Apr 30, 2015 06:03 PM
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(Updated Apr 30, 2015 06:03 PM)
DESIGN AND DISPLAY:
A beautiful and bold design by SAMSUNG, It’s only once you pick it up that you grasp its significance – the reality that this is like no Samsung that’s come before. It is slim sandwich of glass and aluminum, 6.8mm thick and very lightweight at 138g. Everything from button travel and feedback to the SIM tray’s ejection mechanism is top-notch. While it may look like an APPLE knock off there’s plenty of Samsung’s ID to set it apart. It boasts of Quad HD display with 577 pixels every inch. Gone is the cumbersome and awkward swipe sensor of yesteryear: the S6’s fingerprint reader is instead a simple press-and-hold affair - another APPLE knock off.
SOFTWARE:
At first glance, the new software doesn’t seem all that different. The goofy icons and garish colors of past builds still shine brightly from the out-of-box software. A new introduction this year is theming capability allowing you to change the look and feel of everything on the screen. Multi Window, one of the Galaxy line’s biggest standouts, is still here – and it’s still the best implementation of side-by-side multitasking on any smartphone. Though all this sounds good but I would have loved a custom ROM with few multitasking abilities thrown in from SAMSUNG. Although this time around you can uninstall most of the SAMSUNG bloat ware and even GOOGLE's own applications. We all know how badly the SAMSUNG's software age, let’s hope it does well this time around.
CAMERA:
Gone are the pop-up panels filled with pages of buttons; gone are the thumb carousels with oversized icons. In their place is a sleek, minimal viewfinder with drop-down quick toggles on the left and shutter/capture buttons on the right, anchored by a circular shortcut leading to a small hub of shooting modes. A handful are preloaded out of the box, and if you miss older Galaxy mainstays like Sports Mode or Sound& Shot, don’t fret – they’re easy to find and download. Of course Samsung couldn’t help but add something here, and fortunately it’s pretty cool: “Virtual Shot” lets you to combine multiple angles of a subject into a single faux-3D photo. You can then change the viewing angle either with a finger or by physically moving the device.
