Art.: DrTechnoID10613

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Premium design.

The combination of a metal chassis and durable Gorilla Glass 4 panels on the screen and back cover of the smartphone gives the device a sophisticated appearance that emphasizes its status as a flagship.

Bright and clear.

The 5.1-inch AMOLED screen has high brightness and 2K resolution (2560 x 1440 pixels). The middle of the standard touch keys for the Android OS is combined with a scanner, which allows you to unlock the smartphone with an individual fingerprint instead of the usual shift to the side.

High performance.

The smartphone is powered by an eight-core processor from Samsung, complemented by 3 GB of RAM. This configuration provides excellent performance when working with applications and energy efficiency, allowing you to extend the battery life of your smartphone. The battery in this model deserves special attention - it supports wireless charging standards, as well as the quick recovery function, which allows you to charge your smartphone in 10 minutes for four hours of battery life.

Improved camera.

The 16 megapixel camera of the smartphone is equipped with tracking autofocus, optical stabilization and a fast lens. This solution ensured high quality shooting in low light conditions, as well as reduced distortion when shooting photos and videos handheld and in motion.

The phone is in excellent condition, it was used all the time in a case and film. Full set (adapter for transferring data to IPHONE, adapter for transferring data to other smartphones, charger, cable, headphones and attachments.) The whole set is original!!! The service did not give up, there were no replacement parts!!! Holds the charge well Color yellow topaz Sold with 5 cases as a gift!!! smartphone Operating system Android OS version at the start of sales Android 9. One UI Case type classic Case material metal and glass Design waterproof Number of SIM cards 2 SIM card type nano SIM Operating mode of several SIM cards alternating Contactless payment yes MST support yes Weight 195 g Dimensions (WxHxD) 74.8x162.5x8.6 mm Screen Screen type color AMOLED, touch Touch screen type multi-touch, capacitive Diagonal 6.3 inches. Image size 2960x1440 Number of pixels per inch (PPI) 522 Aspect ratio 18.5:9 Automatic screen rotation is available Multimedia capabilities Number of main (rear) cameras 1 Resolutions of the main (rear) cameras 12 MP, 12 MP Apertures of the main (rear) cameras F/1.70, F/2.40 Rear flash, LED Functions of the main (rear) camera autofocus, optical stabilization, macro mode, optical Zoom 2x Video recording yes Max. video resolution 3840x2160 Max. video frame rate 30 fps Front camera yes, 8 MP Audio MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA Headphone jack 3.5 mm Communications Standard GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G, 4G LTE, LTE-A Cat. 16, VOLTE Support for LTE bands 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/32/66 Interfaces Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, USB, ANT+, NFC Geopositioning BeiDou, A-GPS, GLONASS, GPS Memory and processor Built-in memory capacity 64 GB RAM capacity 6 GB There is a slot for memory cards, up to 256 GB, combined with a SIM card Power Battery type Li-Iоn Battery capacity 3300 mAh Non-removable battery Talk time 22 hours Music listening time 74 hours Type of charging connector USB Type-C Wireless charging function yes Fast charging function yes Other functions Speakerphone (built-in speaker) yes Control voice dialing, voice control Flight mode yes A2DP profile yes Light, proximity, Hall sensors, gyroscope, compass, barometer, fingerprint reading, iris scanner Flashlight yes USB-host yes Additional information RAW support yes Equipment smartphone, stylus, USB cable, headphones, Sim extraction tool, charger, USB connector (USB type-C), Features: ability to change screen resolution in settings; processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, 2.45 GHz or Samsung Exynos 8 Osta 8898M, 2.5 GHz depending on the region; protection against water and dust: standard IP68; 1 or 2 SIM cards depending on the region Announcement date 08/23/2017

10.07.2016

Let the reader not think that I wanted to highlight the weaknesses and shortcomings of this phone. I just tried to write objectively (I didn’t always succeed), and the fact that I bought it and continue to use it is a sign that the pros outweighed the cons. Well, you draw your own conclusions ☺.

I’ll start, as usual, with a little background about how it came to me and how I chose it. In fact, everything is quite simple: I wanted to update my wife’s phone. Moreover, out of the whole family, she was the only one who had a non-flagship phone. I have an iPhone 6 Plus, my daughter has an LG G4, and she has a small and very unsuccessful phone called Samsung Galaxy S4 mini duos. What's wrong with this phone? Well, besides the fact that it is not a flagship (this can be forgiven, I think it can still be done), it has a consumer attitude towards its battery - 7-8 percent per hour (and this is with the firmware from Warlock), and a very unsuccessful camera - even on It’s quite difficult to get good photos in sunlight, not to mention indoor photos: a lot of them are blurry and grainy from noise. In addition, it will be difficult to transfer it to the iPhone, since my wife is used to the Android interface, there are several purchased programs that she uses that are not on the iPhone (for example, PowerAmp), and she uses the contact shortcuts that are displayed on the desktop a lot table. In fact, there are shortcuts on the iPhone, but even I don’t really use them. Well, she really loves all sorts of spectacular things. "OK!!" - I said to myself, and that means we already have criteria for selection!

So what are we looking for:
1. Flagship.
2. Not a bad battery.
3. Great camera.
4. Android.
5. Spectacular phone.

Just a couple of days before, I came across a review about comparing mobile phone cameras.

And it turned out that one of the best cameras, of course, is the Samsung S6 Edge. I started reading the links that were given on the website for this phone model, and realized that this phone fits all the criteria. Further study of the issue showed the presence of several problems, the main one of which was that the battery was somehow not a fountain. Then it was found that with the latest firmware everything became much better. This state of affairs encouraged me, and I decided to buy this thing.

I went to the store, and there were several types of this phone, which differed only in color. And they had the same amount of memory - 32 gigabytes. In reality, about 25 GB are available. But since my wife has a 16 GB memory card installed in her phone and there is still a lot of space left, I went with 32 GB. The question arose of choosing a color. There were: black (well, blue), golden, green. In my mind I understood that I had to take the golden one, since fingerprints (which no one has written about) would be less visible on it, but the green smartphone floored me and I suddenly remembered requirement No. 5. They all cost the same. As a result, the green S6 Edge 32 GB is in my hands!

But not everything is so simple ☺. I read several threads on the 4pda forum about marriage. So I was ready. Of course, I checked for dead pixels. Then I checked for any glare. At the end I turned it off and looked at the substrate - the one that was the matrix. And lo and behold! I saw a really wave-like defect in the matrix. I wasn't able to take a photo - I was in the store. But it looks like wrinkled material on which glass lies. I showed it to the seller - he pulled out another device, and I found no flaws in it. As a gift, the seller gave me two films (both straight, without curves), and a plastic case.

What I liked right away was the screen! No - SCREEN! This is the best screen I've seen. In front of me are the iPhone 6 Plus, and. Well, my whole family said - definitely the best. The picture seems to be alive and looks very juicy and colorful. The colors are simply gorgeous. The second is the color of the case. Incredibly beautiful, unusual. It looks simply stunning. Shape and edges: fits perfectly in the hand. The edges don't cut anything (I didn't have any cuts). Much less slippery compared to the iPhone 6 Plus.

Speed ​​of work. Here I was amazed. This is the first Android smartphone that I have owned and that has never slowed down (and I have had: HTC HD2, Huawei 8860, Huawei P1, LG G2). True, I immediately updated it with the latest firmware, but on the latest firmware it is really fast. Nothing slows down, screen rendering is set up even better than on the iPhone (to be honest, on the iPhone for some time now I have started to get very annoyed by small delays when switching to other screens).

I can't say anything bad about the battery. But also good. After the iPhone 6 Plus, the battery is, of course, so-so. But this is understandable. I can’t count this as a disadvantage of the smartphone. Now the smartphone is in the “SIM card is on, Wi-Fi is on, mail is synchronized and applications are automatically updated” mode. Well, it’s been lying there for 7 days already. It will probably take another 2 days. During work, everything is not so magical. In a couple of minutes of active work with the screen - reading news, browsing the web - a couple percent of the battery drains (but this figure is still better than that of the S4 mini duos). In 5 minutes of operation, 2% of the battery was consumed.

Among the goodies of this phone, we can also say the following. As a gift, for 2 years, Microsoft One Drive gives 100 GB in the cloud, provided that you upload your photos there. Loading almost 5000 photos took a very long time (from 4 pm until some point during the night) - approximately 11 GB of photos. Probably in two years he will offer to start paying for the place, but since I’m already used to it, I’ll probably agree. Well, we'll see there ☺.

I also really want to talk about the camera. The smartphone has a really great camera. I’ll admit right away that I haven’t used the camera in professional mode. The first thing that impressed me was the speed of the camera. It feels like the photo is being taken even before you press the button. The camera itself has several cool applications that need to be downloaded additionally. For example: you can download a camera mode in which you can create animated gifs, or you can download an application that helps you make a short video in which you can examine an object from all sides. But in fact, once you looked at these applications, you said “Wow! " and forgot. All photography is carried out only in automatic mode and in no other mode.

While the case was flying to me from the UK, I had time to think about what could be done in this case. Well, it was clear that film was needed. From Moscow, my friends brought me a couple of cases and even curved glass that completely covers the front of the smartphone. I later threw away this glass, so I can’t provide photos, but such things can be found on Aliexpress without any problems (for example, like this).

The glass installed perfectly, and even the book covers could be closed, but even here it was not all, thank God. For some reason, the phone became insensitive to taps in the upper right part of the screen. The analysis showed that the glass does not fit tightly to the screen and contact is lost. I had to press harder, which really infuriated me. Therefore, the glass was disposed of in the trash.

By the way, glass (in my version) has two more significant drawbacks:
1. It is not the same color as the smartphone itself. And the color is worse than the original one.
2. It is not as slippery as the screen itself, and, as a result, fingers glide much more poorly on the surface.

Then I went to a special store with specially trained people who had a protective film, but with curved edges. For a small fee, they undertook to install it on a smartphone... But that was not the case! The film around the edges of the smartphone, where it folded, completely refused to stick to the phone screen. Moreover, despite my requests, the sellers refused to try other copies of the film for an additional fee. According to them, there are often representatives of this model who have this problem.

Smoking on the 4pda forum showed that I am far from the first victim of the marketing genius and engineering error of the Samsung company. However, human experience has found a way out of this situation! It turns out that there is a special film from Spigen, which is completely called Spigen FlexHD for Galaxy S6 edge. The peculiarity of this film is that it comes with a special adhesive spray. The kit includes two films for the front of the phone and one for the back. The sticker process is shown in detail on YouTube.

In short it looks like this:
1. Clean the surface of your smartphone.
2. Wet your fingertips with this spray.
3. Wet the film with spray. After this, the film turns into something similar to wet paper, only without tearing.
4. Calmly apply the wet film to the screen, align and adjust it as you need.
5. Using a special scraper, squeeze out all the liquid from under the film.
6. Wait for everything to dry.

The result is perfect the first time!

In the photo, by the way, you can see a kind of wavy effect. Film gives it.

While my epic with the films continued, I carried the phone in my jacket pocket. There were no keys or other sharp objects there. The jacket was new, and there wasn't much trash in the pockets. Nevertheless, he managed to earn a small scratch on the screen. Almost invisible, but really existing. In fact, we can say that this phone model has specific problems with the screen and this fact must be taken into account when purchasing.

A week after I successfully applied the film, the case arrived. It looks perfect, and I am calm that when there are scratches, they will only be on the film and not on the screen. The case is extremely soiled, and you need to wipe it often! But for the sake of beauty, what sacrifices... ☺

By the way, about the covers. They brought me the two aforementioned cases from Moscow. Each one costs about 1800 rubles. The sellers, of course, stated that the phone wake-up function, which is in the original case, works for them. By the way, the original case costs about 5,000 rubles (this is the one that came to me from the UK). The cases that arrived (non-original) look exactly the same as the original ones, but the smartphone wake-up function does not work on them. Well, it almost doesn't work. I will explain now.

The fact is that the process of waking up the smartphone in the original case is initiated by the built-in NFC tag. For some reason, Chinese craftsmen were unable to copy this mark. As a result, you need to do the following non-trivial actions with Chinese cases:

1. We take out the case and the special card that comes with the kit.
2. Download any QR reader for Android and use it to read the QR code from the card.
3. You are redirected to some Chinese site.
4. They offer to enter the code from the card.
5. Enter, and the application download begins.
6. After installation, the application is activated (in my opinion, using the code from the card again), and after that it begins to monitor the operation of the smartphone’s proximity sensor.
7. As soon as the cover of the case moves away from the surface of the smartphone, the application activates the screen; as soon as you close it, it turns off the screen, but leaves the clock visible on it. And with maximum brightness. It probably eats up the battery mercilessly. It works crookedly, but in worst case it will do. And no, the screen does not respond to pressure through the translucent cover of the Chinese case. In the original case, the cover allows you to control the phone with gestures, i.e. she is sensory.

How does a battery work? Excellent compared to Samsung S4 mini duos. Even if you forget to charge it, it will still survive until the morning and even a little longer. This is exactly what my wife does - she puts it on exercise in the morning. Compared to the iPhone 6 Plus, of course, it’s worse, but it’s also true that I still charge the iPhone every night. The profile of using the iPhone is different: it’s heavier, I solve many more problems on it. In general, the cycle is normal - from morning to late evening it is enough.

Data transfer: I really liked the built-in utility that helps transfer data from an old phone, and the old phone can be an iPhone. To tell the truth, I have not tested such a scenario, but according to rumors, this utility even manages to transfer music. In total, it took about 6 hours to transfer almost 6,000 photos, about 3,000 SMS and other applications. I used my home Wi-Fi network for communication. However, it so happened that I needed to transfer data a second time and somehow activated Wi-Fi direct. Here everything went much faster - the whole process took about 4 hours.

Memory. It turned out that the memory for my wife was really not enough. By default, the camera sets the maximum quality settings. 16 megapixels. Well, it would be strange if the flagship, which for some time managed to be at the top of the camera Olympus, would not be set to maximum by default. Taking into account the previous 6000 photos, the remaining 25 GB ran out very quickly. The real question arose of what to do, because there were only 400 MB left, which with this mode of use would have ended very quickly. The first thing I had to do was reduce the quality of photos and videos. Then I had to clean up the content itself. Mainly from videos - you know, the ones that I shot, watched once, and then forgot about - they were worn out. Well, as a result, several gigabytes of space were freed up.

I haven’t really decided yet what I’m going to do. There are several options: Cloud Mail.ru, Google Photos, One Drive, Samsung Link with partner cloud services. So far, I like Google Photos the most, because it is unlimited with a quality of no more than 16 megapixels. And the process of synchronizing settings itself is more intuitive. But I haven't decided yet. It’s a pity that there is no such function as in the iPhone: when space starts to run out, the iPhone starts saving the originals only in its cloud, and leaves smaller copies on the phone. It's really convenient. I didn’t find this on Samsung. So if you take a lot of photographs, then 32 (or rather, 25) gigabytes will not be enough. This is despite the fact that your wife has almost no music on her phone.

What's in the bottom line?

The phone itself is great, works great, takes great photos, and generally does everything else perfectly. There are features of use, especially with accessories. There are no deadly things, but there are relatively unpleasant ones. Memory is not enough, and here you need to use cloud services, which are still less integrated into the Samsung ecosystem than on the iPhone, and they are less intuitive.

Part two. Even shorter

The fact is that I wrote the above story almost a year ago. All the time I was tweaking something in it, and somehow I never got around to publishing it on Helpix. The year flew by so unnoticed. What has changed in a year?

The phone serves faithfully. It never froze or let me down. For this he gets a big plus!

The little case - the one that's like a piece of chrome - serves faithfully. There is significant wear on the reverse side, but if you don’t look closely, it’s not enough. And on the front side it had a protective film glued on it. It works so well that the front of the case is still wow! My wife uses it as a mirror. No joke ☺.

Android 6 came out - the phone worked stably and long enough for my wife, and continues to do so. I'm glad that the manufacturer did not forget about the device. Just a couple of days ago some minor update arrived.

Photos and memory. The Google Photo app works great on the phone. This is the most wonderful program. It quietly transfers all your photos to the cloud, makes you collages, cartoons, etc. interesting and quite helps to live with 25 GB of memory. Just at some point you select a couple of months of photos and videos and press the button - “Delete original on device”. And you can work further.

The film lasted almost a year. It would have lasted longer, but my little daughter tore off a piece in the area of ​​the proximity sensor. And the phone began to glitch: basically it does not turn off the screen when you start talking on it. As a result, you move all sorts of icons with your ear, turn programs on and off. I had to stick the second film from the kit. It turned out to be unsuccessful. Relatively large bubbles remained under the film. The most interesting thing is that after two weeks the bubbles disappeared on their own. So I highly recommend this film from Spigen.

My wife is very used to using the Samsung news feed. Well, the one on the leftmost desktop.

What he doesn’t use at all is screens and applications on the curve of the screen. For her, this is not a feature at all and it is of no use to her.

Battery. The phone holds its charge perfectly. Now even longer than the iPhone 6 Plus. True, the iPhone is more than two years old, and the battery does not hold a charge well. By the way, in winter the phone never turned off unexpectedly in the cold, which does it credit compared to the iPhone.

So even a year later it's a great phone. Which I can confidently recommend. Moreover, prices for it have become lower ☺.