Actually headphone slot on the bottom is quite a lot better. I'd rather have the cable down and out of the way rather than dangling down the side of the phone when I'm using the phone.
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Samsung Announces Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Samsung Pay
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Actually headphone slot on the bottom is quite a lot better. I'd rather have the cable down and out of the way rather than dangling down the side of the phone when I'm using the phone.
Apple doesn't even have to sue them over this one. It's such a joke and the sales will slip so much that it's totally laughable!
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The curved screen is a gimmick, just like all of samsungs "features" that they have ditched. Like swiping your hand over the phone to change pictures. You know, for that one time that two guys are grilling and he needs to show his buddy a picture on his phone. Has anyone seen a Note Edge in the wild yet?
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Yeah, cause a curved screen is really copying Apple isn't it?
The curved screen is a gimmick, just like all of samsungs "features" that they have ditched. Like swiping your hand over the phone to change pictures. You know, for that one time that two guys are grilling and he needs to show his buddy a picture on his phone. Has anyone seen a Note Edge in the wild yet?
What are you smoking? There's a reason Apple has won pattent disputes on design against samsung. Apple uses Samsungs manufacturing, which Samsung uses to steal Apples ideas. Android can only use 4 of those 8 cores, so it's a gimmick and Android needs 3gb ram for the bloat. Apple is also 64bit while Samsung is 32bit... even though android now supports 64bit. And my 8mp camera takes incredible pictures. If I need more than that, I use a CAMERA.
PS. your grammar sucks.
The trial is still ongoing in appeal and just in the US.
Apple lost trials for patent infringment as well in south korea.
BS
More BS, some of those are little big concept so its never meat to be used together, but some allow it for heavy tasks.
More BS, iphone needs more then 1GB to remedy the page reloading safari issue its been having forever. PITA that one .
Basicly just increases the app size for little or no extra performance .
Good luck with that 8/16GB iphone
Wauw some argument .
Precisely. But I would not worry as much this time. Apple is now much more that a Device Maker. Samsung Mobile is nothing but a Device Maker. Apple has made a VERY successful transition to a Platform Manufacturer.
Samsung is completely dependent Google. The Android versions on their devices are fragmented as all hell.
Does anyone really thing Samsung Pay will be as secure as Apple Pay? If you do, I suggest you inform yourself ASAP on App Fragmentation.
Let Samsung copy. Tim won't go "Thermonuclear." Apple no longer competes with Samsung Mobile. Let samsung sell millions of S6's. Big deal. Android is the largest Mobil OS from being on $19 Pay Phones from Dollar Tree.
Not competing with Apple.
Rushed out of the gate?!? lol...Apple took years carefully getting Apple Pay ready. First a finger print reader that actually worked, a secure enclave to store it, tokenization...finally talk to the banks to get them onboard.
Samsung...lol...they rushed out with their haphazard finger print scanner a month later, after Apple came out with theirs...Bought loopPay using magnetic strip which will eventually be phased out.
Exactly right. And after all the money they spent on attack ads on Apple for no SD slot and no removable battery. Astonishing effrontery.
Apple Pay vs Samsung Pay.... it will come down to security in the long run. If one proves more secure than the other, banks will support it and retailers will follow.
It will be interesting to see how it pans out in the long run... but multiple can survive... Apple people will use Apple Pay and Android people will use whatever it being pushed by their phone company, or device maker, or Google... or ????
In general... it will be also interesting to see how these new phones pan out for Samsung... they seem to have abandoned some key features and that may push their customers to other phones.
To me, Samsung always seems cocky on one hand and desperate on the other.
It will be interesting to see how it pans out in the long run... but multiple can survive... Apple people will use Apple Pay and Android people will use whatever it being pushed by their phone company, or device maker, or Google... or ????
In general... it will be also interesting to see how these new phones pan out for Samsung... they seem to have abandoned some key features and that may push their customers to other phones.
To me, Samsung always seems cocky on one hand and desperate on the other.
Samsung already had 4/8 core phones already even though Apples A series processors were beating them in performance while still using a dual core. While Samsung tweaked the processors to show faster speeds during certain benchmarks, yet slower speeds with every application.
While Samsung makes top quality parts, it does not nessicarily make good end products in the mobile platform compared to some of the other competitors.
As usual Samsung takes many pages out of Apples book. The same things they made fun about, Removable batteries, MicroSD card slots and so on. Headphone jack on bottom, simular looking antenna breaks on the case. Speakers on the bottom with the rounded drilled holes.
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I'm in the market for a new phone. My Nexus 5 is getting wonky (need and RMA at the minimum)
I don't know what I was expecting out of the Android announcements yesterday, but I feel, even after sleeping on it, that no android manufacturer in this current "generation" has come close to "nailing it".
I'm impressed by the S6 for it's technical achievements, but, i'm not sure they've really done a good job here. HTC M9 is a laughable joke.
I don't know what I was expecting out of the Android announcements yesterday, but I feel, even after sleeping on it, that no android manufacturer in this current "generation" has come close to "nailing it".
I'm impressed by the S6 for it's technical achievements, but, i'm not sure they've really done a good job here. HTC M9 is a laughable joke.
lol whats up with these people hating the UI...
you realize you are in mac forum...?
iOS had "1" look change in whole iOS life...
These people just tries to come up with some bs to glorify the apple...
But would Samsung made their own payment system if Apple didn't do so? My guess, they would not. Google wallet was out for years first, but no inkleing of a payment system until Apple came out with their own. We still need a better payment system for Android, but I don't think Samsung pay will be it.
Samsung already had a pay system though pre-dating apple pay.
didn't do very well, But Apple Pay's attention has brought back up the discussions of NFC payment.
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I used to think this way till I got a Qi mat for my phone and it really is easier.
you're right in the sense that it doesn't change the overall activity of charging your device. It'll still be sitting stationary while it charges, and there's still physical contact.
but there's no more fiddling with plugging something in. When it's bedtime, it's literally reach over, put phone down. Charge.
could I live without it? Absolutely. But it's nice to have
Waiting on Apple to support it. if the iPhone6 had wireless charging right now, I'd be ordering the 64gb model this very instant.
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I think this is more for the VR tech and how much samsung has invested in it.
577ppi is pretty useless at standard arms lengths, but, put that about 10-15cm in front of your eyes. does 577 pass the mythical "retina" moniker at that distance?
I think that is what they're gunning for here. Since now the S6 can be used with Samsung VR
You mean the phone they made look like an ipod touch thats been out since 2007? Nice try.
Thats going to be a big change in October of this year. Apple skates to where the puck where its going to be, not where it is right now.
Considering that used iPhone 6's go for almost double the price of used S5's let's us know which one the market values more. The S6 will likely be sold for the same price and probably even higher than the 6 and I'll be willing to bet which one will be worth more in 1 year.
At least you have a 200gb option with microsd. AND the price is going to come down. We were paying double for microsd's not too long ago. Also you can copy videos and music directly on the microsd much faster than the usb 2.0 interface that Samsung decided to put on their phone with super fast flash ram.
