{"id":24392,"date":"2015-04-06T02:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=24392"},"modified":"2015-04-06T02:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T23:43:33","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge-review-round-up-brilliant-but-are-they-brilliant-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/technology-en\/samsung-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge-review-round-up-brilliant-but-are-they-brilliant-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge review round-up: brilliant, but are they brilliant enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S6 and the Edge are released next week, and early reviews indicate that it could be enough for Samsung to challenge the iPhone 6 as the flagship phone of choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Android phone was unveiled at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n

When it was launched, The Independent\u2019s David Phelan said that this was the phone that Samsung had to really get right, given the problems with its predecessor the S5. It did so, he said, calling the phones \u201cthe most attractive, premium-feel phones Samsung has made\u201d and that they \u201care no longer the poor relations in terms of design and can hold their own with the likes of HTC and even Apple\u201d.<\/p>\n

The feel of the phone \u2014 which was one of the much-complained about problems with the plastic-backed S5 \u2014 has been lauded by many reviewers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks great from all angles,\u201d wrote Eric Limer in Gizmodo. \u201cThe glass back feels and looks classy, the buttons feel great, the metal trim is lovely.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the one hand the Galaxy S6 design is not particularly unique or exciting, but on the other much more important hand, absolutely nothing about it sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was clear that the \u201cGalaxy S6 Edge is a statement that design should lead technology rather than the other way around\u201d, wrote Samuel Gibbs in the Guardian. While Gibbs praised the design of the three-sided screen on the Edge \u2014 which Samsung claims \u2014 he said that it was more of a design decision than a usability one. \u201cNone of the edge features are particularly useful as they stand,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

While the look of the S6 has received plaudits, it\u2019s also been criticised for looking a little like the iPhone that it was designed to take on.<\/p>\n

In Yahoo Tech, Daniel Howley wrote: \u201cThese are easily Samsung\u2019s most attractive devices, though the standard S6 in particular isn\u2019t exactly original, as it looks like an amalgamation of the iPhone 4s and iPhone 6, an opinion shared by the majority of the people I showed the handsets to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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