Samsung Galaxy S6 hype thread

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Dari

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Weren't you saying the other day that Sonys road to salvation was to concentrate on the high end?

Yep. But by high-end I mean Z series only. It's in SONY's DNA to be high end and only high end. And Android high end is $699. SONY's 11% YoY growth is a testament to that. Not great and they won't get everyday people but they shouldn't have to. Samsung is another story. Pricing phones more than even iPhones is silly. And considering the quality material and attention to detail Samsung pays to its product it simply isn't priced right. If Samsung wants to continue to sell hundreds of millions of phones, it needs to be the bottom-feeder firm that we all know it is.
 

WelshBloke

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It's in SONY's DNA to be high end and only high end.

Seriously? Its in Sonys DNA to cock things up and sell slightly above zero phones.

Please dont bring your slightly retarded prejudices into this thread.
 

lopri

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That is such an irresponsible, Ars-style article that has zero informational value. According to my source, the new Galaxy S6 will have an MSRP $1,650 for the 16GB model. Samsung is expecting to sell 100M+ units in the first 2 months.

However, I will be pissed if they jack up the price of storage $100 per tier. (Is micro-SD card support confirmed yet?)
 

dawheat

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Looks like Samsung has learned nothing

There's a reason why the Galaxy Note 4 Edge is not flying off store shelves. People do not want gimmick. They want cheap phones, except for iPhones.

Men I'll be hugely surprised if the base S6 is any more expensive than the base S5 at launch. Probably mixing up the Edge with the standard S6. And frankly I'm not sure why anyone would get the Z4 if the S6 has a metallic build. New 2K AMOLED, Exynos 7420, superior camera, biometric touch sensor, light TW.
 
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Dari

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Seriously? Its in Sonys DNA to cock things up and sell slightly above zero phones.

Please dont bring your slightly retarded prejudices into this thread.

Uh huh...

Men I'll be hugely surprised if the base S6 is any more expensive than the base S5 at launch. Probably mixing up the Edge with the standard S6. And frankly I'm not sure why anyone would get the Z4 if the S6 has a metallic build. New 2K AMOLED, Exynos 7420, superior camera, biometric touch sensor, light TW.

From the article it appears that Samsung will do the same thing they did with the Galaxy Note, where there is an "Edge" version. No one bought the Edge cause it was overpriced and served zero practical purpose. It was nothing more than a tech demo that answered a question no one asked. As for the regular S6, it may or may not have what you wrote. But, what people really want are less expensive phones and better battery life. SONY and Motorola understand the latter. The former is what will move units, with the exception being Apple.
 

zaza

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Is it true Samsung is going to put their exynos garbage in the 1st world versions (US-EU) of the S6 too?

I was under the impression that exynos was reserved for 3rd world countries, as in Samsung puts cheap parts in the phone and tricks retards in the Middle east and India into thinking they're getting the snapdragon when in reality what they're getting is a cheap look-alike that has a much slower processor, much weaker gpu, stuttering laggy interface, huge overheating problems worst compatibility with playstore apps, and virtually no developer support or custom roms. I should know as I'm one of the retards who bought one of their "octa core" S5 which in reality was nothing more but two cheap quad cores glued together. The Samsung employees were actually showcasing the Snapdragon version and made everyone think that we were buying a 2.5 Ghz phone, in their own words it was "look! Our phone is clocked at 2.5 Ghz, and the HTC one m8 at 2.3 Ghz only! See how much the s5 is better?" What a draconian company.

I got swindeled by both their smartphones and their crap SSDs.

Now if it's true the s6 is going to be an exynos, I will just sit back and laugh while all the 1st world people buy it droves then start crying about it. They'll know what it feels like for us 3rd world people as we've always gotten the short end of the stick.
 

rcpratt

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It's everywhere I go. How do you like it?
I like it. I'd like it smaller better. But I'd certainly never be able to call it a gimmick...it's the best phone currently available, plus an interesting, minor tweak/addition. It's not revolutionary, but it's fun.

I got it before it was available on VZW, so maybe it's more out there now.
 
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zaza

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Actually we are back to the situation around the S2 generation when the Exynos was the best chip.

Keep dreaming.

And even if exynos hardware suddenly makes a huge leap from pos hardware used to scam 3rd world people into a processing and graphical match for the snapdragon, what will you do about the lag and stutter of Touchwiz? Did you forget that exynos has no custom roms and it never will? The developers said so.
 

poofyhairguy

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Keep dreaming.

And even if exynos hardware suddenly makes a huge leap from pos hardware used to scam 3rd world people into a processing and graphical match for the snapdragon, what will you do about the lag and stutter of Touchwiz? Did you forget that exynos has no custom roms and it never will? The developers said so.

Benchmarks are showing it to be a beast if true. Like better than the Qualcomm chip. In regards to Touchwiz the rumor is Samsung is dialing it back.

Exynos will have custom ROMs, but I suspect the GPU will be half broke. For many Americans their AT&T and Verizon models will have locked bootloaders anyway.
 

dawheat

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Keep dreaming.

And even if exynos hardware suddenly makes a huge leap from pos hardware used to scam 3rd world people into a processing and graphical match for the snapdragon, what will you do about the lag and stutter of Touchwiz? Did you forget that exynos has no custom roms and it never will? The developers said so.

Amusing post on many levels:

- Anyone who's used mobile phones for more than 2 years know how quickly things can change. Exynos SOCs used to be superior and even up to the Note 2, was a very competitive chip. Then Qualcomm had 2 years in the sun with their Krait cores and for sure, the Exynos SOC wasn't as good. But starting last fall with the 5433 in the Note 4, it's been as good if not superior. Note 4 Exynos users seem quite satisfied and there's been a bunch of posts even here on Anandtech. The 7420 looks substantially better.

There's no reason to be loyal to any particular company - these switches and ups and downs are normal. The S810 is simply not a great SOC for its generation and looks to be outclassed by this gen's 7420. This could very well change with QC's custom cores coming out EOY/early 2016.

- Congrats on then moving the goalposts. Criticism of TW is warranted, though it's more true on some phones than others. However regardless of SOC, the version of TW is going to be the same. The Note 4 skin isn't bad, Lollipop updates on international Samsung phones have shown performance and battery increases, and the S6 is supposed to take it much further. So let's see how TW is on the S6.

Basically QC deserves to be criticised as they're under performing at the high end this year. But only a fool would count them out - I except their custom core SOC to be very good, if not class leading.
 
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WelshBloke

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so its a metal banded GS5?
That's pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.

If they can keep the good bits (waterproof, awesome screen, replaceable battery, not too slippy in the hand), and improve the bad (get rid of the plastic band, get rid of usb3 socket and the flap) I'll be more than happy.

That's just hardware though.
 

Anubis

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yea I can see that, ive held a Galaxy alpha and they are nice, but for me the GS6 needs to be smaller then the 5, its already do close to the size of the note IMO
 

WelshBloke

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yea I can see that, ive held a Galaxy alpha and they are nice, but for me the GS6 needs to be smaller then the 5, its already do close to the size of the note IMO
I think that they have pretty much settled on that size for their flagship (give or take). Your best bet is to hope for a not too gimped S6 mini (if you're after a Samsung, there's lots of choice out there).
 

Oyeve

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I bought my mom a Samsung Avant last week for 100 bucks. She loves it. Its actually pretty decent.

I dont know why I bring this up.
 

Anubis

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I think that they have pretty much settled on that size for their flagship (give or take). Your best bet is to hope for a not too gimped S6 mini (if you're after a Samsung, there's lots of choice out there).

yea, the mini could be nice it it had top end specs, I don't really want a mini phone its just my opinion that things are getting too big, I have a LG G3 and its as big as I would want a phone to be. I really think the 5.3" size is the sweetspot


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