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A look back at Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup

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Earlier this week, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy S10 (and S10+), the company's latest and greatest Android flagship. Somewhat obviously, the S10 is also the tenth-generation Galaxy S, which means it's been ten years since the very first Gal...

No more rumors: these are Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

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Just like we knew would happen, Samsung has introduced the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge phones at the MWC in Barcelona. Read on to see what is new.

Samsung’s latest flagship is coming in several colors including but not limited to green, white, gold and black. Other designs might include colors based in jewels (expect sapphire or emerald). The phone sports a 5.1 inch QHD Super Amoled screen, 3gb of ram, 4G capabilities, a 16 mpx camera in the rear and a 5 mpx front one.The galaxy S6 also sports an alluminium frame, and comes in three variations of 32, 64 and 128 GB storage. Also, the main draw of the phone is that it features a curved screen (on both sides in the case of the Edge, making it ideal for left handed people).

Samsung explained that the new S6 models are not based on the S5, but were designed from the ground up with beauty as the main design pillar. Besides, with its thinness and aluminum frame they also made light of Apple by claiming that “the S6 does not bend”. Another thing that works just like with Apple gadgets is their new print reader as seen in the iPhone 6.

The new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will feature a new, redesigned software meant to simplify the process of looking for things by eliminating some icons and creating a faster, easier way to navigate with simple yet bright colors. What Samsung did take from the S5 is the camera software, which was one of the few very praised features on the previous flagship.

Samsung also claimed the Galaxy S6 will charge up literally twice as fast as the iPhone 6 and touted wireless charging for the future, as to forfeit cables for ever, and wouldn’t that be something.

Despite all these new features it is a shame that Samsung decided to drop the Micro SD slot and the possibility of submerging it (we don’t know about you, but we drop our phones a lot) in the name of design – at least we’re left with the new services like Samsung Pay to use the phone as a credit card, and Milk VR, for watching media in virtual reality.

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Samsung show off the first picture of the Galaxy S6

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Forget about renders and mock-ups, with a few days to go for the MWC 2015, Samsung is now teasing their new Galaxy S6.

The official reveal for Samsung’s Galaxy S6 is jsut around the corner: it will take place during their “Unpacked” event at the Mobile World Conference 2015 on march 1st, and it will be introduced along an Edge version, just like with the Galaxy Note 4. And although information had leaked here and there, with a few really good mock ups in place, there hadn’t been any official pictures yet. That is up until Samsung’s instagram showed the picture we see illustrating this story: our first official look at the Galaxy S6.

This smartphone looks surprisingly thin, but also the lines are quite surprising and we don’t know what to make of them exactly. Hadn’t this picture had the #TheNextGalaxy hashtag, we would have thought this was an iPad. One element that we can’t quite distinguish is a protuberance in the posterior part of the Galaxy S6 for the camera lens, which had prevented it from being entirely flat. We’ll see how Samsung resolved this.

So far, we know the Galaxy S6 will be equipped with a 5.1 inch QHD screen (1.440x.2.560 pixels), a Exynos 7420 octacore processor at 2,1 GHz, 3GB DDR4 RAM, and storage that would come in two versions: 32 or 64 gigabites. Also, the main camera would be 20MP, and the front one of 5, all running Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.

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Samsung to cut down on bloatware on upcoming Android models

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With the upcoming Galaxy S6 in the horizon Samsung has made public that they plan to strip their TouchWiz interface of some of its default programs.

The cool thing about smart devices is that, when it comes to them, it’s always users who are in control. Precisely because of that it is quite annoying when users find their devices come with preloaded apps, chosen by the manufacturers: whether we need them or not, we’d like to be the judges. Samsung are aware of this, and that is why the next version of their TouchWiz interface will feature less preloaded programs and allow more user customization. The Korean giant has reported that the next TouchWiz will not feature any of Samsung’s built in applications, but bundle instead some essentials such as Skype, Office Mobile, and OneDrive.

The Galaxy S6 will be shown to the world at the Unpacked event on March 1. We know for a fact it will feature TouchWiz (the unique interface Samsung set on top of Android) as to differentiate itself from its competitors, but instead of including bloatware users will get to choose for themselves. They will still be available at the marketplace, so it’s not like they’re going anywhere, though.

Samsung had a rough year in 2014, with profits going down and hard competition popping up everywhere, even in key zones they used to be in control of. That is why this Unpacked event is so important, and there is so much focus on the user, the Korean giant is fighting hard to earn back their lost goodwill.

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