Yesterday, at a special event in Barcelona, the Samsung unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S6 and its modification with the curved Galaxy S6 Edge screen. The device turned on its head interesting their predecessors, they have several exclusive the Samsung chips, but they clearly guess the iPhone 6. However complicated it may be, we will try to compare them with Samsung flagship.
Design
Compared with last year's model, the new flagship Galaxy S6 and his "crooked brother» S6 Edge look much better and match their price tag. Samsung has finally heard the pleas of users and completely moved away from the use of perforated plastic and moved on glass and metal - a sandwich of glass panels and metal frame between them. There could be a joke, that this concept Apple has already held in 2010, but oh well. The front and rear panel units (both leader completely identical except for the curved screen S6 Edge) covered glass Gorilla Glass 4, wherein the rear side under glass coated paint. There will be five different colors - black, white, beige, dark blue, and green.
Due to a non-removable battery (yes!) Housing became more monolithic, and the similarities with the iPhone 6 adds serving Camera and operation of the biometric sensor - now do not drag on, simply touch. Talk about the similarities with the iPhone 6, there is not even necessary - as journalists say, were present at the presentation, "at certain angles the new flagship of Samsung is very easy to be confused with the iPhone 6".
Dimensions
Galaxy S6 to-size small enough (143 × 71 × 6.8 mm), although the steel frame and the glass panel Koreans able to obtain a thickness even less (at least 0.1 mm but smaller) than the iPhone 6. But by weight (138 g vs. 129 g), it could not be beat, it's not surprising, given the display diagonal of 5.1 inches. Bravo, Samsung, that's just not quite believe that with such a thick and it does not bend, as stated at the presentation.
Display
Oddly enough, the Samsung did not at this time to increase the diagonal of the screen and left last year's 5.1 inches, the traditional technology for the company - Super AMOLED. But Samsung would not be Samsung, if something is not increased, so this time to "pump" the screen resolution, lifting it up to standard Quad HD, which equals 2560h1440 pixels. With this achieved rekornoy pixel density 577 ppi. It is of course much higher than in the iPhone 6 (326 ppi), that's only benefit from such an upgrade is doubtful - after all this is an additional load on the processor and battery. Modification S6 Edge is equipped with curved edges to the display, which by the way is no longer on and so curved as in last year's version, you see a couple of years and he did, "smoothed".
hardware platform
Both flagship Samsung are built on their own Exynos chipset, is more affordable analogue Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm. It uses an 8-core CPU and graphics Mali-T760, RAM is 3 gigabytes. The processor is now 64-bit (hello, Apple!) And made the new 14-nanometer process technology, provides a reduction in power consumption. This is very important because in addition to the increased due to the higher resolution of the display load, the Samsung also reduce battery capacity in favor of thickness. In addition, about any "hot-swappable", which so loved to show off in advertising Koreans now can be no question, because the battery is due, the disposable housing is now removable. The company decided to abandon the memory card expansion slot (who loved to sport fans), and now all the Galaxy S6 as the iPhone 6. The internal memory may be 32, 64 and 128 GB, depending on the model.
Communications, additional equipment and services
In terms of communication at Galaxy S6 features there is nothing outstanding, support for all modern standards here present - LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, the NFC, short, almost everything that is already in iPhone 6. From the unusual can be identified only Cardiosensor, even until to the end and do not understand its practical use.
Biometric Sensor Samsung has brought to mind, and now he works more efficiently, Home button (together with it and the sensor) has become more and instead of sliding your finger across its surface is now relatively simple touch. EXCLUSIVE fichey flagship service has become Samsung Pay, working through NFC technology similar to the Apple Pay. Samsung did not reinvent bike special equipment and install it in a variety of retail outlets, and went the other way - I bought the company LoopPayWhose technology is already working around the world and used its achievements. As a result, Samsung got to Apple a big advantage of the prevalence (over 10 million shops against 220 thousand), but Samsung Pay will perceive the audience and whether it will be in demand - will time.
Camera and video
Galaxy S6 Samsung camera calls the most advanced in the history of their smartphones. The main module has a resolution of 16 Mega Pixels, diaphragm ƒ / 1.9, and optical image stabilization. A special focus is on the mode of Real-Time HDR, which allows to shoot in low light conditions and fast (0.7 seconds) to activate the camera by double-clicking the Home button. Camera features include face detection function, HDR, panormnoy capture and geotagging. There is also a LED flash.
Galaxy S6 can record video in 2160p format at 30 Cardo per second, 1080p video at 60 frames and 720p - with a frequency of 120 frames per second. The front camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels, video recording in 1080p, HDR and simultaneous display of images from both cameras with video calls.
All this, of course, superior to iPhone 6 parameters, but do not forget that we compare just the bare figures and that parallels conducted with last year's flagship Apple's, because this year its course it has not already done.
OS and software
It is working all this splendor is running Android 5.0 with a proprietary shell TouchWiz, which has been optimized and redesigned in accordance with the philosophy of Material Design. Samsung in collaboration with Microsoft offers to all owners of Galaxy S6 115 gigabytes in OneDrive cloud, as well as pre-installed Skype and OneNote. These applications are placed in a special Microsoft Apps folder, which will be secured on your home screen.
Compare Software Galaxy S6 with iOS is not entirely correct, but on the part of the application can be said that Apple devices are always of their complements (iWork, iLife), so there's an advantage for her.
Autonomous operating time
As mentioned above, Samsung has reduced the capacity of the battery (2550 mAh against 2800 at the Galaxy S5), despite the increased workload due to the increased resolution of the display. Apparently, the level it should be more power-efficient processor, as will be in reality - already see soon.
Samsung claims 12 and 11 hours surfing the Wi-Fi networks and the LTE, respectively, 13 hours of video playback and 49 hours of music. It is approximately equal to the similar indices iPhone 6. I think we can assume day battery life with recharging night with the active use as it will be the truth - we'll see.
The Galaxy S6 has tehnolgiya wireless charging, which in the iPhone is not yet supported. Samsung's flagship rapid charging is also thanks to the proprietary technology can be 10 minutes to charge to a level sufficient to four hours of use.
Options and Prices
Galaxy S6 will have three models of different capacity drive - 32, 64 and 128 GB, which can be presented in four colors - black, white, golden, dark blue (S6 Edge also in green). As for prices, at the moment we only know that the curved S6 Edge will be $ 100 more expensive than the S6. But apparently, the price leader will be at the price of last year's Galaxy S5 - about 650 euros. This is the same price category as that of the iPhone 6, therefore, other things being equal choice will determine your preferences. In the sale of novelty should appear April 10.
results
Whatever it was, the new flagship of Samsung turned out quite interesting - the company changed some of their traditions, refused to memory cards removable battery and cheap finishing materials applied its advanced experience in the field of hardware, something that, as usual, to copy something changed. I think we can all genuinely happy for Samsung fans - they finally have a smart phone, which had long dreamed of. As for the competition with the iPhone, I think in this regard is unlikely anything will change. And at that, and the other smartphone find its admirers, though Apple should pay tribute, because her last year's flagship can compete with the latest development of the Samsung, and it is about something says yes.