The strong market performance of the iPhone 6 puts more pressure on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6. In the early morning of March 2, Beijing time, Samsung released its new machine on the eve of MWC in Barcelona, and gave its answer - the Galaxy S6, which has worked hard on design. Compared with the previous generation Galaxy S5, what are its compromises?

1. Glass body, more beautiful and fragile

Yes, Samsung finally gave up the plastic back cover. However, it did not use metal materials as many people expected, but chose glass. The front and rear panels of the Samsung Galaxy S6 are made of glass, and the frame is made of metal. This is consistent with the hammer Smartisan T1 and Xiaomi Note. While it becomes more quality, it inevitably needs users to hold it more carefully. After all, glass is much more fragile than plastic.

2. The battery cannot be replaced

Changing the battery was once the hallmark feature of Samsung Galaxy series mobile phones. But this is the price of the glass body: the Galaxy S6 cannot open the back cover or replace the battery. Slightly unexpected, the battery capacity of the Samsung Galaxy S6 has decreased to 2550 mAh, while that of the S5 is 2800 mAh.

3. The extended memory card is not supported

The expandable memory card was once the hallmark feature of Samsung Galaxy series mobile phones. However, the Galaxy S6, which is designed with a glass body that cannot be opened, does not provide a slot for the MicroSD card this time. Of course, the future evolution version of S6, especially the dual card version, will provide extended memory card support. In terms of body storage, the Galaxy S6 cancels the 16GB storage version and directly provides the 32/64/128 GB storage version.

4. The interface is downgraded from USB3.0 to 2.0

The wide USB 3.0 standard charging and data interface of the Galaxy S5 is replaced by the slimmer common USB 2.0 interface by the Galaxy S6. For most users, the impact is small. However, for users who are used to USB 3.0 to transmit large capacity data, it may be a bit painful, because the speed of data transmission is like dropping from 50MB broadband to 4MB era. Love to play computer games (igao7. com) said that it was originally thought that the Galaxy S6 would use a double-sided pluggable and compact Type-C USB 3.1 standard interface.

5. Waterproof function no longer available

The USB interface of the Galaxy S5 is covered and needs to be opened during charging, which is slightly troublesome. The bottom design of S6 is more simple. Because the headphone hole moves from the top to here, there is some flavor of iPhone 6. The compromise is that it no longer provides high-strength waterproof function. Users who like to listen to music while taking a bath may want to pay attention.

summary

There are gains and losses. While the Galaxy S6 becomes beautiful, it also makes many compromises. However, the so-called "compromise" varies from person to person. For a Galaxy S5 user, these five compromises more or less exist. But for a new user of Galaxy S series mobile phones, this new phone is more attractive.

Samsung, which is often criticized for not paying enough attention to design, has made a breakthrough in design this time. At this time, Iooko was surprised to find that the character of a product had also changed - when a company put product design in a more important position, those "stacked functions" were re examined. Between giving users more choices or a more holistic experience, the balance will naturally tilt backward.

IPhone has been waiting for Samsung here for a long time.

Attachment: Official promotional videos of Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge