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

mrk said:
You're moaning about your HTC which has no relation to the S6 :confused:
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I'm moaning about non-changeable batteries using experience gained from using non-changeable devices in other devices. They are bad for consumers and great for manufacturers.

Put the Samsung Fanboy owners club card down for a second and you'll see that all manufacturers are doing what they can to both limit the appeal of the devices in the long term and maximise the cost in the short term. This is, of course, business, but it doesn't mean we need to either like or blindly and slavishly follow it. No SD card slot and the non-removable battery are the two biggest ones, the ONLY reasons phones do not have an SD card slot is to force you to pay £50-£150 more to do nothing other than increase storage capacity by the amount you'd get with a £20 SD card. That is it.

HTC, Samsung, Apple - they are all doing it and we reward them by trading in phones we bought for £500+ for 90 quid 12-24 months later and splashing out another 600 quid on devices which are fundamentally the same as the ones we got rid of. The industry is stale, we've peaked with phones and the differences are getting more and more incremental and manufacturers know this.

There is no way I'd ever consider changing my HTC One M7 if the battery hadn't started lasting only 5 hours. Oh, how convenient, suddenly I have a compelling reason to trade my phone in for 20p and purchase one almost exactly the same for another 600 quid..
 
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Its many years since I had a phone with a removable battery or micro SD slot, definitely non issues for me. I've never liked the look of Samsung phones until now, the 6 edge looks fantastic. Samsung definitely seem to be going in the right direction as far as I'm concerned, based on this.

konicky said:
Standard S6 is a really bland design although the coloured backs do improve things a bit. Samsung should have been brave enough to just launch the edge version, a 32GB Edge at £550 would have been an interesting proposition.
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Yeah, but it would have been a massive gamble and probably a silly one. As great as some of us think it looks I'm sure there will be others who hate it, and if they can just do both then why not. Though I don't like the idea of having to pay loads extra for the edge.
 
[TW]Fox;27713361 said:
I'm moaning about non-changeable batteries using experience gained from using non-changeable devices in other devices. They are bad for consumers and great for manufacturers.
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He seems to be in full Sammy defense mode. At least on the older iPhone's you you could swap out the batteries with some tools. Wonder what this is like.
 
I wonder if they will do the same for note 5

If so, the Note 4 will be a sought after phone come end of the year :)

Couldn't imagine a note with fixed battery and no sd card slot
 
Pricing for S6: £507 for the 32GB, £580 for the 64GB and £652 for the 128GB model.

Edge will cost £615, £688 and £760.
 
wow. we really are starting to pay through the nose for phones these days. i dont usually complain about the price, but how does such a small piece of tech cost so much? :eek: i'll probably be buying it regardless.
 
20% Edge premium at the base suggests they don't expect to sell all that much of it and the flash premium is apple territory. It's a nice device but I rely too heavily on my card currently to consider it but the public take up of memory cards is low/moderate so I can see their reasoning for removing. I'm glad they ditched the waterproofing - while some manufacturers made it work as part of their design I really felt the S5 didn't need this. I think I'm more impressed by the voltages they have managed rather than the screen edge, just feels like it passed the gimmick line and at an extra ton it's not like you'll get that out of swiping some contacts. Someone will put in it in a launcher's pro edition in 10 days anyway if people want it.
 
This just seems to take away good features rather than add any?

So it has a faster SOC....but isn't waterproof, doesn't have a removable battery and has no sd slot. Brilliant....

Also, whilst the Edge version does look cool, I can never actually see the advantage or point to having the curved edges?
 
[TW]Fox;27713361 said:
No SD card slot and the non-removable battery are the two biggest ones, the ONLY reasons phones do not have an SD card slot is to force you to pay £50-£150 more to do nothing other than increase storage capacity by the amount you'd get with a £20 SD card. That is it.
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Not exactly true. If it were, the 64gb version of the S5 wouldn't be £100 more expensive than the 32gb version.

The built in storage memory is far superior to even the most expensive SD cards in both terms of performance and reliability.

I'd much rather have a 128gb unit with no SD slot than say a 64gb one and a 64gb card in it.

Having said all that, micro SD slots are tiny so whilst I understand a unibody design makes a removal battery impossible, I don't see why a memory card slot can't be included next the to micro USB port on the bottom.
 
Myshra said:
20% Edge premium at the base suggests they don't expect to sell all that much of it and the flash premium is apple territory. It's a nice device but I rely too heavily on my card currently to consider it but the public take up of memory cards is low/moderate so I can see their reasoning for removing. I'm glad they ditched the waterproofing - while some manufacturers made it work as part of their design I really felt the S5 didn't need this. I think I'm more impressed by the voltages they have managed rather than the screen edge, just feels like it passed the gimmick line and at an extra ton it's not like you'll get that out of swiping some contacts. Someone will put in it in a launcher's pro edition in 10 days anyway if people want it.
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I hear what you're saying about the Edge but still find myself gravitating towards it. I can't see a practical use either but I'm wanting it more as an aesthetic feature, mainly because I love the overall look it gives the phone.

I currently have the S4 and the standard S6 looks at a glance exactly the same, so it may mean paying that premium just for the change.

I reckon it could well outsell the regular version (providing it isn't priced too highly above it) as most of the chatter I see on Facebook amongst friend has people saying they want the edge version. The novelty factor alone will sell a few million units I reckon.
 
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