*** The Official Samsung Galaxy S6/Edge Thread ***

I'm personally really digging the blue standard s6,the edge does look nice and being able to configure certain colour's/lights to the edge when the phone is faced down is actually pretty useful but not sure it's £100 more useful.

Overall happy with the look of the phone but disappointing it's launching a month later than anticipated.
 
Agreed with njj1046's post above. The battery in my S4 went shortly after I got the phone, so had to get it replaced. Pretty gutted that we're losing the SD card slot too. This will likely be the deal breaker for me. If I stick with Samsung, then I'll probably just go for the S5.
 
njj1046 said:
And on that note, I really would like an explanation on how the Super AMOLED screen on the S6 draws less power than previous Super AMOLED screens.
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It's an evolution of OLED.

Comparison with the Galaxy Note 3:

The Galaxy Note 4 is 14 percent more power efficient than the Galaxy Note 3. This is due primarily to a 19 percent improvement
in the power efficiency of the Green Primary channel (materials and electronics). The results are scaled for the same Luminance.

Comparison with LCDs:

While LCDs remain more power efficient for images with mostly white content (like text screens, for example), OLEDs are now
more power efficient for mixed image content because they are emissive displays so their power varies with the Average Picture
Level (average Brightness) of the image content. For LCDs the display power is independent of image content. OLEDs have
been rapidly improving in their power efficiency. In fact, the Galaxy Note 4 is 40 percent more power efficient than the
Full HD LCD Smartphones we tested for mixed image content (that includes photos, videos, and movies, for example)
with a typical 50 percent Average Picture Level, APL.
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http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1.htm
 
Time to start looking at the alternatives.

The S6 just seems like such a backwards step. Removable battery gone (needed this plenty of times on S2 and S4, just to hard reset the bloody thing sometimes). Expandable storage gone, so it will cost me vastly more to get anything approaching sensible storage.

Add in other developments like aluminium body, glass backed etc. and they've virtually gone and made a slightly bigger iPhone 4S. :/

Not getting the excitement on this one, unless i've missed something massive? About the only innovative thing about it is the edge nonsense but i'm yet to actually understand quite what this achieves other than 'ooooh' factor and a screen that's probably much more susceptible to breakage?
 
Fallen god said:
Its always going to improve year over year. I think whats more interesting is the SoC and how it goes against the S810.
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Both are cortex a57/a53 big.little configurations...i would expect minimal differences between the two,the snapdragon probably 5-10% better gpu wise than the exynos and the other way round cpu wise for exynos vs snapdragon.

Qualcomm do have a big lead with lte cat 9 though but it's a bit of a moot point considering networks are not going to use that standard for a few years.
 
haroon said:
Both are cortex a57/a53 big.little configurations...i would expect minimal differences between the two,the snapdragon probably 5-10% better gpu wise than the exynos and the other way round cpu wise for exynos vs snapdragon
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What's more interesting is the special sauce inhouse firmware they'll use to speedstep and powergate.

All should be revealed by Anandtech.
 
njj1046 said:
I'm just so disappointed. I currently have a GS2 and I'm desperately looking for a suitable upgrade.

I was willing to overlook the absence of an SD card slot, and pay the Samsung premium for a greater amount of their own on board memory.

Their choice to remove the option of a removeable batter really narks me. It really limits the lifespan of the device.

If what I've read is correct, the standard S6 will ship with a 2550mah battery. It really doesn't matter how efficient the CPU/GPU will be. The screen will always be the biggest drain on the battery.



And on that note, I really would like an explanation on how the Super AMOLED screen on the S6 draws less power than previous Super AMOLED screens.
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Agree with you.
If I don't use my phone battery can last for ages. But using it for any length of time with nothing cpu intensive battery can be decimated quickly!
1080p
Big battery at least 3000
5-5.2 inches

And that's why I have one plus one a tad too big but great battery!
 
haroon said:
I'm personally really digging the blue standard s6,the edge does look nice and being able to configure certain colour's/lights to the edge when the phone is faced down is actually pretty useful but not sure it's £100 more useful.
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Is it definitely £100 more, I thought somebody guessed it would be and now everyone seems to have gone with that, or has it been confirmed?
 
AlecR said:
No of course not, but I have kept at least one phone for a year :p
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mark43 said:
Is it definitely £100 more, I thought somebody guessed it would be and now everyone seems to have gone with that, or has it been confirmed?
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No confirmation from any official source yet on pricing so everything is speculative in this regard.
 
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