From DailyTech: If Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) has never channeled its inner Apple, Inc. (AAPL) as much so as it did with the Galaxy S6, which launched on Monday at the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain.
The GS6 is, in some regards, a Samsung fan's wet dream. In others it's a betrayal of the swapability paradigms that most Android device makers have pushed for so long. One thing's for sure, though: the GS6 recaptures the penchant for bold visions than once fueled Samsung's rampant rise to the top.
From a design perspective, the Galaxy S6 elevates the smartphone to the status of an object of beauty and envy. And under the hood, Samsung appears to be taking the right steps to ensure the phone's bark matches its visual bite.
The GS6 packs an in-house-designed SoC with performance that claims to trump the competition in both pure processing power and power efficiency. There's a beautiful ultra-high resolution screen and a lightning fast camera to dog with it.
The minor surprise of the launch wasn't so much this design makeover, but rather the new Galaxy S6 "Edge" variant, an intriguing doubly curved device in the vein of last year's overlooked Galaxy Note "Edge". The new Edge packs a seemingly simple addition -- a second rounded edge to form a parallel set of curves. While it seems a minor addition at first, this newfound symmetry yields a surprising aesthetic improvement over the quirky Note Edge.
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