The Samsung Galaxy Round-Those Curves:
Curved Display's are the new thing in the tech community. Samsung like always is leading the race with the introduction of the Galaxy Round. The Round was introduced in South Korea, and is basically a Note 3 with a curved display. So lets review the Samsung Galaxy Round.
Display:
Of course, the most resounding feature of this device is that screen. You can easily distinguish this device from others by just glancing at it. The screen is curved Super Flexible AMOLED 5.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels, with 386 pixels per inch. The curved screen has its perks, since Samsung has infused some certain features which are exclusive to the Round.
For example, if you have the Round placed on a flat surface, you can tilt the phone towards you to wake-up the screen which display's the notifications that you have missed. There are several such small tweaks throughout the ecosystem.
Internal Specs:
The internal specs of the Round can be easily identified to the specs of the Note 3.
The chipset is Qualcomm's popular Snapdragon 800 featuring the Quad-Core 2.3 GHz Krait 400.
The GPU responsible for rendering graphics is the Adreno 330.
The 3 GB onboard handles the multi-tasking and background tasks with a breeze.
Design:
The design is a hybrid between the design of the Galaxy S4, Note 3 and also a bit of neither.
The design of this phone is mostly defined by the curved display. It has its perks like we said, but it also has a lot of downs.
Mainly you can't text the normal way on this display. You can't read something on it while its placed on a flat surface, despite it having this amazing screen. The characteristic metal band of the Galaxy Range is prominent.
The back has this sort of matte finish and the positioning of the flash and the camera is just like the arrangement seen on the S4.
Operating System:
The TouchWIZ interface is built atop Android 4.3 "JellyBean".
Camera:
The camera is also very similar to the camera of the Note 3 since both of them have a 13 mega-pixel sensor without Optical Image Stabilization. HDR, Panorama and face detection and the regular features are prominent.
It is capable of shooting 1080p video @ 60 frames-per-second.
The 2 mega-pixel shooter on the front can also shoot 1080p @ 30 frames-per-second.
Memory And Connectivity:
The Galaxy Round is only available in a 32 GB variant. However the memory can be expanded with the use of the microSD which is provided.
The regular connectivity options are available including 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi.
Battery, Color And Price:
The battery and the price are the key points ehere the buyer has to comprise.
The Li-Ion phone only has a 2800 mAh capacity. Talking about the low capacity battery comes another comprise, the price.
The Samsung Galaxy Round is retailing for about $1000 dollars, which is crazy considering that your high speced phone only has a 2800 mAh battery which is capable of providing only 16 hours of talk time and 74 hours of music playback.
The reason why the battery has a low capacity is because even though the display is curved the rest of the components are solid, they cannot be made curved, hence it would not be possible to facilitate a large battery in a device that is curved because there would be no place to accommodate it.
It is currently available in only one color that is, Brown.
Conclusion:
We personally think that this is a sort of "experiment" by Samsung, very similar to what they tried with the Galaxy Mega lineup. They want to see how well people receive this product and to determine if people like it.
But for the time being, we think that this is a leap in display technology and we hope to see more kinds of these devices, but which less compromise of other components.
Stay tuned for the review on its competitor The LG G Flex.
So that's our review on the Samsung Galaxy Round.
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Sarthak J Shetty
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