(Beware, though: with any less-powerful charger the Note 4 takes a long time to charge.) Or there’s "ultra power saving mode," which turns the Note 4 grayscale and turns off everything but texting, phone calls, and manually refreshed email.
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One is Samsung’s included fast charger, which goes from dead to 50 percent in 30 minutes and to full in less than two hours. If you do, by some sad misfortune, find yourself at the end of your battery rope, you have two different methods of recourse. (Some users on international models have reported far worse longevity, but my AT&T review unit has been great.) With something more like normal use, two days won’t be hard at all - the Note 4 does just as well as the iPhone 6 Plus. I get a full day and a half from the Note 4: 36 hours of streaming music and podcasts, playing games, watching New Girl, and taking slow-motion video much too close to a roaring fire. I would complain if such a high-res screen took a toll on the Note 4’s battery, but it doesn’t seem to. Honestly, I don’t know that the screen even needs to be quite this good - 518ppi is not just beyond the point where your eye can’t distinguish individual pixels, it’s miles beyond it - but I’m certainly not going to complain. The Note 4’s whites do turn slightly to pink when you look at it from an oblique angle, but that’s a small worry. It’s crisp and clear and accurate Samsung has quickly evolved OLED from the overly vivid panels of the Note 3 and last year’s Moto X into something far more lifelike. The 5.7-inch, 2560-by-1440 AMOLED display is just insanely high-resolution, a ridiculous 518 pixels per inch. Samsung can do anything it decides to - including make a beautiful phoneĮven the screen benefits from Samsung’s unending improvement cycle. The sides bulge out ever so slightly at the top and bottom, and on my black review unit the chrome lines reflect light in a way that feels considered and intentional. It’s a statement where Samsung’s phones were once utterly forgettable. Its big, 6.21-ounce, 8.3-millimeter-thick body is rigid and sturdy, sharp and angled. The phone that was once plastic, then faux-stitched faux-leather, now comes in a beautiful reinforced aluminum shell. That’s why, even just weeks after Samsung’s all-metal gem known as the Galaxy Alpha hit stores, the Galaxy Note 4 already improves on the formula. It ships and iterates, running trials in public until it perfects whatever feature it has in its sights. And when Samsung puts its mind to something, it figures it out. After years of pairing its remarkable engineering chops with bland, ugly hardware, the Korean giant has finally woken up and realized that in a world where every smartphone is a good smartphone, design really does matter. Mostly, Samsung figured out that making a great smartphone is about doing a few things well and not worrying so much about the rest. It didn’t go bigger (though it did go higher-res, decidedly so). So the question for Samsung, and for the Galaxy Note 4, is what now? What’s left to do? They’re all fast, and powerful, and high-res, and full of crazy ideas about what we might want to do on big phones.
Big is the new normal everyone has phones this size. So for Samsung, for the new Galaxy Note 4, the market has changed. Even Apple, the company that once so adamantly declared 4 inches to be the perfect size for a cellphone, now makes an iPhone so large it makes you look at your hands a little differently. Not only did it accelerate Samsung’s run toward smartphone dominance, it spawned a legion of copycats.
The Note sold in the tens of millions, and that lineup has become Samsung’s most premium set of smartphones. When Samsung first came out with the Note in 2011, I wasn’t the only one who laughed at the idea of a 5.3-inch smartphone. Actually, a lot of people were wrong about big phones.
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