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Meet Samsung Galaxy Note 4: review

BERLIN: Samsung unveiled its flagship highly anticipated phablet Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with metal chassis and improved features.

The standard Note 4 is similarly functional, although there will also be a premium version that swaps the plastic chassis for a metal one.

In addition to the standard black and white options there will be two colours: Electric Blue and Copper Gold. Like the Galaxy S5, the Note 4 is dust and water resistant.

The Note 4 boast Samsung’s superbly bright and readable Super AMOLED displays, The Note 4 has a 5.7-inch quad HD (QHD, aka 2K) screen, That delivers a resolution of 2560 x 1440.

 The Galaxy S5’s camera is a speedy 16MP model, and the Note packs the same number of megapixels while adding optical image stabilisation and a 3.7MP front-facing snapper for selfies.

 The Note 4’s battery is bigger still at a whopping 3600mAh, although of course its bigger screen draws more power than the one in the Galaxy S5.

The Note 4 gets a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 805 paired with an Adreno 420 GPU (in the US and Asia) or an Exynos 5433 with quad-core Cortex A-53 and A-57 (everywhere else). The Exyonos model of the Galaxy Note 4 is 64-bit.

The Galaxy Note  come with 3 GB RAM which makes it slight edge over the current range of smartphones available in the market.

The Note 4 comes in 16, 32 and 64GB varieties and its microSD card slot supports cards of up to 128GB.

The Galaxy Note 4 runs Android KitKat (Android L will follow when it’s officially released by Google) and features the familiar S Pen, but there’s a new addition: the fingerprint scanner and heart rate sensor we’ve already seen in the Galaxy S5.

The heart rate sensor is part of the growing S Health system, and on the Note 4 S Health also gets UV sensing to warn you if you’re spending too much time in the sun.

The sensor works by holding the phone to the sun at a 60-degree angle and tells you just how dangerous the rays currently are. A reading of 0-2 means there’s minimal risk of skin damage while a rating of 11+ means you’re probably on fire.

While the fingerprint sensor is familiar, the Galaxy Note 4 has two new uses for it: Fingerprint Shortcuts turn individual fingers into app launchers, so for example a flick of your index finger might launch one app and your ring finger another, while Web Sign-In will use the fingerprint scanner as a way to login to websites without having to enter user IDs and passwords.

The Note 4 yet a listing on Indonesian site Erafone predicts roughly £490 (US$810, AU$870). That sounds about right, as it doesn’t take local taxes such as VAT (currently 20% in the UK) or sales taxes into account.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is widely available, but while the Galaxy Note 4 was released on the 3rd of September it hasn’t reached shop shelves yet. Expect to see it in October.

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