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what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today it's a comparison I've got the entire family of galaxy s6 in front of me I've got the whole galaxy this is the edge this is the standard s6 and over here I have the new s6 active and I'm pumped for this device for a couple of reasons I started out attempting to use the s6 edge as my daily driver there were a couple things that were bothering me with it it's not the most comfortable device in the world to hold oh my phone is so slender the edge is so sleek eventually what happens is you're just sitting there trying to use it maybe your finger will creep over the edge inadvertently tap the screen trigger the haptic feedback so on and so forth it's just not the most comfortable or fought out device in my opinion there's just not enough plus when it comes to having this glass wrap around the sides so I moved over to the standard s6 which is in the center here that was a lot better it's a lot comfier to hold sitting back on the couch lying in bed so on and so forth I wasn't having those inadvertent clicks and now I had a solid place to rest my fingertips these fingertips I just said fingertips trying to make videos here god damn it but that said not everything was perfect in galaxy land this thing is barely getting through a day of usage I'm playing with phones I like phones I'm on Twitter it comes to like I don't know seven eight o'clock at night and it wants to be plugged in it's a consequence of having a very sleek in glass looking phone fine so be it but the s6 active improves the battery life significantly what do we have here 3,000 is it 3,500 milliamp hours of power that's a thousand more roughly a thousand more than the standard s6 and as you can see the form factors not all that different it's also waterproof it's rugged it's more damn manly if you look at it military spec ip68 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes we're probably going to test that in an upcoming video because that's fun so you're getting a more rugged device and a bigger battery power users are probably gonna be happy about that but you're getting some other things too you've got a SIM tray that you can remove with your fingertip instead of a sim tool I'm changing phones all the time and having to search for those little sim tools just pushes me over the edge every so often also you have a really big tactile and grippy buttons you have a grippy foam when you hold on to that you know you've got it you can do like we've done here you can put some skins on your devices to make them a little bit more grippy these are from D brand of course link in the description if you want to check it out with this device you've got that nice rubberized confident manly grip other specs you're dealing with essentially the same device as the standard s6 and that's a good thing you've still got that great camera a really quick processor so it's snappy you're not gonna have to sit around and wait now there's one more difference on the s6 active and it's one of my favorite features as well you have this little button here they call it the active button that button is yours it's yours to own in love you can do whatever you want with it it could be an app it could be a webpage buttons are good I love buttons physical buttons on the front that carries around too you have physical buttons for multitasking home and FAC now not everything is fine and dandy on the s6 active side though you're going to take a bit of a hit when it comes to the speaker it's on the back of the device so if it's on a tabletop or even if you're holding it it's going in the opposite direction of your ears that's never optimal you're also giving up one other thing the fingerprint sensor this fingerprint sensor is a leap in the right direction for Samsung from the previous version but it's still not seamless there would be times where it would miss every so often not having the fingerprint sensor on active was not such a huge deal to me the s6 active answers the the questions that I had about the other devices the things that I was a little bit lukewarm about it pretty much conquers those this is a confident device something that I think is going to be really comfortable in my pocket form factor that you're looking at is the form factor you're gonna get essentially wearing a very slim case around the regular design as you can tell I'm pumped up about this thing I'm making the switch this is going to be in my pocket the active is not gonna be available to everybody unfortunately it's an ATT exclusive so I've sat here and said all these things that I like about it and you might not even be able to buy it I really wish that this device was more available maybe if we make enough noise maybe if this video is popular enough maybe Samsung is going to make some alterations I know a lot of you would love to have this device on your network this is a beauty so there you have it the s6 active compared with the standard s6 and the s6 edge I 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