After weeks of teasing and admittedly, few leaks, Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge at a press event in Barcelona, Spain. These are the make-or-break devices from Samsung considering the state of its mobile handset business and its evident the Korean company has changed a lot of things to make it more appealing. First and foremost is the build quality and design.
The phones are “crafted from metal and glass” and interestingly, this design decision has made Samsung to forgo the removable battery option, which was one of the selling points in the last few years. Nevertheless, it now includes a 2550mAh (2600mAh in case of Galaxy S6 edge) battery and can charge faster than any other smartphone in the industry with a 10 minute charge fetching up to 4 hours of use.
The Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge have a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display and bumps the display resolution to QHD or 2560×1440 pixels and is powered by recently announced 14nm 64-bit FinFET Exynos octa-core processor, 3GB LPDDR4 RAM. Furthermore, the Galaxy S6 devices lose the microSD card slot but Samsung compensates it with a fast UFS 2.0 internal storage starting from 32GB and goes up to 128GB.
On the camera side, the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge feature a f1.9 16 megapixel rear facing camera with OIS and 5 megapixel snapper on the front. The main camera supports 4K video recording and double tapping the home button will activate the camera in just 0.7 seconds.
Rounding up the features is support for Samsung Pay, embedded WPC and PMA multi-standard wireless charging technology, KNOX support, S Health 4.0, suite of Microsoft apps and fingerprint sensor.
The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge will launch on April 10 in colour options of White Pearl, Black Sapphire, Gold Platinum, Blue Topaz (Galaxy S6 only) and Green Emerald (Galaxy S6 edge only).
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