Note 7 – resurgence – Mobile

One may ask what mobile manufacturers various gimmicks to stand out really contribute in practice to us users. With Samsung’s curved screens, I myself have wavered a bit, but with pen in Note 7, it is clear that we really have a new chance to really accomplish something.

After largely here in London have followed Samsung’s presentation on the big screen from New York, I have in any case been testing the phone in practice in about half an hour. I have tried to translate web pages using the S Pen, from Portuguese to Swedish, I have taken pictures, I have unlocked the screen using the iris scanner, I have tested the new S Notes app and I have been looking for news that Samsung may not talked so much about but which are nevertheless interesting.

I start anyway to test the iris scanner that uses a camera next screen reads your eye and then hang up the phone’s lock screen without you having to do anything more. It’s all the same tank. The idea is partly that it is safer than fingerprints, but also to make it smoother. Learning Note 7 my eyes go at any second. In the dim light of various spotlights I hold the phone in front of your face at about thirty centimeters, and in two seconds you can find the phone right and signals that it is ready. Quite as smoothly, it is not there ten times, I then try to unlock the phone. My hope is that I just naturally going to look at the phone and then not have to bother me, but you have to actively “sighting” and follow the instructions to unlock. Two circles and a picture of your eyes show you where to place the face. When I try I get success, about half of the trials while the other half of the time either let me turn pin instead, or asking me to open my eyes completely, which I already have.

Quality in pairs of siblings

For those who remained faithful Note and eagerly awaited only a Note 5 and now a Note 7 becomes one of the main impressions to Note 7 taken the qualitative step that the rest of the S7 family already done . It is a welcome step in the sense of quality, design, water resistance and so on already proven to provide Samsung’s sales success. Completely new in Note also that honed the design of icons so that they will become more toned, but it’s marginal. More interesting in the software are the shortcuts and the new app Samsung Note. Gone are the S Note app and instead gather all the Gracenote features in one app which is reasonable. In addition, it can be with what is called Always on display also record directly on the lock screen. The function to do this activate the locking position as soon as you remove the stylus out of its hole. Improved in software are also shortcuts. A transparent shortcut opens the menu with up to six shortcuts that are specific to the pen. Translate, Glance and Magnify (translate, glances and magnification) are the ones who are leading the news and the most interesting.

The translation works is that you first activate it with the pen from the shortcut. Then select the language and holding the pen over the words you do not understand. You must have connectivity and it must be to and from one of the thirty languages ​​supported. I try to translate from Portuguese to English and from Swedish to English. For the most part it seems to work, but sometimes it becomes quite wrong. The Swedish word “Here” is, for example, in English “Hair” and one can only translate single words, not sentences, which sometimes makes a connection, and thus the importance, to be flat wrong.

the king of multitasking

Some of Notes paired branch is the many features that make multitaskingmöjligheterna is almost unlimited. Glance function is an example of that. You open a web page and put it in the Glance at the touch. This creates a miniature putting itself at the edge of the screen, and you can then call with a pen pressure. If you write an email, you can, for example, quickly look up something on the thumbnail by clicking it, go back to the email, please click the thumbnail when you need to check something again and so on. Note 7, and for that matter even the predecessors, is full of examples of this type of features and it is likely that your ability to multitask, rather than the phone, which is the only limit.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has said that taken by the S7 family in terms of design and quality, but the rounded edges on the right and left side of the screen is much less tangible than the S7 Edge, something you notice right away. Personally, I see it as an advantage. The use has been the S Pen and the unique features Note offering is much clearer than those offered by Edge, in addition to the rounded screen is something that many think is an aesthetically attractive option. It does not, however, Note 7 lacks Edge features. Just as on the S7 Edge, you can drag your finger from the side of the screen, no matter which app you’re using, and among other things, get shortcuts to apps and people.

There are two opposing forces unite in Note 7. First, there is no doubt that accumulated lots of possibilities, and plenty of features in one phone, which Edge and S Pen with all the multitasking are examples. Meanwhile, the design and materials moved in the direction of more stripped-down and simple. The fly in the ointment is well that all functions do not work quite cleanly with iris scanner as an example, but there is no one who can say that you do not get many features in a neat package when choosing Note 7. The software can hopefully hone.