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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is my first video in what I hope to be a series of videos called why the hype so sometimes when a new product category comes out or when a heavily anticipated product gets leaked or revealed the tech community gets really excited and it's kind of easy to get lost in the hype so right now there's a lot of hype about the Galaxy s6 and the s6 edge and specs are detailed and compared but a lot of these specs are kind of meaningless without context and that's what I hope to do with these videos it's to provide context so I'm just gonna say it straight up I really like the iPhone 6 I realized it's not for everyone and there's a bunch of things I dislike about it and even things I absolutely hate about it but in the end of the day there isn't an Android phone that I prefer over it to use as my daily now I've used a bunch of them like basically all the flagships the HTC One m8 I'm using the anat the Nexus 6 right now the Moto X 2014 I've used an S 5 and s 4 a note for a note edge I've I've tried them all extensively and I still prefer the iPhone 6 but recently the Samsung Galaxy s6 and s6 edge were revealed at MWC and this is the first time I've ever been truly excited about an Android phone and to explain why here's my video the galaxy s6 and s6 edge why the hype so I think most people would agree these two phones are the best-looking phones that Samsung has ever designed parts of the phone do look really similar to the iPhone 6 and I really don't like how's Samsung imitates the designs of other companies but aesthetically these two phones look nicer than anything else Samsung has made so instead of the polycarbonate that Samsung has been using for so many years this thing has a lot of glass and aluminum and I think that's a really good thing the color options are nice and for the people that want it the blue and green are pretty loud but I think the direction of design was a very big step for Samsung to take and I think it'll pay off an iPhone 6 measures in at 67 millimeters wide and 138 millimeters tall it's not a particularly large or small phone but in the current generation of smart phones it's a pretty average size but the s6 and the S edge are really similar in dimension to the iPhone 6 so the s6 has a width of 71 millimeters and a height of 143 millimeters definitely bigger in both dimensions but similar and the s6 edge even with its curved screen also has a very similar dimension of 70 millimeters by 142 millimeters and in terms of thickness and weight all three phones are very similar so all in all the differences in weight and dimensions are pretty slight so you're probably wondering why I'm even bringing this up just keep in mind that all three phones have a similar size and a very similar weight the battery on the samsung phone is quite a bit bigger than the iPhone 6 battery which is kind of neat considering these similar dimensions and weight and it also has this quick charging feature and so Samsung says that with a 10 minute charge it can grab enough juice for four hours of use and if it works as advertised without destroying the long-term life of the battery that's really useful and quite awesome so in terms of the displays I'm not going to talk much about the curved screen on the galaxy s6 edge I think there's quite a bit of coverage about that already and personally I think it's super cool I do want one but I think it's a bit of a gimmick just because I mean despite the marketing pitches that Samsung has done I don't really see any real-world use for those curved screens but I do want to talk about these screens in general so even though the s6 and the s6 edge have similar dimensions with the iPhone 6 the screens on the Samsung phones are much bigger than the screen on the iPhone 6 so the iPhone 6 has a 4.7 inch screen with the 1334 by 750 res and the Samsung phones Rock a 5.1 inch screen that has a 2560 by 1440 res so this is a noticeably larger screen and a significantly higher res screen while being in a pretty similar size package I mean if the iPhone 6 had a 5.1 inch screen like this it would be pretty damn cool the pixel density is crazy high at 577 PPI and if I'm not mistaken this is the highest pixel density on any smartphone right now in the market but to be fair you really have to focus at these pixels like really look up close to appreciate this kind of pixel density but Samsung likes to play the specification game and as long as the battery life doesn't get wrecked by going super high res like this I think consumers win for many people cameras are one of the most important features on a smartphone and for me one of the biggest reasons why I like the iPhone 6 so much is because it takes incredible photos and it takes them quickly and it's been said if you want to beat the iPhone you have to beat the camera on the iPhone now every Android phone that comes out they always talk about how they have the next great camera and the truth is I mean they're very good some of them are even great but none of them have been the best but from what I've seen so far it really looks like the camera on the s6 and the s6 edge are actually going to be comparable and potentially better than the camera on the iPhone 6 so it's a 16 megapixel camera and normally I don't care about resolution and quite frankly 16 megapixel seems like a ton of pixels excessively so but I shoot my youtube videos in 4k and I'm starting to get to the point where I wish that I could shoot 4k video with my phone so right off the bat having access to a 4k shooter in your pocket is really nice it's not game breaking but it's nice because the iPhone 6 with its 8 megapixel camera can't do that but the big thing is aperture the s6 camera has an aperture of f11 whereas the iPhone 6 camera has an aperture of f-22 so the lower F number of 1.9 corresponds to a larger aperture size and in really basic terms and I mean this is really oversimplified the new Samsung phones have a wider hole in the lens which allows more light to reach the sensor in the camera so what does this do okay so this allows your camera to work its electronic shutter quicker which lets you take action shots quicker and it reduces camera shake and also lets you capture shots with better bokeh and also gives you better pictures in low light so generally speaking having a bigger aperture or a lower F number is going to result in better photos now aperture is only a part of the equation but having you know better processing which Samsung says that they've done optical image stabilization and a proven Sony sensor I'm really excited for the photos that are going to come out of this thing so both of these phones are gonna be running Android 5 lollipop which is awesome but Samsung likes to put on this thick layer of Samsung icing with TouchWiz in Samsung Apps but there is one app that I'm really interested in and that's Samsung pay so this is a mobile payment system like Apple pay or Google Wallet and it can use NFC like Apple pay and Google Wallet but it also uses a new tech called MST which is magnetic secure transmission now take this footage with a grain of salt because it is from a Samsung ad but the idea is that you can use your phone to transmit a magnetic signal that should work with any old-school magnetic stripe terminal Samsung bought this MST Tech and implemented the hardware into their phones directly so this is really convenient for users like us but it's also really convenient for retailers so if you can imagine a really big company like Starbucks or McDonald's if they need to change their point-of-sale systems to accept NFC payments that's something they can do I mean they're a big company they can do it but if you're a small company like let's say you're a mom and pops you know you have a comic book store or like that like a vinyl record shop or something like that you're probably not gonna want to spend the money to invest in NFC payments and even if you do want to spend it maybe you can't afford it so the cool thing about this tech from Samsung is that basically any kind of magnetic stripe point-of-sale system already works with samsung pay or theoretically so just from an adoption perspective this is amazing because that means that a lot of people already accept Samsung pay and they don't even know it but in terms of its security and stuff like that I have no idea it could be terrible it could be amazing but time will tell regardless I think this is really cool tech and I'm super excited to see where it goes so there are some things I don't really care about the first one that comes to mind is their eight core CPU I know Samsung made a big deal about it and some of you tubers are really excited about it personally I think that just sounds like Samsung wanted some more ammunition for the spec board because an eight core CPU for mobile device sounds really silly other things I don't love the AMOLED display I've always found ammo LEDs to be a little bit oversaturated this is just personal preference you guys might like it it's just not for me so I'm quite excited or rather I'm hopeful that one of these phones will be awesome enough to replace my iPhone 6 as my daily so that's the end of the video if you guys liked it give me some thumbs and if you guys love to give me some subs and if you guys want to see more of these videos these why the hype video please let me know in the comments below and if you have any questions or comments again type them below and as always it's been nice I'll see you guys next time