Samsung Electronics released the Galaxy Note Edge smartphone in its home country. SK Telecom will be the first carrier to offer the device, with KT and LG Uplus to follow by the middle of November.

The Note Edge has a cured edge screen in the right side, which functions independently from the main screen. The curved display contains information such as date, time and alarm when on standby, but also some contextual controlling features, notifications like latest news, app shortcuts and stock information.

The Galaxy Edge has a 5.6-inch Quad HD Super active matrix organic light emitting diodes (Super-AMOLED) touch screen with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset with a quad-core 2.7 GHz processor. It comes in two colors, charcoal black and frost white.

Samsung installed 16-megapixel rear camera and 3.7-megapixel front camera on the device, the same specs as the ones installed in the Galaxy Note 4.

The phablet runs on a 3,000mAh battery and provides memory capacity of 32GB.

The factory price of the Note Edge is 1.06 million won, according to the company.