Samsung Edge Screens

A lot of people will buy the new Samsung flagship on its own... Add a curved edge and people lose their minds...
-The Joker

Well no, the Joker didn't really say that. But seriously. A lot of people decide to pay more for a device with a curved edge. I can see where Samsung was trying to go with the idea, but personally, I can't see what all the hype is for.
Yes, I get it, your phone has curved edges. Good for you. You just literally paid more for a device that has less.
Let's get to the good parts. The Edge menu is pretty damn nice, can't deny. All the little features and stuff are pretty cool, and with the patent spam that LG had, I'm expecting them to start up with something similar, and looking at how Asus has been doing in the smartphone market, I'd expect them to make the exact same feature and call it ZenBoarder or something. More on the edge features: https://youtu.be/hHavcoQtYIY

Now comes the annoying part of edge. I myself like to use my phone a lot when I'm laying down, either on the couch or on my bed, so I'm holding my phone over my face a lot of the time. This is where the bezels come in. There is enough room for me to wrap my fingers around the 5.5" display on my Zenfone 2, and the bezel provides me with that little extra space so I'm not always accidentally tapping and swiping away at important stuff with my hand that I'm holding the phone with. I tried to do the same with my friend's Galaxy S6 edge, and found that my fingers kept sliding onto the screen and doing stuff. Also this makes the phone harder to use with one hand.
Then comes the note edge. If you haven't noticed already, only one side on this phone is curved. Half of me thinks that's a genius idea and kinda fixes the accidental touching, and the other half of me hates the phone for the two sides not having symmetry. I haven't tried out holding this phone in the position that I would be if I was laying down, but I'm assuming it would be easier and less frustrating.
In conclusion, Samsung had a terrific idea, but didn't carry out the idea to the best of their capabilities. Many people will argue that, and that's their opinions, but in my opinion, this whole concept of the curved edges will soon spread to and ruin other smartphone manufacturers. Moral of the story: if you have any amount of OCD, don't buy a Samsung Galaxy Note Edge.

Amoled burn in

So, on today's adventure to Costco and Best Buy in search of a new laptop for my dad, I decided to stop by the smartphone displays to check out the Samsungs.
So Samsung has been hyping up their super amoled screens to be super amazing and better than before, but the one problem of screen burn in still remains.
So naturally, that's the first thing I look for. I tried out both the note models and the Galaxy S models. One of the S6 models looked like it'd been put on display recently, but all of them had some degree of burn in.
Not gonna lie, it was hard to find the places that had burned in, but once you see them, you can't un-see them. I myself am personally a heavy user, constantly on social media or playing games, and most of the apps I use have a part of the display that is constantly there, for example the boarders on Instagram.
My good estimate is that most of this stuff will be burned into the screen in about a week or two; this teamed up with the fact that you can never un-see burn in, I can say that amoleds aren't for me yet.

P.S. I'm not saying I hate amoled, I really like how the black colors show up, and how darker colors mean better battery usage.