Posted on 01/29/2015 5:39:36 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 was a monster flagship, except we’ve been able to put together everything you need to know about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S6, and it’s shaping up to be the most amazing phone we’ve ever heard of.
From a CPU that’s 50% faster, to an incredible quad-HD display, Samsung hit every angle with this year’s flagship phone. It will also have a payment feature which works with magnetic and NFC terminals, incredible cameras, and a gorgeous glass and metal body.
This is shaping up to be the Android phone to beat this coming year.
We were sent photos from our trusted source, though we were not allowed to publish them, so you’ll have to make do with the detailed specifications below.
I want one immediately!
Here’s everything you need to know: •64-bit eight-core 14nm CPU which is 50% faster •5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display with a 577ppi density, stunning outdoor visibility, super dim mode for late night. •A huge 20 megapixel OIS camera sensor and a 5 megapixel f/1.8 front-facing camera with real-time HDR •32 / 64 / 128GB of storage •2550mAh battery •Built-in wireless charging •Four hours of usage on a 10 minute charge •Quick connect charging •Samsung Pay: works with 90% of existing magnetic stripe payment terminals, and NFC payment terminals •Metal and glass body •Gorilla Glass 4 •Cat 6 LTE
'Sex' with an iPhone????
Gotta have that app!!!!!
The software. Android is garbage. I develop on both, and there is no comparison.
I don’t know what the number of cores has to do with anything; because the software/app most probably can’t do anything with it.
Fact, very few programs can use anything more than one core on Windows (pick a flavor). So to every one who bought into the Intel hype about multiple cores, well sorry you bought....air. It is very hard to write software that actually uses multiple cores and beyond 95% of the coders out there. Video cards are somewhat different but their GPUs are still hard to write for.
Don’t get caught up in the hype.
Putting two hardware spec sheets side-by-side and comparing them tells you nothing about the reliability of the OS software and the interoperability with other software in the phone’s ecosystem. The Samsung specs look great on paper—the reason I won’t buy one is it’s running Android.
I’ve had mine for 5 months and I love it. The battery life surprised me. I couldn’t live without my Swype feature. My friends with iPhones tried to download the app when I first got it on my previous phone, but they were informed that Apple doesn’t have such a feature. Not sure if that’s still true, but my Swype feature is better than ever on my new Galaxy S5.
And so it appears that the octa-core MediaTek processors actually do have a performance advantage over the quad-core Qualcomm chip. Of course you don’t get double the performance, and there are instances in which the Galaxy Grand 2 edges out its competition.
It’s also easy to see the effect of other variables, such as a full-HD 1080p screen vs a comparatively grainier 720p screen. The Intex Aqua Octa doesn’t have to push as many pixels as the other phones with the same processor, resulting in a marked increase in performance in graphics-heavy tests. Unfortunately, when manufacturers try to cram too many buzzword-worthy specifications into a product without seeing how they all balance out, the end user suffers a poorer experience.
Ultimately, we can see that “octa-core” isn’t just a marketing term. There are clear advantages to having the spare processing power, and MediaTek seems to have found a way to implement an eight-core SoC within a budget, and without killing battery life.
BFL
Sony’s Xperia Z3 is the best phone in the world (that no one has heard of)
Some lady made $5 million last year unpacking Disney toys on youtube videos.
Look at these videos and make some money for these people : )
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=galaxy+s6+unboxing
Gotta admit, I was not aware of it. Looks like a cool phone, especially for gamers:
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/xperia-z3-t-mobile/
real phone versus vapor ware?
why don’t we wait until we see the white of it’s pixels.
then we can evaluate a real device versus a real device... :)
**I have about 25 full length movies on my card, along with almost every episode of Seinfeld**
Now that is worth buying!
I can not tell you how much I dislike the cloud.
Not that it doesn’t work, it’s just that I don’t trust the custodians.
This has very little to do with what the hardware can do and everything to do with what the software can use it for.
android, is not a very nice OS to work with and it is very hard to use the multiple cores. The android developers kit does allow multi-threading, but not true parallelism, and non-optimal multi-threading at that. So what the spec sheet says it does and what it really does are two things.
My point is don’t buy the hype.
Apple v. Samsung... Samsung v. Apple
Wait.
I’m confused.
Were be all the Windoze phone phans...
(roflol)
just damn!! i got the S5 last Sept
With all that computing horsepower you’ll hardly notice the NSA background apps running...
one processor for the CIA.
one processor for the FBI.
one processor for the NSA.
one processor for OFA.
one processor for Big Business.
one processor for the Koch brothers.
one processor for Soros’s team.
and one processor for you.
Sounds fair.
Funny you should mention that.
The government is able to spy on people through their phones microphone, even if the phone is turned off.
Only one way to disable that.....remove the battery.
Only one phone has that option. Guess which one?
Hint: It ain’t 5he Apple.
All I know is my phone is really fast. That’s all that matters to me.
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