Galaxy Note Fan Edition vs Galaxy Note 7: What's new - SamMobile

Final updated: July 7th, 2017 at 14:03 UTC+01:00

Samsung confirmed earlier this year that it was going to release a refurbished variant of the Milky way Annotation 7. It has millions of units gathering dust in warehouses considering Samsung had to discontinue and call back the Galaxy Note 7 due to a battery defect. So why is the Milky way Note 7 making a comeback?

Releasing a refurbished variant is one of the ways that Samsung will contain the ecology fallout from the recall. Instead of having to trash or recycle parts and components for all of those handsets, it can put them in circulation once over again.

The visitor is as well going to make coin off of this, but that'southward beside the point. The Galaxy Note Fan Edition was officially announced earlier this week. Samsung is going to sell it in South Korea initially starting tomorrow for roughly $610.

Let's accept a look at all that'south new with the Galaxy Note Fan Edition.

Battery

The battery was what caused the Milky way Annotation vii's downfall, then that'due south the kickoff major change that Samsung has made to this handset. Gone is the faulty 3,500mAh bombardment of the original Galaxy Note 7. The Galaxy Notation Iron features a smaller three,200mAh bombardment.

It's a safer option as information technology has gone through Samsung'southward new viii-betoken battery safety examination that the company came up with after the Milky way Note 7 fiasco concluding year. Certain, customers will get slightly less battery capacity, but I recollect that's a reasonable ask for the balls of prophylactic.

Processor

The Galaxy Note 7 had a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor which has four custom-made Kryo cores divided into clusters of 2. The high-performance cluster is clocked at ii.15GHz whereas the ability efficiency cluster is clocked at 1.6GHz.

Samsung has opted to put the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor inside the Galaxy Notation FE. It has the aforementioned organisation of Kryo cores, but the clusters are clocked at 2.4GHz and 2.0GHz respectively. This results in a x percent performance improvement compared to the predecessor.

Both the Snapdragon 820 and 821 take the same Adreno 540 graphics processor, just it offers a 5 percent gain in functioning for the latter equally information technology runs at 653MHz instead of 624MHz. Qualcomm has also said that the Snapdragon 821 is 5 pct more battery efficient than the previous fleck.

Update: As it turns out, the Galaxy Note Iron has the same Exynos 8890 processor as the original Galaxy Note seven, so at that place will be no noticable improvement on the performance front.

Advent

Yep, appearance, and not pattern. That's considering Samsung hasn't made whatever changes to the design at all. It notwithstanding looks and feels similar the Galaxy Annotation 7 from last year. Subtle changes have been made to the advent of the Milky way Notation Atomic number 26, though.

The Galaxy Note FE is the beginning smartphone later the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ to not characteristic a Samsung logo underneath the earpiece, outside of Japan and S Korea. The handset likewise carries the "Milky way Note FE" branding on the lesser at the dorsum to make information technology clear that this is a refurbished Galaxy Notation 7.

User Interface

The Milky way Note FE runs Android Nougat, but don't wait to observe the same user interface that nosotros saw with the Galaxy Annotation 7 last year. The company is shipping it with the latest version of Samsung Experience which is what it calls its user interface at present. This version debuted with the Galaxy S8 earlier this twelvemonth and is besides making its fashion to budget devices like the Milky way J5 (2017).

Bixby

The Milky way Note Iron is likewise borrowing one of the Galaxy S8's biggest features: Bixby. Information technology doesn't have a hardware push but for Bixby similar the Galaxy S8, merely it's non like users are going to need it that much.

You see, Samsung isn't bringing over the full Bixby experience to the Galaxy Annotation Iron. The handset only gets Bixby Habitation and Reminders, not the assistant's vocalization capabilities. So basically, Galaxy Note FE owners will have the same Bixby feel similar Galaxy S8 owners outside South korea accept had so far.

This is all that's new with the Milky way Note FE. It's a expert way for Samsung to get 400,000 units of the sick-blighted flagship back into circulation once again. While it has only confirmed pricing and availability at this point in time, it's possible that Samsung might release the Galaxy Note Atomic number 26 in other select markets at some point in the futurity.

Note: Some factual errors pointed out by the readers have been fixed.