Was the Galaxy Note Edge popular enough to go with a curved side display in the GS6?
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Was the Galaxy Note Edge popular enough to go with a curved side display in the GS6?
They will make two sku's like the Note 4.
You'll have the GS6. and the GS6 Edge which will be the niche version.
The GS6 could very well be my next phone. I like that is is 5.1". I like what they are doing with it.
gs6 gets bencmarked 5400+ multi core
Not really disappointing. If they 'truly' have optimised Touchwiz as much as HTC did with Sense - they can bring memory / ram usage in line with stock android - then 4gb would have been a total overkill.
I feared if the 4gb was true, then Touchwiz would likely not get the ground up reworking that it really needs and Samsung would just resort to their usual tactic of using power & specs to bully their through the OS (resulting in a sometimes choppy / hiccups / delayed gui) rather than truly optimise it as it needs.
3gb confirmed (or as confirmed as any rumour gets) gives me hope that Touchwiz may indeed be finally getting sorted, however I'll still wait to see for myself before getting too optimistic.
Not really disappointing. If they 'truly' have optimised Touchwiz as much as HTC did with Sense - they can bring memory / ram usage in line with stock android - then 4gb would have been a total overkill.
I feared if the 4gb was true, then Touchwiz would likely not get the ground up reworking that it really needs and Samsung would just resort to their usual tactic of using power & specs to bully their through the OS (resulting in a sometimes choppy / hiccups / delayed gui) rather than truly optimise it as it needs.
3gb confirmed (or as confirmed as any rumour gets) gives me hope that Touchwiz may indeed be finally getting sorted, however I'll still wait to see for myself before getting too optimistic.
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In fairness with lollipop the way chrome handles tabs / multitasking - having lots of tabs open = resulting lots of windows in multitasking - does drive me nuts now, so I rarely have more than 1 or 2 tabs open.
But yeah especially on a samsung device - having less refreshing for anything is something I'm really hoping for this year.
In fairness with lollipop the way chrome handles tabs / multitasking - having lots of tabs open = resulting lots of windows in multitasking - does drive me nuts now, so I rarely have more than 1 or 2 tabs open.
But yeah especially on a samsung device - having less refreshing for anything is something I'm really hoping for this year.
You know you can revert back to the old way Chrome worked, right? It's in Chrome's options.
Benchmarking is great and all but real world use is far more valuable. Samsung has had terrific benchmark results in the past but too often, real world use doesn't live up to those results. I'll wait for some real hands on use experiences before getting excited for any device.
Agreed.... They need to transition those scores into a nice seamless user experience. Hopefully this time they listened to all the negative TW feedback and optimized it.
I am cautiously optimistic.
Yep that's how I feel - i'm optimistic - but with a fair amount of deserved scepticism still there in regards to TW optimisation.
I'm curious, does the note 4 suffer the same lag or un-finessed user experience that the galaxy s5 suffers from?
The Note 4 was a solid performer for me. I did not notice lag. But a lot of others did.
I get a little over 48,000 on my at&t Note 4 .
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Not as bad, but it does seem to run at a lower frame rate when compared to my iPhone 6 plus.
Gotcha. Thanks for the replies.
I'm quite smitten with my Android experience on the OnePlus, and in 2015, may look toward the Note 5 as an upgrade, though like others, I do hope TouchWiz is optimized and/or scaled back. Hopefully they can do this without losing any of the extra goodies/features that make the Note 5 so special.
I'm quite smitten with my Android experience on the OnePlus, and in 2015, may look toward the Note 5 as an upgrade, though like others, I do hope TouchWiz is optimized and/or scaled back. Hopefully they can do this without losing any of the extra goodies/features that make the Note 5 so special.