[Galaxy S6 General] aliHTCDHD:
"Well, I want a premium-feeling device, and people and reviewers have said that the M9 felt like a cheap, used car compared to the S6."

You want premium but yet you didn't Mind having the previous Sammy phones :D S6 is more premium then s5 but it doesn't even come close to m9. Reviewers have always praised apple and Samsung. They hated UltraPixel and now they want it back. They praise the phone with the highest numbers yet m9 has higher numbers then s6 and all of a sudden numbers don't matter anymore. You see where I'm going with this, they are impossible to please if your not Samsung or apple.

Regarding design, m9 is a heavy phone, not too heavy but it has it's weight. A metal heavy phone feels solid not cheap. There are two things that make a design good. It's material and the way it is designed ie looks. S6 got materials right but the looks are just like a iPhone 6 and z3 slapped together. They couldn't think outside the box and there's nothing premium about that.

M9 has beautiful curves that fit nicely in your palm. It has edges that make it less slippery then the previous phones. S6 is thin and light, that will only make it feel fragile and less premium. Everyone copied HTC's antenna design. IPhone copied with there 6 and it looks horrible and Samsung copied it and it looks horrible. You can copy but you can't make it better ;)

"TouchWiz is now more optimized than Sense, with Anandtech reporting the M9 stutters."

It will never be more optimised, trust me. The lag you see is either cos it's beta sw or because and this is what believe it's Qualcomm octa not optimised. Sense since m7 has been super fast. Tests have proved that out of all phones m8 had the quickest response latency. M9 will only be more quicker cos it's got a powerful gpu that's a overkill at 1080p.

"M9 will probably have a worse battery life than the S6 if G Flex 2 is anything to go by."

HTC again proved that they are best when it comes to a optimised phone. LG released 810 in there phone and it was overheating like mad. HTC uses it and everyone reports it doesn't get hot so please don't use LG as probability of HTC's battery like expectancy. I don't know whether battery like will improve over m8 but it sure won't fall to s5 level. I can promise you from what oven seen so far.

"The camera on the M9 is also terrible."

We haven't even seen shots of it on it's final sw. HTC has said that they are still improving it. Hdr has improved, dynamic range has improved, detail has improved etc from what I've seen I don't know whether s6 will be better but if it is it won't be miles ahead.

"The S6 is just superior in way more categories than the M9. The only thing the M9 has over the S6 is expandable SD card and slightly better speakers."

What category, let's go through all of em:

Gaming: 810+1080p will blow s6 away. Expect poor game play experience on s6

Speed: with the record of having the quickest speed I doubt 2k will help s6

Microphones: never used Samsung ones but htc's are excellent.

Internet: don't expect to be on that for long on your s6 lol

Rear Camera: they are either one par or one is slightly better. I do not anticipate any one of them to be really better or worse.

Front camera: UltraPixel front camera destroys any other camera. Cos of high mp and pixel size.

Sound: again HTC is way ahead of everyone and slowly people are copying there front facing speakers like z3. The sound is miles ahead of Samsung's.

Display: s6 has the best display, amoled looks gorgeous but m9 is very beautiful too, just doesn't have colours that's pop. A more natural feel. It's really a matter of opinion.

Battery life: m9 will surely be ahead, way ahead.

Sd card: m9 does, s6 doesn't

Productivity: s6 wins but how much productivity could you do? Its's just a phone, not a computer.

Camera features: both are feature rich.

Finger print sensor: s6 has it but you are not losing much it's just another method from the many to locking your phone.

Health features: both are very good.

Ya see? Samsung s6 isn't the mighty phone you guys make out it to be. HTC are best at creating an all round best phone that's good at everything where as Samsung still can't find the right balance.

This is why us HTC fans like HTC. Cos they design well, awesome components and good features, nicely optimised etc. Samsung only wins in things that are less important such as finger print sensor, features, but if the core things aren't good like display, camera, sound, battery life, speed then it's no good. I'm not saying that it's display and sound is bad, they are just a list of the typical core things that every phone should have. M9 is a well balanced phone not compromising anything. It's ahead of it's time and everyone's catching up.

I hope I haven't offended anyone and don't turn this in to futile argument as that's not what want.