Regardless of the pre release press, the Apple products always get better reviews than their Samsung counterparts. The iPhone is the market leader and has the bullseye on it's back.
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Samsung Announces Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Samsung Pay
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Regardless of the pre release press, the Apple products always get better reviews than their Samsung counterparts. The iPhone is the market leader and has the bullseye on it's back.
Apple has no issues running 3 of the cores on the iPad Air 2. The point is that mobile devices have yet to make great use of more than 2 cores, so the advantage of multiple cores is less than that for PCs. Apple realized that 2 years ago. Samsung has promised its own custom design AArch64 chips by the end of the year. I'd be very surprised if they use big.LITTLE as it is inefficient as at least 4 and up to 7 cores are inactive at all times. They went with the A53/A57 because Apple caught the industry off guard (including Qualcomm, whose main business is SoCs) with the A7 and they didn't have the time to create a custom design from scratch and get it out in time for the S6.
Until we see complete tests from reputable sites like AnandTech, we don't really know how well this chip will perform in real life. Samsung didn't say much about the GPU, so my guess is that will be a weak area.
Anyway, I'm not suggesting the S6 is a bad phone. To the contrary, it is a good phone. Had Samsung had this last year (even without Samsung Pay) they would have had a much better 2014.
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It is, but magnetic swiping is being phased out over the next 2 years. LoopPay reportedly approached Google and Apple before Samsung, and both refused. In Europe, most merchants don't accept magnetic stripe cards anymore.
As I understand it the magnetic strip on every single bank and credit card in the UK is used along with the chip in ATM machines. I am not sure about the card readers but the top part of the strip that goes into those machines could have information on that is read. Either way they don't keep putting the strips onto cards for the fun of it.
I don't know for certain as I'm not an Android follower, but I do know that some of my colleagues who use Android devices are just as fanatic about their special features as many Apple lovers are of their devices. Personally I just enjoy tech and if ratio of price to my-enjoyment is favorable enough I'll purchase regardless of the company. E.g. the ratio isn't favorable for Apple Watch at this point in time for me.
So, they made their galaxy more like the iPhone. They don't get it. People buy samsung because it's different(waterproof, removable battery, plastic case, sd slot, etc) from the iPhones. No reason to buy samsung if it looks/functions same as the iPhones.
Yeah but debit terminals in stores (in Canada at least) require that you put in the chip if your card has it. If you try to swipe instead then the transaction fails. For things like gas stations and ATM's, they hold your card in the debit slot, it's no longer putting the card in and pulling out: it will not let you swipe your card.
Not going to lie, the Galaxy six does look enticing, but mainly because it reminds me of my current 6+
In the UK the ATM or hole in the wall machines still take the entire card inside the readers.
I think the strips hold some sort of information that is read the the chip holds a PIN or something?
I thought they were supposed to be working in retina scanners though and things like that, the retina scan etc will be held on the chip. Then again if mobile payment takes off the banks will save their money and not do that.
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Not quite, the Ericsson one could be huge, it seems to be going that way.
I assume the strip is for fallback purposes for older machines. I'm honestly not sure.
The thing about this is the only people who say this and mean it are smart enough to flash/root their device so they don't have to deal with it.
Gotta say, I'm impressed with the curved glass version. Not sure what's the added functionality is, thought, as it doesn't seem to curve as much as the Note Edge. But this is definitely a looker. The non-curved S6 looks indistinguishable from the S5 from the front.
Battery size seems small for such a high-res screen. 5 megapixel front will be awesome for selfies. I've just realized that the Samsung front camera has one of the widest capture area, so this will be an enhancement.
Interested in Samsung Pay, but they should've called it S Pay. It's probably a win/win for Samsung owners who will now have access to two options (Google Wallet and now this).
I'm sure there will be those are disappointed with the lack of a removable battery/sd card. It will be interesting to see if that will deter some sales.
Battery size seems small for such a high-res screen. 5 megapixel front will be awesome for selfies. I've just realized that the Samsung front camera has one of the widest capture area, so this will be an enhancement.
Interested in Samsung Pay, but they should've called it S Pay. It's probably a win/win for Samsung owners who will now have access to two options (Google Wallet and now this).
I'm sure there will be those are disappointed with the lack of a removable battery/sd card. It will be interesting to see if that will deter some sales.
Looks like a great phone. The only problem is that it uses Android. No matter what you think about ios8 it's still far more usable than the horrid android OS.
What if the quad core is a low end amd processor and the dual core is a mid range intel?
Thats the case of the A8, its very powerful in a dual core config so it doesn't need 4 cores
This is far from the slam dunk you make it out to be. Further, it's MasterCard only (tokenization) with methodology not fully tested or implemented.
As for as Samsung "innovation" regarding Samsung Pay, they didn't innovate, they bought it.
Then again, you're always peeing in the cornflakes.
If the terminal does both, it will use the chip if the card can use the chip, no fallback. The stripe is for old terminals (not even sure there are any left in Canada) and if you're travelling in place with swiping (like the US...).
In 2-3 years I'd be surprised there is any card with a stripe left.
Not sure what planet you are referring to, but Samsung was not the first cell phone with NFC.