it's the smartphone everyone is talking about the Cinco phone V2 is now
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wait apparently this video is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge I prepped the
wrong don't just stand there roll the intro I need a
minute Intel's new 750 series ssds
utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never seen before on consumer
storage drives click this spot on the table now to learn more so for my Galaxy
S6 review I had the option to go with the regular S6 or the Premium Edge model
with a curved display and I went with the edge and the short sort of spoiler
alert version of this video is this the
edge is objectively worse to use than a normal flat display but I really really
like it anyway and not just because of the curved display there is a lot to
love about this device it features badass specs for great performance and
thanks in part to The Cutting Edge 14 nanometer manufacturing process Samsung
is using to make their CPU for it it manages better battery life than its
predecessor in spite of the brighter higher resolution screen and lower
capacity battery and it does so in style
the Galaxy S6 Edge is the first Android phone since the HTC1 M7 that has really
stood out from the crowd and made me sit up and pay attention to it and while I
have to acknowledge that many of Samsung's Galaxy S Series fans are going
to be super upset that they forwent a removable battery and micr SD expansion
to make a fashion statement other than the unfortunately fashionable these days
camera bump I do really love the look on
the back is the aforementioned camera bump a single LED flash and a heart rate
sensor on the top is the IR emitter nano SIM slot and a noise cancellation
microphone on the bottom is a grill for the unfortunately positioned speaker a 3
and2 mm Jack and a micro USB charging port on the sides are the thankfully
like really everyone else how hard is
this raised for easy operation without
looking non oppos in and satisfyingly
tactile volume and lock buttons that
thanks to the not fundamentally broken design only get pressed when I intend to
press them then around at the front are the 5 megapix selfie camera touch
sensitive back and multitasking buttons fingerprint reading home button which
freaking rocks by the way and works about as well as the one on the iPhone 6
Bravo Samsung and the screen and let's
talk about that screen it is crazy e bananas bright like stupidly bright I
used the Adaptive auto brightness and found about 30% was good and while it's
not super amazing as far as motion blur is concerned it's crazy sharp thanks to
its high contrast note that I didn't say thanks to its 1440p resolution even
though it has that too because that's basically irrelevant at 5.1 in and gone
are the days of the super saturated colors on Samsung's phones it's
beautiful with nothing overdone and nothing to complain about unless a
little bit of color shift and less than the DROID turbo I love so much by the
way really bothers you and unless you
don't like the curved Sid yeah let's talk about the edge part of the Galaxy
S6 Edge shall we personally I love it
it's a super stupid gimmick with some
significant drawbacks like unavoidable Reflections when watching videos or
doing anything at all really lower than normal glass yields in manufacturing and
they've got a compensate at the edges for brightness so that they look uniform
from the front and brighter from the sides for some reason that go completely
unanswered by any kind of usability
improvement but for some reason I love it anyway I touch so many fancy high-end
gadgets that it takes something really special to capture my attention but from
the moment I first held it the Galaxy S6 Edge just made me want to admire it like
a stupid Magpie it's a stunningly beautiful device one that is undeniably
different from previous Samsung phones and from their competition and with the
curved edges Samsung has finally sold me
on that natural materials human touch or
whatever nonsense it was they were pitching back with the S3 it's smooth to
swipe onto it's smooth to swipe away from and some things I was concerned
about like typing on letters that sit at the edges were total non-issue since
only about half of the curve has ual display area behind it anyway but enough
about that let's talk about the camera the software is pretty darn solid the
dedicated buttons for photo and video from one screen are a nice thing to see
and quick launching with a double tap of the home button is great auto mode
worked perfectly 98% of the time for me with lightning fast shutter response
autofocus Auto white balance and I mean well the mode is called Auto so I think
you get the picture and while the pro mode lacks any kind of shutter control
manual white balance and the full range of iso options available in Hardware it
did manage to be useful every once in a while when I wanted manual control of
focus it's on the hardware side though that the Galaxy S6 really shines the 120
FPS 720p slow-mo is pretty unexceptional
but the seamless and not overdone HDR implementation Optical image
stabilization ability to use volume buttons as shutter buttons tracking
autofocus and surprise surprisingly good 4K recording I don't know what it is but
with some of the other phones I've used with 4K video recording including the
droid turbo and xeria Z2 it just doesn't look very good make it an absolute joy
to use is it as good as the iPhone 6 and
6 Plus's camera well the in-depth analysis over at a non-tech would seem
to indicate that in most situations no no it is not but is that difference
noticeable to my eyes no can it finally
be said that for the first time ever an Android phone is as good or like really
close almost as good pretty much across the board yes it's a total pleasure to
use and in spite of some complaints I've seen online and from other reviewers I
didn't mind the selfie camera with the wideangle lens and leg free realtime
effects making it pretty fun to play with although I'm not really sure about
this beauty mode I mean if I add just a little bit of beauty to myself it
Smooths my skin and if I turn myself all the way up to eight out of eight it
removes my pathetic patchy facial hair so that's just insulting Samsung which
leads us to what is usually the ouch part of any Samsung mobile device review
the heel to a Galaxy's Achilles or
whatever the only thing more Awkward than that sentence Samsung's TouchWiz
skin which shockingly is actually totally fine on the S6 it's still not
perfect it makes pretty much zero use of the edge with some clock or something
being pretty much it and it doesn't have the same visual appeal as the device
running it but I mean that was all I could really
complain about pre-loaded apps are very minimal split screen can be handy
performance is wicked lightning fast obnoxious stock sounds have been
replaced by Pleasant if a little generic sounding ones the old people
optimization of Icon sizes and high contrast colors all over the place is
now gone from the non easy mode and there's even some good stuff I mean why
doesn't everyone have a cog next to the volume adjustments for easy access to
all the rest of the volume sliders and I love the easy configuration of quick
toggles and the ability to schedule an SMS for someone within the stock
messaging app like I said it's not perfect but man is it a big improvement
over the last time I used TouchWiz although that was admittedly in the S4
days and I guess that's my general conclusion for the phone itself it's not
perfect uh front-facing speakers might be an ugly design decision but they
really improveed the content consumption experience and while I'm bitching about
things why on Earth can't I reconfigure the multitask and back buttons without
rooting but in spite of those flaws the Galaxy S6 Edge is beautiful and wicked
fast so much that I almost gave up my
3900 milliamp droid turbo battery for it
but not quite speaking of things I can't
give up on thanks for that segue Nick dbrand skins you folks have actually
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out the link in the video description to check out dbrand if you want to get a
cool sort of vinyl wrap for your device here's the one that's been on my iPhone
6 that was kicked around on the floor at CES and is still holding up just fine
and thanks to debrand for providing this device for the review and supporting the
channel because we wouldn't have had a Galaxy S6 without them all right guys I
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