Samsung Galaxy S6 :Features

In many respects, the Galaxy S6, available in the second quarter, does feel like a new, cleaner effort for the franchise. The software and hardware has been simplified and Samsung has dialed down its Android overlay strategy and adopted Google's Material Design principles.

• Material design is a start. The version of Android with the Galaxy S6 simply looks cleaner and easier to navigate. Everything from contacts to phones to window management is easier. On the surface, the Galaxy S6 looks like it could be a cousin of Motorola's Nexus 6 that was created for Google. There appears to be some element of Samsung's TouchWiz interface, but it's downplayed.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge: design

The S6 Edge is available in four colours: white and black – as usual – plus blue and green, and all of them look great. And despite all that metal and glass, it still manages to post smaller overall dimensions than the Samsung Galaxy S5, measuring 7mm thin, 142mm tall and 70mm wide. It weighs a mere 132g.

While the Note Edge pushed the boundaries a little bit too much for us in terms of its size, we think that here, the S6 Edge delivers the perfect compromise between screen size and one-handed comfort. We were surprised at how much we liked the new design.

Samsung's design team has even managed to avoid the pitfall of having to move buttons around as it did with the Note Edge. Here, on the S6 Edge, the volume and power buttons are found in their usual positions on the left and right hand side, embedded in a very thin silver metal frame.

Screen size stasis

The S6 and S6 Edge hold steady with last year's size, 5.1 inches. This is a good call, since a larger phone would encroach on phablet territory -- and Samsung already offers that option in the excellent Galaxy Note 4, with its 5.7-inch screen

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Camera vs iphone camera

The Galaxy S6 on the whole seems to produce images that are slightly darker than its iPhone counterpart, a quality that is very apparent given the shooting conditions we had (lots of bright lighting, a tony of shiny/reflective white surfaces). The impression is that the iPhone 6 camera is a bit more effortless than the Galaxy S6 when it comes to point-and-shoot photography. For the S6, getting the perfect shot will likely take a bit more fiddling around with settings and scene.

Camera

The Galaxy S6 has a 16-megapixel camera with a f/1.9 aperture, optical image stabilisation and a fast auto-focus system. Samsung claims that it is better than the 8-megapixel camera found on the iPhone 6, which we have deemed to be the best general purpose camera phone out there in the market. In its keynote, Samsung showed demos images that showed new camera on the S6 took better images than even the iPhone 6 Plus, which has a slightly better camera than the iPhone 6 because of the added optical image stabilisation. Now, the Galaxy Note 4 also had a solid 16-megapixel camera, but it came up short of the iPhone 6 Plus. It is possible that Samsung has pulled ahead as it uses its own image sensor coupled with a new Exynos processor with a new ISP.

Either ways, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are likely to have very good cameras and will likely give the iPhone a stiff battle.

Samsung has also improved and simplified the camera app, which will make things easier for casual photographers. Samsung still provides a ton of settings, but now they are bracketed under a professional mode. The S6 is also capable of shooting video at 4K resolutions, something which the iPhone cannot.

The front facing camera on the Galaxy S6 has a 5-megapixel resolution and a f/1.9 aperture. This is significantly better than the iPhone's 1.9-megapixel camera on paper. However, Apple has proven time and again that they can outperform higher-specced competition.

samsung s6 key features

• Multiple windows are easier to launch and adjust. Hopping between apps and resizing windows should make the Galaxy S6's 5-inch screen more productive and better to view spreadsheets---all while taking a conference call. Samsung has been pushing multitasking, but the previous efforts have seemed clunky.
• Work and personal personas. Samsung has simplified its entry into its Knox container technology. A prosumer can easily toggle between a work persona and a personal one with a click. This development also isn't new and BlackBerry has had something similar. What's unclear is how many workers are actually dividing up their phone. Samsung also has multiple hooks into enterprise mobility management tools.
• Samsung bundles productivity tools, but largely leaves the Google vs. Microsoft Office debate to the user. Samsung bundles both Google and Microsoft apps, but steers clear of pitting the two directly against each other except for cloud storage.
• The camera can be launched with two clicks on the home button and other tools are more readily used with one hand with the Galaxy S6.
• The Galaxy S6 supports all wireless charging formatsand has embedded them into the device. As a result, charging at airports and other locations will be easier. Using a cord, the Galaxy S6 can reach half of a battery charge in 10 minutes. Those features obviously cater to the road warrior.
• No removable battery. That wireless charging is there for a reason. The Galaxy S6 doesn't have a removable battery. That said it's unclear how many road warriors will scream. After all, plenty of travelers carry iPhones that have had sealed batteries for years.
• No SD card support in an about-face for Samsung. To compensate for the lack of SD card support the Galaxy S6 does start with 32GB of storage and includes 65GB of Microsoft One-Drive storage. As a business tool, it's unclear how many people will miss SD card support

samsung touch wizard

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  Software could also be a decisive factor for some. Although Samsung has slimmed down its TouchWiz software this time, HTC has an excellent track record of offering excellent features while maintaining smooth performance throughout. Both devices now support themes, which will provide plenty of choice for those who don’t like the default aesthetics.

  Android Lollipop’s little tweaks also bring marginal improvements, but as most last generation handsets have already begun receiving similar updates, having the latest version of Android is not a major selling point as it has been in previous years.

  Compared with other handsets on the market, the HTC One M9 is a refinement of last years 5-inch flagship standard, offering some improved specifications, a tad more processing power and all the features that most people will need. However, many may be disappointed that look and specifications are still remarkably similar to last year’s device.

  Samsung’s Galaxy S6 is more of a leader in the hardware department, featuring the very best of Samsung’s display technology and slightly more advanced SoC hardware, with some additional features thrown in to separate it from the pack. Overall, it offers a bit more over its last generation iteration than the M9 does, and should end up as the best performing QHD handset on the market. However, the smaller battery may end up as a bottleneck for all of this tech.

  and it seems that s6 is a brillant phone.