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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • I don’t think I’m going to get this phone. I love Notes, but I hate the size. They’re massive.

  • I’m done with samsung their phones always end up lagging no matter what I do. I have the s7 edge now and it lags from time to time. I love the camera and screen but the UI is laggy front time to time

    • Now go get a basic phone. Use it for a day. You’ll realize the options we have now are amazing! Especially with the very little lag. 1st world problems right? ?

      • Lol true…I actually have a basic phone for 2 days before getting the s7 edge, I was coming from a lg g5. I actually had less lag on the lg g5. The lg g5 screen is no where near as good tho. I had the OnePlus 3 for a bit too but the video quality is no where near as good as the s7 in my opinion.

  • In the day and age we have such devices that can focus in and take a
    picture of a tick on a baboons ass. Why do we still get stupid low res
    pictures like this.
    Its like the continued footage of UFO sightings today, and people still busting out their 1985 VHS camcorder to capture them.

  • A click bait video if I’ve ever seen one (not DL, the person that published it).

  • The Note 4 whiney B-otches can keep their 3 year old phone if they like it so much. Samsung is not going back to removable battery, so get over it! If this note turns out to be a battery beast, it’ll be replacing my 6P.

      • I average 3-4 hours. Typically closer to 3. It’s the same battery life I’ve had for years, since the M7. But now I have this giant phone, with the same battery life I had with a smaller device.

        • Sounds about the same 3-4. I don’t feel pressed to recharge during the day, but I need better.

    • Removable are so 2012. I prefer a more premium unibody design and a larger battery over a removable battery.

      • I have yet to see a large enough battery for me to use my phone how I do without it going back on the charger at some point in the day and that’s been either removable or non-removable. But yes, I’ve had sealed batteries on more phones than removable. Heck, my iPhone 3G wasn’t removable and I don’t recall so much complaining then.

          • It’s going to be that or a battery case. I’m about to get a job with a ton of travel and I’ll be using my phone in the field. My 6P can’t even get me through the day now as it is.

        • Stop using Facebook, Snapchat and playing games all day and your phone will be fine.

      • lol @ terrible TW. Clearly you havent used one since 2011. I have a terrible TW phone and a nexus 6 that I carry daily. The terrible TW phone is stable and relatively quick (its a 2 year old note 4). The nexus 6 is fast…but it’s buggy at best, and not half as polished. If you like nexuses exclusively, that’s fine…but they are nowhere near the best devices out on the market

      • Absolutely. I’ve had a 128GB 6P since launch, and the lag is ridiculous. Tried several hard resets and even exchanged the device, but no improvement. Bluetooth connectivity is also crap. Second worst phone I’ve owned with the first being the GNex. I’m starting to sense a pattern.

        • You must have gotten a dud. If there’s one thing it isn’t its laggy & the battery is fantastic I start most days with 50% charge left over from the previous. At worst its too big and the back side fingerprint sensor isn’t as good as front side(IMO)

          • Nope, if you read my comment, I said Google replaced it and the same issues persist. Lag to the point that I have to restart it almost daily. Battery is good though, but nowhere near your experience. I almost always get to 15% after 12 hours off the charger. But that’s averaging almost 4 hours screen on and 70-90 mins of talk time per day. I’m far from the only one, but maybe those of us with issues just use our phones more than most. It’s definitely getting sold the minute I receive my Note 7.

          • Children are funny. You’re getting defensive about a phone after I shared my experience. The same experience others have shared on multiple forums. I’ll go back to owning two successful businesses now, and you can go back to playing Pokemon Go on your summer break.

      • Chose my note 5 over the 6p. Was faster then the 6p and a better camera. So your comment makes no sense. 6p was one of my favorite phones btw.

      • If touch wiz is terrible, why do most Android users buy Samsung phones?

        TouchWiz is great, better than stock and any other.

      • Love the generalization. Terrible touchwiz yet people keep coming back year after year. But please continue the fanboy mentality my Nexus Master Race friend

    • Note 4 was the last “great” Note but it was ruined by one horrible software build after another (likely intentional by Samsung)

      Note 5 was style over substance

      Note 7 looks to be a huge improvement over the 5 but I still am terrified to buy a Samsung phone with a sealed battery due to their increasingly buggy “updates”.

      Unless LG pulls a rabbit out of a hat with the V20, it looks like a dismal end to 2016.

      My dream device, by the way, would be something that works on all carriers w/ no bloat (VZW-compatible) with hardware specs that are a mixture of the best bits of the Note 7 in the HP Elite X3 formfactor running near-stock Android. Add to it 2+ years of guaranteed OS updates (not just security patches) with a Samsung or LG-level camera software (+ OIS & Sony IMX sensor of course)…I’d pay just about any price for that!

      • I agree with you on the past notes. And sadly, it always seems Samsung’s best software is when the phone ships, after that, it seems their updates become riddled with more bugs that usually take forever to be fixed with the carrier involvement (so much for the carriers “testing” the software).

        I saw that HP yesterday and it does look like a solid device. Really, I’d love to have Samsung hardware inside an HTC shell, with rear fingerprint sensor, on screen buttons, with stock Android but keep the S-pen and bake in those functions without having this huge skin on top of Android.

    • I’ll be doing the same. Price is gonna be the only obstacle I think and if it’s justifiable.

    • Note 4 is not even 2 years old yet… it was released 17 October 2014.
      Carry on,.

  • First thing to do with Note 7: Enable Developer Options and Make animations 0.5x speed.

    • I do that with every phone immediately, even if someone hands me their phone.. they’re usually appreciative though, hah.

    • Second thing….turn off automatic updates so that the shipped firmware (which is usually the weakest) can be left on the device until someone finds root.

        • I have a Nexus6p…but honestly depending on what the next nexus has, i may go with the Note 7. Touchwiz is actually not bad anymore…and say what you will about samsung, their hardware is insane. Amazing screens, great cameras without cutting corners (no OIS in nexus6p, and basic google camera software is spartan at best in options department), and more importantly they use UFS2.0 and better INTERNALS, something that the media never touch on. They always focus on the big stuff like CPU, etc..

      • At least on the Verizon version, root breaks Samsung Pay which is a major selling point.

        • I dont use google pay nor Samsung pay….Its a matter of priorities. To me root is more important than to take my wallet out of my pocket to use a card i will already have on me anyway.

    • Lol, what a work around to overcome the terrible laggy tochwiz, you have to do this on a 2016 flagship phone, instead you can by 6p and enjoy budget smooth N

      • You suck at trolling, because even on a Nexus this is required if you want it to feel snappy. Before and after making this change on my 6P made the world of difference.

      • I made mine 0.5x right away. I’m actually going to try it on 1.0 now to see if its okay.

        Edit: staying at 0.5

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