Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy Round, wrong is right - Android World

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This new handset from Samsung that first one really curved screen is not out yet in Europe and only get in South Korea, home of Samsung. Fortunately, we have the guys from Sammobile.com because if SamMobile it has not then forget it. After a few phone calls and a crate of beer we could borrow this particular handset.

When you look at the specifications of the Galaxy Round you soon see that they have the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as a source of inspiration. Both have the same Snapdragon chipset 800, a 13-megapixel camera on the back and a 2 megapixel camera in front. The 3GB memory is large and there is 32GB of internal memory. Only the Galaxy Round has a slightly smaller battery with 2800 mAh and is slightly lighter. The latter is likely to come because the Galaxy Note S Pen 3 one must note and the Galaxy Round has not.

The appearance is almost identical with the beautiful leather-like finish on the back with the fake stitching along the side. The metal border around gives this phone a great chic look. At the bottom we see the double socket, there could be a regular micro USB, but also a special USB 3.0 cable that loading will accelerate. Well of Samsung that they allow the user, as well as with the Galaxy Note 3, the choice.

Screen

But of course it’s curved screen, otherwise we might as well be the review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to scribble down.

Samsung Galaxy Round is a device with a screen of up to 5.7 inches wide, this display has a pixel aspect ratio of 1080 x 1920 pixels and Super AMOLED screen has the usual Samsung full color.

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Galaxy Round naturally has something special, the screen is curved. I had expected a bit more extreme curve when I got him for the first time in the hands, but the name Round naturally creates expectations. Oddly enough it feels natural when you first have in your hands the Round.

At first shows the bent back a better grip when you have it in hand, the edges of the device prints slower in your palms than an ordinary flat device. When you look at the screen, then you really do not notice that the screen is curved. It is said that a curved screen is better to look at as it moves along with the curvature of your eyes. That’s the Samsung Galaxy Round than just so when you use it in portrait mode and movies and such you still look mostly in landscape mode.

Interface

Utilities are more in the interface of the Samsung Galaxy Round. In the already overloaded with options settings menu you can activate some extra features to the screen that have to do with the curvature of the screen. Under section Tilt are a number of possibilities that you have received. Curve through the screen at

Tilt

When viewing a picture you can by placing your thumb in the middle and the other photos as a list given to the right of the ‘kinks’ inside. When you move to the left, you automatically zoom in on the picture.

for fun in the pub but no further functionality is that the lockscreen responds to tilting the Galaxy Round. The best and most convenient that you can perform by the curvature of the screen has to do with the music. When the screen is off and music is playing you can go by tilting the device to the next track.

It is the speaker in the part that does not touch the surface, and therefore it sound easier to hear and you do not have to lay down. device with the screen The sound is otherwise reasonable, but that’s pretty much on every smartphone so, only the devices with HTC HTC One Tree Sound like the stabbing from above.

Conclusion

Samsung Galaxy Round is very similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which is readily available in the Netherlands. So when you want, no curved screen then the Note 3 a fine choice. Irritate you then the Samsung Galaxy Round it may be a good choice of the S Pen because it has produced no.

But it has curved screen really so many benefits. Physically, I think certainly, the curve makes it better the curve of your body will follow in the pocket and when holding the phone, he is better in the hand. The boys SamMobile find that the curvature give an extra dimension to the viewing photos. I did not experience it.

I tried to test whether this unit is also flexible as we have seen, the LG G Flex but I do not budge. The technique used is different LG making it succeed them. We would like to make these two devices together.

Overall I think it is a successful attempt by Samsung. It gives the user so many benefits that he / she can not be around the camera, but we see great potential in the future.

Shout out to the boys SamMobile to borrow their phone.