Can't speak for ALL devices. The Note 4 is my first time with T-mobile. There is absolutely no hint of T-mobile branding on the actual device. I don't think Sprint has any branding on the device either. AT&T and Verizon does. Who knows with the S6, since it's glass.
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Can't speak for ALL devices. The Note 4 is my first time with T-mobile. There is absolutely no hint of T-mobile branding on the actual device. I don't think Sprint has any branding on the device either. AT&T and Verizon does. Who knows with the S6, since it's glass.
How many people who buy an S6 will every use a VR headset? Some tiny fraction of 1%, tops?
Sweet. Thanks.
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Good question. I'm not interested myself either.
However, if the battery can last pushing those sorts of pixels, I don't mind the sharper/crisper image.
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Looks great, but help me understand. What does this mean? It means we can access our pictures/music, etc faster? Or something else?
I also noticed the carriers that physically brand, usually lock the bootloader making root a no go. Might just be coincidence though.
Basically yes. Read and write speeds are a big deal. This might be equivalent to going from a conventional spinning hard drive to a solid state drive.
I think it will be a bit less dramatic given phones are already on flash memory, will be interesting to see. Not many phone applications need, or really get a chance to use that kind of speed
upgrading from hdd's to ssd's (at least on the OS drive) is a really huge upgrade
Not at all. Most of the benefit in moving to ssd from a platter drive is in the reduced seek speeds, not the sequential throughput. I would not expect this to have much effect for the average phone use.
Yea, that comparison might be a tad bit dramatic. Conventional HDs are slow AF. The point I tried to make is, it will be a very noticeable difference. Not just something that's faster on paper.
Only the bottom looks like the iPhone 6. That's it.
God forbid anyone that uses a similar style speaker grill and puts the Headphone jack on the bottom.
I have to agree with this even though I did say before it was copying iPhone 6. If those holes were different it wouldn't even look the same.
I guess I was wrong when I think about it. How many ways can you drill holes?
I wont let the galaxy alpha off the hook though.
Yes, finally something about the S6's finger print scanner. I'm really interested in this because I find the iPhone 6's Touch ID unreliable enough to think it was a hindrance (I would get roughly, 3/10 fails. That's too many).
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...int-scanner-vs-Apple-iPhone-6-TouchID_id66820
Let's see...
"Now, in terms of actually unlocking the phone – we tried the new gadget on a couple of occasions, and even compared it to the iPhone 6. We'd say that Sammy's finger scan is just as reliable as the one on Apple's flagship, as each unlock attempt was met with success.
Now, as far as speed goes, the Galaxy S6 unlocks just a bit slower than the iPhone 6. We wouldn't say that the difference is dramatic, and it may be more to do with software and animations, than the hardware sensor being slow. In any case, we'd say that for normal usage, not comparison and nitpicking, the sensor is speedy enough so that the user wouldn't notice a difference."
Darn. I was hoping it'd be better. :T Good upgrade from the S5, but if it's not much different from Touch ID, it's a meh, in my book. I ended up turning it off on my iPhone 6 and just sticking with pin unlock.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...int-scanner-vs-Apple-iPhone-6-TouchID_id66820
Let's see...
"Now, in terms of actually unlocking the phone – we tried the new gadget on a couple of occasions, and even compared it to the iPhone 6. We'd say that Sammy's finger scan is just as reliable as the one on Apple's flagship, as each unlock attempt was met with success.
Now, as far as speed goes, the Galaxy S6 unlocks just a bit slower than the iPhone 6. We wouldn't say that the difference is dramatic, and it may be more to do with software and animations, than the hardware sensor being slow. In any case, we'd say that for normal usage, not comparison and nitpicking, the sensor is speedy enough so that the user wouldn't notice a difference."
Darn. I was hoping it'd be better. :T Good upgrade from the S5, but if it's not much different from Touch ID, it's a meh, in my book. I ended up turning it off on my iPhone 6 and just sticking with pin unlock.
It will be a large improvement of video high res video playback, multitasking, and etc. It also puts out much less battery consumption. Samsung is claiming 50% less consumption.
For those wondering about the changes made in touchwiz, here is a nice comparison between lollipop on the gs5 and gs6.
http://m.androidcentral.com/pictures-galaxy-s6-touchwiz-versus-previous-generation
Overall design is better, though I still think its the ugliest of the skins out there. Big thing is performance, and so far it seems they've made huge improvements there.
http://m.androidcentral.com/pictures-galaxy-s6-touchwiz-versus-previous-generation
Overall design is better, though I still think its the ugliest of the skins out there. Big thing is performance, and so far it seems they've made huge improvements there.
The Themes in the new TW has potential when more theme are available. I'm not into 3rd party launchers or messing with system design attributes. So the possibility of a ton of downloadable themes seems great.
As long as they don't impact performance - then they are cool idea in principal
except that pink one. White text on pastel pink ? eek
M9 might as well call it M8 1/2..look.all what S6 added and that's not talking about the metal. It's improved in every single area
Thats all it needs to be as it is dominating sales right now and the S6 wont approach anything Apple does.
Hopefully the competition this year pushes Apple to give it the spec bump people would love to see.
However, even if they don't, I think Apple will sell the iPhone just fine. Their branding is just so strong, nearly invincible. And in some ways, that's part of the problem.
Well the rumor so far is 2gb RAM and Apple SIM.
Apple's ecosystem is the main reason most iPhone users are not jumping ship to every shiny new device. Apple is doing a damn good job at keeping their customers.
Just got to use a bunch of brand new Galaxy S5's at work, and HOLY **** THOSE PHONES SUCKS BALLS, AND TOUCHWIZ IS A DISASTER OF A MESS.
I know the S5 is a year old, but my work just got a bunch of new S5's for the office today, and I had to set them up, and holy Jesus, does the S5 Touchwiz UI just blow. It felt like something from an S3 made three years ago. Super laggy, very ugly and outdated looking UI, like something from the Android 2.1 days.
I seriously had to check the phones, to make sure they were indeed S5's and not some S4 or older phone. They just felt so slow, ugly looking OS.
Granted, this is a fresh out of the box Sprint Galaxy S5, so it's needs updating, and a brand new phone is always laggy during setup, etc... But my God it just felt like an awful experience. No frigging way would I take an S5 for free. Just makes phones like the OnePlus One feel like light years apart, phones following more of the stock vanilla Android OS seems so much lighter, smoother, and overall look nicer. Why did Samsung keep this butt ugly Gingerbread theme in Touchwiz, even on the S5 ? And the menu is confusing on the S5, not straightforward like stock Android.
My point is, the new S6 better have a majorly revised Touchwiz, and completely all new UI, otherwise I don't care if the S6 is made from diamonds and sapphires, the Touchwiz UI will bring it down, if it's anything remotely close to horrible S5 Touchwiz.
I know the S5 is a year old, but my work just got a bunch of new S5's for the office today, and I had to set them up, and holy Jesus, does the S5 Touchwiz UI just blow. It felt like something from an S3 made three years ago. Super laggy, very ugly and outdated looking UI, like something from the Android 2.1 days.
I seriously had to check the phones, to make sure they were indeed S5's and not some S4 or older phone. They just felt so slow, ugly looking OS.
Granted, this is a fresh out of the box Sprint Galaxy S5, so it's needs updating, and a brand new phone is always laggy during setup, etc... But my God it just felt like an awful experience. No frigging way would I take an S5 for free. Just makes phones like the OnePlus One feel like light years apart, phones following more of the stock vanilla Android OS seems so much lighter, smoother, and overall look nicer. Why did Samsung keep this butt ugly Gingerbread theme in Touchwiz, even on the S5 ? And the menu is confusing on the S5, not straightforward like stock Android.
My point is, the new S6 better have a majorly revised Touchwiz, and completely all new UI, otherwise I don't care if the S6 is made from diamonds and sapphires, the Touchwiz UI will bring it down, if it's anything remotely close to horrible S5 Touchwiz.