Nuove conferme sulle specifiche di Samsung Galaxy Note 5 e Galaxy S6 Edge+

4 Agosto 2015 | Max Capitosti

Su Reddit un utente ha pubblicato all'inizio della settimana le proprie impressioni a seguito di una breve prova dei nuovi Samsung Galaxy Note 5 e Galaxy S6 Edge+, sui quali ha potuto mettere le mani prima dell'annuncio del prossimo 13 agosto a New York.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 e Galaxy S6 Edge+

Quello che emerge dalla prova è innanzitutto l'assenza su entrambi gli smartphone dello slot per microSD, che più fonti avevano anticipato in queste settimane. Sul Samsung Galaxy Note 5 la configurazione di memoria minima è di 32GB, l'espulsione dello stilo S Pen avviene con un nuovo meccanismo 'push to pop', che richiede che si prema lo stilo affinchè fuoriesca dalla sua sede. Grazie al pannello posteriore (in vetro) dai lati smussati, lo smartphone risulta molto piacevole da impugnare, oltre che bello da vedere. I due smartphone sono caratterizzati da una batteria di tipo fisso, gli esemplari testati avevano un software ancora preliminare.

Samsung Rep came to my retail location and I had a brief time with the two upcoming Samsung devices.

Some quick takeaways:

Overall shape of the Note 5 (to me) felt better in hand. The tapered back really "shrunk" the size down once in hand.

Super Amoled display looked great, especially on the curved screen of the S 6 Edge +.

Note 5 RAM (I know this is a hot topic with S6 users right now) was about at about 50% available after booting up the phone (according to smart manager).

I know it's been reported already, and some people who saw the press renders were hoping they saw an SD slot, but no. No external SD slots on either device.

Note users hoping we would see double the storage on base model, will be saddened to hear that it's 32gb at the base model. :(

6 Edge + has Apps Edge (like the Note Edge!). Swipe in once from the right and Apps Edge comes up, Swipe in again and it switches to people edge.

Double Click the home button for camera works on both.

Comparing it to my iPhone 6+ the Note 5 was slightly thicker, but it was both shorter in height and narrower in width and featured much better weight distribution. (iPhone 6+ feels awkwardly top heavy in comparison).

Note 5 S-Pen does in-fact use a push to pop mechanism.

Initially the cameras looked identical, however Note 5 was slightly brighter (probably negligible, but just passing along what I saw).

The devices I used were unbranded running on non-final software.

If I had to make a choice between the two on the spot, it would probably be the Note 5 because of how nice it felt in hand. It's not easy to make a HUGE phone not so huge in your hands. The 6 Edge+ display is drool worthy, but the hard edges digging into my palms wasn't my thing.