Display & S Pen

The Galaxy Annotation v comes with a larger version of the Milky way S6'south display. Information technology's a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED with a resolution of 2560 ten 1440, resulting in a pixel density of 518 ppi. And just like the Galaxy S6'south display, the Note 5's display is very impressive.

Samsung has squeezed the 5.seven-inch brandish into the Notation v's body in such a way that there are tiny bezels on the left and correct sides, assuasive the display to occupy 77% of the handset's profile. This allows the phone to both expect swell when the display is on, and exist reasonably ergonomic when the phone is in your paw due to a smaller trunk width.

The quality of this display is excellent. Color depth and contrast are superb thanks to the strengths of AMOLED technology, including the deepest blacks possible and vivid color output. At times the Notation 5's display can look a bit oversaturated, but in that location's no doubting that photos and videos look superb on such a large, beautiful console. The temperature of the display also appears to be quite practiced, falling about the ideal 6500K range.

The size of this display is ideal for several uses. You can read books, documents, and web pages on the Note v quite comfortably, and its 1440p resolution helps brand text look unbelievably well-baked. For the content consumers out there, the Note 5 is also a dandy choice, as more screen existent manor is always skillful when watching movies or playing mobile games. And because the Annotation v is still a quite usable phone despite its largeness, Samsung has managed to detect a cracking balance between screen size and torso size.

I was besides impressed with the Annotation 5 display'southward brightness, which was bright enough to make the phone reasonably easy to see in direct sunlight. Auto brightness was quick and accurate, and sometimes when stepping exterior you lot go that extra boost of brightness that makes text easier to read at the expense of color accuracy. Viewing angles were besides excellent as you'd expect from an AMOLED panel with nearly no gap between the light-emitting diodes and air.

The S Pen was once once more a very impressive stylus that integrates with the device extremely well. The fast polling rate and multiple pressure levels (240 Hz polling with 2,048 force per unit area levels) makes the on-screen writing feel feel responsive and every bit shut to writing on newspaper equally possible. I didn't use the stylus all the time, just when I wanted to annotate something I couldn't accept asked for a improve writing experience.

Samsung has improved Air Command, which is a toolbar of S Pen-related actions that opens whenever y'all remove the stylus or press the button on the stylus while hovering the pen above the display, in the Annotation v. It'south now much easier to ascertain what each action does thank you to the inclusion of visible labels for each, and you can add together extra shortcuts to the panel if you and then choose.

All four of the default Air Command actions are useful: Action Memo opens a quick annotation window that you can scribble in, minimize to a floating icon, and save directly into S Note; Smart Select allows you to draw around an item on the display and capture the highlighted expanse equally an image; Screen Write takes a screenshot yous can easily comment on; and S Note takes you straight to the app in question.

Previous Air Control iterations included more features and dissimilar tools, but Samsung has streamlined the toolbar on the Note five to include the tasks users actually want to perform. Having the tools and so easily accessible is fantastic and makes the feel of annotating and note-taking as fast and streamlined as possible.

South Annotation is still the center of the Annotation 5's note-taking experience. The app has been streamlined significantly over the by few iterations, at present including less clutter through a simplified interface. It'due south a very solid app for taking and aggregating notes, including all the features a regular user would desire such as text and pen support, phonation recording, and image insertion.

Ability users tin add in a whole collection of extra features, such as shape recognition and handwriting transformation, through a free downloadable content pack accessible via a shortcut in the app. By splitting out some features in this way, users who desire more tools can add them in without calculation bloat to the app that casual users wouldn't demand.

Possibly the biggest and most useful new feature, though, is the inclusion of "screen off memo." When this feature is enabled (it's disabled by default) and the screen is off, you can simply remove the stylus and immediately start writing on the display. The characteristic is designed to mimic the feel of writing on a concrete notepad, where you tin get out a pen and kickoff writing without having to power anything on.

With screen off memo at your disposal, the Notation v becomes a much more powerful annotation-taking tool, especially in those times where yous need to apace jot something downwards. I would highly recommend turning the feature on in the S Pen settings as, if yous're a frequent stylus user, you'll find information technology very handy.