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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is your first look at the Samsung Galaxy s6 now Samsung has announced two new phones today so the galaxy s6 and the galaxy s6 edge and I have videos about both up right now so definitely be sure to check out that edge video as well it'll be the first link below that like button but this galaxy s6 is definitely the more traditional looking of the two new phones so this is the totally reimagined Samsung flagship supposedly rebuilt from the ground up in its design but if you ask me it has a lot of elements that remind me though devices I've used in the past but yeah so the leaks were right you can see it looks like another Samsung phone from the front and then it has chamfered metal sides to grip real metal this time not plastic that's painted to look like metal and the button placement is all on point it kind of feels like a mini Note 4 in the hand except for the back which switches over to this very shimmery very glossy very slippery glass back it's Gorilla Glass 4 on the back and you don't actually have to hold that glass though since the glass curves on the edges right to the metal so your hand is basically just holding the metal all the time so at least it has that going for it it is slightly thinner than the galaxy s5 it's just six point eight millimeters thin and it's also been narrower from left to right thanks to the super thin bezels on the sides kind of like the LG g3 so that is one thing I really like it's a 5.1 inch display but it manages to fit into a pretty compact usable sized body even with a home button in the chin and everything and speaking of that display it is gorgeous so it's a 5.1 inch quad HD AMOLED display that gives it a pixel density of 577 pixels per inch it basically looks like a piece of paper when looking at sharp text or images or video or anything really it's really impressive to look at plus it gets super bright up to 600 candelas per meter squared that's extremely bright for an OLED display or any smart phone display really and yeah it's absolutely beautiful colors are super saturated it will likely be the best display on any smartphone when this phone is released so that's Samsung at its best right there only thing that remains to be seen is how long the battery will last so obviously the galaxy s5 had a 10 P display so I'll have to see how long this galaxy s6 with it's 2550 milliamp hour battery can last when you put through his paces in real world views I'll definitely be testing that a lot in the review now another thing Samsung has always done really well is the camera and the galaxy s6 is no exception to that rule it's rockin a new 16 megapixel sensor but with all new optics so an F 1.9 maximum aperture which is super fast I'm glad that that's improving and so that combined with optical image stabilization should make some awesome images and video and should be even better in low light too there's also a shortcut to it just by double tapping the home button from anywhere so it's kind of like that Motorola double twist and it's actually pretty fast so if some action unfolds in front of you you don't have to think twice or anything just double tap the home button and you can take a photo in probably a matter of under a second it's also capable of 4k video again and yes I know the camera protrudes a little bit on the back and people have been talking about that a lot but at least it's right in the middle so it doesn't really affect a lot it doesn't affect typing when sitting on a table I tried that so it's not really as much of a big deal as some people made it out to be also you get a very wide angle front-facing camera - which also has an F 1.9 aperture plus some neat selfie tricks so you can use your finger to tap the IR sensor on the back of the phone to take a photo since it's sort of a natural place for your finger to rest so reminded me overall this phone a little bit of the nexus 4 with that glossy glass back which by the way is a serious fingerprint magnet and it also reminded me a little bit of the iPhone 6 of course with the bottom of the phone the rounded metal the speaker grilles and also with the improved fingerprint reader in a good way because it's a lot faster and finally only requires a touch instead of a swipe to unlock and get into things it's definitely on top of the spec game though with an octa-core 64-bit chip 3 gigabytes of RAM it's not ip67 certified anymore so no water resistance and no expandable storage or removable back but it added qi wireless charging support and an infrared blaster on the top and fast charging for 50% charge in 30 minutes with the supported charger now Samsung promised me something when they told me about this phone they told me they'd cut down on the excess software by 40% and I don't know how you measure that but we all know by now that TouchWiz is infamous by how heavy it is how slow it can make phones feel and also how ugly it is now unfortunately it's still not pretty it's it's running on top of Android 5.0 lollipop so there are you know little flatter elements here and there you have some material design once in a while but you still have a swipe over to Samsung's my magazine you still have all of Samsung's ugly stock icons and Samsung's wallpapers and still have some pre-loaded apps like a few Microsoft ones and Samsung's milk music so it's not totally gone but at least it feels fast I was actually genuinely impressed just scrolling around through home pages and opening and closing apps and flying through multitasking at how smooth and quick the software glided through everything animations didn't stutter out there wasn't really any lag either so I can't say that about any other quad HD phone even my Nexus so this is definitely the smoothest quad HD phone out there which is promising I still would have liked to see more cut out of TouchWiz or at least some redesign of the icons or something like that but overall the software experience is definitely an improvement so overall it's looking like the initial gut reaction a lot of people have to this phone is the design and that makes sense people want to see a big visual change on the outside and I got to say this is not the prettiest phone Samsung has ever made but I can tell you it's two different things to look at the phone versus actually holding this phone in your hand it's actually one of the best feeling phones Samsung has made in a while thanks to the new materials and the tighter bezels and of course that gorgeous display doesn't hurt either so there you have it it's the most tame version of Samsung's - new flagships announced today definitely let me know what you guys want to see in the full review when that goes live thank you for watching this first impressions and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace