Living with the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, week 3: Beauty takes time
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So, without further ado...
Week 3: Praises and gripes
I've been using the Note Edge for 3 weeks now and gotten used to its interface – addicted to some of its functions, while resenting others – you know how it is with TouchWiz. Still, thanks to the phone in my hands, I haven't used my tablet for a while, and my home PC is used strictly when serious work needs to be done, as the Note Edge seems to successfully cover all my lightweight needs. So yes – I am glad to be using it as a daily driver, though, there are just a few things about the device that rub me the wrong way.
The Super AMOLED screen is finally Super

So, something that was a big deal a few months ago was that Samsung managed to equip its Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and Galaxy Tab S 10.5 with Super AMOLED panel that, for once, exhibited fairly accurate color reproduction. This is rather uncommon in AMOLED screens, as they happen to oversaturate and overblow colors, giving off a very punchy, vivid, and bright image that you may either like or resent.
So, Sammy obviously made strides in “normalizing” the picture of its Super AMOLED tech and, after it was praised for the Galaxy Tab S series, it naturally went ahead and made the Note 4 and Note Edge's panels to be even more color-accurate.
How does that transfer into real-world experience? Well, I've been using the Note Edge, set in Basic (color setting) mode, for the past three weeks and I can say – quite good! To be perfectly honest – I still cannot get used to the whites of the display. Apparently, there may be some truth to what Sony said about consumer devices around us having predominantly bluish displays, as I can truly say that my eye “expects” the Note Edge to have a bit more blue in its white screen than it does. Instead, it looks, to me, like a “dirty”, yellow-ish white.
Still, if I neglect the rare instances when I am faced with a fully whited-out page, I've got nothing but praise for the display's colors. Tame, mature, and mellow – the glow from the Note Edge's panel is nothing but inviting, and working on a 5.6” display with such easy colors and a 525 PPI density is nothing short of a pleasing experience.
TouchWiz, are you out of breath again?

It's not a gamebreaker, but I definitely feel envious when I get my hands on one of the more snappier phones in the office. Samsung is rumored to have recently said that 2015's TouchWiz will be almost vanilla Android-like in terms amount of features crammed in there, so here is hoping that's true.
I've also encountered the need to restart the phone on a couple of occasions thus far. The first time, home screen scrolling got very choppy, despite the fact that I closed all background apps. At this point, the phone had ran for maybe 2 weeks without a reboot, so a simple off-and-on fixed it. The second time, Chrome was refusing to load up webpages, but that could have been either TouchWiz (a wacky mixture of processes resulting in a buggy performance) or Chrome's fault – a reboot still fixed it.
Bells and whistles

Minimize a call and get productive while talking
Gestures are still here, still hidden in different parts of the settings menu, and still have questionable uses. For example – Air wake up tends to wake up the phone whenever any random object comes near it, which forced me to disable it, due to battery drainage concerns. Smart stay is back – the feature that forces the screen to stay on if the phone detects that the user is still looking at it. I found it to be next to useless in medium-to-low lighting, as the phone's camera couldn't “see” my eyes properly and would turn the display off as I am reading. Muting the device by placing my palm on it also didn't look like a must-have option – if my palm is already there, I can just decline the call; same goes for flipping the phone around. Basically – I do not find gesture recognition to be among the most useful features of this phone and would generally suggest to any owner to turn them off, unless a very specific situation dictates that they need any of them.

You will quickly forget that this home button actually houses a fingerprint scanner

I can multitask all day and all night
Almost there
Speaking of the S Pen – we will be taking a look of it next week, together with S Voice, and a treat that I've been saving for last – the Note Edge's camera. Stay tuned for week 4 and a full long-term review article after.
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