[Galaxy S6 Edge General] flarbear:
I pretty much agree with this. I've been fairly skeptical/critical of the curved TVs that are starting to appear and I checked out an Edge in a store and noticed some distortion on the edges that I thought would bother me. And yet I found myself ordering an S6 Edge anyway. I can't really defend the decision with any practical argument, and I found no functionality that is compelling when I got it, but I'm not sorry I did. Perhaps I'm still in the "that looks kinda cool" honeymoon phase with respect to letting myself admire the way it looks, but I also have enough engineer skepticism in me to not let that cloud my judgment or realization that I only got it to look "cool".

Having said that...

That is one assessment that I disagree with completely. All cases on all flat phones I've ever had have "gotten in the way" to some extent or another when I try to interact with objects on the edge of the display. The interference with the S5's swipe sensor for fingerprint scanning was about the worst case of that, but it also was an issue along the sides of the phone as well.

My S6 Edge, with a case on it, is the first phone I've ever had a case on where the case has never gotten in the way in any way, shape or form. It's the ideal phone to have a case on since the gentle curve allows the case to cover the true edge without interrupting the path of your finger in doing any kind of swipe to or from the edge. The case I got (Spigen Ultra Hybrid) even has a very large fat lip around the top and bottom (and around the metal side parts) for added protection and still it doesn't get in the way. The lip on this case is easily 50% taller than the case I had on my S5 and yet the one that was getting in the way was the one on the S5. The case on the S6 Edge also keeps the screen from getting anywhere near a flat surface that it might fall on, even the curved edges could only strike a surface if it was not flat. There are probably more configurations of "not flat" surface that could impact the S6 Edge screen than might impact my cased S5 screen, I'll grant that, but a flat surface will always contact a rubber bumper first on my S6 Edge.

I'll also note that if the S6 still had the swipe fingerprint sensor that the S5 had, then the thick lip on the bottom might still be an issue, but luckily the new sensor works just amazingly well and the case has no impact on that.

It resisted quite a bit of bending in the videos, but it did suffer from the flaw that when it finally bent the glass broke too, whereas some of the flat phones had screens that survived the initial deformation. Still, the pressure being applied to cause that breakage was pretty extreme. The ability for any screen to crack is also why I have T-Mobile Jump which comes with great insurance protection.

That is true, but isn't the huge problem that I thought it was going to be. I'm rarely inconvenienced by it and a simple shift of view fixes it.

I look forward to that. I realized that the existing Edge functions weren't that compelling when I got it. I have found the "swipe frequent contacts" feature useful, but not compelling in any way.

I noticed that too, in the store. There is something very illusory about how small it feels in the hand. But, the good quality feel of the regular S6 does not disappoint in any way. Also, I have to go back to the store and see how my cased Edge feels compared to the S6 again. It won't be a "cased Edge to cased regular" comparison, but I'm guessing that a case eliminates most of that perceptive thinness...