March 1 at the site of the Mobile Industry World Congress 2015, which is traditionally held in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung finally talk about the Galaxy S6, the top-end Android-smartphone in six generations. Rumors, assumptions and projections for new items accumulated a lot, so it’s time to collect them all, trying as accurately as possible to see how it would be a welcome product.
So, the former Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5 created under the umbrella projects and J K, respectively, and seemed, Galaxy S6 had to move under the wing of L, but it is not. New prepared in the framework of the so-called Project Zero (from the English. “Zero”), which reflects a full review of approaches to the development of the mobile device.
Complete restart incredibly important for the Korean manufacturer, which should be taken very seriously to the emergence of the next generation of leading mobile device, for realization of the latter considerably declined, and the demand for Galaxy S5 was even smaller than in the case of the Galaxy S4. Competition in the market has increased with the advent of two iPhone authorship of Apple, but a host of Chinese vendors, mushrooming quality products with the speed of sound, does not give anyone sleep peacefully.
One thing is clear: Galaxy S6 should turn out quite different outlier smartphone, made in the usual style of Samsung.
Corpus
Samsung repeatedly criticized for promoting boring, full of plastic, cheap-looking products. There were hopes that last year’s Galaxy S5 finally take up the mind, abandoning the boring plastic. Alas, this did not happen.
Now, it seems, there is no other versions of events, rather than the embodiment of a completely new design as a part of Galaxy S6. Opinions, however, differ: some believe that the machine is completely clad in aluminum body, others believe that only made of metal frame, while the front and rear surface of the body covered with a durable glass – most likely, Corning Gorilla Glass 4.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy S6 disappear protection against dust and water, which appeared in the Galaxy S5, which meets industry specifications IP67. That’s what I wonder why Samsung can not be applied to all internal components are sensitive smartphone special nanocoating that easy to resist the ravages of liquid media?
screen
One of the frustrating moments Galaxy S5 was his display. 5.1-inch Super AMOLED screen is characterized by a parasitic greenish hue – the color accuracy is poor. However, Samsung has worked well, and the panel Galaxy Note 4 clearly improved performance. So there are all preconditions that the screen Galaxy S6 calibrated properly. Let’s hope for its high brightness in the daytime and the lowest possible at night.
As for the size of the display may be incremented its diagonal, lying in 5.2-5.5 inches. While, however, nothing prevents leave the existing 5.1 inches.
Galaxy S6 did, of course, rely on matrix Quad HD – 2560 by 1440 pixels. Yes, to the naked eye is extremely difficult to tell the difference in picture quality and Full HD Quad HD, even more so if one is displayed modest physical dimensions, but marketing and fashion demands more and more.
processor
Galaxy S6 destined to be the first widely available flagship Android-smartphone-based 64-bit processor. One and a half years after the debut of Apple iPhone 5S, which is due to computing crystal A7 first among communicators came on a 64-bit path, such as a bright future awaits the mobile platform Google Android.
However, you will need somewhere else a couple of years before all, without exception, the application will move on 64-bit track. But even then inherited 32-bit applications will conflict with 64-bit due to the special nature of multitasking on Android. We are waiting for the same path that we have already passed with Windows, here’s why you should not be afraid of bumps and potholes.
As expected, Samsung will offer two versions of Galaxy S6 for different markets: the United States and other western territories will model smartphone based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 810, while other countries will be provided with the device on the basis of a chip Samsung Exynos Octa 7 7420.
Qualcomm usually develops its own computer processor cores Krait, but the announcement of the 64-bit Apple A7 firm was caught in fact surprise, that’s why she hurried to finish work on the Snapdragon 810, building on the foundation of his factory nuclei ARM Holdings (four Cortex-A57 plus four Cortex-A53) and adding video graphics Adreno 430. As a result, Snapdragon 810 was very similar to the Exynos 7420, which relies on exactly the same configuration of the nuclei, despite the fact that professes a different approach in the face of video graphics ARM Mali-T760MP8.
Preliminary tests indicate that the Exynos 7420, clocked at 2.1 GHz, it is possible to clear as much as conditional 60978 points in the benchmark AnTuTu. Such a high speed crystal displays at the top of the rankings, where he was just a little bit inferior to the powerful Snapdragon 810.
It is appropriate to recall the existence of Nvidia Tegra X1 with its incredible 74,977 points in AnTuTu. However, no ready-made commercial products based on it has not yet appeared.
Meanwhile, around 810 Snapdragon being heated debate associated with undesirable overheating of the crystal. It is believed that the unknown problems may delay its setting on the flow of mass production. The American company, of course, denies these rumors. Again, announced earlier this year LG G Flex 2 and Xiaomi Mi Note Pro declared as built on Snapdragon 810.
In general, soar speculation that Samsung refuses Snapdragon 810 completely, replacing it with its own Exynos 7420. Yes previously Seoul vengeance bowed chipset Qualcomm, and mainly because they came with an integrated cellular LTE-modem. Now, when the latter has already been built into the structure of the Exynos-dependence on Qualcomm lost.
By the way, Exynos 7420 refers to the 14-nm design rules as opposed to the 20-nm Snapdragon 810, which means more respect for power consumption.
The amount of RAM Galaxy S6 is estimated at 3 GB.
Camera
Last year’s Galaxy S5 chose a 16-megapixel rear camera . However, to implement such a large resolution had to make sacrifices, reducing the physical size of each of the photosensitive grain. As a result, the quality of photos taken in poor lighting conditions such as indoors or in the evening, can not be considered acceptable. In the Galaxy Note 4 camera saved a 16-megapixel sensor, but the quality of the recording is clearly grown.
It is still unclear what the camera is built into the Galaxy S6: with a resolution of 16 or 20 megapixels.
It is argued, if the electromechanical division of Samsung started manufacturing 20-megapixel main camera modules, which is endowed with optical image stabilization and proprietary technology ISOCELL. However, at the end of the Korean engineers realized the futility of their own fotoresheny, which is why it was decided to turn to third-party software products, even more modest part of the resolution.
It is believed that the Galaxy S6 received a 16-megapixel sensor Sony IMX240 . Exactly the same sensor is present in the Galaxy Note 4, and Samsung has made a number of important changes in the organization of optics and camera software Galaxy S6. Modifications aimed at improvement of the quality of photos in low light conditions.
It is hoped the emergence of so-called professional shooting mode: the user among other things, can save pictures in RAW-format and adjust settings like shutter speed.
The front camera turned to a 5-megapixel shooting that demand in terms of total fotoavtoportretov popularity – Self. Due to the wide aperture F / 1.8 and HDR-capture real-time and self, and video communication have to go with a decent picture quality.
memory
And if processors and cameras in mobile devices are improved by leaps and bounds, some aspect of equipment largely stagnated. Over the past five years, 16 GB of internal flash storage is considered the standard for base models flagship devices. Appetites are growing users: photos, video, three-dimensional games – all this requires a lot of storage space. And only now vendors began to gradually double this volume up to 32 GB.
The basic configuration Galaxy S6 will build on the 32 GB flash drive. Of course, Samsung will offer versions with 64 and 128 GB of flash storage.
have not disappeared hope the presence of the slot flash card format microSDXC with maximum supported capacity of 128 GB.
Communication
For the sake of complete relief from the problem of “deadly grip”, which at one time raised on the agenda of the iPhone 4, Galaxy S6 comes with a new type of antennas designed to resolve the problem of possible interference with metal casing. Since coming flagship Samsung relies on an aluminum frame and covered with a dressing glass front and rear, two-way radio antenna should be organized so that the wireless signal is passed back and forth without any problems from the metal parts. The latter, of course, can adversely affect the strength of the signal, determining its attenuation.
By the way, users metallic Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 really complain about the problems with the deterioration of the radio signal.
Engineers Galaxy S6 switched from antennas built on the technology of direct laser structuring, made on the principle of flexible printed circuit boards. This means that the antenna bent so as to more adequately meet the type of signal, whether it is a cellular connection, Wi-Fi or NFC. Wireless signal passes through the internal components of the antenna, find a way out exactly where he is able to gain maximum effect.
Cellular 4G LTE is still rare in most countries, but those areas in which operators have launched an appropriate cover, each year increasing the data rate. Samsung refused to Intel modems in favor of its own Exynos Modem 333 (model SS333), and it supports protocol LTE Category 9/10 with theoretical maximum of 450 Mbit / s downstream due to aggregation (10 + 10 + 20 MHz).
The new chip Broadcom BCM4773 receivers combined global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, SBAS, QZSS and BeiDou) with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Smart and microelectromechanical systems into one so that applications and services that require continuous tracking own position, working with the minimum energy consumption.
Sound
Long before it became a commonplace phenomenon among mobile devices of all manufacturers, Samsung start supplying its products separate, high-quality sound processors authorship Wolfson Microelectronics. Same Galaxy Note 4 received support from the Wolfson WM5110E, and the presence of three directional microphone provides excellent sound recording. Therefore Galaxy S6, turning toward audiophiles exception will not.
If the speaker is displayed on the rear part of the body of the smartphone, then, when the latter is on the table, the emitted sound fairly muted. If the output audio subsystem is organized through the lower end, then when the device is in the same toys held in both hands in a horizontal orientation, the speaker places covered hand. So it is only right speaker placement on the front side: it is desirable to have a couple – over the screen and under it.
Unfortunately, Galaxy S6 is not addressed to the style of the line HTC One: audio output is realized through the lower end.
The bundled Galaxy S6 applied quality wired headset. Headphones, fairly reminiscent of Apple EarPods, developed with the participation of eminent brand Sennheiser. Wire, in order not to confuse, made flat, not round. The remote control offers three keys (for a couple of volume control and a button action), as well as a microphone. The very design of folding headphones.
Fingerprint Reader
Biometric identification solutions began ustakanivaetsya on smartphones, and fingerprint scanners have gained enough popularity here. However, not always their implementation can be called successful. Thus, in the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 invited to conduct your fingertip on the appropriate sensors embedded in the “Home”, and sometimes it is difficult, because it is a large-format mobile devices.
Apple, and then Huawei and Meizu did the right thing: simply put your finger on the scanner, so that he thought the fingerprint pattern.
It is believed that Samsung did the same, changing approach to fingerprinting technique. It is assumed that the sensor in the Galaxy S6 permit to put a finger, and at any angle.
Battery
Samsung definitely should do everything possible to Galaxy S6 functioned on a single charge as much as possible for a long time. Let the battery with a rumored 2600 mAh capacity and looks relatively modest 2800 mAh battery in the Galaxy S5, obviously, engineers Korean corporation has reduced power consumption of all components of the smartphone to the minimum that is possible at this level of technology. But in general the reduction of capacity and the fact that the battery is non-removable turned defined desire to assemble the unit as much as slim.
It is understood that the 14-nm design rules chipset Exynos 7420, energy-efficient 5.1-inch Super AMOLED-panel matrix Quad HD and software optimization of energy consumption in the Android Lollipop quite a lead to the battery compact, and without sacrificing battery life.
Again, native support for wireless charging smooths out all the details, and the method of accelerated recharge batteries with electricity (for example, 10 minutes in the socket – 4 hours operation) will be accepted with a bang .
It is well known that Samsung has decided to tighten security measures related to the protection of the battery of self-ignition, and for this traditional flammable electrolyte in lithium ion cells replaced the electrolyte non-combustible polymeric material.
Software
It is clear on the equipment Galaxy S6 will be deployed mobile operating system Google Android 5.0 Lollipop, modified proprietary user interface Samsung TouchWiz.
For a long time in the Android-shell TouchWiz saw a heavy monster. And it is true: TouchWiz, being one of the most feature-rich user interfaces “green robot”, is characterized by slowness, requiring impressive hardware resources. Even the power of Galaxy Note 4 can not get rid of TouchWiz stuttering and stuttering.
The Evolution of TouchWiz: from the Galaxy S to Galaxy S5.
So, Samsung, it is believed, dealt with this misunderstanding. The next edition of TouchWiz running as the dispute as compared its performance with a rate of factory equipment Android on Google Nexus 6. The new release TouchWiz eliminate unnecessary elements and focused on the development and improvement of the most sought after.
During the announcement Galaxy S6 you will learn about the new service Samsung Pay, required for mobile payments. Stated that the service supports 90% of the existing terminals operating with magnetic bank cards and NFC-enabled devices.
Accessories
There is an opinion that a particular Galaxy S6 connector at the rear of the housing. Through this port, you can connect removable cover that extend the functionality of your smartphone.
So, one of the rear panel is “elektrobumazhny” monochrome screen E Ink, the right to read books and output of any information almost no cost to the battery.
Another supplement allows the camera Galaxy S6 different lenses, such as “fish eye” or the zoom.
Another cover turns your device into a personal fitness trainer due to the interaction with the mobile device
