{"id":3821,"date":"2015-05-01T17:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2015-07-06T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:52:02","slug":"review-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/reviews\/review-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"
2014 was a pretty boring year for\u00a0Android phones.<\/span> The HTC M8\u00a0was a gorgeous bit of hardware, let down by a god awful camera. Everything else was just the same\u00a0slab of plastic and glass, the only differentiator\u00a0being “how much did the manufacturer ugly\u00a0up KitKat?” Twenty-fifteen\u00a0looks to be far more interesting; Lollipop is now standard\u00a0on new devices, and with the Samsung Galaxy S6, we’ve got a piece of hardware as gorgeous as the software it’s running.<\/p>\n Oh, and the camera is amazing too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Samsung Does Design?<\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve\u00a0never been a huge fan of Samsung’s previous hardware or software. The Galaxy S5<\/a> had a great camera and beautiful screen, but the hardware design was far from ‘flagship’, and Samsung’s interpretation of KitKat\u00a0was nothing short of awful. Touchwiz – Samsung’s flavour of Android – was a UX nightmare, it was submenus all the way down.\u00a0The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini<\/a> was so fucking awful, you needed to wipe Samsung’s OS and install Cyanogen Mod just to stop\u00a0the damn thing crashing.<\/p>\n So it’s incredible that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is a stunning bit of hardware, running\u00a0great software.<\/p>\n The Samsung Galaxy S6 screen is stunning, as most Samsung panels are. Say what you will about Samsung, they know how to squeeze pixels onto a screen. The panel is bright, sharp, and shows off the colourful interface \u00a0And that’s before we even get to the Edge.<\/p>\n What does the Edge do?\u00a0Nothing. But by gosh it’s pretty. Ok, the Edge has some gimmicky features, but in a few weeks of using the phone, I haven’t used any of them. Did I mention how pretty it was, though? Fuck me, it’s gorgeous. When looking at the Edge screen in a dark room, the screen feels like its floating in your hand. Pointless? I guess. But I just can’t underline how fucking beautiful it is. I haven’t felt this impressed by a screen\u00a0since first seeing a retina iPhone 4.<\/p>\n “Bloody Samsung, they just copy iPhones, man”.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s true, the\u00a0Galaxy S6 looks like a cheap iPhone knockoff, but only from this angle:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n