The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 looks to be not only the best Phablet in 2017, but will likely compete for one of the best smartphones of the year. We’re already hearing a lot of discussion of things to come which will introduce some new innovations that have yet to be seen in the Note series.
It feels like a long time since we were introduced to Samsung’s unibody dual glass design on the Galaxy S6, a move that plenty of us thought was a welcome far cry from the plastic phones of the past. Since then, Samsung has tried to incorporate new design elements into what their Galaxy phones were clearly going to look like moving forward. This included the Edge, originally brought to the forefront in the Galaxy Note Edge – perhaps a phone that hasn’t been given the credit it deserves, with the Edge now being a Galaxy mainstay. And there’s no better place to see that than in the Galaxy Note 7.
The S-Pen doesn’t go backwards into the slot anymore, thankfully – so no Pengate this year – and it manages to do that with a clicky-top that is just wider than the rest of the pen and the slot that it slides into. All that aside, the S Pen and its singular button feel exactly the same as last year despite some subtle changes – a thinner tip means better precision on the highly pressure sensitive screen and the pen itself is as long as a standard ballpen. None of this means an even slightly different experience physically using the Note 7’s little friend.
