Agreed. Apple ads are just... special and artistic. I have yet to see a single ad from Samsung/Microsoft/Google in the last few years that sent a chill down my spine.
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Samsung Announces Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Samsung Pay
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Agreed. Apple ads are just... special and artistic. I have yet to see a single ad from Samsung/Microsoft/Google in the last few years that sent a chill down my spine.
Yea, I miss the CRT touchscreen edge monitors.
The green color S6 Edge is the best looking smartphone I've ever seen.
Wireless charging, a big meh. Its a great, cool idea, but lack usefulness.
Wall plug, cable, plug into iPhone
Wall plug, cable, baseplate. Where is the benefit?
If you have the plug, cable and baseplate in one place, fine, Id rather do the same with a dock that has useful features.
Wall plug, cable, plug into iPhone
Wall plug, cable, baseplate. Where is the benefit?
If you have the plug, cable and baseplate in one place, fine, Id rather do the same with a dock that has useful features.
Obviously nothing is an innovation because its samsung right?
Built in wireless charging - Written off as crap but as soon as the iPhone has it there will be hosannas about tim cook being sung in the street
14nm - Since A8 is 20 nm - of course this means nothing as well because its samsung.
This entire thread is full of epic fail.
Try real world. They need power to run Android phones with the varying chips, iOS is custom made for the A series. More efficient, less brute force required. Same with a V8 engine vs a much smaller capacity Euro sport engine.
i can see it now...when apple finally includes wireless charging, it's effin great!
I don't use Android, but the feel from forums is they move to another Android phone, Galaxys became very incremental, not much new. This S6 is a nice phone, still incremental, but they shoot many in the hip with no SD and non removable battery. Is that true, no idea, but on another couple of forms that are tech not Apple/Android, those two 'features" seem to be a turn off. And I see Sandisk now have a 200GB SD card. Again, I don't care, but just reporting the news
I'm just not seeing the reasoning behind the Galaxy Edge... The tech doesn't add anything special to the device and the curves don't make any ergonomic sense.
The Galaxy S6 doesn't feel "special" in any way (TouchWiz still looks god awful) but the hardware itself has some good looks. If touchwiz weren't present I think it would be a fantastic device. The Edge though? It seems like a cheap gimmick, like most of Samsung's attempts at hardware innovation.
Motorola and Google still have Samsung between the legs IMO. I know they'll never make the sales Samsung will, simply because they don't have the same money is marketing, but everything Samsung touches just feels awkward... They lack a certain level of class that other companies just understand so much better. (ie. they still shove their logo onto the front of the device whereas other brands put it on the rear. The device should be iconic enough to speak for itself)
The Galaxy S6 doesn't feel "special" in any way (TouchWiz still looks god awful) but the hardware itself has some good looks. If touchwiz weren't present I think it would be a fantastic device. The Edge though? It seems like a cheap gimmick, like most of Samsung's attempts at hardware innovation.
Motorola and Google still have Samsung between the legs IMO. I know they'll never make the sales Samsung will, simply because they don't have the same money is marketing, but everything Samsung touches just feels awkward... They lack a certain level of class that other companies just understand so much better. (ie. they still shove their logo onto the front of the device whereas other brands put it on the rear. The device should be iconic enough to speak for itself)
It won't matter when it will get beaten to death on a benchmark by a several months old iPhone 6, but yeah.... impressive spec-sheet.
I know this is an Apple rumor site, but the fanboyism here is pretty disgusting sometimes. I've been on these forums for a long time, and something I've seen over and over again is people trash anything that comes out that isn't made by Apple. The moment Apple makes it, its the best thing ever.
Both phones are good looking devices with a ton of power packed into them. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm not a fan of touchwiz and I can't develop Google Play apps that I can test directly on a Samsung device (has to be a Nexus), I'd buy one. I can care less who copied who. It's like people here forgot that most Apple products that came on the scene weren't the first of their kind.
Nice job Samsung.
Both phones are good looking devices with a ton of power packed into them. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm not a fan of touchwiz and I can't develop Google Play apps that I can test directly on a Samsung device (has to be a Nexus), I'd buy one. I can care less who copied who. It's like people here forgot that most Apple products that came on the scene weren't the first of their kind.
Nice job Samsung.
IMO they copied the Pay label. Thats fine, but Apple Pay had got a buzz so they go the same way, thats also fine. But no coincidence.
I've used Samsung for mobile payments long before Apple jumped on the bandwagon.
please pay attention.
Must be if they don't notice different front, size,layout,markings,back,... Even the sides are different . Apple has fully rounded edges, Samsung only the edges.Yes along with all the Pocket Now Daily staff too
So does my rMBP, so does my iPad Air. They also make calls. Im surprised that Samsung didn't cobble together that feature, it's great.
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Read up on rechargeable batteries. I didn't think it was that fast, and faster isn't better.
Funny how Samsung was bleeding money in 2014 while Apple was and is rolling in cash from their phone sales.
And how does any of this matter to a consumer ? For stock owner's it might be important who is innovating and who is making the most profit but for a regular consume ? Do you also brag on how much profit your plumber has ?
Get over yourself dude. The iPhone 6+ and the Note are just big phones. Not a whole lot of copying going on there if you're just taking your existing product and making is bigger. And Samsung's entire line of smartphones are blatant copies of the iPhone so your point is moot.
For the moment the price of a 200gb micro sd is around $400 and barely available. A 128gb is around $100. Also, the UFS 2.0 flash storage on the S6 is about 3 to 4 times faster than the latest class 10 micro sd. Besides losing the hot swapable ability, there is nothing else to complain about. That could also be one of the reasons they decided not to include an sd slot. They don't want someone puting a class 4 micro sd card inside, then complain about the S6 lagging. From the Unpacked event, it seems like Samsung is taking Apple's approach at optimized uniformity.
As far as the non removable battery goes. Nowadays, everyone is using portable external batteries. Depending on the mAh, most can fully charge a phone at least twice or more. My last 4 phones had removable batteries, but I always choose to use a portable external battery vs carrying an OEM or non OEM extra battery.
"Pay" is a very generic label. Whether Samsung copied that label or not, it's smart to get straight to the point towards consumers vs using some unique label.