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Depends on who you ask...

Some folks have experienced this, others not so much. But it could be highly dependent on usage pattern between users. Certainly there are more reports of this happening than on stock android or Sense.

Likewise you always have that risk that they botch something in a Touchwiz update that makes your device perform like its wading in treacle (such as my lollipop note 4 update). But again this can affect some users and not others.

So yes there is always the potential of touchwiz being a complete pig, and probably more chance than on other android skins - but it's still not a vastly common issue as it once was a few years back. Indeed 2014 Touchwiz onwards generally has been the smoothest it's ever ran, with caveats of course.

Basically if they have improved not so much on the smoothness of the GUI (for most part since S5 the GUI on top tier Samsung devices has been very smooth) but the memory management side (it's here under the hood where touchwiz can be most culpable for the often reported lag and refreshing issues) then I wouldn't be too concerned. The S6 has more ram then the S5 so the app refreshing it suffered shouldn't be an issue on the S6 (in theory). So yeah as long as you don't get a dodgy firmware update that banjaxes that like the DBT Lollipop update I wouldn't be too concerned about it slowing down over time.

But.... Before taking that as gospel, I do however want to see exactly what memory the S6 uses at stand still.... I am concerned that of all the early hands on reports and even GSM Arena review not once has someone reported what memory is used by the system and how much is left to the user. That concerns me that there is so much silence in this regard, from even the likes of Erica Griffin who normally goes very in depth and GSM not even covering it - in case as often there is - a NDA clause about that reporting on that side until it's 'final retail software'....

So yeah wait and see and if your unsure - just wait till someone here picks one up and user reports begin hitting the net. If there are issues - users will report them likely sooner than the tech journalists / bloggers these days...

Thanks. Very informative.

As much as I want the S6, it probably isn't a day one buy for me. I'll await reviews and feedback. I'm quite happy with my OnePlus, but do want some of the advantages the S6 offers. Namely, better camera, wireless charging, and even little things like the headphone jack being on the bottom again (like it was on my iPhone 6).
 
Really excited about this camera.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge camera put to test against Apple iPhone 6 Plus
http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-camera-apple-iphone-6-plus-594820/

Looks fantastic - although I always have to laugh when zoom is part of the "shootout".....of course a higher MP camera will look better when zoomed in....

That's the one place where MP matter.

At any rate, smartphone cameras have indeed come a LONG, LONG way. It doesn't seem that long ago I was paying $200 for a decent point and shoot for taking all my super amateur photos.

Just hoping the Edge doesn't cost an arm and a leg and that there are enough to go around.
 
Thanks. Very informative.

As much as I want the S6, it probably isn't a day one buy for me. I'll await reviews and feedback. I'm quite happy with my OnePlus, but do want some of the advantages the S6 offers. Namely, better camera, wireless charging, and even little things like the headphone jack being on the bottom again (like it was on my iPhone 6).
As far TW and ram usage goes. It really depends on who you talk to and their experiences. My N4 has no lag and is one of the most smoothest responsive phones I have used. TW uses most of the 3GB of ram. Is that bad? Not really. Unused ram is wasted IMHO. My N4 does not refresh or reload apps. When I hit the back button the data is there. To my eyes if the phone is fast and responsive and does not unnecessarily reload or refresh apps then I do not care how much free ram there is. The device is using its resources wisely. My issue with TW is its wastes to mush space on the screen for icons. It should let me resize the icons and the grid size.
 
Looks fantastic - although I always have to laugh when zoom is part of the "shootout".....of course a higher MP camera will look better when zoomed in....

That's the one place where MP matter.

At any rate, smartphone cameras have indeed come a LONG, LONG way. It doesn't seem that long ago I was paying $200 for a decent point and shoot for taking all my super amateur photos.

Just hoping the Edge doesn't cost an arm and a leg and that there are enough to go around.

Why is that funny? Should they ignore that area of the camera comparison just because Apple doesn't have the same MP? The 6 and 6+ are Apple's latest flagships. It's a comparison to those devices. By that rationale, nearly nothing can be compared unless they're identical specs? Not sure why you think that's funny they would compare zoom on a camera comparison. You know what's funny? Apple not offering higher MPs. That's funny.

And would you be willing to offer this sort of excuse when it's the other way around? Are you going to laugh when they compare 6S hardware to other older competitor's devices, like the S6 or the M9 or whatever else came out before the 6S?

Doubtful, given your biases. You're pretty funny yourself.
 
Why is that funny? Should they ignore that area of the camera comparison just because Apple doesn't have the same MP? The 6 and 6+ are Apple's latest flagships. It's a comparison to those devices. By that rationale, nearly nothing can be compared unless they're identical specs? Not sure why you think that's funny they would compare zoom on a camera comparison. You know what's funny? Apple not offering higher MPs. That's funny.

And would you be willing to offer this sort of excuse when it's the other way around? Are you going to laugh when they compare 6S hardware to other older competitor's devices, like the S6 or the M9 or whatever else came out before the 6S?

Doubtful, given your biases. You're pretty funny yourself.

Good lord....you take everything I say as some battle cry / slight against anything Apple....

I was merely pointing out that a higher MP camera will ALWAYS have less grain on a zoomed in picture. So depicting that in the test would be somewhat superfluous. Showing that the Samsung camera captures better pictures would be what I'm interested in seeing - not that I can zoom into said picture for better detail....

Dude...chill out.

My guess is the 6S will still have a lower MP count, so zooming in would still show more grain....again, common knowledge. I didn't think we'd have to dedicate a whole test to showing this.

From what I saw in the pictures that weren't zoomed, the S6 Edge pics look fantastic and in some ways are better than the iPhone 6 pics. That's what I'm interested in seeing in these types of tests.
 
As far TW and ram usage goes. It really depends on who you talk to and their experiences. My N4 has no lag and is one of the most smoothest responsive phones I have used. TW uses most of the 3GB of ram. Is that bad? Not really. Unused ram is wasted IMHO. My N4 does not refresh or reload apps. When I hit the back button the data is there. To my eyes if the phone is fast and responsive and does not unnecessarily reload or refresh apps then I do not care how much free ram there is. The device is using its resources wisely. My issue with TW is its wastes to mush space on the screen for icons. It should let me resize the icons and the grid size.

Hoping all this is true.

I'm watching videos on Touchwiz, and the more I see it, the more I actually like it. I like the colors and how they integrated lollipop. And while I know Sense is lighter under the hood, I think cosmetically and functionality-wise, Sense is actually "heavier" than TW. Again, I've said it before, but Sense changes the way the app drawer scrolls, it changes the way the app swticher menu is (tiles? Tiles look terrible and confusing and hard to recognize), and just generally, the menu system and pull down quick setting toggles are ugly compared to TW's.

I like that TW retains the rolla-dex app switcher, or the side-ways scrolling app drawer.

This is really ugly:

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Compared to this:

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In my humble opinion. :)

So ya, I'm warming up to TouchWiz. I just worry about these stories about it lagging/slowing down over time, etc.
 
So ya, I'm warming up to TouchWiz. I just worry about these stories about it lagging/slowing down over time, etc.

I find Sense ugly, some parts are not intuitive and a mish mosh of light and dark throughout. What they did with the toggles is an eye sore.

LG's skin isn't bad looking but just has way TOO much going on making it look overly cluttered.

For me, Moto has the best skin because it's simple like stock but includes really useful features.
 
Getting excited about the S6 and the fingerprint scanner. TouchID on my 6+ is the best i have used. From the reviews i have read the new scanner on the S6 is just as good.




https://recombu.com/mobile/article/samsung-galaxy-s6-review-in-depth

Good solid review. Happy to hear that the battery life is good.

And is that the gold platinum version in those pictures? God, it gets uglier and uglier.

I may indeed stick to white...

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I find Sense ugly, some parts are not intuitive and a mish mosh of light and dark throughout. What they did with the toggles is an eye sore.

LG's skin isn't bad looking but just has way TOO much going on making it look overly cluttered.

For me, Moto has the best skin because it's simple like stock but includes really useful features.


Oh, thank goodness. Someone else that agrees with me about Sense. Sense is so beloved, but I don't really get it. Like I said, cosmetically and functionality-wise, it seems "heavier" skinned than TW.

I'm with you on the near-stock experience. I love Cyanogen on my OnePlus. It has just enough extra features to make it a little more fun and exciting and usable. In fact, from what I've seen of stock, it looks really lacking actually. It's so bare bones...

Never really looked into LG's skin...
 
Good solid review. Happy to hear that the battery life is good.

And is that the gold platinum version in those pictures? God, it gets uglier and uglier.

I may indeed stick to white...

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Oh, thank goodness. Someone else that agrees with me about Sense. Sense is so beloved, but I don't really get it. Like I said, cosmetically and functionality-wise, it seems "heavier" skinned than TW.

I'm with you on the near-stock experience. I love Cyanogen on my OnePlus. It has just enough extra features to make it a little more fun and exciting and usable. In fact, from what I've seen of stock, it looks really lacking actually. It's so bare bones...

Never really looked into LG's skin...
LG'S skin is my worst. Hideous - needless animations all over the place...
 
Good lord....you take everything I say as some battle cry / slight against anything Apple....

I was merely pointing out that a higher MP camera will ALWAYS have less grain on a zoomed in picture. So depicting that in the test would be somewhat superfluous. Showing that the Samsung camera captures better pictures would be what I'm interested in seeing - not that I can zoom into said picture for better detail....

Dude...chill out.

My guess is the 6S will still have a lower MP count, so zooming in would still show more grain....again, common knowledge. I didn't think we'd have to dedicate a whole test to showing this.

From what I saw in the pictures that weren't zoomed, the S6 Edge pics look fantastic and in some ways are better than the iPhone 6 pics. That's what I'm interested in seeing in these types of tests.


Of course you're not interested in seeing anything where Apple will lose.

You know, instead of "laughing" at such comparisons where Apple clearly falls short, you might want to point out that Apple could and probably should offer more MP in their flagship device. That might help support your claim that you're fair and balance. Instead, nearly everything that comes out of your mouth around these forums support quite the opposite. That you are bias and hypocritical.

Apple is getting beat on a number of fronts, and any serious Apple fan should be able to admit where they need to improve, instead of just laughing at comparisons that highlight their shortcomings. Yeah, what a real mystery why they would talk about zooming in a camera comparison. So laughable. :rolleyes:

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LG'S skin is my worst. Hideous - needless animations all over the place...

Ah.

Well, that's good that I'm not interested in an LG device then. lol.

Though it'll be interesting to see how LG brings about the G4 to compete with Samsung/Apple.
 
Of course you're not interested in seeing anything where Apple will lose.

You know, instead of "laughing" at such comparisons where Apple clearly falls short, you might want to point out that Apple could and probably should offer more MP in their flagship device. That might help support your claim that you're fair and balance. Instead, nearly everything that comes out of your mouth around these forums support quite the opposite. That you are bias and hypocritical.

Apple is getting beat on a number of fronts, and any serious Apple fan should be able to admit where they need to improve, instead of just laughing at comparisons that highlight their shortcomings. Yeah, what a real mystery why they would talk about zooming in a camera comparison. So laughable. :rolleyes:

Look - if you're going to twist my words to fit your own agenda and bias, just put me on ignore. I have no interest in explaining something I never insinuated or said to someone not interested in listening anyhow.

My iPhone 6+ takes a great photo. If I wanted to blow them up, I'd ask for more MP. I'm glad the S6 Edge has such a great camera and look forward to using it myself in the near future. I still value other camera components over MP count and it would seem Samsung has improved various parts of their camera in addition to adding to the MP count. Wonderful.

Everyone else will take my posts correctly. Like I said, feel free to put me on ignore. I'm done explaining myself.
 
Look - if you're going to twist my words to fit your own agenda and bias, just put me on ignore. I have no interest in explaining something I never insinuated or said to someone not interested in listening anyhow.

My iPhone 6+ takes a great photo. If I wanted to blow them up, I'd ask for more MP. I'm glad the S6 Edge has such a great camera and look forward to using it myself in the near future. I still value other camera components over MP count and it would seem Samsung has improved various parts of their camera in addition to adding to the MP count. Wonderful.

Everyone else will take my posts correctly. Like I said, feel free to put me on ignore. I'm done explaining myself.

Oh, Jrswizzle doesn't need more MP. Then I guess Apple doesn't need to bother. Phew. :) And when Apple does add more MPs? Ah, then Jrswizzle will be ready to blow up his/her pictures.

In the mean time, S6 users will have the option of both quality pictures and quality zoom.

Take your posts correctly? Hey, you're the one that laughed at a camera comparison that factors in... gasp... camera related stuff. You're the one that laughed at the one area that Apple clearly can't compete in, as if the article shouldn't have bothered including it. That was your post. Not sure how much more correctly that can be taken. Again, camera comparison, but it's so hilarious; why are they comparing megapixels?! What does that have anything to do with the camera???

Anyway, if you are done, great. Back to topic...
 
Oh, Jrswizzle doesn't need more MP. Then I guess Apple doesn't need to bother. Phew. :) And when Apple does add more MPs? Ah, then Jrswizzle will be ready to blow up his/her pictures.

In the mean time, S6 users will have the option of both quality pictures and quality zoom.

Take your posts correctly? Hey, you're the one that laughed at a camera comparison that factors in... gasp... camera related stuff. You're the one that laughed at the one area that Apple clearly can't compete in, as if the article shouldn't have bothered including it. That was your post. Not sure how much more correctly that can be taken. Again, camera comparison, but it's so hilarious; why are they comparing megapixels?! What does that have anything to do with the camera???

Anyway, if you are done, great. Back to topic...

Ok - I'm sorry you took it that way. That was not my intention.
 
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Yea, I wish it didn't have the platinum-ness. Wish it was just gold.


They should have gone for a darker shade. Somewhere between what they have on the S6 & the gold on the S5. But likely that pearlesque finish they are adding is not helping the S6 gold, but you never know it could in person look better. I remember thinking the gold S5 was disgusting in photos and then I actually used one and thought the colour wasn't horrid and eventually bought one in gold (and I bought one in white too last year) :)

My biggest concern is if colours will actually be available. I wanted a blue Galaxy Alpha and they were simply unavailable here with only white & black available despite Samsung supposedly offering it in White, Black, Blue, Silver & Gold. Hopefully S6 and Edge won't suffer same supply issue here.
 
No I mean benchmark quality of screens not the grey mid-res stuff apple sells. 4k recording on camera. Edge control like on Note Edge, not even on the radar for Apple.


You seen the politicians they vote for? Need we say more about judging by number of sheep?

These are benchmark devices, bud. Give Samsung their due credit.

I give the screen credit where due. I have had my share of Samsung smartphones, those devices come in third or fourth place amongst other manufactures I prefer. Motorola, Apple, HTC, and my Nexus 5 for which I sold for the Nexus 6.

You mention nothing about bloat, memory management. color saturation, etc etc. There is much more than to it or should everyone just hop on your benchmark device train? No thanks, bud.
 
You could just go to mobiledevicesize.com ;)

In that picture it still looks silver to me .....


Black and blue or white and gold? :D We have another one! I see Gold!

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LG'S skin is my worst. Hideous - needless animations all over the place...

Definitely not a fan myself from a UX standpoint but I find it less offensive aesthetically outside of the fact that they're trying Samsungs philosophy of more, more and then more on top of more.

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Good solid review. Happy to hear that the battery life is good.

And is that the gold platinum version in those pictures? God, it gets uglier and uglier.

I may indeed stick to white...

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Oh, thank goodness. Someone else that agrees with me about Sense. Sense is so beloved, but I don't really get it. Like I said, cosmetically and functionality-wise, it seems "heavier" skinned than TW.

I'm with you on the near-stock experience. I love Cyanogen on my OnePlus. It has just enough extra features to make it a little more fun and exciting and usable. In fact, from what I've seen of stock, it looks really lacking actually. It's so bare bones...

Never really looked into LG's skin...

I look at stock android as an OS that caters to the general consumer (much like iOS) due to its overly simplistic approach but because its android and completely open allows the advanced user to customize the experience to their needs/liking.
 
Hoping all this is true.

I'm watching videos on Touchwiz, and the more I see it, the more I actually like it. I like the colors and how they integrated lollipop. And while I know Sense is lighter under the hood, I think cosmetically and functionality-wise, Sense is actually "heavier" than TW. Again, I've said it before, but Sense changes the way the app drawer scrolls, it changes the way the app swticher menu is (tiles? Tiles look terrible and confusing and hard to recognize), and just generally, the menu system and pull down quick setting toggles are ugly compared to TW's.

I like that TW retains the rolla-dex app switcher, or the side-ways scrolling app drawer.

This is really ugly:

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Compared to this:

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In my humble opinion. :)

So ya, I'm warming up to TouchWiz. I just worry about these stories about it lagging/slowing down over time, etc.

Touchwiz has always been more colorful. Back in 2011-2012, I first used the GS2 and just was enamored with Touchwiz's color choices. Sense used to be really bad up until JB. I always felt Sense was much more barren. It still lacks features to this day, but for what it has, it does very well for itself. I had an HTC Evo 4G LTE w/ Sprint for a work phone. It had some nice color palette choices though. Now, this Touchwiz looks even better with the themes. I loved the Marvel Age of Ultron theme. Touchwiz has always been thrown under the bus, but it works decent on the N4, except for the lag with messaging for me and some force closing apps. Not to say iOS 8 hasn't had hiccups on my iPhone.
 
Yeah. Not only am I warming up to TW, I'm actually excited to use it. Mult-window sounds great.

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Another question... when you hold down the home button, does it activate S-Voice or Google Now? If it's S-Voice, can it be set to Google Now instead?
 
Yeah. Not only am I warming up to TW, I'm actually excited to use it. Mult-window sounds great.

My least used feature of Touchwiz, yet others do swear by it. Personally as I'm always interacting with apps via text input, I find practicalities of splitting screen and then adding keyboard entry input on top of that makes having two apps open split screen redundant as my keyboard takes up half a screen.

But yeah others really like it, at least it's an option and your not forced to use it if you don't want it :)

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Another question... when you hold down the home button, does it activate S-Voice or Google Now? If it's S-Voice, can it be set to Google Now instead?

Long press = Google now...

Currently....... Default two press on home button = s-voice On current models double press home button launches s-voice (which adds a delay to the responsiveness of the device as it tries to detect whether you pressed home once or twice, that most people end up disabling it in s-voice settings).

However ...

On S6 double press launches camera, so not sure which key they are going to assign s-voice to.

Also like s-voice I hope they allow me to turn double press to camera off in settings.

Long press on back launches multi-window app launcher
Long press on multitasking button launches menu
 
My least used feature of Touchwiz, yet others do swear by it. Personally as I'm always interacting with apps via text input, I find practicalities of splitting screen and then adding keyboard entry input on top of that makes having two apps open split screen redundant as my keyboard takes up half a screen.

But yeah others really like it, at least it's an option and your not forced to use it if you don't want it :)

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Long press = Google now...

Currently....... Default two press on home button = s-voice On current models double press home button launches s-voice (which adds a delay to the responsiveness of the device as it tries to detect whether you pressed home once or twice, that most people end up disabling it in s-voice settings).

However ...

On S6 double press launches camera, so not sure which key they are going to assign s-voice to.

Also like s-voice I hope they allow me to turn double press to camera off in settings.

Long press on back launches multi-window app launcher
Long press on multitasking button launches menu

Woah. Interesting. Great info.

Personally, I'm really excited about the double-tap home to launch the camera app. To be able to do that from any app, any screen, even when off, will be nice.
 
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http://www.androidheadlines.com/page/2
It had been widely reported that the new Samsung Galaxy S6 devices would not use the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and this was confirmed on Sunday, when Samsung announced that the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge would use its own internal Exynos processor built on a 14nm die process. The Snapdragon 810 processor is constructed on a 20nm die size; the smaller the die size, the lower the voltage needed to drive the chip and so the less power drawn. A side effect of the processor using less power is that the heat output is also less, which means the smartphone designer has fewer compromises when it comes to thinness. When asked about the decision not to use the Snapdragon 810 processor in the S6, Samsung’s Chief Executive Officer, J. K. Shin, said that his business is flexible and would use Qualcomm if their products were good enough. This is a way of saying that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 isn’t good enough for the S6.

Although both processors show similar performance, the Exynos 14nm processor in the S6 should use less battery and produce less heat compared with the Snapdragon. Given how the Galaxy S6 is the first flagship device from Samsung to have a non-user replaceable battery, this is clearly a consideration for Samsung: their boast was that they had not moved to a fixed battery until now because they were not confident in the battery life of previous models. Such is the confidence Samsung have in their in-house processor that not only does the Galaxy S6 have a sealed battery, but it’s smaller than the previous generation’s Galaxy S5. We’ll have a better idea about how the S6 compares with the competition once the device is launched, which is due mid-April for most carriers.

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/03/0...ynos-processor-over-qualcomms-snapdragon-810/
Now that we have passed the Galaxy S6 unveiling from Samsung, it is official that the Korea-based company opted to use in-house Exynos silicon to power its two newest flagship devices, instead of contracting out the job to San Diego-based Qualcomm for its Snapdragon 810 chipset.

What makes the situation important were the early reports that devices running the Snapdragon 810 were seeing overheating issues, with LG coming right out and denying the reports completely. However, whatever the case may be, Qualcomm lost its chance to power the newest Samsung devices, and now we are left with a new 64-bit octa-core Exynos processor inside both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge.

From early benchmarks we are seeing, the Exynos-powered GS6 and GS6 Edge are dominating, easily beating out the One M9 and its Snapdragon. Although, HTC would likely chalk up any losses to those benchmarks being ran on “unfinished software.”

Samsung’s own JK Shin weighed in on the decision, reassuring the press that relations between Samsung and Qualcomm are still good. In fact, Shin claims the move was made to decrease Samsung’s dependency on other companies, and that if Qualcomm’s chips are good enough, Samsung would use them.

Speaking to the press, Shin stated, “Samsung previously used more Qualcomm mobile processors. But we are flexible. If Qualcomm chips are good enough, then we will use them. Samsung always uses the best-quality components and materials to differentiate our products from those by rivals.

From what we can tell so far, Samsung made the right call by using its own Exynos processor, especially when seeing countless videos of TouchWiz flying when compared to previous iterations. As far as average end users are concerned, the difference between Snapdragon 810 and Exynos chips will go unnoticed, so for now, we can assume Samsung only had consumers in mind when making this decision.

Less than a month ago, the Samsung HATERS came out in full force on GSM Arena by saying Samsung made a bad decision not using Qualcomm for their so-called crappy Exynos! Heck, even I was praising anything Qualcomm was doing esp compared to the other SoC makers out there.

What basically happened is Qualcomm became a fat cat. Lazy. Complacent. They saw their biggest rival in marketshare was from Taiwanese maker, MediaTek. Not Nvidia or Intel. Qualcomm felt they had a strangle hold on flagships and most of the Western markets while letting MediaTek go dominate in the cheaper markets in Asia. Now look. Samsung had more foresight and consideration with their SoC when it comes to performance and efficiency and now other OEM's relying on Qualcomm this year might look to suffer. Perfect case of Samsung saying, "I TOLD YA SO!"

On my Mi 3, I have the Snapdragon 800 AB. Qualcomm released like three variants of the 800, but one was renamed for the 801 variants. The AB chip has the GPU clocked higher at 550 MHz than 450 MHz found on the LG G2 and Nexus 5. It had near equal performance to the Sony Xperia Z2 with the slower 801 variant. Went I went from Snapdragon 600 to Snapdragon 800 AB, it was like night & day in battery efficiency and just faster and smoother opening esp games. Almost another generation forward.

This time, the disparity between 805 to 810 doesn't seem all that different. I feel Qualcomm didn't seem to care about overheat and battery efficiency. Just incremental upgrades over and over with different variants of generally the same SoC. Name them 805, 810, 815, etc and call it a day and collect their money.

Anything over 110 F or (44+ C) is approaching overheating problems with whatever material used.

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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Gala...s-everything-including-the-iPad-Air-2_id65823
The Galaxy S6 Edge keeps on leaking like a rusty faucet. After its ultra low SAR radiation ratings that popped up on Samsung's website by mistake yesterday, and its user manuals, today the handset, codenamed SM-925, appeared with all of its specs on AnTuTu for the umpteenth time.

Well, if you didn't believe that 60, 000+ score it got on the AnTuTu benchmark, perhaps this next leak will convince you that we might be looking at the most powerful handset on the market when the S6 lands. Its octa-core Exynos 7420 chipset managed to crush it with 1,492 points in the single-core, and 5,077 points in the multi-core test. To put things in perspective, this multi-core result is way higher than any other mobile device at the moment, including the iPad Air 2, the reigning champ, which scores 4,532.

The single-core performance gives way only to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, or the Google Nexus 9 tablet with its industrial strength Tegra K1 processor, but for phone purposes - well, it is very unlikely that the S6 will meet a task it can't crunch for the foreseeable future with these scores. Let's see if it will be strong enough to power TouchWiz without hiccups, though Samsung is rumored to go with a complete overhaul of the interface part, too.

FLASHBACK - Note 3 Snapdragon 800 vs Note 3 Exynos 5420
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9XbiHe91W0


^^ Only Gameloft games seems to suffer as they are better optimized for Qualcomm. I have Nokia Lumia 635 with only a 1.2 GHz quad Snapdragon 400 and 512 MB RAM and it plays Asphalt 8: Airborne extremely well for weaker hardware.

Exynos 5420 heated up more but better at most games and more battery efficiency since CPU was NOT higher clocked. Imagine the 2.1 GHz Exynos 7420 on the 14nm?

http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-exynos-7420-closer-look-592117/

This already adds up to tangible improvements so far, but the GPU is where Samsung has implemented the largest performance gains-over the Exynos 5 series. As well as the clock speed increase, Samsung has scaled up the number of GPU cores from six in the Note 4 to eight in the Galaxy S6. This extra graphics grunt will come in handy when gaming on the Galaxy S6’s QHD display, and the smaller 14nm manufacturing size has also allowed Samsung to drop the GPU voltage by between 200 and 300 mV at 700MHz. Samsung states that the move to 14nm reduces power consumption by 35 percent and much of that saving looks to have been pumped back into the two additional GPU cores.

With performance up and energy consumption down, Samsung’s push for 14nm has clearly paid off and it is clear why the company chose to drop Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series this generation. Although CPU performance is only marginally better than some existing flagships, additional GPU performance and battery savings are precious improvements for Samsung’s QHD Galaxy S6.

The Exynos 7420 will likely remain a top performer throughout 2015, as Qualcomm is not looking to reach sub-20nm until end of the 2015.
Qualcomm is now playing catchup before the battle in SoC even began...
 
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