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Samsung just announced the galaxy s6 and s6 Eady before you pick one up here are five things you need to know so what's up guys Jonathan here with TLD hope you guys are doing well in this past week I got a chance to go hands-on with both the Galaxy s6 and s6 edge early I wanted to give you guys a rundown of everything you need to know before spending your cash on one of these first and foremost this is a completely new design anything that we've come to know about the galaxy s design materials or lack thereof can be thrown out the window this is a completely different animal constructed out of aluminium and glass and it feels really good now before I get any further let's all address the elephant in the room because it is a big one immediate reaction when seeing the Galaxy s6 and s6 edge for the first time is that it looks very familiar it's like somehow the galaxy s5 got knocked up by both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 6 and now came the galaxy s6 and it's slightly different looking twin bro the galaxy s6 edge surprisingly though I didn't mind that at all it's a little hard to portray through video but in person I really dug the looks of the phone and how it felt in my hand at in terms of straight-up feel I would take that all day long over the iPhone 6 one-hand ability is on point and Samsung bump up the resolution on both the s6 and s6 edge without increasing the screen size they both feature a 5.1 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display and a non fancy tech lingo that's a resolution of 2560 by 1440 which is a next step above 1080p so as a result you're getting a crisp your image in the same amount of real estate as the galaxy s5 for example and a total pixel density of 577 pixels per inch now the next thing you need to know is straight out the differences between the two the s6 and the s6 edge are actually marketed equally by Samsung it's not like before where the edge was some experiments key where they were just kind of testing the waters these are both equal full-fledged flagship so I kind of wanted to help you guys separate between the two and ultimately help you figure out which might be better for you aside from the actual edge on the s6 edge and a slightly larger battery everything is literally identical as I mentioned they both share the same screen but they both also share the same a core processor 16 megapixel camera 3 gigs of ram and both are running Android 5.0 lollipop the s6 edge has a slightly larger battery coming in at 2600 milliamp hours whereas the standard s6 is 25 50 very minimal and I wouldn't expect that to translate into better battery life rather I would think that slight bump is to compensate for the actual edges on the galaxy s6 edge so really it comes down to whether or not you think you'll take advantage of those edges unlike the Galaxy Note edge where you are limited to one side this has two so you can actually choose which side you want the text to appear on it has a bedside mode where it's gonna faintly display the time so a that's gonna reduce power draw and B it's not gonna be overbearing and blind the crap out of your eyes when you're just waking up from pitch-black you can then tap to activate the edge for full brightness and then the scroll see notifications it's very similar to the Moto X active display where you're able to see important information without wasting unnecessary power over extra pixels what's really sweet though is that the edge notifications can be color-coordinated to your contacts so if your phone is facing down let's say your wife husband boyfriend girlfriend brother or even mom or dad calls its gonna pull to whichever color you have them assigned to and that can also be applied to text or even email so if those sound appealing or useful to you then the edge might be the better choice and for me I actually this plain-out preferred how the edge felt in my hand versus the standard galaxy s6 now the next thing you need to know is because of the new premium design that comes at a cost and you will be sacrificing and losing some things yes pass galaxy s phones haven't had the most amazing build quality but two things diehard Galaxy users loved where the modularity of being able to swap out batteries and also the freedom to expand storage via microSD card and these are both gone on both the galaxy s6 and s6 edge now that alone I know is gonna cause an uproar and there's some people that are gonna lose their over this but really it's like Samsung is gonna get hated on whatever they do before it was knocking Samsung for their plastic phones well actually it was TouchWiz 2 but really one of the biggest gray their phones were never up to par on some of the other premium smartphones this time though they stepped up the build quality game which I appreciate but I can see where it's really important for those who really relied on microSD expansion or that swappable battery so if those are really important to you you might have to look elsewhere this time one bright note though out of this whole expansion catastrophe is the galaxy s6 and edge both now start at 32 gigabytes as the base model as opposed to 16 on the galaxy s5 for example so that may help offset the difference for some of you out there now the fourth thing you need to know is actually on a positive note and that's that the camera will be awesome both the s6 and s6 edge are packing a 16 megapixel camera and if we're talking solely megapixels it's the same as the s5 but I must stress megapixels are not everything in addition to getting oh is on the rear camera you're also getting a bump on the front facing camera that's going up to 5 megapixels as opposed to 2 on the galaxy s5 you're also getting a lower aperture on both cameras at F 1.9 and that's gonna equate to better low-light performance and also more of that blurred out background look on those close-up shots you also get insanely fast access to the camera now just by double tapping the home button and this can be accessed from anywhere on the phone and doesn't matter which application you're using and testing it out in person this works really well on top of that both feature real time auto HDR and tracking autofocus and this is gonna be helpful when you have a moving subject it's gonna lock on to them and keep focused as he or she is moving in this case shoutout to the awesome Lamarr Wilson for being my model now the last thing you need to know and this may be a huge deal breaker or very important for some of you out there and that's not to expect great battery life even comparing the galaxy s6 and s6 edge to the galaxy s5 they both have a lower capacity battery and then on top of that you combine a higher resolution screen it's probably not gonna be amazing the upside though is the processor is more efficient and I don't think that's really gonna translate again to better battery life I think Samsung is really just shooting to get it on par with the galaxy s5 which to me really isn't a win for the consumer like I've talked about before I think one of the biggest bottlenecks in terms of smartphones specifically is battery life it just really has an advanced like everything else in that has we're at the stage where every manufacturer wants thin thin thin thin let's see how thin we can make the phone but I wouldn't mind a slightly thicker phone if I could get a chuck norris like battery aside from that both of these are still dealing with TouchWiz although it's a little less TouchWiz II I think we can all agree no TouchWiz would be the best route to take I did however really like how they implemented multitasking so if you're in your recent apps window you can actually scroll through those and then any open application with the multitasking icon can be used to start the multitasking and then from there once that is started that you can then scroll through your apps and figure out what is that second app that you want in your multitasking window so that's really useful if you enjoyed the video and you're feeling like being awesome make sure to go crazy on that like button and of course in return you get a virtual high five at your face aside from that I didn't get a ton of time with both devices so this of course isn't a review but those are coming very soon so definitely stay tuned for that and feel free to subscribe that way you don't miss out on those you guys have any questions drop me a line down below or hit me up on Twitter at TLD today and actually my good buddy Austin Evans he just released his video on the top 5 galaxy s features so if you want to check that out from a different perspective puddin click here or check it out in the link below this is Jonathan with TLD and I will see you guys later