With the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge having hit the market, the Korean giant looks to be prepping up for the release of the Galaxy S6 Active; the company's more rugged smartphone after the Galaxy S5 Active of last year. While Samsung is yet to reveal what the phone would look like, this latest leak of images seems to do a convincing enough job.
Videos of gadgets being destroyed in strange ways have been around for years now. Whether it be someone blending a smartphone or throwing a game console onto the ground while people line up to buy one, people seem determined to make us cringe as brand new technology meets an untimely end. Some people seem to enjoy it. We’re not sure why.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has been the subject of quite a few quality related controversies since the device was launched over a month back. This new flaw sees the Edge's phenomenal 2K display being reduced to what can be best described as an 8-bit panel.
Samsung has, on more than one occasion, landed itself in hot water for copying the designs of rival Apple, and in the last couple of days, Sammy has been roundly mocked for its new, Apple-esque advertisement. As if the laughing and pointing at Sammy's copycat nature wasn't enough, one clip mocks the Korean company further by introducing the Galaxy S6 Edge using voice-over work from none other than Apple's hardware and software design lead Jony Ive, and the end result is rather amusing to say the least.
If you take a look back over some of the decisions made internally at Samsung over the last few years it's extremely difficult to argue in favour of the integrity of its design department. We will never truly know if the decision to blatantly copy the visuals of numerous Apple devices is made at the top of the corporate food-chain and then passed down to the individual departments, or if the design teams are so lacking in individuality that they take the easy option, but what we do know is that if this latest Galaxy S6 video is anything to go by the trend has managed to infiltrate the company's marketing departments as well.
First ever Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 'Plus' details have been leaked online. More details on the leak can be found here.
One of the many features to be appreciated of the Samsung Galaxy S6 - like most of the company's top-end smartphones, to be fair - is the raw power under the hood. Unsurprisingly, Sammy has delivered an absolute beast of a handset once more in the S6, and allied to its 64-bit, octa-core Exynos processor, the flagship also throws in a substantial 3GB of RAM. But while these features all seem dandy when written down, Qualcomm's overheating Snapdragon 810 has proved that weighty-sounding tech specs don't always deliver the goods, and some users of the S6 have found it to be burning through more RAM during menial use than necessary.
Those of us carrying Apple hardware around with us, be that a smartwatch, a smartphone, a tablet or a notebook tend to have a few things in common. One of those things is a keen eye for design, whether that be for actually doing it or just appreciating it when design is done well. The latter is much easier than the former, that's for sure.
Rooting an Android device is known for opening a world of new features rather than cutting back on existing ones. And in the case of the new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, rooting the device breaks Samsung Pay.
Oh dear, how does this keep happening? Earlier today celebrity Nick Cannon sent out a tweet that waxed lyrical about the new Samsung Galaxy S6 that T-Mobile had hooked him up with. That's all well and good, and at that point we really don't have too much to say.