience will be similar to the review, but instead of numbers, I will talk about their impressions of each individual parameter of this smartphone.
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Appearance and materials
Impractical materials – it’s just a “scourge” of the company from the time of Samsung Galaxy S3. But the funny thing is that these materials had virtually no effect on sales, despite the massive application of journalists and geeks like “Down with the gloss,” and “I never buy myself a smartphone!»
Samsung Galaxy S3
more surprising to me was to see the back cover of Note 3, stylized skin. Of course, this is not the premium stuff, but very practical, especially given the high-gloss Brand Galaxy S4. On the back cover is almost no fingerprints, and any contamination can be easily removed with a damp cloth. In a hand to hold a smartphone with a lid is also very convenient, it does not slide, and the chances of dropping the device are minimal.
rim as the device is made of textured glossy silver plastic. I can not say that I like this approach, but it looks a combination of silver rim and cover the skin well.
Note 3 itself has become less” zamylennym “in the corners, thanks to this device looks a bit more solid.
As for the assembly, it is not touched my sample problems encountered in the Galaxy S3, S4, Note 2 and S5 (we are talking about backlash cover and loose power button, volume rocker and a central key screen). And it is very pleasing.
There is another design feature, which I was very annoying – namely the location of the memory card slot and SIM-card. Manufacturer made it so that one is under the other, and they can not be replaced without removing the battery. In my opinion, it is at least insignificant, but negative.
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Dimensions
now pretty funny to remember that once the first Galaxy Note called shovel and criticized for being too large dimensions and screen size (5.3 inches), and now the average diagonal flagship of 5-5,2 inches. Even funnier to recall that earlier Galaxy Note was the biggest smartphone, for now Note 3 is the most compact of fabletov. Apparently, no wonder Samsung is the founder of this segment, the company still are very carefully to increase the size and the screen diagonal. That is why the use of Note 3 convenient than Srednestatichesky fabletom. At least, at least you can hold it with one hand, however, Typing thumb can not walk and talk.
Separately, I note that I really like the small thickness and weight of this smartphone. I do not understand these feelings “pleasant weight in his hand,” in my opinion, than the machine lighter and thinner, so it is more convenient to use.
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Screen
In my opinion, when using your smartphone has several amenities indicators display:
- diagonal for comfortable use .
- readability of text.
- Behavior screen in the sun.
- Efficiency oleophobic coating.
diagonal. As one of my colleagues said, now for comfortable use five inches diagonally enough for the eyes, the rest is superfluous. And I fully agree with him. Yes, Note 3 easier to read twitter, email, watch videos, but for everyday use such a large diagonal seems excessive.
readability of text. Play a role here several parameters. First, thanks to the huge screen read with Note 3 – a pleasure, confirms this thesis and FullHD-resolution. I recall that in SuperAMOLED-matrices present Pentile, which detracts from the rendering of fonts, they look blurry and around the letters appear red and green halos. The higher the resolution, the less noticeable this shortcoming. When the resolution FullHD-I could not see ghosts, but drew attention to one feature of the screen Note 3: small fonts look on it less clear than in similar devices with IPS-matrix. This difference is visible only in a direct comparison, but did not mention this drawback I could not.
Behavior screen in the sun. From my own experience I can say that the sun SuperAMOLED-matrix behave worse than their IPS-competitors. Even at maximum brightness on the display Note 3 in direct sunlight almost nothing is visible. At the same HTC One M8 results are slightly better.
Efficiency oleophobic coating. And here is no claim to the machine. Fine finger glides across the screen and prints are easily erased with a special cloth.
As for color, it initially I like colors SuperAMOLED-matrices, later I began to prefer more calm colors. Fortunately, in the settings screen you can select the item and the colors become more natural.
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Pros and Cons TouchWiz
Despite the fact that the shell from Samsung has a number of opponents (I do not like it), it would be wrong to deny the fact that the company has done a lot of work to improve Android for final Users. Below I will tell you that I personally like and dislike in this shell.
Pros
Comfortable keyboard. Functionality built-in keyboard is superior to its counterpart in the katabatic Android, and it’s a definite plus TW. At the keyboard great dictionary, there is support for Swype and even handwriting (which, incidentally, perfectly maintained).
Browser. Let’s just say I personally like built-in browser for smartphones Asus, however, and he is pretty good TouchWiz: pages load fast, there is a separate read-only mode. But the absence of auto-fit text to the screen I was very upset.
photos contact when you call. Now companies are very fond of “improve” this option, though the majority of it turns for the worse. For example, a photo of the contact Huawei reduced to microscopic size, and HTC have gone further and “ruined” podgruzku quality pictures in the resolution 720h720 points (good photos are loaded only for selected pin). In TouchWiz displaying photos no problem – great picture quality is always displayed when you call.
switches in the notification curtain. I’ve heard a lot of negativity against these switches, scolds them for most lurid appearance. However, I question the appearance of switches worried a little, but very happy that I can arrange them in the correct order, and long press to move quickly to adjust the selected switch. Here convenience side TouchWiz, and not stock Android. Separately, I note most convenient slider to adjust the brightness.
music player. This player has everything you need even demanding user: play music by folders, support rare formats (FLAC, for example), the control panel on the lock screen and convenient widget for your desktop. And I’d love to use this player, if it adds support for Play Music with import playlists from it.
video player. Also a great app since its first Galaxy Note. Personally, I do not use it just because of the need to use subtitles (by the way, built-in MKV «subs” player perfect spots and additional audio tracks.
S Health. Somehow I miraculously “hooked” on this application. Loved that one program collected pedometer, physical activity log and food diary. However, this picture greatly overshadows the fact that the pedometer counts steps, even if you just take the subway.
Clock. I can not say that is the most convenient of all the alarm clock, which I use, but it has one perfect advantage – ringtones. somehow mysteriously able to pick up a Samsung quietly without annoying tunes that gently takes you out of sleep and not wake up abruptly. My favorite tunes – Walk in to the forest and Morning Flower, would recommend.
Cons
Launcher. It’s just a nightmare that continues from the time of Galaxy S3. Despite the huge diagonal, the developers decided to leave for a smartphone 4×4 grid without the possibility of its expansion. But this is only half the problem. The most terrible thing – it vybeshivaet mikropodtormazhivaniya when scrolling tables themselves or the application menu. This significant drawback is present in all devices with TouchWiz (until I can not vouch for the Galaxy S5 line and Tab Pro, but I suspect that they have not escaped this problem). It’s time to talk about “brand troll from Samsung». Surprise that the company does not give any attention to this fact. And it is clear that the case of optimization, because this problem is solved by installing a third-party launcher (same Nova Launcher just “fly»).
preinstalled software. Tons of any unnecessary nonsense like duplicating the basic functionality of applications (ranging from brand Samsung Apps, ending his “dialer”) without the ability to remove all this garbage. I have a number of software is very annoying.
Dialer. I think that you can replace the standard application only when the total replacement better than the original. In the case of all the TouchWiz dialer in exactly the opposite. It’s creepy “tupyaschee” application slows down when opened, when scrolling the list of contacts when switching tabs. I even hard to remember where it does not slow down.
problem with dialer launcher and I decided to help and ExDialer Nova Launcher, but without pre-trash Root-rights you do not remove, but sorry.
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Performance and heating
powerful chipsets that in the version with LTE, without it perfectly cope with any of the games and “heavy» FullHD-video, then no claim to the machine.
But with the heat is not so good. The unit can take place on a level and start to heat up. That’s, like, you’re just reading twitter or check your email, and the next minute you’re holding a hot machine. It is especially annoying when you have to answer the phone and hold the phone in her cheeks because of the temperature uncomfortable.
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Perot built headset, corporate cover-book and support USB 3.0
I know that the presence of a number of users of the pen can be used as a Note notebook, because the call sheet for notes is quite simple, you need to double-tap on the screen with a pen on it sandwiched button. But I like it not so. For me, the pen – a handy tool for entering text, how to use Swype, and traditional printing. Also, I sometimes use it in the game Bejeweled Blitz (very comfortable, by the way!).
proceed to the headset. I love the ear, which Samsung started putting in the set of top-end devices since the first Galaxy Note. Of course, audiophiles after reading this paragraph disparaging pomorschatsya nose, but for me as undemanding to the user quality sound these plugs are the perfect option: do not need to buy anything extra, there is a built-in microphone and remote, sit comfortably in your ears.
also to the machine you can buy a book-case with a window. The first such solution appeared to Galaxy S4, and then projected it and Note 3. Opening / closing the lid turns on / off the screen at the box you can do a lot of action. For example, quickly go to the music player, or just create a note or take a picture of the camera, and all this without opening the cover. It is a pity of course that can not be displayed on your window widgets, but there’s nothing you can do about it. Another drawback of this cover – no magnetic latch in a backpack case could inadvertently open. Surprising that Samsung had not thought such apparent trifles.
Oh yeah, and the most important thing! With window cover you without problems can receive calls and talk without opening the lid. This is particularly useful in the summer and / or when the unit itself is hot. And it should be noted ease of installation accessory – he dresses instead of the back cover, thanks to smartphone dimensions not increase strongly (especially thickness).
also pleased me and support in the device USB 3.0. The device demonstrates the speed up to 150 MB / s to copy files from a smartphone and 50 MB / s when copying to it.
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Camera
Frankly, I very rarely shoot from a smartphone, for me, the presence of the camera quality is not an important advantage. So if you care to read more about the camera, I recommend to read the articles below.
me the same quality images Note 3 quite satisfied.
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Autonomy
If we compare the experiences of autonomous work with Note 2, it can be noted that the last “live” in one and a half times longer ( my feeling). Let me suggest that the point here is that the screen resolution is improved, but strongly increase the battery capacity afraid that does not degrade the model dimensions.
Note 3 As a result, working one day a very active use – mail, twitter, web surfing, watching videos, a total of about four hours. By the way, surprisingly, work with e-mail or reading twitter discharged smartphone faster than viewing HD-video (Note 3 with no problems “cool» HD-video 12 hours for maximum brightness provided disable all wireless interfaces), so keep that in mind. I have no special claim to the autonomous operation of the apparatus, but also enthusiastic about it does not cause (though let’s be honest, the machine is 10-15% longer than most competitors).
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Conclusion
As said Eldar Murtazin, has long been the flagship of these Samsung phones are just ruler Note, not the Galaxy S series
