1) Very high build quality
2) While the screen is small it is high dpi (720p but tiny screen) and mostly easy to read-have not tried really bright sun yet (seattle you have to wait for that)
2) Speakers--yes it has front facing speakings, but despite some tweaking and testing, it is not as loud as my samsung galaxy note 5 speaker. This is rather surprising. Obviously nexus 6p is much louder than both.
3) It is sealed so you add microsd card and sim to slots behind a flap on the side. This is much less annoying than the flaps on the sony z3 compact. Microusb on the bottom no longer needs a flap to cover, although they warn you about not trying to plug in if there is obvious water in or near the port.
4) I expected it to get hot during initial setup but it does seem to get hot when playing music or installing a few apps from the play store. More than I would have expected.
5) The fingerprint sensor is nice and well located, but oddly it does not work with lastpass to authenticate, something that even the galaxy note 4 was able to do back in the day. Kind of a bummer
6) I had no issues getting it setup on tmobile, although it will not have voice calling and I can't verify band 12 support (but this model has it-whether tmobile will support it is unclear). In seattle testing on speedtest got me about 30 megabit download and upload--nice strong signal.
7) Camera is decent, although it gives you a warning if you try to shoot 4k video it will shut down if it overheats. This is not a warning that gives me confidence about the much maligned snapdragon 810 cpu.
8) You might need a case just so you don't notice the heat so much. It is a small phone so not much way to dissipate the heat.
9) have not tested the waterproofing...but nice to have
currently torn on keeping it or not, as 4.6 inches is nice but small-even for my slightly above average hands. Perhaps I've gotten so used to galaxy note 5 everything feels smaller.
If only the note 5 had a 128 gig storage option or a microsd slot. Ugh.
2) While the screen is small it is high dpi (720p but tiny screen) and mostly easy to read-have not tried really bright sun yet (seattle you have to wait for that)
2) Speakers--yes it has front facing speakings, but despite some tweaking and testing, it is not as loud as my samsung galaxy note 5 speaker. This is rather surprising. Obviously nexus 6p is much louder than both.
3) It is sealed so you add microsd card and sim to slots behind a flap on the side. This is much less annoying than the flaps on the sony z3 compact. Microusb on the bottom no longer needs a flap to cover, although they warn you about not trying to plug in if there is obvious water in or near the port.
4) I expected it to get hot during initial setup but it does seem to get hot when playing music or installing a few apps from the play store. More than I would have expected.
5) The fingerprint sensor is nice and well located, but oddly it does not work with lastpass to authenticate, something that even the galaxy note 4 was able to do back in the day. Kind of a bummer
6) I had no issues getting it setup on tmobile, although it will not have voice calling and I can't verify band 12 support (but this model has it-whether tmobile will support it is unclear). In seattle testing on speedtest got me about 30 megabit download and upload--nice strong signal.
7) Camera is decent, although it gives you a warning if you try to shoot 4k video it will shut down if it overheats. This is not a warning that gives me confidence about the much maligned snapdragon 810 cpu.
8) You might need a case just so you don't notice the heat so much. It is a small phone so not much way to dissipate the heat.
9) have not tested the waterproofing...but nice to have
currently torn on keeping it or not, as 4.6 inches is nice but small-even for my slightly above average hands. Perhaps I've gotten so used to galaxy note 5 everything feels smaller.
If only the note 5 had a 128 gig storage option or a microsd slot. Ugh.
I've never seen any phone getting hot during music playback and I listen to music the whole day!
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