[Note Edge General] brain21:
Picked mine up at the AT&T by Gwinett Place Mall just north of Atl., Ga. - There were like 8 of these phones avail at AT&T stores. FIrst I went to the one in Alpharetta and they had not gotten any in and the woman there said that NO Atlanta stores had gotten them on. Went back to the office and found out she was talking out of her ass. There were not a LOT in Atlanta (by about 3pm there were between 8-10 total in the Atlanta area according to the person at one store who was looking them up on the store computer. Anyway, got a white one.

Pros

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I love the screen. It looks fantastic. The edge part doesn't really look gimmicky at all, and is pretty functional. All the PROs of the Note 4, I'm not going to go through them all here.

The screen is incredibly responsive, insanely bright (10% is roughly equivalent to 25% on my HTC OneX). Some of the Edge apps are really cool. I like the notifications one, and the meeting schedule one is such a fantastic idea. I will be using that one at work a lot. But here is where the Edge screen really shines - If I am in another app, it doesn't go away and get replaced by the incoming call screen, I get a notification on the edge itself and can answer by sliding there w/o interrupting what I am doing. That is FANTASTIC. I can't tell you how much it annoyed me to be in the middle of doing something like posting to FB or a forum on the phone and get a call right in the middle of it. Same goes with SMS messages, emails, GTalk, and FB Messenger. I just get a notifiction on the Edge screen. And it's not a passive, after the fact notification like you get on your notification bar. It's a "live" notification that you can interact with and answer or decline calls with, etc.

Cons

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I wish I could customize it (the edge screens) more, but there is only 1 of the 2 shortcut icon screens for the edge that you can customize, which is stupid. I need to figure out how to make my own. I also don't like that I fill the edge screen up with my icons, and then 1 gets pushed out of the way and off screen to make room for the star which can be used to favorite other things. Ugh. I don't want that star there, but I can't get rid of it. Bad UI Design, Samsung. I have fairly large-ish hands and man, this thing is WIDE. It is not uncomfortable to hold, but forget 1-handed operation unless you put all your functions on the right side of the screen or something. You could probably use the regular Note 4 1-handed with big enough hands, but not this one. That's the trade off though. Big and beautiful doesn't come w/o a price. The phone is very thin, and the case and screen are very slippery. I worry about dropping this thing every time I pick it up! I need a case IMMEDIATELY. :) It's not uncomfortable for me to hold, but I can totally see how it might be for someone else. It can feel a little awkward though, especially if you are trying to use it 1-handed. Oh, and the fingerprint reader sucks. It routinely needs about 5 or 6 trys to unlock my phone. :(

I'm just getting used to it for now. My previous phone was an HTC One X, so learning both the Samsung interface over the HTC one, plus KitKat vs Jellybean (I still had Jellybean on mine).

All in all I really like it though!