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Samsung Announces Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Samsung Pay
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The problem with multiple core in a low power device is that that cores that are not in full use still use up some power (which is bad) and scheduling according to power state and usage, is simply horrendous.
Those are the kind of things you don't have to worry about in a desktop.
That's why big little are often much better in benchmarks than in real use, where scheduling and power issues show themselves much more clearly.
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A lot of people pissy, defensive or whatever you want to call it - all over 2 phones that most wouldn't even remotely think or want to purchase. Makes you wonder why all that energy is spent, doesn't it
Hey, its that or kicking dynamite... Whatever works...
Didn't Samsung get the idea of a large phone from the Dell Streak?
But honestly... you can make an LCD panel in literally ANY size imaginable. There's nothing really special about choosing one size over another.
There are 1" LCD panels all the way through 100" and beyond. You pick a size and build a phone using it.
It's not rocket science.
Is any of it for backward compatibility in countries like the U.S. that haven't implemented chip yet?
open your eyes (instead of copy pasting nonsense specs from samsung website) and you will see.
the specs you mentioned means nothing.
the arguments is about copying design and built of this device,which is clearly and obviously a copy of iPhone6.
or maybe you excpected their 2015 flagship model not having top of the line inside hardware specs? that's the norm,that's what a flagship model is made of,that doesn't change the fact it's a hopelessly un-original and shamelessly copied product.
I have no idea, maybe, but I read that it is still used for security in some way. I know the US has been waaayyyy slow to adopt the chip design as I understand. So it is possible.
To be fair, Apple also bought the fingerprint scanner vendor that made Touch ID possible. Let's not forget about Siri and who made that. It can work both ways.
Didn't Samsung get the idea of a large phone from the Dell Streak?
But honestly... you can make an LCD panel in literally ANY size imaginable. There's nothing really special about choosing one size over another.
There are 1" LCD panels all the way through 100" and beyond. You pick a size and build a phone using it.
It's not rocket science.
I think the point people make with the screen is that Samsung (and others) "created" or proved the demand for the market. And then Apple stepped into it. Apple has done their share of going into a market and proving it's viability and making things popular.
There's nothing "innovative" about a larger screen. But it's also interesting to watch when Apple makes the move into sizes that others have validated. For example - the iPad Mini as well.
Apple does things on their terms and their timetable. But clearly they are also paying attention to the market and their competitors.
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If you mean that he is always providing clear, factual information in an intelligent manner - then I agree with you. See what I did there?
When this releases, it is bar none be the best phone out there. The 10 minute fast charge plus wireless charging is a killer feature set.
Battery is the #1 problem with Apple phones and Samsung is now besting apple in it without tradeoffs (the swappable battery was a tradeoff on the feel of the phone). Samsung has thrown down the gauntlet here.
Giving up microsd is not a big deal. Reality is with high adoption of cloud and streaming services, plus the pain of swapping microsd under the cover, it was pretty much a gimmick.
The payment systems are less important now, but Samsung has come out in front their too.
Fairly, I find the 6 and 6 plus ugly as hell, and this similar looking thing is too. So, if you're able to look beyond the shinyness of the object, this is the phone to beat.
Battery is the #1 problem with Apple phones and Samsung is now besting apple in it without tradeoffs (the swappable battery was a tradeoff on the feel of the phone). Samsung has thrown down the gauntlet here.
Giving up microsd is not a big deal. Reality is with high adoption of cloud and streaming services, plus the pain of swapping microsd under the cover, it was pretty much a gimmick.
The payment systems are less important now, but Samsung has come out in front their too.
Fairly, I find the 6 and 6 plus ugly as hell, and this similar looking thing is too. So, if you're able to look beyond the shinyness of the object, this is the phone to beat.
It's one step. Unless taking the phone out of your pocket is a step.
1) hold phone near payment system with thumb on home button.
2) put phone back in your pocket.
1) Walk into store
2) Decide what to buy
3) Bring merchandise to register or tell cashier the order
4) Attempt to remember where phone was kept
5) Successfully determine where phone was kept
6) Retrieve phone
7) Hold phone near payment system with thumb on home button
8) Put phone back in pocket
9) Consume product
Note: Steps 1 & 2 can be reversed.
side by side comparison carried out by Pocket Now Daily, and even they state it's hard to tell their designs apart!
Sir I said curved display, and not 'display on the perimeter'. Cases stick on the perimeter and their design can surely be revisited in order to accommodate the edge's design language.
Really -because I would think the home button alone would give it away. That and the samsung logo on one.
He was referring to the sides and the bottom if you watched the video. I'm sorry, but it's a blatant copy of of the iPhone in this regard, they even have the charging port and speakers and headphone sockets in the same locations
The strip is a fallback option here in the UK. A lot of stores have a policy of not accepting the magnetic strip at all, if you can't pay via chip and pin or NFC then you can't pay at all. When the magnetic strip is accepted though a signature is required, the signature must match the signature on the back of the card, if no card is present then it's a failure. For these reasons I don't think the magnetic strip part of Samsung pay will work here in the UK and I guess elsewhere in Europe, the NFC part will but then it's just on a level playing field with Apple pay in that regard.
Samsung's Samsung pay may work well for the magnetic strip part in the US, but this will only be for a few years whilst merchants catch up with technology changes, in the long term it's no real benefit over Apple pay and certainly no benefit elsewhere in the world.
