Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review Part 4 of 4

Part 3 See also: Part 1 for Display and Design, and Part 2 for Camera, Part 3 for Software and Features. Performance and Battery +++++ Samsung’s Exynos 7420 is a 14nm octa-core SoC. What regular consumers may care about is the number of cores. Techies however should notice that there isn’t a single mention of Qualcomm Snapdragon in sight. The…

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review Part 3 of 4

Part 3 See also: Part 1 for Display and Design and Part 2 for Camera Software and features +++++ Samsung further simplifies Touchwiz, taking it one step closer to Google stock experience. The main advantage of this is that the skin no longer feels like a resource hog (but whether it really is or not…

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review Part 2 of 4

Part 2 Camera +++++ The camera quality is excellent overall. At first glance the photo quality seemed extremely similar to that of the S5 and the Note 4 – which is a good thing because the quality on those last gen devices were really quite excellent. In fact, the photos from the Note 4 can…

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review Part 1 of 4

Part 1 Part 2 is here! Time to take a look at the S6 Edge’s camera. So everybody’s been worried about or cheering on Sammy’s dip in smartphone sales in the past year. The S5 didn’t do too well- it was a spec update and with more features crammed in without thought. Worst of all, the design…

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Lumia 930 review – Nokia’s last flagship.

Oh Nokia. How sad it is to think we may never enjoy your signature hardware designs (without others’ influence) again. Just when our dreams of Android OS marrying Nokia’s legendary designs were coming true, Microsoft snuffs it out completely. We have here the Lumia 930 with us. Significant because it may well be the final flagship-class smartphone…

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Samsung Galaxy S5 review- feature creep?

“My life powered by Samsung Galaxy S5”- and that is essentially what the S5 claims to do, up from last year’s “Life companion”. First of all, name one feature that the Samsung Galaxy S5 is missing that the other Android smartphones do not have? In fact, give me a valid answer and I’ll give you a…

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Moto G XT1033 review- bloody excellent!

How is a budget smartphone defined? Obviously price is going to be the primary factor but often, with it also comes a plethora of crappy hardware components (specs somehow manages to look good on paper, marketing), tacky build quality, poorly maintained OS and non-satisfactory user experience- generally speaking: a total package that’s not going to last.…