Review: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 – sexy, stylish and feature-laden but with questionable battery life
Packed with more features than its predecessors and very easy on the eye, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has a more powerful display and a beautiful stylus
Samsung decides to skip the Galaxy Note 6 and brings out a Galaxy Note 7 – right before the rumoured imminent release of the iPhone 7S mid-September. But will that alone be enough to keep it ahead of its arch-rival?
Design and hardware
The angular and prominent bezels of yesteryear are gone, replaced by smooth and stylish curves inherited from Samsung’s popular Edge series. That is already a two-year-old design, that’s been tweaked along the way, but is quickly reaching its sell-by date.
Still, it returns in the Note 7, including the Edge panel, but with a new touch detection algorithm that negates 99 per cent of accidental touches, no matter how it’s held. Let’s face it, that was one of the most glaring, stubborn and annoying problems that plagued the Note 5 and other Edge models.
The curvy edge lends the same level of sexiness to the Note 7 as the Galaxy S6 Edge and S7 Edge. It’s one sleek and sturdy piece of hardware wrapped almost entirely in glass that is not susceptible to fingerprints.
