Samsung Galaxy S6 Screen Problem

galaxy s6 review hi everyone, so today we're taking a look at the samsung galaxy s6. this is the latest and greatest smartphone from samsung coming onto the market with a bang. if this is your first time checking out a review from the androidizen welcome and do please subscribe. ourvideos do tend to be very comprehensive and they tend to lastfor around 30 minutes or so galaxy s6 review so you might want to throw this video into your watch later list or into a playlist so you can

come back and watch the whole thing at yourleisure. now we are taking a look at the samsung galaxy s6 here, not the edge. i will have aseparate video uploaded in a few days explaining the reasons whybut it mostly comes down to the fact that the s6 is the one that the majority of users are going to be picking up this year. the edge at the end of theday is an edge case device. very few users

are going to go for that device becauseit doesn't really offer anything particularly special. in actual fact, it generally weakens the s6 offering in my opinion. but let's start looking at the galaxy s6. let's dive into the specsfirst of all. now, the samsung galaxy s6 is certainly the most feature-packeddevice on the hardware front we've had in quite a while. they've moved to a quad hd display

running at 2560 by 1440 and that gives apixel per inch density around 577ppi. galaxy s6 review now one thing i want to mention withthis 5.1 display is this is a quad hd, it's not 4k. now you might think to yourself what does that actually matter? well, it's a bit of a marketing gimmick really that samsung and other manufacturers have gone for here. essentially what they've done is taken 720 as a resolution, called that hd and then said, well, this is a quad

hd display. effectively four times theresolution of 720p. well that's fine but when was the lasttime you saw a 720p display on a high-end smartphone? so realistically this is a double hd display. it's twice the resolution of 1080p and assuch it does provide exceptional graphicsquality. colours here are bright and vibrant and they really pop and you cannot see the pixels even ifyou tried. but this is a marketing

thing at the end of the day. it's a higherresolution display but it certainly isn't samsung galaxy s6 quad hd. that's just a marketing termthat in many respects is misleading people into thinking they've got a 4k display in their smartphones. i've heard a number of shop assistants mention exactly that. galaxy s6 review so clearly, there is some confusion beingcaused by this particular little marketing spin. cpu and gpu duties this time round are going to samsung's in-house chip the exynos 7

octa 7420 processor. now essentially what this is is a 2.1gigahertz processor with eight cores in a big-little configurationbacked up with 3gig of ram. the idea here is very simple. usingthe cpu's big-little configuration and eightcores the phone will intelligently kick the cores that are needed for high-power but the rest of the time will fall back onto lower power coresextending the battery life. now this does mean is that essentially you have oodles and oodles of power in this device, you only need to use it when youactually need to use it,

instead of the device effectivelyrunning ungoverned most of the time and simply working as fast aspossible using all of the heavy processing cores. essentially here you can fall back ontosomething that's very low powered that's perfect effectively for email, basic web browsing, etcetera. when you come to play a game, watch a movie then those big cores will be kicked in and obviously your power drain will go up as well. galaxy s6 review but using his big-little configurationdoes mean that samsung galaxy s6

at very least should be able to maintaina reasonable level of battery performance relative to the speed of the device even though the battery in the device isactually smaller than previous samsung galaxy devices. as you can see from the benchmarks theexynos chip that samsung have gone for here absolutely smokes the competition making the qualcomm snapdragon 810 look positivelyunderpowered especially when we consider the thermal properties and the actual clock speeds that qualcomm are achieving here relative to what samsung have done.

this chip really is a bit of a marvel. if you want to see some real world performance from this device do check later in this review where we'll actually be showing you some gameplay. this will give you a much better idea as to how powerful this device actually is. camera duties this time around isbeing served by sony with a 16 megapixel shooter with anaperture of f1.9. now the focal length there is 28mm. interestingly we now have optical imagestabilisation back. you might remember the heavy criticism igave last year galaxy s6 review

to any high-end smartphone which launched without optical image stabilisation. it destroys low-light performance, itleads to blurry images, galaxy s6 an unsatisfactory camera in every scenario. so here with opticalimage stabilisation now included what do we get? well we get pretty much the best shooter in any smartphone released this year sofar. the low light performance is exceptional and it easily beats theiphone 6 and the latest htc one m9 in any test you care to throw at it. there are some issues with the whitebalance, it feels like it hues a little

bit towards the yellow side in low-light, where if compared to say an iphone 6 the iphone 6 is hueing a little bit lessto the yellow and has a slightly more blue tint of purple tint to it in some cases. at the end of the day thatis personal preference for you. if you prefer the whiter balance fromthe iphone then of course you're not going to particularly like what samsung has done here but ultimately when we're dealing withthings like colour balance you can fix that in post-production in about threeseconds

anyway, it's not a major issue. what samsunghave delivered here is the best smartphone camera in anydevice released to the market so far. videoperformance is up to 4k and that's actual 4k not quad hd. what this means in realterms is your camera can shoot higher resolutionvideos than the display on the smartphone can actually show you. but even so 4k at 30 frames a second 60 frames asecond 1080p

and so on is excellent and the imagequality is sublime in my opinion. i've comeaway very impressed with the camera and video options that the samsung galaxy s6 is offering. the camera app itself has been vastly improved over previous iterations now making a damn sight moresense with how things are laid galaxy s6 out. features are easy to get hold of andto actually understand. a vast improvement and i just can't get over how good this low light performance actually is here. it's something thatpersonally i find very, very important in

any kind of camera, be that a smartphoneor a traditional point-and-shoot or even a dslr. it does make a massivedifference to the quality of the average overall shotsyou're going to be able to get from the device. now battery life. this is always going to be fairly subjective andit's always going to be quite a difficult thing to test for. what can i tell you aboutthe samsung galaxy s6's battery? well it is smaller than the previous generation of devices coming in at a 2550 milliamp power battery.

the previous one was i think about 2800. so there has been a drop but this device is using the big littletechnology. now that does mean it's able to eke out more power out of the battery becauseit's not having to run all of the cores aggressively all of the time. it will fall back onto lower power cores. now battery life is always subjective but in my test i found i can easily getaround a full day out of the battery with acombination of browsing, email, a few games

some multimedia and so on. now if you put this device through a heavy load for a long period of time then of course expectthis battery to fall away rapidly. if you've spent three hoursgaming you're going to find your battery is dead, galaxy s6 but that's the same on the vast majorityof smartphones today and even high-end tablets. at the end ofthe day the more power we have at the top-end the higher those gigahertz, the more power we are going to bedraining off at full peak performance. that has to beaccepted

but ultimately what we're reallyinterested in is well what is the average like, how does it work in the real world? wellfor me i found i could get through a full dayround to about 7 or 8pm in the evening, taking the phone off charge at 8am. for me that's acceptable but i can certainlysee times when i'm probably going to be reaching foreither that external wireless charging unit or even just an externalportable battery to throw some extra charge on. this is going to be especially true if you're taking a lot of photographs or using the screen a lot,

running the flash or obviously using thatvideo camera which makes sure that screen stays on. those are going to be big battery drains and i can certainly see myself reaching for that external battery pack if i'm out for a long period of time takinga lot of photographs and video. one of the biggest puzzlers for thesamsung galaxy s6 hardware is the inclusion of usb 2, not usb 3 as has been now standard for a good fewyears. the slower data transfer speeds of usb 2 are frustrating

to the point of annoyance frankly. considering we are now dealing with 4k videos, higher resolution images and so on it is baffling that samsung would have stuck avery old usb controller - let's face it usb2 is notexactly modern - into their flagship smartphone. it's difficult to comprehend why they'vedone this until you realise they also appear to have taken mhl away. mhl is a way of connecting your smartphone to a display galaxy s6 or like a television or a monitor,something that a lot of business users find

very useful. when it comes to all ofthose little extra bits it's all here. things like gps, your wifi, 80211 abcn ac it's all here basically. so you've got the full range of wireless connectivity, bluetooth, gps, accelerometers, gyroscopes, the lot and they all work very well ithas to be said. the fingerprint sensor makes anappearance on the samsung galaxy s6 but it has been updated so that it works alot more closely to the iphone 6 way of doing things.no more swiping

just put your finger on it. it works but as i have pointed out numerous times over the last twenty years biometrics are junk. it has been proventime and time again including by the chaos computer club that fingerprints are not an adequate form of security andprotection. do not rely on them, please do not rely on them. passwords are much more secure than a fingerprint, no matter what thesecompanies will tell you in trying to sell you frankly a gimmick because that's what itis it's a gimmick.

no company can guarantee fingerprintbiometrics because fingerprint biometrics are fatally flawed. so hands-on with thesamsung galaxy s6 and the most striking thing straight away is to look of this device. this has got to be the most beautiful device samsung has ever made. it's right up there with the kind of stuff that jony ive does at apple. it's just gorgeous. sleek, beautiful lineswith lovely rounded corners, everything just looks fantastic. at certain angles though, you do get the feeling that samsung might have copied apple here,especially within the bottom grille

it does look a little iphone-esque. one of the most outstanding things i think samsung has done here is not what you can actuallyphysically see from the device when you hold it butactually when you use it, is how fast it is. now that actually comes not just from the exynos chip that samsung has built here but also much more importantly from some decisions they've made actually within the package itself. for instance they'vemoved to ddr4 and lpddr4 to be exact. now this is alow-profile memory. now essentially you may be used to ddr3 inthings like your galaxy s6 review

desktop computer, laptop and older smartphones. here we've moved to the latest andgreatest ddr4. but also what samsung have done is to include a new memory controller as well. this is the controller that handles how data is written to the smartphone and read from the smartphone while you are using it. in many other devices as i've highlighted countless times, we find that whilst you're installing data,say from the app store, directly onto the device the devicebecomes incredibly sluggish with android. no longer with the galaxy s6, thething is absolutely blazing fast even

when you've got heavy data processes hitting that internal storage. it's an absolute triumph and just on itsown it makes this device feel so muchmore responsive when you have it under heavy load. samsung's only downside i think with the physicality of the samsung galaxy s6 is theprotruding camera. it doesn't look particularly awesome and at certain angles the way the shadows catch it make it look like it's almost kind of

pushing through the back of the housing and not quite as flush as i might like. it unfortunately does mar the back of the camera in my opinion but i know some people don't have a problem with it at all. the flash does hue towards the blueside which is fairly normal on these kindof leds but again it would have been nice to have a little bit of software compensation there for the quite stark blue look that you get from using the

flash on the samsung galaxy s6. by and large, the in the hand feel is quite exceptional.this really is a comfortable device to hold. you can reach your corners quite easily whilst you're using it as well as being able to come down and hit that home button. one of the only down sides on my particular unit and i don't know whether this extends to every samsung galaxy s6, i think it's quite likely. if you run your finger around the edge just here essentially betweenthis metal band

and the screen's white here, you canfeel a rough edge all the way along. now it's not a sharprough edge but it is a rough edge and it's not samsung galaxy s6the nicest thing i've ever felt. i think htc on the m9 have done a better job really at making sureall of those edges are nicely rounded with no kind of roughness. here it does feel likesamsung has not quite finished these off as well as it should. now the galaxy s6 in the hand feels very well balanced. at no point does it feel like it's trying to tip in any direction but when i was trying to do a balance test with this device as we do here

a very unscientific - can it be balancedon the edge of your finger - i found it quite difficult to find the centre point on this device. i think the camera module is just a little bit topheavy but only just. it is very difficult to find the perfect balance and you can feel it wobbling the whole time. in comparison to many other devices where finding that centre balance point is very, very quick and easy and it stays put, the s6 does have a slight rockinessthere in the centre. ok, onto the software package thatsamsung have delivered here.

by and large everything is absolutelyfantastic. the range of applications they've gone for here is much more limited, they've kind of kept it to just the stuff thatgoogle doesn't kind of provide or where they can augment that a little bit to add more features. now, they have done their usual trick of including a messaging app, a phone app, a contacts app, internet and so on which are effectively separate apps from the google suite of tools like chrome, gmail and so on. soagain, samsung galaxy s6

that's down to you and your personal preference as to which of these particular applications you'll be using day in day out. now samsung have made a few interesting choices here. for starters we have microsoft's apps installed although i believe when they announced this they were also going to be including microsoft office, which would be excel, word and powerpoint. that didn't come with my out of the box installations as itwere. all i got was one drive, one note and skype. interestingly one drive,microsoft are giving you 100gig of storage on one drive

if you buy the samsung galaxy s6. all you need to do is log into the one drive app. now really samsung should be applauded for having not crammed this device with loads and loads of rubbish. they have kept it to just what is actually needed and cut down the bloat. now for instancethe apps that i thought to myself, yuk, why have samsung included those, have actually been improved considerably and are now quite good. shealth for instance actually worksreally nicely with the fingerprint

sensor which is essentially on theback of the device here. the led from the flash is also used to measure things like heart rate. splanner, the calculator and clock areall iterations really of samsung's previousapps and they do effectively dual with the google apps that are already on there. pick which one you want to use would be my advice. svoice is no longer a complete pain, mostly because it hasn't been enabled bydefault in a way that means that it's

in your kind of click patterns with your home button there. now it's something that is activated bysaying a phrase, a phrase you yourself can setup when you first start up the device. all ofthis makes for a galaxy s6 that doesn't seem to wantto take over your life but wants to fit into it instead. it doesn't want to get in your way and be annoying, it wants to be a companion to your dailylife and the software really does reflect that ibelieve. the camera

has been vastly improved, massively infact. it's now considerably easier to findyour way to all of the different settings and modes. for instance, in camera mode all we haveto do is press the mode button and switch to pro to have full control over iso settings, white balance, you name it. selective focus allows us to tweak the depth of field within the focus, panorama that works very quickly in comparison to most panorama apps. slow-motion, fast-motion, for dealing with those very specific use cases

when you're trying to take pictures. virtual shot in my opinion was a little bit tackyreally what it does is put a virtual icon onthe screen that allows you to keep an object within that position. you then move yourself around that object creating a kind of internal panorama around the object i suppose you could say. but interestingly they've also samsung galaxy s6 added a download store here so you can download new effects and shots. a really clever idea, hopefully that will besomething that will be opened up to developers.

likewise, we have quick access to varioussettings here. now these various settings are for picturesize, the video size, where you've got tracking autofocus so whether you're trying to hold the focal position of an object moving through the scene, whether it's a person or an animal. video stabilisation is actually only available at lower resolutions at 1080p, thirty and below. grid lines, again this is something that's very muchfor those photographers out there allowing you to see your proportions.

you can set the locations, whether you review pictures directly after they're taken or whether quick launch is turned on which is double tapping this home key to bring up the camera, which starts extraordinary quickly. voice control isalso an option and you can also set how those volume keys are going to function as well. overall this camera is surprisingly fast and i do mean surprisingly fast. the speed that it locks on with auto focus is probably up there with the fastest devices i've seen.

in fact, when we did some timings with this we were finding it was able to lock on as quickly as a dslr camera. that's pretty remarkable stuff. it doesoccasionally find itself samsung galaxy s6 hunting for focus in lower lightsituations but nowhere near as bad as many of the other smartphones released last year. the samsung galaxy s6 has nailedoptics really well and truly. now one of the areas that has seen the biggest change in my opinion is the settings area. now samsung have pretty much taken the everything and thekitchen sink approach here and

i really do mean that. instead of hidingthings behind menus they have now just laid everything out and occasionally added a more option settings. it really is a almost overload here. i complained about samsung in the past hiding toomany features under submenus. now i think maybe they needto do a little bit of a tidy up. it's gone a little bit ott although i do appreciate the quicksettings option here which does make it fast to move into

those common use areas. by and large there is nothing here that really should surprise anyone who's ever used a samsungdevice before, or an android device for that matter. all of the usual samsung type things are here like motions and gestures carried over from previous samsung devices and still not particularly useful. nfc and payments now finds itself with a headline option there within the settingssomething where before it was buried away. themes are a new thing for samsung

and i'm not completely sure they're all that great an idea. at the end of the day it's nice to havea different way to style your device but the limited kind of options that are available here from the themes don't exactly inspire me i have to say.it's a sort of thing where i probably rather end up going for a launcher like golauncher where, you know, there's a lot wider choice really. easy mode is how you can place yoursmartphone into a much easier to use well, interface i think is the best way to put it. i would call this old person's mode

or luddite mode. essentially it strips awayall of the complex features and just leaves the person with well the bare essentials. great for your older android user or for people who simplydo not want to be overloaded with settings. as we movedown through the device we have our things like our language and input, battery, storage and so on. like i say, all this is very much the muchness. if you've come across any samsung or android device before many of these settings will be very familiar to you.

now one of the interesting and standout features here which is a kind of combination of software and hardware is wifi and text use samsung galaxy s6 over your broadband line. now where ihappen to be i don't get the best signal in the world sometimesespecially don't get a particularly great 4g signal here. if you're listening ee please upgrade your micro sub. butessentially what ee have done here is allowed the samsung galaxy s6 to use a new feature. if it detects a weak cell signal

it will switch over and use whatever wifi connection happens to be available, routing the phone call and text messagesdirectly over the broadband. essentially no more dropped calls, nomore weak signals so you can't even place calls and so on. the slight issue i have withthis particular feature is for all intents and purposes ee are piggy- backing off your own hardware equipment and own broadband line that you pay money for and are still going to charge you for your textand your voice calls. essentially we're having to fill in the gapsin their own

investment portfolio of having set up new4g towers and so on. it's a little bit dodgy in my opinion and you know i would expect if i was having to provide my own equipment to fill in these blank spaces in ee's provision that they should be giving people a discount. not so. but anyway it's a feature that if you're on ee in the uk and many other european networks will also be following suit overthe next few months this is very useful feature. essentiallyif you don't have a strong cell signal and you are on wifi you can still make your calls and make your texts.

not a bad idea but it would be nice ifthe business proposition was just a little bit stronger. now let's take a look at the gaming on thesamsung galaxy s6. we're going to show you a range of different games being played directly on the device so you can get an idea of the real world performance that the samsung galaxy s6 offers. certainly in our opinion thisdevice is a fine gaming machine. it has oodles galaxy s6 review of power to spare and quite honestly wecouldn't find a game we could throw at it where we could see any perceivableslowdowns. but let's jump in and take a look

at some games because i know you're dying to see them. this is sky gamblers: sky raiders the idea here is it's very much a world war 2 flight game. the full review for this particular game is up on our channel if you want to check it out. but beautiful and working very verynicely on the galaxy s6 with absolutely no problems here of slowdown or slouching although you won't be able to run thisgame at the very highest detail settings. in fact, no device i've come across so far can run this game at the highest detail settings.

i think it's very much designed for thosenext generation android tv consoles. as you can see, beautifully smooth, and nice and responsive. that's obviously using the accelerometer controls there rather than on-screen controls it works very verynicely. this is 5. basically a diablo style clone on mobile and as you can see it works very nicely indeed.no major grumbles that i can come up with here that's for sure. graphically it's a very very nice game but also

it really does push the kind of on-screenaction quite a bit so a good test for any smartphone ordevice really. plenty of particle physics and fire and so on, really does push the devices hard. you can see there, absolutely no slowdowns at all, nothing tobe concerned with whatsoever. so this is real racing 3 an older title but it's about time eaactually galaxy s6 got their act together and released real racing 4 if you asked me. but it's still a very good test game for checking how a

device is going to run because the fill rates tend to be quite aggressive going into corners especially as you have a large numberof cars also hitting those bends and well it can really trash the performance of most hardware and so as you can see here it's working quite beautifully. normallywe tend to see quite a bit of slowdown coming into but here as you can see it's holding a beautiful frame rate all the way through. it just looks fantastic. in all honesty i find itvery difficult to slows this galaxy s6 down. in many cases i think we just don't have

games which are powerful enough toreally stress this hardware to its maximum galaxy s6 but as you can see just beautiful really. really really solid graphics. so let'swrap it up shall we? the samsung galaxy s6 is easily the highest-performing device on themarket today. the mixture of hardware and software is very good. samsung have done agood job here at keeping the bloat under control whilstoffering software features

that the majority of users are actually going to find quite useful. the hardware is generally well made. there are some question marks hanging over some of the choices samsung made in removing a few features but by and large what they've added more than makes up for it. that camera is ooh, brilliant really compared to everything else onthe market especially things like the htc one m9. galaxy s6 it blows it out of the water and frankly ithink it's just peaking a

little tiny bit ahead of the iphone 6 aswell. the physical dimensions of the device, that gorgeous display and the way itfeels in the hand are perfect. you really cannot get muchbetter than this. that premium feel does wonders forsamsung's image in my opinion and if they're able to carry this designmetaphor through into things like the note range samsung is going have a very good yearwhen it comes to producing gorgeous hardware that works beautifullyin the hand.

i may have a slight quibble about the price samsung has dropped this device out for, coming in at the â£599 price point feels alittle bit high for my liking especially when we can consider many other devices are hitting the â£550 mark instead. is there enough here to justifythat extra â£50? well, potentially there is. that quad hd display is really really gorgeous. the camera, again, beautiful. there's a lot here to consider bang for buck. but ultimatelytime will tell whether consumers are willing to shell out theextra money for

what is perceivably not a huge uptick over some other manufacturers' featureofferings. if you're in the market for the best smartphone today it is thesamsung galaxy s6 by a country mile. but if any of the features that samsung are offering here eave you cold you may want to wait for other devices coming down later in the year. i hope you've reallyenjoyed watching our review of the galaxy s6. do pleaselet me know in the comments what you think.

let me know your feedback about thedevice and about the review. at the end of the day everything issubjective when it comes to smartphones but in my opinion i believe samsung has delivered a knockout blow galaxy s6 that sets them on a very solid footingfor the rest of the year and into 2016. galaxy s6 is a really winner.

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