The best huge screen high-end Android smartphone to buy in India today. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a lot going for it, it has top performance, camera, battery life and an awesome stylus input that extends the usability and possibilities.
SPECIFICATIONS
Display: 5.7 inches Super AMOLED, 2560x1440 resolution with Gorilla Glass 3 (515ppi)
Battery: 3220mAh, Fast battery charging: 60% in 30 min (Quick Charge 2.0)
Storage: 32GB
Camera: 16MP rear with flash and OIS, 3MP front with 1440p video
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 805
CPU: Quad-core 2.7 GHz
GPU: Adreno 420
RAM: 3GB
Operating system: Android 4.4.4 with TouchWiz UX
Connectivity: 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB with OTG, IR Blaster port
BODY AND DESIGN
As we already knew Samsung is known and ridiculed for its plastic smartphones, the Note 4 is one of the first few devices from the Korean giant that uses metal. Before you get jumping, let us clarify that only the chassis/frame of the phablet is metal just like the Galaxy Alpha. The front is all glass and at the back, the removable back panel is again flimsy plastic with a faux-leather finish.
The front side has the 5.7-inch Super AMOLED panel with a 2K resolution and 515 ppi pixel density, which looks absolutely gorgeous. The colours are really vivid and the sharpness on the display is unbelieveble. Since it's an AMOLED display, the contrast is great and blacks looks deep. Samsung proves yet again that Super AMOLED is THE display to have on a smartphone. Underneath the display we again have two capacitive buttons and a hardware home key which has the integrated fingerprint scanner. Above the display there are your usual sensors, the earpiece, an LED notification light and the 3.7MP front camera.
PERFORMANCE
The phablet is truly a power-house, handling everything thrown at it. Thanks to the Snapdragon 805 Processor and 3GB of RAM, the Note 4 is definitely one of the most powerful Android devices that you can buy.
High end games like Real Racing 3, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Asphalt 8: Airborne work flawlessly with no signs of frame drop. Playing movies, especially 1080p and 1440p is a piece of cake for the Note 4. In the benchmark tests, the Note 4 came out with flying colours as it scored the highest in almost all the tests
BATTERY
The performance of battery is quite impressive as the large 3220mAh battery gives about one and half days of regular use. You get a power saving mode which restricts background data and performance and has a greyscale mode which applies a gray theme on the device. There is also Samsung’s newest ultra power saving mode which turns the display black and white and allows you to enable only a few functions like phone calls and text messages. On extensive use, without any power saving modes enabled, we got almost a full day's charge.
CAMERA
The 16MP camera with OIS (Optical Image Stabilization)is something really worth mentioning. The OIS improves a lot in terms of sharpness and focusing as well. The camera is accurate, focusing is fast and there is zero shutter delay. The auto-white balance is not bad but it could see some improvement as the tones somehow don't seem very accurate. Colour reproduction is controlled and even saturation seems good. The camera app is intuitive and comes with various modes.