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And even then, the included adapter will make microUSB cords play nicely with the Note 7 — just remember to use the charging brick included with the phone or there will be diminishing returns to the fast charging claims. All of this goodness is now in a body that is IP certified — not only will dust never get into the device, but the Note 7 will keep on going even if it gets wet. And though Samsung did try to really push the fact that this phone can write notes underwater — after all, the S Pen is also IP certified — we would just be happy with a phone that still works even in the rain or after picking it out of a spill.

Finally, we come to the Iris Scanner. Honestly, after you get the hang of it, the Iris Scanner is surprisingly easy and fast to use. It is still debatable if this is actually faster than fingerprint readers, but the novelty will definitely stick around for a while. To unlock the phone with an iris, one has to wake the device and swipe to start the Scanner. Once we knew exactly where to look and got the muscle memory down to about how far the phone needs to be, this method of unlocking the phone was a piece of cake.

I just wanted to be sure my eyes were wide open for the Scanner. Once again, unification of the line takes on a tangible quality. That large, dual-pixel technology is supposed to help with fast autofocus and better low light performance, which we agreed did the job fairly well in the S7. Any users that found the app convoluted and full of too many options might not change their tune, still — but at the very least, all of those elements and settings are easily available using one hand.

The only viewfinder elements that are still out of reach for one hand are the deeper settings which probably should already be setup to 4k video recording and Quad HD for the front facing camera, for example and HDR which could be on Auto already, anyway. Anyone familiar with the Galaxy S7 and its top-notch camera quality will know what to expect from the Note 7. It is still capable of some of the better batches of photos in good lighting, providing good saturation and good colors bordering on almost oversaturated.

Details are captured quite well, with only some softness showing up when zooming into these photos — small text is still legible in some of these photos that have it. Self portraits are still not the super high quality that some might be expecting, especially in indoor conditions where lighting is less than the power of the sun. As we generally find the case to be in low light, the color temperature tends to get quite warm — and a steady hand can be required from time to time as shutter speeds have to get much slower to expose darker scenes.

With more resolution, there was quite literally a little more room to work with in terms of editing and quality. That same feature comes on the Note 7 — and coupled with the high onboard storage and the potential GB microSD card storage added on top, the Note 7 can be a powerful tool for videographers. Overall, the user interface has been given some unified colors in order to make everything feel more coherent. Lighter colors are abound, with only the important bits and buttons providing the splashes of color.

The notification shade and the settings page are the best places to see this; and even then, the settings page has been simplified so that things are easier to navigate. Sections of the settings page are consolidated in categories that include some main examples of what users might expect to find after going deeper, and this hopefully will make the usually daunting Samsung UI easier to navigate. Indeed, Samsung wants to guide the users more than ever without the pesky dialog boxes that used to appear out of nowhere and incessantly, which was more annoying than helpful in the past.

Instead, there are little texts for just about every setting and there are arrows in the notification shade showing that pressing the text of an option will provide a little more information. Of course, there are still all of the main tropes of the Samsung interface, including the rather cartoonish and rounded icons and folders, but the round backgrounds for non-Samsung apps can be removed. Briefing is still the news aggregator found to the left of the homescreens, but that can also be disabled.

And all of this can be themed through the Themes area of the settings, which provides quite a few different options for changing the look of the interface without tampering with function. Given that this is a curved display phone, the Edge UX makes an appearance and is largely the same as the one found on the Galaxy S7 Edge. Sliding from either the left or right side will bring up the Edges, a number of different panels that are able to house either contacts for quick dialing, icons for quick launching, or tickers for various forms of information like CNN News or a compass.

The other addition focuses on security — the Secure Folder.

Used as a sort of triage area for apps and accounts, the Secure Folder can best be described as a clean slate area. Files, apps, and content put into it are locked under any of the same security measures that are used to unlock the device yes, including Iris. It is basically like putting a second copy of an app on your phone — for example, when putting Instagram in the Secure Folder, opening it brought up the initial login page, so that I could feasibly put in a personal or work account there depending on what configuration I wanted. But, of course, the crux of the Note 7 is the S Pen — and there is a mixture of streamlining and adding to the formula to make this iteration probably the most practical one yet.

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Hovering the pen tip over the screen can still provide previews into various parts of the UI and selecting multiple items is still simple with the mouse-like nature of the S Pen and its button. While these shortcuts can be edited to open up pretty much any application, the main ones for the S Pen still include a straight note creation, Smart Select for some more creative captures, and Screen Write for capturing what the screen is currently showing or scrolling, if one is currently on a scrollable page for writing and editing and sharing.

Smart Select got one of the bigger and probably funner additions, Animation select. A frame of any size the user chooses appears and can be put over any part of the screen to record a 15 second GIF, making GIF creation just about as easy as GIF searching. Or, if you ever have that GIF you can never find, now you have the method to save it. The Smart Select Animation can quite literally capture anything, like video content from Instagram or YouTube for easy sharing in only the easy way the S Pen does it — just hit share and it goes straight to the place of your choice.

The other additions to the S Pen software family are not quite as deep, but they are useful in their own rights. Glance is an interesting one that shrinks any app to a small square snapped to corners of the screen — hovering the S Pen over the square makes it large again for easy checking or for continued regular usage. And finally there is Translate, perhaps the feature that we really want to see evolve.

Though would like to see full sentences and phrase become a part of Translate, we applaud Samsung for included it in this new version of the Note. Removing the S Pen while the screen is off brings up a black screen where one can quickly jot down a scribble. Returning the S Pen to its slot puts the memo into the Notes app, just like any other note.

However, now the memo can be pinned to the Screen Off Memo so that it is always within view. All of these notes are now put into one singular Notes application, which consolidates all of the different methods and abilities the S Pen used to have splashed across the UI — Action Memo and S Note, for example.

By putting everything under one roof, the Notes application is now one of the most robust apps for notation and will eventually be made available for even the Galaxy S devices. While the small but noticeable changes to the Android experience on the Note 7 are already welcome, it seems that this year Samsung really wants users to start pulling the S Pen out more. After all, plenty of users report that they never use the S Pen or its myriad of features and instead just look at the Note as a standalone device with a lot of power.

Will these features make that change? That remains to be seen, but there seems to be a lot of thought put into the S Pen this year and the effort is not lost on us here at Android Authority. And, indeed, that effort permeates throughout the phone, where a number of different aspects have been either refined or straight up upgraded.

The onboard storage and microSD card slots really speak to power users while the design will make this phone more accessible for many users who are even the slightest bit apprehensive toward larger displays. Even then, the display experience is growing to be more than just a conduit for showing off Android interfaces, and the S Pen is probably the most useful than it has ever been.

So, all of this comes at a price — not just a monetary price, which we will get to in a second — a learning curve that is different for every user. While the larger Note device will work really well for just about anyone, those who want to get a little more out of their phones have a lot of things to discover and learn deeper in the most feature packed phone Samsung has ever put out.

Each and every one of these features requires some familiarity, not to mention actually finding them in the settings menus or by chance.

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