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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and Samsung came out with two different versions of its flagship Android phone this year the galaxy s6 and then the galaxy s6 edge which probably heard a lot about the regular galaxy s6 I reviewed as its own standalone phone it's great and a lot of ways it's one of the best phones you can buy but then the edge is as the name implies a little bit physically different it has a curve over the edge of both sides of the glass and that costs $100 more for this version so you better get something out of it so what exactly do you get for your hundred bucks internally these phones are identical so they're the same phone same chip same Ram same camera same everything objectively the only real difference between them is the display and the dimensions so the galaxy s6 edge is a tiny bit thicker than the regular s6 it's 7 millimeters thick and actually houses a slightly larger battery a 2600 milliamp hour battery so not a huge difference but you know worth noting the biggest difference though from the build comes with the feel in the hand so since the glass wraps around the sides of the phone and sort of extends the display a bit in an immersive way it also means you get less of a side of the phone to hold on to when you're using it and this is something you find out more and more as you're using the phone but I found if I grip the phone the wrong way or squeeze it at all I actually start clicking things on the screen by accident but if I was too careful to not touch the screen at all then you're basically just holding on to a sharp metal edge and that actually got uncomfortable after a while there's significantly less material to hold on the sides and because of the angles and the way it's built you're really not holding on to a metal side you're holding on to a metal rail to pick up and hold the phone it does make the phone look and feel super thin and it is eye-catching believe me but this turned into a case of feeling like a little bit too thin now Samsung does build in some neat software features to take advantage of the new shape so it's not as extreme as the curve on the note 4 edge which is only on one side but this is a little bit more convenient here since you can choose which side any of these features show up on so you get edge lighting for incoming calls people edge for a quick swipe in to contact your favorite people information stream to show notifications and info on the edge and the night clock I found the night clock and information stream to actually make the most since I take advantage of the OLED display and only light the edge pixels when you have them in use so they don't waste any battery but they're actually the features that I use the least because I just never felt compelled to use them even though I feel like they'd be very easy to use but the ones I did use are the people edge and the edge lighting they're very cool so I have a few favorite contacts available and you can swipe in from well only the home screen you can pull them that tab from the home screen at any time to contact them and you can see they have a little ring around their picture with a color and you got to remember these colors from you again contact these people anytime they contact me they're associated with that color so if I miss a call from one of them I get a sort of a side notification in addition to the one up top that gives me info on that missed call from one of my favorite contacts and it lets me ping them back if I want to right from there it's nothing you couldn't do with a regular screen but having the curve there makes this feel more natural and any incoming call from a favorite contact while your phone is facedown on the table will light up the edges with that phones that contact color so you know who it is before you pick it up the funny thing is I didn't want to put this all glass phone facedown on a table that often but it was a nice thing to see it work but that's about it for the edge specific features everything else about that edge display is just aesthetics just the crazy way it looks people really like this apps suddenly feel a lot more immersive one it feels like there's no bezel at all content and images just sort of spill over the sides of the phone with no barrier and the fact that it's curved makes a lot of the swiping more pleasant too you know all the new apps with a new drawer that's swiped in from the side especially all the good Google apps that will be more comfortable to use because of this curve this is probably a great phone for tinder with all that swiping so yeah it's just not an aesthetically unique thing but it actually has a little bit of benefit over the everyday use the one thing to watch out for is glare and distortion again since it's a curve if it weren't curved we would just be saying this is a phone with zero side bezel but the curve introduces a little bit of glare problems that the regular galaxy s6 doesn't have to worry about I mean there's almost no position that you can hold the edge and not get any glare from somewhere and there's also a little bit of light fall-off on the far edges with the curve and then yeah distortion can be a factor with fullscreen media - you'll notice that so long story short when I was introduced to both the phones a galaxy s6 edge and the regular galaxy s6 I really like the edge version a lot more but this is one of those cases where the initial impression is a little bit different from the final verdict I originally said the galaxy s6 edge could be its own standalone phone and the regular Galaxy s6 is a sort of a backup in case this doesn't work but now because it's $100 extra it's sort of a different case and as cool as it is the edge screen probably isn't worth the extra $100 to most people it does look really cool on a table and in the hand and it does seem a lot thinner and a lot different and it does differentiate itself from a normal phone but when you consider the price difference it's a little hard to justify maybe we'll see edge versions of samsung phones that aren't a full hundred dollars more than a regular counterparts in the future but until then I'd say hold off even though it looks pretty awesome thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace