Samsung Galaxy Edge, Galaxy Note 4 Gear and VR are Ifa News – Spiegel Online

Much has been predicts what Samsung will probably point to the Ifa Berlin. Among other things was in rumors of Galaxy Note Edge talk, but much more than the name you did not know. Over a three-sided or rounded screen had been speculated. Now Samsung has demonstrated the device for the first time and not disappointed: On his right side, the display is bent backwards. A very unusual sight.

Samsung uses the angled part of the screen as a second display. In standard mode, the icons of frequently used apps are displayed on the lateral surface. But you can also use it differently. So for example, there is already a Twitter widget, the new messages in landscape mode runs as scrolling text on the angled display.

In the prototype, we were able to look at, also a market price widget and a weather widget could be seen. Basically, all developers use the extra space for his app. When playing around with the Edge showed that you quickly get used to the screen with bend and uses it intuitively.

A professional Project Cardboard

Similarly behaves it with the VR Gear, Samsung’s first virtual reality goggles. Instead of a complex construct such as Sony’s Morpheus or develop the Oculus Rift, the Koreans seem to have been inspired by Google Project Cardboard. Reminder: Google had presented at its developers conference Google I / O Card Board. There was then no more than a kit made of cardboard, combined with two lenses and a cheap app. But the result was fascinating.

Samsung Gear VR is the professional variant of it, so to speak. The Samsung glasses are made of plastic, with adjustable rubber straps so it fits comfortably on your head. A knob allows the distance of the lens to the eye and thus the sharpness set. And just like Cardboard glasses does not have its own screen. Instead, a smart phone is plugged into the glasses and the display used.

The special lenses and the necessary Samsung Apps allows the virtual reality specialists Oculus suppliers. The result is quite impressive: the glasses creates spatial images that follow the movements of the head without noticeable delay.

Big Pixel despite extremely high resolution

This might be because the Gear VR in the current version also shown for the first time with the Galaxy on the Ifa Note 4 works. Its quad-core processor has obviously no problem to calculate the images accordingly quickly. At first glance surprising is that the image quality does not meet expectations. Finally, the note shows 4 to 5.7-inch diagonal, 2560 x 1440 pixels.

For a mobile phone that is very much, only the LG G3 has a similar display. Because the screen for the VR goggles but will split into two halves, each eye only come with 1280 x 1440 pixels. In combination with the magnifying lenses of the glasses the images, therefore, despite the high resolution look pixelated.

Panorama function for group Selfies

Apart from the fact that the VR goggles helps on the jumps, the Grade 4 is characterized among other things by a new feature called Photo-Wide-Selfie, a kind of panorama function for the 3.7-megapixel front camera. In fact, so let group Selfies snap – if all keep still

a good first impression also made the Voice Recorder app that provides Samsung with the score 4.. You can thanks to three microphones not only very effectively filter out background noise, but shows when playing recordings of calls to graphically, who sat where. Touch of a finger you can hide individual voices.

In the same direction goes the new Snap-touch function. It is a dream for Students: Man snaps with the phone the panel off and the phone converts the jumble of letters, numbers and lines in a digital panel image that can be edited on the mobile phone and change

<. b> This clock is a cell phone

The fact that Samsung’s new Smart Watch, the Gear S, in addition to these new products almost exclusively as a decorative accessory appears, is because they had been announced in advance. In short practice test they made a good impression.

Your curved two-inch screen ensures that it is reasonably possible to read on the clock news or look at photos. Even entering text on-screen keyboard seems possible without major contortions. Thanks to the integrated UMTS module, it is actually a smart phone that can be worn on the arm.

But Samsung’s clock will not certainly be the only SmartWatch, which will be presented at the IFA. So remains to be seen whether can also keep other models.