Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge - The Edgiest Smartphone on the Market!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,899 words · ~9 min read
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it's the smartphone everyone is talking about the Cinco phone V2 is now
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available in an allnew stunning Sun
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faded beige-ish white that
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wait apparently this video is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge I prepped the
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wrong don't just stand there roll the intro I need a
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minute Intel's new 750 series ssds
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utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never seen before on consumer
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storage drives click this spot on the table now to learn more so for my Galaxy
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S6 review I had the option to go with the regular S6 or the Premium Edge model
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with a curved display and I went with the edge and the short sort of spoiler
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alert version of this video is this the
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edge is objectively worse to use than a normal flat display but I really really
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like it anyway and not just because of the curved display there is a lot to
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love about this device it features badass specs for great performance and
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thanks in part to The Cutting Edge 14 nanometer manufacturing process Samsung
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is using to make their CPU for it it manages better battery life than its
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predecessor in spite of the brighter higher resolution screen and lower
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capacity battery and it does so in style
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the Galaxy S6 Edge is the first Android phone since the HTC1 M7 that has really
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stood out from the crowd and made me sit up and pay attention to it and while I
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have to acknowledge that many of Samsung's Galaxy S Series fans are going
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to be super upset that they forwent a removable battery and micr SD expansion
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to make a fashion statement other than the unfortunately fashionable these days
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camera bump I do really love the look on
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the back is the aforementioned camera bump a single LED flash and a heart rate
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sensor on the top is the IR emitter nano SIM slot and a noise cancellation
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microphone on the bottom is a grill for the unfortunately positioned speaker a 3
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and2 mm Jack and a micro USB charging port on the sides are the thankfully
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like really everyone else how hard is
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this raised for easy operation without
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looking non oppos in and satisfyingly
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tactile volume and lock buttons that
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thanks to the not fundamentally broken design only get pressed when I intend to
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press them then around at the front are the 5 megapix selfie camera touch
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sensitive back and multitasking buttons fingerprint reading home button which
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freaking rocks by the way and works about as well as the one on the iPhone 6
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Bravo Samsung and the screen and let's
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talk about that screen it is crazy e bananas bright like stupidly bright I
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used the Adaptive auto brightness and found about 30% was good and while it's
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not super amazing as far as motion blur is concerned it's crazy sharp thanks to
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its high contrast note that I didn't say thanks to its 1440p resolution even
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though it has that too because that's basically irrelevant at 5.1 in and gone
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are the days of the super saturated colors on Samsung's phones it's
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beautiful with nothing overdone and nothing to complain about unless a
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little bit of color shift and less than the DROID turbo I love so much by the
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way really bothers you and unless you
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don't like the curved Sid yeah let's talk about the edge part of the Galaxy
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S6 Edge shall we personally I love it
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it's a super stupid gimmick with some
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significant drawbacks like unavoidable Reflections when watching videos or
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doing anything at all really lower than normal glass yields in manufacturing and
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they've got a compensate at the edges for brightness so that they look uniform
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from the front and brighter from the sides for some reason that go completely
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unanswered by any kind of usability
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improvement but for some reason I love it anyway I touch so many fancy high-end
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gadgets that it takes something really special to capture my attention but from
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the moment I first held it the Galaxy S6 Edge just made me want to admire it like
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a stupid Magpie it's a stunningly beautiful device one that is undeniably
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different from previous Samsung phones and from their competition and with the
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curved edges Samsung has finally sold me
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on that natural materials human touch or
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whatever nonsense it was they were pitching back with the S3 it's smooth to
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swipe onto it's smooth to swipe away from and some things I was concerned
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about like typing on letters that sit at the edges were total non-issue since
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only about half of the curve has ual display area behind it anyway but enough
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about that let's talk about the camera the software is pretty darn solid the
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dedicated buttons for photo and video from one screen are a nice thing to see
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and quick launching with a double tap of the home button is great auto mode
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worked perfectly 98% of the time for me with lightning fast shutter response
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autofocus Auto white balance and I mean well the mode is called Auto so I think
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you get the picture and while the pro mode lacks any kind of shutter control
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manual white balance and the full range of iso options available in Hardware it
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did manage to be useful every once in a while when I wanted manual control of
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focus it's on the hardware side though that the Galaxy S6 really shines the 120
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FPS 720p slow-mo is pretty unexceptional
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but the seamless and not overdone HDR implementation Optical image
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stabilization ability to use volume buttons as shutter buttons tracking
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autofocus and surprise surprisingly good 4K recording I don't know what it is but
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with some of the other phones I've used with 4K video recording including the
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droid turbo and xeria Z2 it just doesn't look very good make it an absolute joy
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to use is it as good as the iPhone 6 and
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6 Plus's camera well the in-depth analysis over at a non-tech would seem
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to indicate that in most situations no no it is not but is that difference
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noticeable to my eyes no can it finally
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be said that for the first time ever an Android phone is as good or like really
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close almost as good pretty much across the board yes it's a total pleasure to
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use and in spite of some complaints I've seen online and from other reviewers I
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didn't mind the selfie camera with the wideangle lens and leg free realtime
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effects making it pretty fun to play with although I'm not really sure about
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this beauty mode I mean if I add just a little bit of beauty to myself it
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Smooths my skin and if I turn myself all the way up to eight out of eight it
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removes my pathetic patchy facial hair so that's just insulting Samsung which
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leads us to what is usually the ouch part of any Samsung mobile device review
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the heel to a Galaxy's Achilles or
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whatever the only thing more Awkward than that sentence Samsung's TouchWiz
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skin which shockingly is actually totally fine on the S6 it's still not
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perfect it makes pretty much zero use of the edge with some clock or something
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being pretty much it and it doesn't have the same visual appeal as the device
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running it but I mean that was all I could really
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complain about pre-loaded apps are very minimal split screen can be handy
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performance is wicked lightning fast obnoxious stock sounds have been
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replaced by Pleasant if a little generic sounding ones the old people
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optimization of Icon sizes and high contrast colors all over the place is
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now gone from the non easy mode and there's even some good stuff I mean why
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doesn't everyone have a cog next to the volume adjustments for easy access to
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all the rest of the volume sliders and I love the easy configuration of quick
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toggles and the ability to schedule an SMS for someone within the stock
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messaging app like I said it's not perfect but man is it a big improvement
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over the last time I used TouchWiz although that was admittedly in the S4
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days and I guess that's my general conclusion for the phone itself it's not
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perfect uh front-facing speakers might be an ugly design decision but they
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really improveed the content consumption experience and while I'm bitching about
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things why on Earth can't I reconfigure the multitask and back buttons without
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rooting but in spite of those flaws the Galaxy S6 Edge is beautiful and wicked
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fast so much that I almost gave up my
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3900 milliamp droid turbo battery for it
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but not quite speaking of things I can't
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give up on thanks for that segue Nick dbrand skins you folks have actually
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been looking at a dbrand skin for well however long this video was I'm guessing
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about 9 Minutes 9 and a half half uh
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they're awesome skins they've got them available for all types of devices
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whether they're phones or game consoles or game controllers or whatever else the
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case may be they're designed to be a perfect fit for your device and you guys
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have been staring at an awful lot of macro footage of this one so that should
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tell you pretty much all you need to know they come in many different looks
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textures and colors for any style you want to show like carbon fiber which is
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my personal favorite and why all of the devices that I have with dbrand skins
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tend to have that on them uh they've got like matte finishes metall looking stuff
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leather true color they've even got a wood one that actually looks pretty darn
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cool so I think that's pretty much all there is to say about that guys check
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out the link in the video description to check out dbrand if you want to get a
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cool sort of vinyl wrap for your device here's the one that's been on my iPhone
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6 that was kicked around on the floor at CES and is still holding up just fine
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and thanks to debrand for providing this device for the review and supporting the
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channel because we wouldn't have had a Galaxy S6 without them all right guys I
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think that's pretty much it thanks for watching like if you liked dislike if
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