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Over the years, there have been a lot of complaints about plastic casing of Samsung phones, and it appears that Samsung has finally introduced metal casing for its phones. Galaxy Note 4 has a metal frame in contrast to Note 3 that has a plastic frame. This metal frame gives the phone an expensive look. However, just like Note 3, Note 4 has a faux-leather back.

Ultraviolet (UV) Sensor

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 appears to be the first mobile phone to come with a built-in UV sensor. Users are going to be able to get information about the quantity of UV radiation they are getting when they are under the sun. It comes in five grade measurements namely: Low, Moderate, High, Very High, and Extreme. The UV sensor is activated when you hold the phone at some degree angle while under the sun. Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is programmed to warn people when they are getting too much UV radiation. I will personally love to see how accurate UV radiation measurements are when this phone is released for sale. But until then, you can expect that Galaxy note 4 is going to provide you with a mobile UV sensor so that you can know the amount of UV radiation you are being exposed to from time to time.

Ultra Power Saving Mode

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 features “ultra power saving mode.” This power saving mode allows you to use your phone for an extended period. When you activate ultra power saving mode, the phone will run a simple home screen layout by deactivating unnecessary features. In addition, you will have a limited access to apps when the ultra power saving mode is activated. This feature may prove very important when you are having a low battery level and there is no way to charge your phone. Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a 3,220mAH.  Another special feature that comes with Galaxy Note 4 is the Fast Charging capability. This is a fantastic feature. Through this special feature, you should be able to charge Note 4 battery to 50% level in 30 minutes.

Screen Quality

Galaxy note 4 comes with Quad HD Super AMOLED technology. The resolution is 1440 x 2560 pixels (approx. 515 ppi pixel density). The screen also features an adaptive display technology. This technology allows the phone to change its display depending on the light of the place you are viewing the screen. All these features give the phone an elegant display. Colors appear very clear and vivid on this phone.

Enhanced S- Pen and S Note

The S Pen has been improved in many ways. I personally love some of the new features included in the S Pen. The stylus now has 2048 levels of pressure sensing which double that of Note 3 and thus making it easier to write on Galaxy Note 4. In addition, S Note app now allows you to choose between Calligraphy pen and Fountain Pen. Both Fountain and Calligraphy pens mimic what you will experience when using a real pen and paper. Smart Select lets you select multiple lines of text without having to long-press the screen. In addition, you can also select multiple images from your gallery by using the Smart Select mode. This mode allows you to use the S Pen just as you use a mouse. By pressing the side button of S Pen you can launch the Smart Select mode. If you want to select a text, image or an item, just press the side button of S Pen and drag it across the items you want to select. Another feature of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that is worthy of mentioning is Snap Note. This feature gives you the opportunity to take the picture of a handwritten note and then convert it to digital copy. You can then edit/modify the note as you like. Snap Note is programmed in such a way that it can recognize a text and an image present on an analog notebook.

Enhanced Multitasking Capability

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 comes with 2.7GGz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor making it very fast in handling different tasks at the same time. However, it is important to point out that some markets will get a Exynos 5433 processor. In addition, Note 4 has a 3GB RAM installed, and thereby making the multitasking capability of this phone a great one.Note 4 has an enhanced split-screen capability. You can now easily resize or float app windows just like a widget. By holding the small circle on the apps, you can quickly create a floating window, and you may then drag this floating window to any part of the screen.

 Enhanced Voice Recording Capability

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 features a new voice recording app that has the ability to give a great record in noisy environments. It comes equipped with three microphone to help with a directional noise cancellation. In addition, Note 4 gives you the ability to select direction you want to pick up voices from. You can select up to eight different directions. For example, if you are in a big hall you can set Note 4 recording app to record voices only coming from the speakers. This gives you the advantage of getting a quality record. In addition, you can use the interview mode to isolate the interviewee voice in order to get a quality voice record.

Heart Rate Monitor

Just like Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 also has a heart rate sensor that allows you to track your pulse by just tapping your finger on heart rate sensor located at the back of the phone.

Fingerprint Sensor

The fingerprint sensor is similar to the one present in Samsung Galaxy S5. In addition, Galaxy Note 4 now gives you the ability to use fingerprint shortcuts. This enables you customize your individual fingers for different app. For example, you can set your index finger to open one app, and set another finger to open another app. After customizing different fingers for different app, all you have to do to open this app is to flick the finger that correspond to the app you want to open. This will probably give you a quick access to your most used apps. You can also use the fingerprint sensor to sign in into compatible websites like PayPal.

Camera

Note 4 camera can take shadow-free photos with real-time HDR. The phone has 16MP camera compared to 12MP camera present in Note 3. In addition, Note 4 has optical image stabilization making it good at taking clear and sharp images. Samsung equipped Note 4 with a 3.7 MP front-facing camera and an f/1.9 aperture lens..

The highly anticipated Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update has just started. Way back in June, Google has launched two spanking new Android 4.4 KitKat updates in the forms of Android 4.4.3 KitKat and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. Both were, and still are, bug fixers intended at hush-up major Android 4.4.2 KitKat problems. In prior three months, we have seen numerous Android manufacturers make it a point to bring these two updates to Smartphone and tablet users.

We have seen that Samsung lagged behind in this stance, but early this month, they also comes up with the number of new Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat update details including an Android 4.4.4 KitKat update inveterate for the Galaxy Note 4 and the company’s first Android 4.4.4 KitKat squash.
Recently, Samsung has launched the Galaxy S3 Neo Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update in Kazakhstan. You can get the update via company’s Samsung Kies software for PC. In fact, this update was the company’s first Android 4.4.4 KitKat update but it’s not going to be its last for sure.

The Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update has started rolling out yesterday. The update brings out with the number of new features and it should be rolling out, gradually, to Galaxy Note 3 available owners on the Now Network. As per the reports waving around, the Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update was prowling on the Sprint’s Website in the last week; although it has not been out yet.

No doubt, it seems to be the good news for the Galaxy users all over the United States, Australia and the rest of the world but it doesn’t alter the truth that the Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat condition remains gloomy in front of the Android L release.

The highly anticipated Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update has just started. Way back in June, Google has launched two spanking new Android 4.4 KitKat updates in the forms of Android 4.4.3 KitKat and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. Both were, and still are, bug fixers intended at hush-up major Android 4.4.2 KitKat problems. In prior three months, we have seen numerous Android manufacturers make it a point to bring these two updates to Smartphone and tablet users.

We have seen that Samsung lagged behind in this stance, but early this month, they also comes up with the number of new Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat update details including an Android 4.4.4 KitKat update inveterate for the Galaxy Note 4 and the company’s first Android 4.4.4 KitKat squash.
Recently, Samsung has launched the Galaxy S3 Neo Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update in Kazakhstan. You can get the update via company’s Samsung Kies software for PC. In fact, this update was the company’s first Android 4.4.4 KitKat update but it’s not going to be its last for sure.

The Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update has started rolling out yesterday. The update brings out with the number of new features and it should be rolling out, gradually, to Galaxy Note 3 available owners on the Now Network. As per the reports waving around, the Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update was prowling on the Sprint’s Website in the last week; although it has not been out yet.

No doubt, it seems to be the good news for the Galaxy users all over the United States, Australia and the rest of the world but it doesn’t alter the truth that the Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat condition remains gloomy in front of the Android L release.

Verizon Wireless defeated other national carriers in the arena of overall network performance, trustworthiness and speed in the first half of 2014. Today, RootMetrics has presented this report.

AT&T was the closest competitor of Verizon in the “State of the Mobile Union”.  This is a test which includes usage of phone from carriers in 5.6 million test samples from cities, small towns, airports and 6,400 indoor positions.

Verizon was on the crown in terms of network performance as stated in the report of RootMetrics. In that survey 125 cities and 50 airports were included.

According to Bill More, CEO of RootMetrics the previous study involved almost 60 percent of the U.S population, whereas the recent survey includes the former data as well. The latest data comprises of rural areas, medium and small town and some freeways that makes 40 percent of the population.

RootMetrics carried out an evaluation study in which it compared the prior records of the second half of 2013 with the new one. The outcome is rather positive for every carrier since all the major carriers are moving towards betterment.

The new study demonstrates that T-Mobile has shown a good performance in urban areas in the first half of 2014. On the other hand, T-Mobile and Sprint have come nearer to a competition.

Sony has officially launched Xperia Z3, a smartphone which came just 6 months after the release of Xperia Z2. It can be said that this device is a slight modification of its predecessor.

It has a round aluminum face along with a 5.2-inch screen, 1080p display and a 20.7 megapixel camera. The product does not have 2K screen like all the other members of  Xperia family. The company makes an addition of a new, wide-angle 25mm lens and extra high ISO 12,800 light sensitivity. Undoubtedly, this device is relatively faster as compared to the Xperia Z2 since it contains a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 processor. Whereas, Sony Xperia Z2 had a 2.3GHz chip.

Sony Xperia Z3 comes with a DSEE HX upscaling technology that will enhance the quality of compressed music. This Xperia Z3 brings Sony’s digital noise cancellation technology to the smartphone. The technology reduces nearly 98 percent of ambient noise when used with the MDR-NC31EM Digital Noise Cancelling headset. The front facing stereo speaker plays everything loud and crystal clear.

No matter if you want to take a picture in low-light or underwater, the device promises the highest quality of images. Xperia Z3 also offers new social camera apps along with some amazing editing features which will certainly take your camera experience to another level. AR fun allow users to add scribbles an animations to the images

Xperia Z3 will arrive sometimes this fall  in the markets. Although the company has not declared its carriers yet but there will probably be one version with LTE data.

Samsung is all set to release two brand new products. One is the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and the other is Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

The company has officially announced the release date of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. On the other hand, the release date of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is still based on the rumors. However, the buyers have already started to compare the two devices. Although the two devices looks similar in terms of appearance, but still they have some major differences in specs.

Galaxy Note 4 Specs VS Galaxy Note Edge Specs:

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a screen size of 5.7 inches. This time the company concentrated on the betterment of the quality of the device instead of size. The device comes with a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution along with an adaptive display. Samsung stated that this display has the power to adjust itself according to the light of the place.

Moreover, the device is equipped with Android 4.4.4 Kitkat software. It will work on the Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 805 chipset along with graphic software Andreno 330.

Some other features of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are 32GB of internal RAM, 3220mAh battery, an improved 16 MP camera, S-Pen, feature of Optical Image Stabilization.

On the other hand, the most noteworthy thing on the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is its beautiful and unique design. It comes with a screen that users can fold to one side of the handset.  The folded section can be utilized to view the notifications without opening the large screen of the device. Samsung Galaxy Note Edge comes with a 5.6 inch Quad HD (1440+160×2560 pixel) Super AMOLED display.

Furthermore, the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is powered by a quad core 2.7 GHz processor. This brand new product would be offered in 4G LTE and 4G LTE Cat 6 variants. The device has a 16 megapixel rear, 3.7 mega pixel front camera, huge battery and S-Pen stylus.

 

All the above details demonstrate that the two devices will run on the same hardware and software. It indicates that Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are extremely powerful devices.

It seems like the only dissimilarity is in the design of both the devices since Samsung Galaxy Note Edge has a curved screen.

Price:

Though the company has not yet announced the release date of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge but still some retailers begin to accept the pre-orders.

Clove is currently taking the pre-orders of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge at a high cost of £650. The price shows that Samsung has fulfilled what it said about the device at an event. The company stated that the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is a device especially designed for people who are ready to pay a large amount of money for an extremely incredible device.

 

On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will probably come at a price of £550. Although the company has not yet disclosed the price of the forthcoming device, but still some SIM free retailers is taking the pre-orders of the device at £599.98. The retailers promised to ship the device till the start of October. Moreover, Clove is a presenting Samsung Galaxy Note 4 at a relatively low price of £ 575.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is also available at EE at a cost of £59.99 for a two year contract. This package brings 1,000 minutes, unlimited texts and 1GB of data per months. Nevertheless, if you want more data then you can also opt for 2GB and 5Gb of data which comes at a price two different prices.

Release Date:

In September a spokesman of Samsung stated in clear words that Samsung Galaxy Note Edge would be a “limited edition”. Therefore, it is pretty evident that the company is not planning to manufacture this device in a large quantity. As per the rumors, the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge will only release in the four areas that are United States, Korea, United Kingdom and Canada.

On the flip side, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will probably available in some of the major carriers of the United States such as AT&T, Sprint, US cellular, Verizon and T-Mobile. Whereas, the Samsung has announced the 26^th of September as the release date of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in South Korea. Unlike Samsung Galaxy Note Edge the company will launch the device in 140 countries till the start of November.

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Seen videos of celebrities and random people soaking themselves wet from an ice bucket? Well, its called the ice bucket challenge. The man behind it is Pat Quinn, born and raised in Yonkers and diagnosed with a devastating neurological disease called ALS. Shortly after his diagnosis, he was overcome with purpose and felt that he had to make a change for all the ALS victims. The ice bucket challenge is a way to signify the support for ALS vicitms and everyone from Jimmy Fallon, Rob Astorino to Justin Timberlake are getting soaked for this cause. “I feel like its my purpose in life, its my mission, to be here to make a change”, Quinn said. Pat seems to think of it as a way to have fun, and create awareness for this devastating disease. Quinn has also created a foundation called “Quinn 4 the win” that has raised thousands of dollars for ALS research.

Whatsapp has declared that it will add the service of  voice calls for its 450 million users at the end of this year. This service will certainly be a new competitor for all the telecom network operators in the marketplace.

Jan Koum, the CEO of Whatsapp informed that the mobile messaging apps will  allow its customers to make calls in the second quarter of this year. The chief purpose behind the release of this novel service is to hit a billion users.

Recently, Facebook has acquired Whatsapp and the intact team of Whatsapp has joined Facebook. Although the company purchased Whatsapp but still the  messaging service will work independently.

Messaging is the initiatory experience of several people when they begin to use mobile internet. Therefore, this deal will pave the way for  Facebook and will mingle it up with the messaging services. The addition of voice service  the social network  will  convert itself  into a new fundamental function of smart phones.

Mark Zuckerburg, the CEO expressed that the messaging service will produce a great deal more profit as compared to the price paid for its purchase. He stated that some new South Korean companies such as Kakao Talk and Naver’s Line generates a revenue of $2 and $3 per every user. Although both the companies are in their initial phase.

As per the media reports, Whatsapp created a revenue of nearly  $20 million last year.

Moreover, Zuckerburg stated that he really believes that Whatsapp worth more than 19 billion independently. Therefore, it was not a bad decision.

Whatsapp transformation into voice calls would not be able to make a good deal with telecom carriers. The rivals of Whatsapp  such as  KakaoTalk,  China’s WeChat have gained the trust  of nearly all telecom operators.