It’s all about perspective: critics of the curved Galaxy Note 7 are just flat wrong!

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Pretty good article about the Flat and curve debate of the Note 7.

he Galaxy Note 7 should be compared to the Galaxy Note 5, not the Galaxy S7 edge

Here’s a thought: the Galaxy Note 7 should be compared to the Galaxy Note 5, it’s proper predecessor, not the Galaxy S7 edge. The Galaxy Note 7 will have a curved design that it’s not borrowing from the S7 edge, but instead, the Note Edge that was announced alongside of the Galaxy Note 4 back in 2014. If anything, Samsung brought the curved design from the Note over to the S line in the Galaxy S6 edge in 2015, so the Galaxy S7 edge shouldn’t even enter the equation when talking about the Note’s curved design.

The Galaxy Note 7 can’t be “a bigger Galaxy S7 edge with an S Pen” because it isn’t borrowing its design language from the S7 edge, but instead, the Note Edge (with some tweaks). The Note Edge was the start of Samsung’s curved revolution. It’s fine that the curved display was too futuristic for some when it was announced two years ago: great ideas are usually ahead of their time, anyway, and are embraced later. This is what we see happening with the Galaxy S6 edge and Galaxy S7 edge.

The Galaxy S7 edge, if anything, has borrowed its design from the Galaxy S6 edge — which borrowed its design from the Galaxy Note Edge. That’s where the curved revolution started, and that’s where the discussion should begin. Placing the Galaxy S7 edge in the equation sounds to me like “card-stacking” at its finest.

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