Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review rebuttal: Worth the weird

Posted on by Adam Doud

I’ve had a lot of weird phones cross my desk lately. Some of them were good in a weird way, and some were just weird in a weird way. But every one of these phones had something in common. I believed in the weird. I thought the weird added a tremendous amount of value to the device, and I wanted to explore it and see for myself that my vision was correct. This was true for every single phone, except one. The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge.When we

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Three fun things to do with the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

Posted on by Adam Doud

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is one of the more daring Samsung offerings in some time. Is it as daring as super gluing a camera to a smart phone? In some ways, it is not. But, one of the scary things about the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is that this phone is so unique, Samsung might just be on to something. In many ways, that makes this phone even more daring than the camera/phone hybrid. Because this design might have some much to offer, it might just stick around.I’ve had a couple of weeks with ...

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Samsung spicing up the S Pen experience with new “Penvatars”

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

If the only interaction you’ve had with a stylus on a smartphone is through a generic capacitive wand, you don’t know what you’re missing when it comes to a device with dedicated stylus digitizer hardware. That’s the type of setup Samsung uses in its Galaxy Note series, allowing these phablets and tablets to track their S Pen styluses with incredible precision, support button input on the pens themselves, and recognize varying levels of pressure. In recent models, Note ...

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Samsung experimenting wildly with Galaxy S6 design and performance

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

We’ve heard a ton of rumors regarding Samsung’s “Project Zero.” We know the Korean giant is planning to build the Galaxy S6 from scratch, and in that manner, we’ve heard a ton of rumors regarding different variants, and even some Galaxy Note Edge-like design ...

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Note Edge review, Gorilla Glass 4, Cortana goes Euro | Pocketnow Weekly 126

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Updated with links to download and stream the Weekly 126. Additionally, we’d like to apologize to our listeners this week, as the recording quality isn’t quite as good as usual because of multiple technical difficulties. We hope you enjoy the episode, however, and we’ll see you right back here next week!It’s the sleekest slice of the future this side of the Galaxy Round and LG G Flex, and we’ve got it on the air. This week on the Pocketnow Weekly, it’s the Galaxy Note Edge review (podcast edition) and we’re eager to take all your questions just ...

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Galaxy Note Edge review: the ultimate expression of Samsung’s smartphone philosophy (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

A manufacturer’s “smartphone philosophy” might seem like a lofty concept dreamed up by a reviewer big on thesauri and light on sleep, but it’s actually pretty easy to summarize with a quick story from Barcelona. A couple years ago at MWC, Editor-in-Chief Anton D. Nagy and I found ourselves at a briefing being shown a new Samsung product due for release. When we remarked that a competing product from another manufacturer exhibited more overall polish and cohesiveness, Samsung’s response was quick and blunt:“Yeah, but ours can do ...

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Living on the Edge: how to use the Galaxy Note Edge screen (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

The Galaxy Note Edge screen is a 160-pixel-wide strip of pure potential – assuming you know how to use it. Given Samsung’s typically robust software build and the sheer audacity of bolting such a novel addition onto an already feature-packed smartphone, we thought new Galaxy Note Edge owners might appreciate a little tutorial to kickstart their journey into bent-screen bliss. So we cooked up the below video to help you get acquainted with the raddest secondary display since the

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Galaxy Note Edge vs Galaxy Note 4 (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

The Galaxy Note Edge is a Galaxy Note 4 with a little something extra – 409,000 little somethings, actually. They’re the pixels making up the display extension along the phone’s right-hand side, a curved strip of AMOLED that Samsung calls the “Edge screen.” It’s built to add functionality to an already-potent portfolio of features … but it also adds cost, and sacrifices some of the fit and finish we really appreciate on the Note 4.With both Notes on shelves this holiday season, we thought it wise to compare the new Notes and see what you’re ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge picks up US release date, pricing

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Last month we saw Samsung get the ball rolling on sales for its eye-catching Galaxy Note Edge with that wrap-around display. Carriers in Japan started making the phablet available to their customers, and as those lucky shoppers managed to get their hands on the Edge for the first time, we found ourselves wondering when the heck we’d finally get the scoop on the phone’s release in the US. After all, while all the big carriers in the States

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Android Lollipop imminent, new Nexuses nearing, no more Nokia | Pocketnow Weekly 119

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Update: The Weekly 119 is now available in super-HQ audio form – your ears will thank you if you download or stream from one of the links below. See you next week!As one brand gets a supersized juice-up, another goes a little quicker to the retirement home – and the rest undulate in uncertain undertakings from the sensational to the soporific.So it goes in mobile as in any other field, and we’re here to cover it in the brief lull between reviews at Pocketnow’s Boston offices! In between talk of the Lollipop-flavored new Nexii and the sandblasting of Nokia logos from ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge gets a release date (but you probably still can’t buy it)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Weird for the sake of weird, or legitimately useful? It feels like that’s a question we’ve asked of plenty of smartphones before, and despite some good intentions, a lot of them seem to have fallen more into the former category. That said, there have been some “weird” phones that were actually pretty compelling, like LG’s curved-screen G Flex. This year we’ve got another phone with a curved display that’s raising a few eyebrows: the Samsung

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Galaxy Note 4 may be banned from US sales along with other Samsung phones

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Samsung is definitely not having its best couple of quarters when it comes to its economics, but we wish this was the only drama the Korean giant faces right now. We’ve seen the continuous patent lawsuits that the company has lost against ...

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Galaxy Note Edge will be out before the month’s over

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

For as intriguing a smartphone as the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is, it’s also been a frustrating one to talk about, as even as we find ourselves over a month post-launch, plenty of important details about the model’s release have continued to be unavailable. Questions about pricing have forced us to turn to retailer pre-orders, and the best we’d managed to come up with in regards to availability ...

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Samsung’s newest video shows off all that the S Pen can do

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

One of the many reasons the Galaxy Note line of products from Samsung is so popular is because of the S Pen, and all of the software features that are baked-in to TouchWiz allowing the stylus to serve as a useful productivity tool. With the Note 4′s release, the list of features has become so long, that it was decided that a whole Samsung S Pen video was to be produced to help Note 4 owners (and soon-to-be owners) out with their new phone.You’re walked through three features: Smart Select – Capture and Share, Smart Select – Link to related apps, and Photo Note. The ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge pre-orders live at Clove in the UK

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

There’s been a lot of back-and-forth concerning the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, ever since its introduction at the pre-IFA Unpacked event, where it shared the stage, and spotlight, with the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Most of the speculation was due to Samsung’s decision of not giving out too many details, and so reports surfaced regarding availability, stock/shortages, as well as

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