Flashback: Samsung Galaxy S6 got a lot of hate, but it also got many things right
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- AnonD-762416
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- 19 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 19 Dec 2021S7 was a game changer with the first phone with night mode ... moreBecause of fake news spam? The camera on the S21U is the most complete smartphone camera to this day.
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- Anonymous
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- 19 Dec 2021
S6 edge user here. Pretty good phone with cool screen and design. Camera is good too. But battery life isn't that good. And user interface lags here and there. I use it as a secondary phone. Also just bought A52. Really good phone with super battery life. One UI is much better than laggy TouchWiz.
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- Narazumono
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- 19 Dec 2021
The only good thing this phone did was end the cheap plastic trend. As good as the S5 was, it felt like a cheap Chinese toy and we had Apple and htc running around with their beautiful aluminum phones. Everything else about this phone was a fail. From the missing sd slot to the $hitty battery
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- AlienKiss
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- 19 Dec 2021
Rekt, 19 Dec 2021Being really honest,
All the phones I owned supposed to ... moreWhat you fail to understand is that people asking for the SD card slot aren't necessarily asking for 'more' space (even though it's always better to have more space, right?), but they're asking for the extra storage PARTITION (HOW is it better to have only one HDD instead of two?! In what universe?).
We're using it to store AND HAVE INSTANT ACCESS to backups, photos, videos, movies, audio books, Android kits, Windows kits, Linux kits, documents, programs, scripts, etc. Everything we need without having to connect to the internet, download it, use cables, dongles.
Just because you are not using it, it doesn't mean others don't. I'm using a 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro on my phone and I barely use the PC because of this reason. Also, no matter where I am (home, office, street, driving, middle of nowhere), I have INSTANT ACCESS to all my data. If my phone dies or gets destroyed, I just pop the SD card into a different phone. I don't cry that I forgot to sync my data. I use the internal memory just to install apps. Nothing else.
We're almost in 2022 and people aren't using just phones today, they're using SMARTphones and they're using them for more than just the basic functions like 5-10 years ago. In the next 10 years they'll replace laptops for sure if you ask me. Especially with the foldables getting more and more advanced.
The difference between reading 10.000 photos from the internal memory and from the SD card is of max 1 second on my phone. Unless you're doing computer science on your phone and every nanosecond counts, trust me, you're good to go.
The wheel is the oldest invention, but people are still using it. The SD card is very good, it's still being produced every day and there isn't anything better than it. When they will invent the swappable microSSD for smartphones, only then the SD card will be 'obsolete'.
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- Anonymous
- LkB
- 19 Dec 2021
After May-June , the SD8G1 is going to be made by TSMC.
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- Anonymous
- LkB
- 19 Dec 2021
S21 FE
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- the breslauer
- Hqc
- 19 Dec 2021
at least the s6 edge had an uncommon ( for samsung) emerald green colour.
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- Anonymous
- LkB
- 19 Dec 2021
Mr. Anonymous, 19 Dec 2021There is so much more that can be said abouts S6 series. It... moreIt had nothing to do with SD810.
Brands get samples of chips in the middle of year to test.
There is no way samsung would be able to in 6 months start the development of the exynos and have it ready to avoid SD810.
Also, it had same issues. At point phone had to restard.
Just google images > s6 edge overheat
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- ALPHABOY17
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- 19 Dec 2021
Yeah and s21 gets a lot of love, but it somehow has ALL the bad things s-series had!!!!
What an irony...
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- Anonymous
- LkB
- 19 Dec 2021
Wasnt the back glass?
- Kangal
- D$j
- 19 Dec 2021
Just want to state that the Samsung S5 was NOT waterproof.
It was a "fake" IP67 rating, as tested by lots of people of its day. It was more like a IP66 water-resistant. Even with the flap closed, and placed carefully, there were a lot of handsets getting damaged. And Samsung refused to honour their warranty. Sony also had issue in this department with their early units.
That is why for the next year, Samsung removed the claims for IP rating on the Samsung S6. The truth was that it was secretly water resistant, like the S5, without the need for a flap. This was also true with the LG G5 and the iPhone 6S. Samsung got waterproofing right with the S7, and was battling it out with the waterproof iPhone 7.
This era was the best for Apple. They earlier had a great S/M/L lineup with the iPhone 5S, 6, 6+. Then followed it up with an even better iPhone SE, 6S, and 6S+. But everyone else was struggling, trying to catch up with Apple's new Fingerprint reader, Hardware design, Flat UI, 64-bit processing, Swift language, and the Metal API for graphics.
...it wasnt a great year for Microsoft either, as they were finally releasing their (PROPER) operating system, Windows10 Mobile, but none of the OEMs or Developers wanted anything to do with it. They were too late in the ecosystem wars. Despite it being a great OS overall. The same goes for all the other open-source projects losing steam and shutting down.
All in all, 2015 was a bad year for Android Smartphones.
We had the throttling QSD 808 and QSD 810 chipsets. Android 5 Lollipop came with a lot of bugs. And Samsung's new phones had major downgrades like: higher price, lower storage/no microSD, no User Removable Battery, less battery life, harder to repair, more fragile, slipperier and heavier, and lastly a curved design that looked worse in real life compared to the CGI renders in the Ads especially when smudged with fingerprints.
Just compare the Expensive Flagship from 2015 the HTC One M9, with QSD 810, running early Android 5. And compare that to the Budget Flagship from 2016 the ZTE Axon 7, with QSD 820, running Android 6. Huge improvement in just 9 months difference. The Samsung S7 fixed some of those mistakes in the S6, and was the best Android phone of the year, but we've peaked then. The Samsung phones I remember fondly were the Galaxy S1, Note-4 Exynos, S7+ Exynos, the S10+ Snapdragon, and the A52-S. These were the no compromise/less compromise alternatives to the competition of their hayday.
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- Penk2856
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- 19 Dec 2021
Rekt, 19 Dec 2021Being really honest, All the phones I owned supposed to ... moreS5 had SD slot, hp jack and removable battery. Still IP67
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- Anonymous
- fCC
- 19 Dec 2021
Rekt, 19 Dec 2021Being really honest, All the phones I owned supposed to ... moreYep. A port less phone is the future. and SD card slot becoming less useful since lot of space already in today's phones
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- Rekt
- 0tP
- 19 Dec 2021
Being really honest,
All the phones I owned supposed to come with un-removable battery... Well I removed them all.
Sometimes to change a cracked screen, unworking camera or unworking battery input.
You can to it with the good tools, difference is your battery won't slide to the other end of the room when your phone falls from your hands.
I get that a lot of people doesn't understand why the "stuck inside" battery is better... It's for phone integrity, it's easier to build a more resistant phone when you don't have to make room for a removable battery (that in most case, will never be removed, at least on purpose)
Same for Jack input nowadays (plus can't get that way IP68)
same for SD storage (Seriously who use SD today and why, you got so much storage in today's phone you can't get them full, you got cloud storage, you can plug your phone to other storage sources more efficient than SD)
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- Anonymous
- YQC
- 19 Dec 2021
At least the phone was manageable with one hand. Unlike the bricks arriving these days
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- Anonymous
- xZI
- 19 Dec 2021
Mr. Anonymous, 19 Dec 2021There is so much more that can be said abouts S6 series. It... moreS7 was a game changer with the first phone with night mode on camera. Very solid camera performance. Don’t know why camera performance on newer Galaxy tumbled.
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- Anonymous
- xZI
- 19 Dec 2021
IpsDisplay, 19 Dec 2021The s6 battery life SUCKS!!!Even the Samsung Note Fan Edition (only sold in Asia) I owned had poor battery life. But it’s not like an iPhone did any better.
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- AnonD-731363
- SH3
- 19 Dec 2021
Just one question:
Since when curved fragile screens where no screen protector holds properly and almost every cover push your screen protector away is a thing right???
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 19 Dec 2021
SA466, 19 Dec 2021Apparently the S6 is already old enough for people to forge... moreYes