Samsung released the Galaxy S5 last year, but due to the unsatisfactory configuration and appearance design, the user evaluation was not very good. After a year of "accumulation", Samsung released two flagship phones in MWC 2015 - the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. What surprises did Samsung bring us this time?

Design and materials

In the past, Samsung has been complained by many users about its appearance design and materials, mainly focusing on plastic body and "imitation metal" frame design. From Galaxy Alpha, Samsung began to set foot in the metal middle box, and then inherited this design on Galaxy Note 4. On several products of Samsung's new low-end series Galaxy A, Samsung tried to use the metal integrated body design for the first time. The body is made of metal in a large area. On the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, we see a new body mechanism. The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge have added a glass back cover to the back of the body on the basis of maintaining the design of the metal middle frame. Although we have seen similar structures on the iPhone 4 and Sony Xperia Z1, we are still surprised that this combination appears on the Samsung flagship.

However, with the addition of a glass back cover and the design of an ultra thin body, the Galaxy S6 also has some new problems. The advantages of Samsung's products in the past, such as replaceable batteries and expandable capacity through tf cards, can no longer be found in the Galaxy S6. It is estimated that many Samsung old users will be disappointed with this setting.

hardware configuration

Samsung has strong hardware strength due to its advantages in the mobile phone industry. We can see SoC, baseband chip, memory chip, flash memory chip, screen panel, camera sensor from Samsung on Galaxy series mobile phones. This super comprehensive strength is beyond the reach of other manufacturers. In the case of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung has also taken its advantages in this area to the extreme. After the release of the Galaxy S5, there were many complaints about its hardware configuration, mainly about the screen resolution and memory capacity. With the Galaxy S6, Samsung used almost all the materials that could be "stacked":

The screen is Samsung's "traditional strength". Samsung has also added its own expertise, Super AMOLED, to the Galaxy S6. The 5.1 inch 2560 * 1440 resolution screen PPI is up to 577. We have seen this specification of screen on the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A, and the effect is really amazing, but this product was only sold in South Korea at that time. For the Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung is the first time to apply the curved screen of the double-sided side screen to the mobile phone. On the Galaxy Note Edge, we experience the new functions brought by the curved side screen for the first time. In the Galaxy S6 edge, we have boldly added the curved side screen to the left side of the mobile phone, and also given it more value-added functions.

In terms of SoC, Galaxy S6 uses Exynos 7420, the world's first mobile processor with 14nm FinFET technology. This SoC has a very powerful configuration. It uses a 64 bit eight core architecture and consists of four core Cortex-A57 2.1GHz and four core Cortex-A53 1.5GHz. Such CPU indicators can be said to be superior to others. In terms of GPU, Exynos 7420 is matched with Mali-T760mp8 772MHz, which is greatly improved compared with Mali-T760mp6 of Exynos 5433. In addition, 3G LPDDR4 1552MHz is used, and the memory bandwidth is up to 24.8GB/s. All these data are top configured in the high-end mobile phone market, and Samsung has pushed the configuration of the Galaxy S6 to a new height with its own hardware strength.

In addition to the super performance of SoC, Galaxy S6 also uses the UFS (Universal Flash Storage) 2.0 just released by Samsung. This is a new standard flash memory chip, which can achieve a higher read and write speed than previous eMMC5.0. The random read speed of 128G version of UFS2.0 chip has reached 19000IOPS (eMMC5.0 is 7000IOPS), and the random write speed is 14000IOPS, which has reached the standard of SSD.

In terms of camera, Galaxy S6 uses the same IMX240 sensor as Galaxy Note 4, and the sensor size is 1/2.6 inch. However, the lens has been greatly improved. In addition to the OIS optical anti shake on the Galaxy Note 4, the Galaxy S6 also uses the F1.9 aperture to further improve the night scene shooting ability.

In addition to the traditional hardware competition projects such as SoC and camera, the Galaxy S6 is limited by the thin body, the battery capacity is not large, and the battery is not detachable, which may cause some problems in terms of endurance. Samsung has added fast charging 2.0 and wireless charging functions to the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge.

Samsung has added fingerprint recognition modules to the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note4, but it is a sliding fingerprint recognition sensor, which is not as convenient and fast as the push fingerprint recognition on the iPhone and MX4 Pro. On the Galaxy S6, Samsung has also added a push fingerprint identification module, which makes the physical home wider and more prominent.

Finally, let's compare the configurations of Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, HTC One M9 and Galaxy S5. The international version shall prevail, and the 3G eight core version shall prevail:

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summary

From the perspective of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung can be said to have had enough strength to fight back. Samsung's determination can be seen from its innovation in design and super strong hardware configuration. All kinds of advanced hardware features are enough to show the momentum of the machine king, and also reflect Samsung's ability in hardware manufacturing. However, due to the deliberate pursuit of thin and light body, these two mobile phones have abandoned the "traditional advantages" of Samsung mobile phones - replaceable batteries and pluggable tf cards. At the same time, because the body is too thin, the battery capacity is reduced to 2550mAh and 2600mAh. The specific endurance time will be tested in detail after the retail version is launched.