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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #40 on: July 12, 2015, 12:01:53 PM »
Quote from: marvey on July 12, 2015, 04:53:42 AM
Dammit, this Samsung is such a piece of shit. Does it really need to get as hot as a Zana Deux chassis for Clash of Clans?

C'mon Samsung apologists. Tell me what to do. The Nova launcher helped. You guys must have some ideas to make this POS perform like the premium smartphone it's supposed to be.



My S4 doesn't get hot when playing CoC.  *shrug*

It does get hot when charging, but that's about it. 
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2015, 04:15:21 PM »
Quote from: marvey on July 12, 2015, 04:53:42 AM
Dammit, this Samsung is such a piece of shit. Does it really need to get as hot as a Zana Deux chassis for Clash of Clans?

C'mon Samsung apologists. Tell me what to do. The Nova launcher helped. You guys must have some ideas to make this POS perform like the premium smartphone it's supposed to be.


Maybe this phone comes with a fridge or cooling fan made by Samsung that only Samsung makes.

P.S. Can you take off the body panel on the back, drill minute holes in it and then fix the heat issue?
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #42 on: July 12, 2015, 05:34:37 PM »
Quote from: Skyline on July 12, 2015, 12:01:53 PM
My S4 doesn't get hot when playing CoC.  *shrug*

It does get hot when charging, but that's about it. 


You have an older chip that doesn't need to get hot.


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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #43 on: July 12, 2015, 05:53:11 PM »
S4 = 1080x1920 = 2073600 pixels
S6 = 1440x2560 = 3683400 pixels

78% more pixels to render. I wonder why the S6 gets hotter in the same thermal limitations.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #44 on: July 12, 2015, 05:57:20 PM »
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #45 on: July 12, 2015, 06:28:08 PM »
Just stick this on the back.

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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #46 on: July 12, 2015, 07:06:12 PM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on July 12, 2015, 06:28:08 PM
Just stick this on the back.



That thing looks cool, weird but cool.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #47 on: July 12, 2015, 07:45:27 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on July 12, 2015, 07:06:12 PM
That thing looks cool, weird but cool.

It can handle a Core i7 without a fan, so I think a mobile ARM chip will be under control.

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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #48 on: August 02, 2015, 12:01:39 AM »
Quote from: marvey on July 08, 2015, 10:26:29 PM
Samsung Galaxy S6

It seems all these random websites (CNET, Engadget, etc.) say the Samsung Galaxy S6 is super awesome, but this has been far from my own experience. There seems to be something very very wrong with sites like CNET, Engadget, etc. I wonder how much Samsung pays these professional review fookers?.......

The Samsung S6 is a lewser phone designed by lewsers for lewsers. Unfortunately, I have been forced to be a lewser because of this piece of shit.

P.S. And Apple has to sue these guys? Really?

The complaints about the buttons/Touchwiz UI are easily fixed:

first of all be extremely wary of advice to install cyanogenmod or some other ROM just to fix such a tiny UI issue.  I run CM on some stuff but on more sophisticated devices with a lot of proprietary hardware and functionality you will definitely lose features and hardware support.

The easiest way to get the UI to appear and behave as you prefer is to install a different launcher - the launcher is what dictates the layout and behaviour of homescreen, menus, buttons (both hadware and software) and so on.  On my Galaxy Note II LTE I also have very similar reservations about Samsung's UI choices but I also don't want to lose support for S-Pen and multiwindow and various other neat stuff, so I run the Nova Launcher https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher

It is nicely customisable, does not require root, and the free version is so capable that I haven't found it necessary to consider buying the the premium version.

I didn't use an S6 but I do own a Note and a Note 2 and a Tab 2 and in my experience the hardware is actually excellent (totally reliable, durable, huge battery life) and the idiosyncracies of the Touchwiz UI are easily fixed with the installation of a different launcher - there are lots available, I only recommend Nova from experience (no ads, no bs, totally stable, easy to customise, simple to back up and restore settings).   Maybe there are better launchers out there or ones you'd prefer.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #49 on: August 19, 2015, 05:37:16 PM »
Thanks for the review Merv. I was choosing between S6, LG G4, Sony X3 and HTC M9 and based on your review and other posts here, I went for the S6. Thanks again!  headbang  :wheel:
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