[Galaxy S6 General] aegeuss:
I'm using Galaxy S series from the beginning along with Note 2 and Note 3; I've passed to this phone from S5 and am using it for two weeks now unrooted; here's my opinion of this phone, plus and minuses

PLUSES

1. Best camera I've seen in a phone; fast, responsive and perfect photo quality.

2. Premium and quality feeling where one gets the opinion of taking the money's value.

3. Perfect audio quality for music, especially with new designed earphones, better than latest Apple earpods especially in basses; the speaker is not that bad, enough for daily purposes but of course stereo ones like in HTC M series could be better.

4. Powerful internal chipset and memory; you can feel it while using but bad software quality unfortunately spoils it, I'll talk about it on the minuses side

5. Bright screen; the whites are ok but I'm not satisfied about the blacks; may be it's because of the pixel order, pentile etc. I haven't checked in detail; it's ok for the man on the street but not perfect enough when you look at the fine points, but as you see I'm counting it on the plus side.

6. Accurate GPS, I'm saying this because I had inconsistency problems with S5 GPS in long time usage but this one is so accurate.

MINUSES

1. Bad software quality; c'mon Samsung, it's been months 5.1.1 is out and not only we received it late, it's still immature and needs optimizing a lot.

The system is heavily bloated, slow and spoils this beautiful hardware.

Awful and aggressive memory management where apps are closed instantly which makes multi tasking a headache where each app or page is reloaded when you switch back to input again; terrible programming example, c'mon we have 3 gb of ram! It's the biggest minus point for me along with battery life.

3. Bad battery life; I've used Samsung phones for these years both for expansion cards and replaceable battery, I did not want to carry a charger with me like IPhone users, I was happy with my S5 in this regard but wanted to give S6 a chance and to see it myself, unfortunately I'm disappointed; the battery life is only ok if you don't use your phone a lot during the day otherwise you have to carry a powerbank with you or your charger else it simply is not enough. A big minus point for me, Google services and Samsung's push service is also keeping the phone awake, so bad.

It's clear that Samsung has a crap software team; I'm sure they are working for hours but the result is terrible; what a waste of sources.

4. Both glass sides; you can count it as a plus but having a slippery glass on both sides of the phone makes it very hard to use in daily operations; it always slips away whenever there's a slight slope, too bad, you have to use it with extra caution and most probably with a cover; you spend hundreds of dollars for a premium look and then you have to cover it to avoid braking! Terrible.

I think I can count the lack of usb 3.0 and water, dust proof here which are obvious step backs; I've used my S5 a lot in outdoors in rainy, sweaty situations, when doing outdoor sports, running etc. It's nearly impossible with this phone, too bad. Samsung was good for copying Apple, I didn't care but it had to be up to a point, it's too much now.

CONCLUSION:

These are the thoughts of a long time Samsung user with all S series except S4 along with Note 2 and Note 3 experience.

Bad software quality and bad battery life along with the fragile status of the chasis takes away all the pluses I've counted above; I'll give it some more time for optimization but I think it's the end of my Samsung experience; I'm looking for alternatives already for a better android experience.

Regards.

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