The S6 is actually selling really well. Demand for the edge is up there also:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/04/15/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-sold-out/
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Samsung Compares Galaxy S6 Edge to iPhone 6 in New '6 > 6' Campaign
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The S6 is actually selling really well. Demand for the edge is up there also:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/04/15/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-sold-out/
I love the S6 edge. More edge screens, please. Bigger edge screens, please. Apple Pay, please.
Then we could talk...
edit - oh, and I almost forgot...
less carrier bloat and a longer update lifecycle, please. Apple has zero bloat and all of my 3-year old Apple devices still receive updates.
Then we could talk...
edit - oh, and I almost forgot...
less carrier bloat and a longer update lifecycle, please. Apple has zero bloat and all of my 3-year old Apple devices still receive updates.
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Certified 3rd-party ones won't cut it, sadly. We have plenty of those, and the iPhone always stops accepting them after a few months, or they only work with certain iPhones. You might as well buy China corp <$1 cables, which work about the same as 3rd-party certified ones, if you aren't buying the official $15 Apple ones.
What RIM did was stick their guns as the boat was sinking. They didn't make the cognitive leap that their real product was a secure and reliable messaging service and not hardware. They got their head out of their ass and offered BBM on iOS and Android. They should have dropped their hardware division all together.
Just for the record, I am simply not for the idea of wireless charging as it is currently implemented, where you have to place your device on a charging mat and leave it there for charging to take place. As it stands now, I am trying out a sleep-tracking app and now sleep with my phone on my bed. Expecting me to put a wireless charging mat on my bed, not to mention any possible inaccuracies caused by the phone not being on the mattress itself, is silly.
I prefer the idea of some sort of charging done at a distance. Like a charger that you plug in and it emits some sort of resonance that automatically charges any device within a small radius. I don't know if there are any long term health issues pertaining to this, but I think it would be cool and would certainly help with cable management.
Here is a more currant article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung...e-6-1433235482?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_4
sales for the s6 stalled after 6 million units, they couldn't even sell out of their initial inventory.
From this point forward, Samsung will have to start introducing s6 derivatives, such as an s6 active, s6 plus, s6 mini, s6 neo, etc. to give the media and investors the perception of increased s6 sales.
btw, according to the article note 4 sales have tanked by as much as 40% as well.
The display on the curved edge is cool, but I just don't see how it's a real selling point as opposed to a flashy gimmick.
Apple has been messing with wireless recharging for years. We are already seeing it on the Apple Watch. As for the iPhone, I don't see it happening 'til the Sanyo patent suite for transmitting digital data along an inductive recharging path is licensed or expires. A recharge only connection without data on an iPhone or iPad is not in Apple's interest.
Wireless charging will be useful when you can still use your device as it charges. Placing it on a mat would be useless in such a case. I do like how the Apple watch does it (not that i care much for the product itself though
) since you can still make use of it while it charges. Kinda like a magsafe connector... that makes more sense than placing it on a mat and not being able to move it afterwards.
"My Note 3 doesn't lag", except the bit that actually makes it useful as a telephone... lol.
Wireless charging will be useful when you can still use your device as it charges. Placing it on a mat would be useless in such a case. I do like how the Apple watch does it (not that i care much for the product itself though
Why does it have to be one or another?
What's wrong with "ADDING" wireless charging, but still being able to use a cable if you wish as you do now?
Who said you must block any other form of charging if you add in wireless?
Thats so stupid, why would you check the time and other notifications on the side when you can just turn the phone on and see it on the full screen?? And also, its called putting you phone face up! Samsung copies apple so much, samsung pay, now an all aluminum design which apple has been doing for 3 years now! Samsung is just desperate for customers!
True! While the iPhone 6 in the beginning sold out so fast they had trouble keeping p with all the orders!
and why if the capability is there wouldn't you do it? Last I checked my wife's iP6 I couldn't see anything on the side of her phone.
Kinda like Apple with Notifications, widgets, phablets and multitasking.....
I once bought a Samsung phone. S3 to be precise. It was the worst phone I ever owned, and I had quite a range of various models from various brands. It couldn't play music without skipping or stopping at random moments. Battery life, praised in reviews (which I decided must have been paid for) was so miserable I had to charge it twice a day, and helpful suggestions on Android websites were "switch all the useful features off". SD card would randomly disconnect until in desperation I stuck a piece of paper on the back to ensure connection. My first one bricked itself at night, failing to wake me up on an important day and, more importantly, losing all the data. Replacement restored phone numbers from Samsung backup, but hardly anything else. Oh how I mourned my decision not to buy an iPhone again.
Then I got an iPhone 4s as a present. And I found out that Android has one killer feature that is super important to me: widgets on home screen. I got so used to my calendar being displayed every time I looked at the home screen that I immediately forgot two business meetings because iPhone couldn't do that. So I sold the iPhone and the Samsung and bought an Xperia Z3 Compact. Waterproof, dustproof, wireless charging, microSD slot, blazing fast and smooth and without all the Samsung crapware. And -- who knew? Android can actually work really well!
I consider Android superior to iOS for that one reason -- widgets on the home screen. I don't care much about Siri. But no advert of Samsung can ever make me buy their phone again, even if they wrap the display all over the phone, make it clean the house, do the dishes, take WIDE ANGLE selfies from space, insert my dead Nana into them and wirelessly charge at 50 meters from the charger stand. I agree fully with the poster who said Samsung give Android a bad name. I take pure pleasure from tracking the sales of S6 being disastrous. (I know Sony sells about 5% of what Samsung does.) With my Z3 Compact and with iPhone "it just works" was true. With Scheissung Crapaxy I had to buy software to replace the stock just to make it work at all. I bought Poweramp full version and tweaked all audio settings to the max and, joy of joys, it only skipped parts of songs every 30 minutes rather than Samsung's 30 seconds. And in order to be able to make a full backup I had to root it, losing warranty.
TL;DR version: If you bought a Samsung phone, I am sorry for your loss and hope you come to your senses soon.
Then I got an iPhone 4s as a present. And I found out that Android has one killer feature that is super important to me: widgets on home screen. I got so used to my calendar being displayed every time I looked at the home screen that I immediately forgot two business meetings because iPhone couldn't do that. So I sold the iPhone and the Samsung and bought an Xperia Z3 Compact. Waterproof, dustproof, wireless charging, microSD slot, blazing fast and smooth and without all the Samsung crapware. And -- who knew? Android can actually work really well!
I consider Android superior to iOS for that one reason -- widgets on the home screen. I don't care much about Siri. But no advert of Samsung can ever make me buy their phone again, even if they wrap the display all over the phone, make it clean the house, do the dishes, take WIDE ANGLE selfies from space, insert my dead Nana into them and wirelessly charge at 50 meters from the charger stand. I agree fully with the poster who said Samsung give Android a bad name. I take pure pleasure from tracking the sales of S6 being disastrous. (I know Sony sells about 5% of what Samsung does.) With my Z3 Compact and with iPhone "it just works" was true. With Scheissung Crapaxy I had to buy software to replace the stock just to make it work at all. I bought Poweramp full version and tweaked all audio settings to the max and, joy of joys, it only skipped parts of songs every 30 minutes rather than Samsung's 30 seconds. And in order to be able to make a full backup I had to root it, losing warranty.
TL;DR version: If you bought a Samsung phone, I am sorry for your loss and hope you come to your senses soon.
Apple (namely Tim) took shots at an Android at last years WWDC. And Phil Schiller is forever throwing shots at the competition. So yeah the "bashing the competition" thing is not a Samsung or Android thing. Apple is just as guilty of doing that as other companies. Like I've said before, if Samsung's Note 4 had suffered from Bendgate...do you honestly think Apple (and especially Schiller) wouldn't have had something to say? You honestly think if Sammy's GS6 would've been bending that the Apple fans wouldn't have been laughing and making jokes?
(This isn't directed at you, necessarily)
But I love how some Apple fans are always like "man Samsung is always talking trash about Apple...Android fans are always making fun of iPhones and Apple..." Yet those same Apple fans have no problem doing the exact same thing to Android and Samsung fans. How many times have Apple fans on this site said "The GS6 sucks, it's not selling well hahahahahaa" But yet as soon as somebody says something about Bendgate then those same Apple fans get their feelings hurt and get all mad.
Samsung taking shots at Apple is considered to be wrong but again if Apple does it to them, then it's the coolest thing ever. I've said it once and I'll say it again, some of yall need to keep it 100.
Both attitudes are pretty rubbish to be fair. I've not owned a Samsung phone due to the lack of metal/cheap build quality. I've also never been a fan of Androids over complicated system software and lack of upgradability. It doesn't mean I have personal problems with the companies, software developers or their fans.
Some people will take it to the next level of offence but I fear that it is human nature to behave like that.
If people that follow Samsung in a fanatical way come to Mac Rumors and make fun of the iPhone 6+ bending issues, you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll recieve the same treatment if there are issues of a similar nature plaguing their favourite devices.
Vicious cycle, really. Let's forget about specs and who did what first and feed the starving.
The question is, are they still making these silly commercials?
WWDC is essentially an insider meet and not a public advertising.
Can understand why S6 sales is a disaster.
Battery life is terrible with idle at 42% only after a few days, only 5 hours screen-on-time running heavy gaming benchmarks, not a fan of the sparkly platinum gold look over the painted on gold and it's not much faster, maybe 35%, with all those cores. Don't think the store will take it back though since it's selling so poorly.
Battery life is terrible with idle at 42% only after a few days, only 5 hours screen-on-time running heavy gaming benchmarks, not a fan of the sparkly platinum gold look over the painted on gold and it's not much faster, maybe 35%, with all those cores. Don't think the store will take it back though since it's selling so poorly.
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