Best Mobile Phone Plans: Review of Samsung Galaxy Note 4: for his love and curse

People need more smartphones. They can tease “spades”, “nedoplanshetami”, “giant boom box”, but they will still buy. Even Apple, which for several years in a row sneer Phablet surrendered and released 6 Plus. Which, by the way, sells well.

Large smartphones – the niche in which, no matter what anyone said, Samsung were pioneers. Galaxy Note lineup changed the industry: while many companies are just beginning to understand why do people need a large screen size, in Phablet from Samsung has been a digital pen and multi-tasking.

But times have changed: now all manufacturers have a six-inch devices. All as on selection: powerful, beautiful, with a quality screen, good camera. Galaxy Note 4, the new Phablet Samsung, must answer the question: Does the company hold a place long-term leader in the segment of large smartphone?

We have tried to find out.

Samsung became more attention to their appearance flagships

Still flagships should not be completely plastic – metal frame went to the benefit of the device. Rounded shapes, glitter metal buttons and graceful curves – Note 4 looks nice. Of course, the local body is far from perfect cold HTC One, but the fact that Samsung has become more attention to their appearance flagships, very happy. Several years in a row Phones Korean company looked at the competition at best bleak. Now everything has changed – we first saw the stylish Galaxy Alpha, and now Note 4. You can not really call it a particularly beautiful, but also on “Soap” it definitely does not look like.

With all the ergonomics too fine. The buttons are very well, they are easy to find on the body and just reach them. But the speaker on the back – a controversial decision: if the phone is on the table top screen, the ringer volume is significantly reduced.

Note 4 large, but in his hands he felt surprisingly well – largely for this is to say thank you “knurled” backplane. In the hands of the phone does not slip. An interesting feature: if you look at the smartphone side, when it keeps someone else, it just seems huge. But it is necessary to take it in hand – this feeling disappears, yes, the phone is massive, but not so much that it was uncomfortable. Before you buy it’s worth to keep him in the store – with one hand to use it not everyone can, and this is taken into account.

Screen Note 4, as well as a camera – the main reasons to buy a smartphone this

Technical Note without any “buts” and discounts on literary cliche – a masterpiece of engineering. The local screen – is unique, it has no analogues. Quad-HD-resolution, smart contrast, perfect color rendition. Looking at the screen Note 4, it is difficult to believe that before you a grid of liquid crystals, it seems that there behind the frame hides another reality. Note 4 is ideal for any activity: it is equally convenient to watch movies, browse the web and photos, read books. Traditional for many other smartphones of screaming and corrosive colors, from which begin to tear my eyes, there is no at all. Screen Note 4 – is one of the main reasons to buy a smartphone this.

As the camera. Photograph on Note 4 – fun. This is one of those phones that use the camera which you want all the time. Just for the sake of the process itself. Let focuses Phablet not as fast as the iPhone 6 Plus, but the image quality is hardly any better. Make a bad picture is very difficult.

Pro performance speak somehow did not feel like it. Suffice it to say that it is the most powerful smartphone in the world, both in tests and in practice. Those who find a three-dimensional game or app that will slow to Note 4, worth giving a prize for perseverance and resourcefulness. Specifications can be found “in the basement” material.

Note 4 is not very friendly to the user

But should unlock and go to the menu, open the shutter on the notifications go to the settings and enthusiasm often disappears.

Note 4 sometimes looks like a spaceship control panel: you instinctively feel his equipment, you are absolutely sure that the latest technology – that they are in your hands, but how and what works here – at first sight is unclear. Half functions passes because of the number of settings, options and preinstalled applications dazzled with the move to get it hard, and the shell TouchWiz first time doing everything possible to stop you.

Strange icons, clicking on which nothing changes, pre-installed applications with strange names, “wooden” panel, which continues to send you notice, even after you have brushed them aside. Of course, it’s all a matter of habit, but first impressions – mixed. Well visually TouchWiz will not please everyone. From year to year it has been criticized for the same shortcomings and the shell is getting better, but it is still inferior to the standard, “Stock» Android. It is difficult to explain why the smartphone with the most powerful mobile processor in the history of the industry retarding multitasking.

It is difficult to remain impartial, talking about Note 4. It is for that love, not even so – it wants to love. At some point in Note 4 – generally the best smartphone in the world. There can be at the top of the screen to open a video on YouTube, and the bottom – messenger. Both applications will run at the same time, and you will be able to correspond, not particularly distracted from watching the movie. And you know how well, iPad?

You can enable sverhenergosberezheniya and smartphone will run on a 10% charge for several days. But even in standard mode (internet, social networks, instant messengers, watching videos), while the LTE, with geolocation service works with constant background data synchronization Note 4 lives without recharging for about a day. Using this Phablet, I never took a job with the charger. Checkmate everyone who believes that Android smartphones quickly sit down.

Note 4 – Smartphone contradictions. Well, it can easily cause and simultaneously delight and irritation?

Get at least the same pen. This is a brilliant idea, in theory it can greatly facilitate the work with the text. Let us say at once: write here is still not as convenient as marketers believe Samsung, – there is no tactile feedback, the same feeling that drive a pen on paper. Stubby reminders can write, then you can even hang them on the desktop, but the long texts – no. So, even though much of this text I wrote it on the Note, but enjoyed the standard virtual keyboard – the screen is large and easy to hit the keys. The problems began at the moment when I decided to transfer text from your smartphone to your computer. At first I could not allocate the required pen of the text. Then I did not understand how to copy it. I poked at the screen with the stylus in the hope that everything will turn itself. It turned out that the selection of the text corresponds to a small icon in the form of a dotted square, located at the top of the screen. But even send a note, I had to do manually formatting text already on your computer. It is possible that in the case of my carelessness or learning disabilities. But you want everything to be intuitive.

When you understand the principle of operation S-pen, it is easy to find the application. You can crop photos in one motion, move the text words, draw. The Internet is full of fantastic works by artists that pen. But in order to learn all this functionality will have to spend a lot of time. Which, unfortunately, sometimes not.

Verdict

Despite a lot of annoying little things, Note 4 – is one of the best and most interesting contemporary flagships. If you need the most powerful and technically advanced smartphone in the industry that will last for several years, is ideal. If you certainly do not mind its size.