Check out our review of the curved Galaxy S6 Edge
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Body
The Galaxy S6 has a metal rim and glass front and back. That’s a big step from the plastic housing of the Galaxy S5. The new device also feels very solid and the finish is excellent. Samsung shows all materials seamlessly into each other.
The device has also been given a new design. From the front, it is still clearly a Samsung device, but the rounded metal edge is completely new. The buttons fall nicely away in the flat portion of the rim.
The edge and sleek glass back will make sure that the S6 which is smooth and fast out of hand slip. Which back is also prone to scratches than the plastic housing of last year
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The fingerprint scanner is again incorporated into the home button, but now works a lot better and faster than the S5, and this year is a real addition. A disadvantage of the glass enclosure is that the battery can no longer be removed and there is no microSD slot is present. With standard 32 GB of storage Samsung solves that problem though already partly. The Galaxy S6 is not like the S5 waterproof
Screen
The 5.1 inch screen has a qHD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. The S5 also had a 5.1-inch screen, but with a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The higher resolution provides more pixels per inch, but with the naked eye, this difference is not visible. The display was and is sharp.
The screen quality is excellent. The brightness is extremely high and because Samsung choose an AMOLED screen, black is black and the contrast is almost infinite. This means that colors are bright and the screen splash
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By default, select Samsung screen mode Adaptable . That means that what oversaturated colors are displayed and are brighter than they should be. Some people find that pretty, but the Basic position ensures natural colors. That position shows how good the screen is. Both bright colors like grays and white are displayed almost perfectly.
Cameras
The Galaxy S6 uses the same camera 16-megapixel sensor that was in the Galaxy Note 4 last year found. That’s not a shame as the Note 4 was one of the best smartphone cameras of 2014. In addition, Samsung adds this year what lichtgevoeligere sensor to f / 1.9 and a new image processor to.
Due to the sensitive sensor and optical beeldstabilisaties the camera takes better pictures in the dark, with beautiful colors are recorded . In daylight, the colors are very natural and you can see many details. The S6 also copes well with backlight
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In almost all situations, the S6 as well or better from the bus when the iPhone 6, one of the best smartphone cameras of this moment. The only downside is that the Galaxy S6 gives in warm artificial light, such as in the evening on a drive, camera pictures what a warm glow. In general, the white display of the Galaxy S6 is correct slightly better than in many other devices.
By pressing twice on the home button starts the camera directly from any screen. Even when the screen is off. This ensures that you can quickly take a picture. The camera itself is very responsive and the camera app has been improved. There is less fuss present and selecting a different position considerably easier.
The selfiecamera at the front has 5 megapixels and also a sensor of f / 1.9. This means that also in the dark selfies particularly well with many details and beautiful colors. During the day made selfies better than the Note 4, HTC One M9 or iPhone 6.
Performance
Samsung opts this year for a Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, but uses its own Exynos processor with eight cores. The performance of the device are impressive and during the test period faltered Galaxy S6 not once. That was when the S5 sometimes different. Everything works the fly and in our benchmark tests Samsung shows to deliver the best performance
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Part of smooth functioning is due to the simplified software. The Galaxy S6 runs on Android 5.0 with a new version of Touchwiz, Samsung’s own software layer.
There are fewer apps installed by default, almost all the apps that are installed or can be removed or hidden. In addition, there are far fewer pop-ups and alerts shown and the settings menu heavy taken in hand from 62 to 26 options
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Left settings on the S6, right on the S5
The design has been modified slightly. There are design elements taken from Android 5.0 and menus are white instead of dark. That makes together a consistent and simple image. Furthermore, Samsung still makes much use of round icons and pretty bright colors
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| Screen | 5.1 inch |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1440 pixels |
| Size | 143.4 x 70.5 x 6.8 mm |
| Weight | 138 grams |
| Processor | octacore Exynos 7420 |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Cameras | 16 and 5 megapixel |
| Battery | 2550 mAh |
| Software | Android 5.0 |
| Storage | 32/64/128 GB |
| Price | 699 euros |
Battery life
Despite the qHD screen, which requires more energy, and the more powerful processor Samsung has chosen the Galaxy S6 for a smaller battery than the Galaxy S5.
In practice, the S6 was after a day fairly intensive use always empty. Some competitors keep the day and a half full. Samsung has managed to make the chip so efficient that the difference is not too big so the battery life more than sufficient, but not remarkably well
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In our video test involves the Galaxy S6 over the full twelve hours. This is less than the Galaxy S5 and iPhone 6. In addition to this the qHD resolution used.
Conclusion
Samsung Galaxy S6 sets itself to the back on the map. Battery life may still be better, but Samsung is big steps with its software. Moreover, the Galaxy S6 has one of the best displays and cameras and delivers very impressive performance.
This is the Galaxy S6 best Android device that we have ever tested and Samsung makes the competition this year is very difficult .
- Beautiful screen
- Excellent performance
- Sublime finish
- Solid housing
- Good cameras
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