If you try that, bad things will happen, as some users report when their S Pens got stuck with the square end wedged, possibly irretrievably, deep inside the phone.Ī glimpse at the redesigned S Note app (left) and drawing with the S Pen. It is not meant to holster on the non-business end. Important tip: That S Pen can only be inserted in the holder pointy end first. Its single button slightly recesses from the surface to tone down the mispresses, which I've found common in previous S Pen designs. The plastic pen has long, flat planes to keep it from rolling away on a tabletop. It's kind of fun, but the fit is so snug, you have to really tease it out. This time around, the stylus audibly clicks into place inside the Note 5's chute like the crown of a retractable pen. The Note S Pen stylus, which is made of polycarbonate plastic, changes a little bit every year. Way smoother S Note app (with auto-save!). I keep hoping Samsung will work this out, but so far no dice. One last, infuriating thing I've noticed in all these years of testing: That power/lock button on the right likes to turn itself on in my purse's interior phone pocket, draining battery willy-nilly. Prepare for your smudgy fingerprints to bloom all over that mirrored surface, and keep a microfiber cloth nearby. A unibody device, it has no removable backplate or battery and you won't find an expandable storage slot anywhere. On the flipside, you'll see the 16-megapixel camera lens, flash and heart rate reader. What makes a Note 5? Metal, glass and this stylus tucked in down under. Along the bottom are the standard Micro-USB charger (alas, not USB-C as we had hoped), headset jacks and S Pen holster, with the SIM card tray up top. You'll find the power/lock button on the right and volume rocker on the left. The 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution (515 pixels per inch) holds steady from last year, lending a lot of crisp detail to the screen, possibly even more than we strictly need.īelow the display, the usual two soft keys (recent apps and back) sandwich the physical home button, which also serves as the phone's fingerprint reader and Google Now call-up (press and hold for Google Now, the search giant's voice-command answer to Apple's Siri). That's good news for one-handed phone jockeys, who get the same screen real estate in a more streamlined package. Josh Miller/CNETĪlthough that AMOLED display still measures 5.7 inches, Samsung has shaved down the Note 5's dimensions, making the handset feel overall sleeker and slimmer than last year's Note 4. Samsung adds some new stylus functionality, like being able to jot a memo with the screen turned off.
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