As far as the internal UI is concerned, Samsung has revamped the entire Touchwiz UI, and made it , what I like to call, a Jazzed up Stock Android. The Bloatware has been removed to make the overall OS lighter on memory. This is something I wanted Samsung to do on their Touchwiz skin maybe two years ago, but as the saying goes, better late than never.Overall, I give this new design language a big Thumbs up.
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Display
Samsung has been known for giving the world some of the best smartphone displays in existence, and the S6 edge is no different. Samsung has gone all out on this one and given it the best they have got. Then again, I don’t know what can beat a 5.1 inch QHD Super Amoled Display with Gorilla Glass 4 protection and a monstrous pixel density of 577 ppi ( Pixels per Inch ). Now for those who don’t know, human eyes saturate at around 300 ppi which is commonly known as the retina pixel density. Anything above that cannot be perceived by us. In such cases , you can see the power of this high pixel density when you zoom into text and images. Phones with lower pixel densities tend to pixelate image and text on zooming to the maximum. However, if you do the same in the S6 Edge, you have my word that neither the images nor the text will suffer from any pixelation whatsoever. The main point to be noted here is the dual edge display. The basic idea of the edge display is for you to get instant notifications without having to go through the hassle of unlocking you phone and going to the app in question. While major developers have optimised their apps to support the edge notifications and it won’t be long before the others join the wagon as well.
Performance
Samsung ends their long-time tie-up with Qualcomm following the continued delays of its 810 Chipset and instead, went back to the drawing board and came up with an improved version of their homegrown Exynos Chipset. The Exynos Chipset was something of a no-no for all Samsung fans in the past, but this one is on a completely different level. The Chipset I am talking about is the all-new Exynos 7420 which comes loaded with a 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Cortex-A53 & 2.1 GHz Quad Core Cortex-A57 processor. Along with this CPU package, you also get a Mali T760MP8 GPU which can handle almost anything you throw at it. While all this is happening in the background, the only thing visible to the user is the OS, and thankfully, its not KitKat.The Galaxy S6 Edge boots Android 5.0.2 Lollipop which is a huge sigh of relief because this means you don’t have to wait in line for Lollipop OS like many others. You just have to boot your device and enjoy.
So, as far as the Performance goes, all components are the latest on the block, and good to go.
