Samsung Galaxy Note 7 review: Cool new features make it an Android sensation

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 review: Cool new features make it an Android sensation

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 review: Cool new features make it an Android sensation

Samsung's new Note 7 smartphone is packed full of cool features.The headline act is its iris-scanning technology that supposedly makes the device more secure.It also supports high-dynamic range video, the industry's latest attempt to make consumers excited about image quality.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review: Best New Android Phone

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review: Best New Android Phone

Samsung's latest Galaxy Note phablet has a new and improved waterproof design and stylus.WSJ's Joanna Stern shot her entire review underwater — often using the phone itself as the camera.Photo: Adya Beasley/The Wall Street JournalSomewhere around minute 25 of hearing a Samsung SSNHZ 0.00 % executive wax on about the new Galaxy Note 7 stylus—sorry, "S Pen"—I decided I would scribble the entirety of this column in little notes with the toothpick-shaped pointer.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review – The best Android of 2016

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review – The best Android of 2016

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review – The best Android of 2016You could forgive Samsung for gloating with the Galaxy Note 7; after all, the phablet category the original Note created was dismissed by many as a sure-fire flop.People laughed at its size, its stylus, and its price, and yet time after time, generation after generation, Samsung has demonstrated it knows what its most serious users want.Now, with the Note 7, it's time for the phablet to go mass-market.