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hey what is up guys MTV HD here and the Galaxy S has been Samsung's flagship smartphone for the past few years and each version improves a bit on the previous version of course so this year we get this the Samsung Galaxy s6 and not only is it of course the best Galaxy S yet it's actually one of the best smartphones out there period in several ways so of course being a flagship high-end smartphone it's on top of the spec game it's rocking the latest internals so the Exynos 7420 and octa-core 64-bit processor a Mallee GPU 3 gigabytes of RAM and up to 128 gigs of non-expandable storage a lot of people wish it was expandable but this is the first Galaxy S that doesn't have a microSD card slot and doesn't have a removable battery and this is because the brand new design so the new build is the biggest change from the galaxy s5 and honestly from a lot of other flagships - it actually reminds me a lot of the Nexus 4 again where it's glass on the front and on the back and chamfered metal sides and this phone is thin really thin just six point eight millimeters so it really does need a place to hold it so the metal is what you're going to be gripping most of the time and metal feels great in the hand we've learned that from other flagships like the one m9 and the Moto X so the galaxy s6 is no exception and the glass on the front and back sort of curves down right around the edges of the phone so it's not as sharp as something like the note 4 was and it won't catch on to hairs or anything so it's really easy to drag your fingers across the edges and overall it's just a really solid feeling phone in the hand button placement is also on point is very clicky and tactile you got the power button on the right and the volume buttons on the left and you have your headphone jack and a pretty decently loud speaker on the bottom better than rear facing but obviously not as good as front facing speakers and yes the bottom of the galaxy s6 looks just like the bottom of the iPhone 6 quick which one is which exactly but whatever it's still a great spot for everything and Samsung nailed it with the chamfered metal but it's not perfect though thanks to its glass front and back and the relatively curved sides galaxy s6 probably falls into top-5 slipperiest phones of all time I've actually had it literally slide out of my pocket while I'm sitting down and almost slide off of a table when I was resting on a slightly built-in binder and of course since it's a glossy glass like that from the Nexus for the back of this phone is a fingerprint magnet in literally every color probably the fastest I've ever wanted to skin on the back of my phone anyway around the front at first glance it looks pretty much like any previous Samsung device the shape is the same and the layout as you can see is the same as well but there are a few improvements here number one is the home button it's a much improved home button on the galaxy s5 because first of all it's much clicky ER and more tactile and more satisfying to press and number two the fingerprint reader in it is much better it's no longer requiring a full swipe of your finger to read it but just a touch like the touch ID on the iPhone so you touch to unlock and for this reason it's much faster at unlocking your phone and so for those of you who like to use fingerprint for security this is going to make you very happy I still turned it off after a bit because for me it never quite got my finger right on the first try kept telling me to try again to get my whole finger over the button maybe a different finger would have worked better or even recalibrating it but either way it is a big improvement over the galaxy s5 and this new home button also serves as a double tap shortcut to quickly get into the camera which I'll talk about later and it sits between the capacitive multitasking and back buttons the one thing about the capacitive buttons that I objectively think is sort of bad is you can't control how long they stay lit anymore for some reason that setting is gone so they're always beyond for like a full second before they turn off and also you can't control the brightness of them so if you're in a dark room and you have your screen brightness all the way down you'll still get blinded by the surprisingly bright capacitive buttons at the bottom of the phone so I kind of wish they have that setting back where I could at least have them not light up at all or turn off very quickly as of right now the only way to make that happen is with a third-party app come on Sammy either way the other impressive improvement up front is the display this is the best screen on any smartphone hands-down it's big it's bright and it's beautiful it's a 5.1 inch display so not too huge especially with thin enough bezels to make this phone narrower than the galaxy s5 and it's rocking a 2560 by 1440 resolution so quad HD it is super crispy and it's also a Super AMOLED display in typical Samsung fashion so colors are vivid and saturated and really impressive to pretty much any eye and it gets crazy bright too so it's very visible outdoor which is not something every smartphone can say and that's very impressive for an OLED display there are a couple of settings to tone down the contrast to saturation if you're not feeling it but overall this is where Samsung does their best work and it's no surprise that this screen is so ridiculous almost looks like paper here at 577 pixels per inch really impressive stuff and of course pushing all the pixels around is no joke but the hardware is only half the story you also got to consider the software on top of Android here TouchWiz now when Samsung first introduced me and a couple of other people to this phone they mentioned that they're going to minimize the bloatware and essentially promised that this would be the lightest version of TouchWiz yet and if you remember previous Samsung phones and previous reviews of Samsung phones we've talked about the fact that TouchWiz is a heavy slow skinned performance has been a problem with it in the past and it's just slowed down the experience of using Android that is no longer the case with touch waves finally here now it still is this big bright blocky colourful thing the aesthetics unfortunately I think are not improved as much as the performances but this is a really fast phone now just everything about moving around this phone now is buttery smooth and is held up to day-to-day use great for me with pretty much zero lag which is impressive opening and closing apps was fast and actually the multitasking menu is the fastest I've ever used in any phone and the phone handles multitasking like a champ even adding that dual window feature from the galaxy note line of course three gigabytes of RAM also helps a lot although I do kind of find it hard to tell the difference between phones with two gigs and three gigs of RAM but either way this thing is snappy now TouchWiz overall is still a design change too so the skin kind of still has a face only a mother could love but at least it's a bit less offensive than previous versions that keyboard for example I really like it's probably my favorite and easiest to use of any Android skin and other updates have really made this version of TouchWiz the cleanest yet so you can change for example the size of your homescreen grid to have one of three different sizes depending on how dense you want your icons to be you can go in and out and use whatever theme you want there's a theme engine so you can have the ability to totally change the looks of everything in TouchWiz from the notifications to the quick settings and everything in just a few clicks and even the gallery which used to be the most painfully slow app on any Samsung phone is now caught up it launches at a normal rate so of course it's not all greatness for one I don't really know why s voice is still a thing it keeps prompting me to use it and I just don't want to use it we have Google everywhere and stuff like the briefing page to the far left of your home screens it's a little better than last year but it's still kind of slow it still lags when trying to swipe out of it now it's obviously still touch with so there's no way around this skinned nature of Android 5.0 here but you win some you lose some I've become willing to let a lot of the minor stuff go though because this phone has been so consistently fast like I said in the user experience that it's pretty dope beyond the way you know some of the icons might look I can grab a custom launcher I can grab a custom keyboard a custom icon pack a theme I can really make this my own and it'll still be crazy fast I mean the camera opens in literally under a second for crying out loud you can just double tap the camera button and it's basically already open actually I had this happen in my pocket a few times and as a result I've got plenty of pictures of the inside of my pocket but you know what let's talk about the camera let's talk about those pictures the galaxy s6 is rocking a 16 megapixel sensor with a maximum F 1.9 aperture with optical image stabilization and 4k video and LED flash damn okay so it looks great on paper how does it actually perform well I kind of ranted about this on Twitter for a second but the galaxy s6 is packing the best camera in any Android smartphone period and it's good enough for me to say it's tied for the best overall camera experience of any smartphone alongside the iPhone 6 plus I even give it the edge because it can shoot stabilized 4k video as far as just pointing and shooting this camera is very fast and taking a photo is quick and the layout is much simpler than past years which is actually nice it's pretty clean now so for the most part I left it in auto mode and it handled itself well I was able to point and shoot at basically anything and get crispy pictures but once in a while I went into what's called the pro mode which gives you a bunch more manual controls which will be more familiar to people who are into photography who have used a DSLR I could change to manual focus manual exposure pretty much manual everything except for shutter speed and I basically stay between those two modes to take all my photos on the galaxy s6 and the photos as you can see look pretty great I thought it was weird that Samsung went with a sixteen by nine image at 16 megapixels but okay on the images the photos you see are crispy as hell beautifully detailed stuff here even one the camera biases towards opening the lens wide open at F 1.9 you can get a nice creamy background depth of field the colors are of course your typical Samsung saturated and vivid and the dynamic range is actually not bad here either a couple of times you'll notice it biased towards overexposing just a little so it does like to expose a bit hot and that becomes more obvious when you take low-light shots which is really the only place I could get the images from this camera to look bad it tries to brighten things up a little bit too much and then the image processing can't quite save it but otherwise it's pretty much in any conditions great I've just walk up to a subject double tap the home button open the camera and then snap a quick photo and leave and that's what makes this camera so great it's pretty much all the photos I'm showing are just the first try and four seconds flat I would take the image and be done now of course you can sit around and tweak with other camera settings and stand there for a minute while you try to get it just right and then claim yeah it's totally capable of making the same picture but for a normal person this is exactly what you want in a smartphone camera just point and click and make beautiful images super easy the most inconsistent part of the galaxy s6 experience for me has been the battery life so it is a slightly smaller and now non removable battery so there's no switching out the batteries and that's just to get the phone a little bit thinner I've talked about how I want thicker batteries and bigger phones in the past but that's okay this is what we have now and I was coming off of reviewing the HTC One m9 which as I mentioned in that review had a pretty good battery life and with the exception of one day I never killed the phone after a regular day of medium to heavy usage with this phone I had a much bigger spread so I had some days where I was ending the day with 30% battery left which was great and other days where I'd be dead by 4:00 p.m. or it would die in my pocket I wouldn't know because I didn't get any notifications for a while until I checked and realized it was dead this one has a really big spread and at the end of the day didn't really have all that great battery life now I did mention this in another phone review with a similar problem the Nexus 6 and that made up for for me by having wireless charging and fast charging and the galaxy s6 does the same thing so you can use qi wireless charging to put this phone on any wireless charger and charge up and have random cheat charges all over your place or you can just use a fast charger so if you get home or have a chance to pop it on a quick charge somewhere during the course of your day you won't have to worry as it'll just blast I think it will add 50% of your battery in 15 minutes or something absurd like that so that sort of makes up for it from me but I would still much rather prefer to have a larger battery and a slightly thicker phone to not have to worry about charging at all my screen on time buried somewhere between three to three-and-a-half hours and again this is different for everyone's usage but for me I guess for comparison something like the oneplus one which was a fantastic battery life was getting for me between four and a half to five hours of screen on time and something like the one m9 even though it didn't give me a number I would estimate gave me between three and a half and four hours so if I rated this battery life it would be something like a c-plus but the fact that you can quick charge it or wireless charging anywhere will make up for that for some people so at the end of the day Samsung has come up with a pretty damn impressive package in the galaxy s6 and there's also the galaxy s6 edge which I'll have a video coming up about soon so thumbs up if you're excited to see that but so far a best camera in any Android smartphone best screen in any smartphone really impressive build if you can get around the fact that this is still TouchWiz and it's much better than a last version this is going to be an awesome phone and it's something I'm definitely going to be recommending to people switching from other phones or upgrading or even sidestepping from something like a Windows Phone or an iPhone this is an awesome phone good job Samsung looking forward to the next I guess the note 5 is what I'm really pumped about seeing this year that's been it thank you for watching 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