Galaxy Note Edge: Samsung wants to reinvent the smartphone – 20minutes.fr

TELEPHONY Samsung delivers a unique style exercise with its Galaxy Note Edge …

The right of the screen Galaxy Note Edge is tactile, curved and customizable .dropoff window – CHRISTOPHE SEFRIN / 20 MINUTES

Christophe SEFRIN

• • Created 18/12/2014 at 10:44
  • Updated 18/12/2014 at 10:44
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. The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is launched in France for the holidays.

. This smartphone / upscale Phablet is distinguished by a screen of a new kind.

. Curved to the right, it provides quick access to a set of functions.

Reinventing the wheel? Possible Samsung! Phablet 5.6 ” / 14.22 cm Galaxy Note Edge is a unique model of its kind that has a curved screen. But nothing in common with the LG Flex was fully rounded. On board lost its right edge, the Samsung device appears with a slab curve to one side. This is actually a second screen working in harmony with the former. Its mission? It is plural

One way kit screen tools

After this first screen. Function: used as bookmarks bar. We can customize the touch area with icons. We can choose to display notifications or RSS feeds. And read quietly in a meeting a received SMS is not complicated: the text is displayed unobtrusively as scrolling banner! Other

interest: video, touch the small bar displays the classic and features of the player (Play / Pause / Skip / Time …). And placed on a bedside table, the display shows the time. Finally, Samsung has planned small tools: dragging the tiny screen down successively appear a decimeter, a timer, a stopwatch, a flashlight and voice recorder

Ergonomics tame.

The set is pretty simple to configure. In use, a little training is required to properly hold the camera in the right hand and activate icons with the tip of the thumb. The size of the Phablet is also fear of breaking down in the middle manipulation … Lefties are not far behind. Returning the Galaxy Note Edge to hold it in your left hand, a classic Android navigation menu appears on the screen, replacing the touch buttons on the phone. Rest the additional cost of these innovations. A 849 EUR without subscription, the Edge Note is 100 euros more expensive than the Note 4, the other Samsung flagship for the holidays. Holidays during which the Gfk institute estimated 2.8 million smartphones will be offered. That’s 500,000 more than there was a year.

Technically

The Galaxy Note Screen Edge can be with 5.6 ” Super AMOLED qHD (2560 x 1440). His memory is 32 GB (expandable) with 3 GB of RAM. The smartphone is powered by a quad core processor clocked at 2.5 GHz. Its 3000 mAh battery provides a battery life of 12 hours on video and from 9 to 11 am connected use.

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