Friends+Design
- Elegant, premium metal design
- At 6.9 mm, it is really slim - doesn’t feel like a “big phone” when you first hold it - its slim profile and the slight curves near the edges make for a decent and comfortable grip
- That's not the only ergonomic advantage this phone has - it is also considerably lighter than its peers at 189 grams
- Fingerprint sensor is on the slower side - and it's accuracy also could have been better
Display
- Very good display with punchy and pleasantly oversaturated colours - viewing angles, and brightness levels are excellent too
- The huge size of the display makes it especially well suited for media consumption
- Auto-brightness adjustments are smooth as well
Software
- Touchwiz UI over Android is light, and adds a nice bunch of features like the "Always On" display
Performance
- Very good performance - has oodles of RAM and the Snapdragon 653 inside is slick and fast - in regular use, the phone is fluid and doesn't skip a beat in any way - things are largely flagship-like, and it's only in the most demanding games that you might notice a performance drop from the Snapdragon 820/821
- Has a tendency to heat up, when pushed in terms of performance
Camera
- Decent rear camera - daylight shot are good most of the times, macro shots are good, thanks to the f/1.9 aperture, HDR shots are good as well, low-light shots could have been better
- Decent front camera, with good level of details
- No support for 4K video capture, or slow motion video recording, that is generally expected at this price point
Battery
- Decent battery life - for a regular user - there is a full work day’s worth of battery life and then some more
- Supports fast charging, with 10-100% charge possible in just under an hour
More
- Samsung has also made it much narrower than the Mi Max and Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra, making this the most ergonomic of all phablets in the market right now
