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what's going on everyone John render some TechnoBuffalo here we've had the galaxy s6 and the galaxy s6 edge for a little over 24 hours not enough time for a review but plenty of time sort of sharing my thoughts on it so I'm going to call this a mini review we're gonna talk about things that I've noticed things that I want to test further and a lot of things in-between so talk about design build quality TouchWiz all the questions that you had and that I know I had before I got my hands on these phones so let's talk with about the design of both I've been admittedly very hard on Samsung the past for their build quality well it's been use of cheap plastics or bendy plastics no longer the issue here these phones look and feel very very premium it's hard to tell from the pictures of videos you might have seen from a World Congress but the glass back and the glass front do look very very nice a bit reminiscent of the LG built Nexus 4 and certainly the iPhone 4 but they have a nice quality to them all right like the aluminum also on the sides of the galaxy s6 me pick it up first in the morning it feels cold and it's sort of a neat feel to have so from a design standpoint I think Samsung is definitely heading in the right direction the other big gripe that I know that we've shared is TouchWiz I hated the bleeps and bloops it was incredibly bloated like me after Thanksgiving dinner or the Super Bowl thought the icons were kind of ugly TouchWiz here is looks to be completely redone the 40% lighter it's certainly nice there's way less apps installed but now it's actually useful they're not try to teach me how to wave my hand over the phone to answer it they sort of give you the feature to think you're going to need the most and if you want more you can download them from the Galaxy store if you choose to but they're not forcing you to you can hide the apps that you don't want to have the TouchWiz editions I do think are very nice I still don't like the way the colors look on it but now there's a theming engine built without having to download a third-party launcher and I will say having said all this about how much better I think TouchWiz is I'm still running Noble launcher but I guess that's the beauty of Android you can customize it any way you want the previous fingerprint sensors that Samsung has had you had to sort of swipe your finger over it and it never worked really well this implementation we just put your finger over it works very very very well it's on par with the new touch ID in the eye 6 and 6-plus setup Dixit surprisingly long time you got to keep pouting your finger over it once you get it set up it works and works really well another feature Samsung is really touting is the DoubleTap to launch a camera and that does launch the camera really quickly I want to test the camera a bit more it seems to have a kind of a slower shutter speed I take pictures of my son we're gonna upload a gallery of pictures from these phones and by the time he would take the shot he would've already moves ended up a sort of like blurry ghost face of him so I want to test that a little bit more before I comment on the camera I do really like the design as I mentioned but still camera um I don't like camera go go far far far away camera hum also let's talk about the screens here I've tested a lot of phones with a lot of screens and I can unequivocally say these are the best screens I have ever seen on a phone colors do look a little oversaturated I get that but this screen looks awesome you know sometimes gonna get a phone there's like a sticker over it it has like a picture of what the UI is gonna look like the whole screen looks like a sticker it almost even look real it is incredibly a high quality so one question that I had about the galaxy s6 edge came from the Galaxy Note edge the edge side on the note was its own screen so you serve lots of a screen real estate here on the s6 edge it's one continuous screen so ever you're watching whether it's it's text or a video does indeed wrap around I'm speaking of the edge if you want to use a third-party launcher it's kind of a fun fact all the edge features will still work with a third-party launcher so I will say out of the two I think the s6 edge looked cooler but I don't know how useful the edge is gonna be yet I mean so let me ask you this what are you more likely to do to check the time on your phone go like this and we put the show up we're just go like this and just be like oh it's 948 it's probably more likely what I'm gonna do being able to flip it over into the color show while people are calling you as a neat feature - I don't know how much I would use it it definitely looks really cool though so talking to the guys in the office here and I think this would have boiled down to at least for me if somebody handed me both phones it said John here's a galaxy s6 and a galaxy s6 edge they're free - you pick the one you I picked the edge but if I was buying one and I had to put my own money behind it their 100 our price difference from the two I think I just come to the galaxy s6 it looks really cool in its own right doesn't have that sort of wow factor I guess that the two curved sides the edge has but still does exactly the same thing so I want to test whether or not the edge features are going to be worked at extra money so I know you guys probably have that question too but I can't say first impressions I would happily use these phones the screen is awesome the phone looks ridiculously powerful I've seen no lag at all and I haven't ever run any benchmarks on it again I still want to test you know how the UI is going to perform over different stresses that we do I want to test battery life I will say though for battery I've got a powered USB hub at my desk and I plug the s6 edge in yesterday with around 22% battery life 45 minutes later it was up to almost 90 percent so it does charge insanely fast didn't charge that fast wirelessly and of course wireless charging is built in with pretty much every standard so if you got a charge for patio you just throw it on it and charge did get a little warm though while doing the wireless charging so I want to keep testing testing that the speakers on the bottom it sound pretty solid I'll but I did find when I was watching video I'll just use the s6 edge here I kind of held it like this it's sort of where I would go to hold it and my fingers were blocking a speaker but I can probably hold it the other direction and that would go away so I want to keep testing that as well my big questions that I had going in and I want to sort of boil this down for you build quality is awesome TouchWiz is infinitely better here so if you were sort of nervous about both of those I don't think you really have to be any more sure I would have liked expandable storage and I would have liked you've had a movable battery but that's not here you know that going in so consider these phones filled they're gonna be able to live with the 32 64 128 gate configurations no all of that going in both these phones seem really nice so far and I think I could see myself using both of these for the long term in fact after first impressions I think I would probably happily sign a contract to use one of these phones whether or not you want spend the extra money for the edge is going to be up to you anything else you guys want to see us test in the full review let us know and put it down below make sure we go over it in more depth I just want to share my first impressions and of course check out TechnoBuffalo I hit the big subscribe button to get the videos as they come to you we're gonna have a lot more coverage of these phones including gallery tests stress tests and battery tests and everything in between that we can possibly test and benchmark for you give you a thumbs up you always appreciate it until next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo so yeah the next one