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Galaxy S6

My phone just arrived!!!

Didn't intend for the UPS guy to see me in my bathrobe with a face mask on, but he arrived earlier than expected.
 
mel823 said:
My phone just arrived!!!

Didn't intend for the UPS guy to see me in my bathrobe with a face mask on, but he arrived earlier than expected.
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Nice! T-Mobile customer?
Don't leave us in suspense.....share your thoughts! :)
 
jamezr said:
Nice! T-Mobile customer?
Don't leave us in suspense.....share your thoughts! :)
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Yup, ordered Sunday afternoon with standard delivery. Got the Black Sapphire in 64GB. It's prettier than I remembered.

Boots up really fast. Screen's gorgeous. I did the tap to transfer thing so right now it's downloading all 300+ apps I got. Even though some apps already started downloading, it did say I had about 54GB free. Battery was at 56%. I don't like the Sim card removal tool. Feels really flimsy, I'll just use my Moto X one. Once all my apps finish downloading, then I'll really start playing with it.

Oh, not sure what's it called, but the anti-virus thing gives you a notification every time an app is finished downloading telling you it's safe to open.
 
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mel823 said:

Yup. Got the Black Sapphire in 64GB. It's prettier than I remembered.

Boots up really fast. Screen's gorgeous. I did the tap to transfer thing so right now it's downloading all 300+ apps I got. Even though some apps already started downloading, it did say I had about 54GB free. Battery was at 56%. I don't like the Sim card removal tool. Feels really flimsy, I'll just use my Moto X one. Once all my apps finish downloading, then I'll really start playing with it.
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Thanks! Wow thats a lot of apps! You might get a battery hit after all those apps are installed and they all make calls to the app servers and so forth.
I would expect you to have almost that many updates for all the apps that were on KK and now are installed on Lollipop.
 
mel823 said:

Oh, not sure what's it called, but the anti-virus thing gives you a notification every time an app is finished downloading telling you it's safe to open.
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That sounds annoying ....

Did you get the S6 or S6 Edge ? How is the black colour - does it really look blue in some lighting situations ? I have a 64gb Black Edge on order - my carrier rang me today to confirm.
 
MRU said:
That sounds annoying ....

Did you get the S6 or S6 Edge ? How is the black colour - does it really look blue in some lighting situations ? I have a 64gb Black Edge on order - my carrier rang me today to confirm.
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Regular S6. Yeah it looks navy blue in some lights, but from a distance most people would assume it's a black phone.
 
Why reviewers are saying battery life is the weakest link here? it doesnt' last from 7am to 8pm?
 
jamezr said:
How has it gone with it so far? Ddi you get all 300 apps installed and updated?
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I wanted to give the Touchwiz launcher a fair shot, but I'm lazy so I switched to Nova. Everything's already in its place. I just need to set up all these accounts, and go through the app drawer and disable some apps.

I am disappointed that their Smart Switch app is incompatible with the 2014 Moto X, so am going to have to manually add back all my media.
 
mel823 said:
I wanted to give the Touchwiz launcher a fair shot, but I'm lazy so I switched to Nova. Everything's already in its place. I just need to set up all these accounts, and go through the app drawer and disable some apps.

I am disappointed that their Smart Switch app is incompatible with the 2014 Moto X, so am going to have to manually add back all my media.
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I plan on installing Nova right away. I do not like the grid/icon size of the stock launcher. It wastes so much space!
 
jamezr said:
I plan on installing Nova right away. I do not like the grid/icon size of the stock launcher. It wastes so much space!
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You can change that on the GS6, just long press the home screen and up comes wallpaper, widgets, and grid. Tap on grid and you can edit it. I set up the demo to 4x5 and everything shifted just fine.

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The android central review is up, and again it's mostly positive, though it's looking like the software wasn't the huge overhaul we were especting, as most reviews are still iffy on software and battery, but excellent everywhere else.

http://m.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-review

Android Central said:
So how does the slimmed-down interface translate into performance? Well, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Samsung seems to have addressed long-standing issues with performance around the interface, including speeding up the multitasking view and dramatically reducing the time it takes to launch and switch apps. Animations are also smooth for transitions and hopping between different parts of the interface, and the processor seems more than capable of handling multitasking, 3D games and high-resolution media playback. Unfortunately the speed isn't ubiquitous on the Galaxy S6 — there are some slowdowns still.

Samsung's new processor is designed to intelligently hand tasks between four high-powered and four lower-powered cores for the right balance of performance and efficiency. For the most part that seems to work just fine, but I still found the phone to inexplicably slow down on occasion with mundane tasks like typing a message or scrolling through my Twitter app. That's frustrating, but it's even more frustrating when the experience is*usually*fast and smooth throughout the phone.

I couldn't narrow down any root cause to the slowdowns, even through factory resets and troubleshooting — but I do have to say these are things that just shouldn't be happening at this point on a flagship phone that'll cost you $650 to $1,100 outright. Samsung may have smoothed out its interface and trimmed back on years of feature creep, but after spending time with the GS6 I can tell there's still some work to do.

But to say that the small performance hiccups make the Galaxy S6 much less desirable would be an overstatement. The improvements in Samsung's software interface and experience on the GS6 far outweigh the small shortcomings in performance, and this isn't the only Android phone out there today that stutters from time to time.
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Fernandez21 said:
You can change that on the GS6, just long press the home screen and up comes wallpaper, widgets, and grid. Tap on grid and you can edit it. I set up the demo to 4x5 and everything shifted just fine.
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Thanks! I 'll try it.
 
MRU said:
That sounds annoying ....

Did you get the S6 or S6 Edge ? How is the black colour - does it really look blue in some lighting situations ? I have a 64gb Black Edge on order - my carrier rang me today to confirm.
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Thus the name black sapphire. I think it looks great.
 
Available memory? Antivirus?

mel823 said:

Yup, ordered Sunday afternoon with standard delivery. Got the Black Sapphire in 64GB. It's prettier than I remembered.

Boots up really fast. Screen's gorgeous. I did the tap to transfer thing so right now it's downloading all 300+ apps I got. Even though some apps already started downloading, it did say I had about 54GB free. Battery was at 56%. I don't like the Sim card removal tool. Feels really flimsy, I'll just use my Moto X one. Once all my apps finish downloading, then I'll really start playing with it.

Oh, not sure what's it called, but the anti-virus thing gives you a notification every time an app is finished downloading telling you it's safe to open.
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Is it safe to say that the OS/Bloatware takes around 10GB then? So in theory a 32GB will have 22GB available?

Also, can the antivirus thing be disabled or removed from the phone?
 
jahall05 said:
Is it safe to say that the OS/Bloatware takes around 10GB then? So in theory a 32GB will have 22GB available?

Also, can the antivirus thing be disabled or removed from the phone?
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no. a 64GB drive only has 59.47GB of actual space. So touchwiz uses about 5.5gb. So the 32gb version would be 29.8-5.5...so around 24.3gb free space.
 
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