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Samsung’s excellent power saving modes work well and extend battery life by days, but only by sacrificing usability.
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Generally it would last a day and a half before needing to be charged, which still isn’t the best – Sony’s Xperia Z3 lasts over two days per charge – but is better than some competitors.Ĭharging is fast, especially using the USB power adapter that comes in the box, while support for multiple wireless charging standards is convenient. Like the S6 Edge, if the big 2.1GHz processor fires up the battery takes a hit, but the flat S6 performed better in my testing. But that speed and high-density screen come at the price of battery life. The new chip and 3GB of RAM make the S6 easily one of the fastest Android smartphones to date. A lower power 1.5GHz chip (the little part) performs most undemanding tasks and a more powerful, but also more power hungry 2.1GHz chip (the big part) takes over when needed. The octo-core Exynos 7420 processor has two quad-core processors combined in a Little-Big combination. Typically the Exynos chips have only been used in countries without 4G coverage, favouring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips in the US, EU and UK. The Galaxy S6 line is the first to use Samsung’s own Exynos processor in US, EU and UK versions of the Korean company’s smartphones. View image in fullscreen The side holds the nano Sim slot, but no microSD card slot is present. Overall, Galaxy S6 could be considered the second best-looking smartphone Samsung has ever produced, only beaten by its curved screen Edge version, and finally matches HTC and Apple on craftsmanship. The 5.1in full HD screen of the Galaxy S5 was good, this one is significantly better. The 5.1in quad HD screen is one of the best ever fitted to a smartphone: pin sharp, vibrant and with rich blacks and wide viewing angles. The S6 is 6.8mm thick and weighs 138g, which makes it thinner but heavier than Apple’s 6.9mm thick, 132g iPhone 6 and thinner than most other top-end smartphones, including the 7mm thick S6 Edge. The glass back is also prone to light scratching, which is only visible in bright light. It is solidly built with absolutely no give or flex anywhere in the body, but loses the waterproofing of last year’s Galaxy S5. The S6 is Samsung’s first smartphone to ditch the plastic or fake leather back, replaced by glass front and back with a rounded aluminium band running around the side of the device. While not quite as eye-catching as the S6 Edge with its curved screen, the standard S6 marks a line in the ground for Samsung: design should be at least level with technology when driving the direction of new devices. View image in fullscreen The glass back is smooth, curved at the edges and like all glass backs is prone to minute scratching.