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…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, I paid a quick visit to the Galaxy S5 launch event here in Hong Kong and had my 60 minutes of fun with the S5 itself and their smart looking…smartwatch, the Gear Fit. The event itself was anti-climatic but the devices were definitely impressive. So let’s have a look at the test notes. –…
Everyone knows that if you want a Samsung Galaxy S4 right now, you either have to pick the Octa-core Exynos 5 version on 3G (GT-i9500); or the Snapdragon 600 quadcore on 4G LTE (GT-i9505). Even Mr. Shin said so himself. There’s still hope that Samsung will eventually release a proper Exynos 5 4G LTE version,…
$700~ on Amazon.com $760~ on Amazon.com It’s that time of the year again when mobilephone super-manufacturers jostle for your attention, and a sizeable slice of your bank balance. Clearly more effort has gone into the flagships this year from Samsung and HTC in the practicality department, with a better focus on battery life. But…
not a 32-storey drop test. Looks like Samsung is the first to bring out a complete package- software suite and stylus- for those who are looking for an alternative input method on their tablets. Read on to find out how our hands-on went. – screen resolution is noticeably…non-full HD, at 1280×800 – speed is surprisingly…
It may look like the Samsung Galaxy S3. But its performance is nothing like it. In fact, it’s totally and utterly off the charts. Nothing is going to come close for a while in terms of raw speed.And yet, I double and triple confirmed that I was testing the Octa-core Exynos version. Sunspider scores 740.…
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