The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
by Joshua Ho on October 15, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Samsung
- Android
- Mobile
- Galaxy Note 4
Video Performance
In terms of video, the Galaxy Note 4 mainly benefits from the newer Snapdragon 805/APQ8084 SoC, and the addition of OIS. For the most part, there aren't any new video recording modes on the Note 4, as we see 4K30, 1080p60 and 1080p30 video available to the user.
For 1080p30 recording we see a 17Mbps bit rate with an H.264 high profile encoder. In practice I didn't really see any issues here, although on the exit sign at the end of the video there's noticeable aliasing
In 4K30 recording mode we see a 48Mbps bit rate with the same encoder as the 1080p30 setting. There's a significant increase in visible detail when compared to 1080p, but it seems that this mode is capped at a maximum of five minutes for video length and videos where temporal resolution is more important than spatial resolution will generally see relatively little benefit. EIS/video stabilization is also disabled for 4K recording, so OIS becomes quite critical for even casual video recording in 4K.
In 1080p60 mode we see a 28 Mbps bit rate with the same encode as in 1080p30. I don't really see visible detail degradation in this mode, and temporal resolution is clearly better than any of the other modes. This mode, as with 1080p30 supports EIS/video stabilization although using such a mode will reduce the field of view when compared to video with EIS off. One constant throughout all of these videos is the noticeably jerky nature of the OIS. It's hard for me to tell whether this is the result of an inability to damp certain motions due to the magnitude of the change or the OIS resetting itself during recording, but I suspect that this is a limitation of OIS that would require electronic image stabilization to compensate.
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akdj - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - link
Sorry. Something was lost in translation there;)I'm not going to go tbrough the dozen+ grammatical and punctuation errors, but my point was to compare iOS to Android with their siblings ...the Chromebook and OS X. Windows has the same if they're able to finally figure phones out! The SPIII is a HELLUVA design and enough difference between itself and the iPad (including the price, you're looking more like comparing a nice 13" rMBP w/Haswell ans Iris Pro graphics;))
Vertical and horizontal support. iOS and OS X with continuity and handoff being another extension of Airdrop is absolutely incredible!
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tipoo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Indeed. I'm excited for Nvidias Denver CPU cores, finally someone else going with two big cores rather than four small.mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Something is not right here..."Around 450 nits" with auto brightness on???
Displaymate strongly disagrees with Anandtech. They measured "478 - 750 cd/m2" with auto brightness (1 nit = 1 cd/m2)
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1...
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
There is variability in production. The differences you are seeing are well within that variability.mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Don't be ridiculous, please...Displaymate: "When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy Note 4 reaches an impressive 750 cd/m2 in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed – it is the brightest mobile display that we have ever tested"
It is an out-of-space claim that there can be a variability in production of a 70% level...
tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
hopefully the display doesn't keep that brightness very long. those pentile pixels will burn out. you'll have to use a screen saver.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Sounds like a poor excuse for inaccurate testing to me. If the error margin was that huge, the display would be horrible to look at.JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
In practice I find that the 100% APL value is more representative of the perceived brightness, this is due to a difference in testing methodology.Pissedoffyouth - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I just bought a note 3, and I'm more than happy with it with a zerolemon 10000mah battery. This doesn't really offer much more really, more of an slight upgrade.I'd be interested to see why they didn't up the battery a little more considering they made the chassis bigger...
darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I find it impossible not to notice the Apple reality distortion effect in this article.But nice try hiding it, AT.
I'll just state a fact proven by pretty much every other review - battery endurance on this device is clearly better than that on the iPhone 6+.