Review on 💜 Renewed Samsung Galaxy Note 8, 64GB in Orchid Gray for AT&T Customers by Guanyin Lin ᠌

Name: 💜 Renewed Samsung Galaxy Note 8, 64GB in Orchid Gray for AT&T Customers
Item: 💜 Renewed Samsung Galaxy Note 8, 64GB in Orchid Gray for AT&T Customers
Rating: 4

December 08, 2022

A good and high-quality product, but there are disadvantages.

At first, the device caused conflicting feelings: half is well done, and the other half spoils everything good from the first half:
- the rounded screen interferes with the stylus.
- auto-brightness and white theme interfere with the amoled screen.
- The interface is incompatible with a long screen, many control and search buttons are brought up, as in small phones, and the buttons cannot be reached with one finger.
- The bixby button interferes with the use of the smartphone.
in general, schizophrenia is everywhere.

The the beginning of 2022 significantly improved the interface: they added a built-in black theme (and ლ (ಠ益ಠლ) has not passed for three years), replaced the navigation buttons with gestures, which increased the usable screen area when using third-party keyboards (in the standard keyboard, Samsung left a bug that is incompatible with gesture navigation).
In general: there are still no alternatives with a stylus, so it's either like this or not at all.

Pros

There is a stylus and ready-made applications for it. I almost never use a drawing tool, but for that it is very convenient to take a fragment of the screen and send it. It is convenient to extract text from places where it cannot be copied, such as from pictures or from applications. translator on hover the same can sometimes come in handy. In general, with applications for the stylus, everything is in order.

Cons

-The rounded screen reduces the effective working surface by 10 mm, the stylus does not draw on the curves. - Auto-brightness causes rapid screen degradation. On the street, auto-brightness must be turned off. Indoors, the same works so-so - either too bright, then dim. - the interface does not have adaptation to the new long screen. The control buttons, as they were on top, remained the same, you can’t reach them with one hand. - very expensive screen repair, in case of damage. - the bixby button is often pressed accidentally due to an unfortunate location. in the 2022 it is not possible to make it work even in English (the region is being checked by sim card). It cannot be reassigned by standard means, only by third-party programs. In fact, she gets in the way.