August 20, Samsung Electronics has announced in Moscow, its new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S6 edge +. On the shelves it will be September 4, but reservations can be arranged now. New Galaxy comes out in a difficult to mark time – the market is actively discussed a boycott of products Samsung from “The Messenger” and “Euroset”, which retailers are motivated by an increase in the proportion of defective smartphone shipments gadgets brand. As a result, the share of Samsung’s Russia in pieces, according to GFK, from the beginning of June 2015 to mid-July decreased from 25.6% to 17.6%. Will the new gadget to fix the situation and how competitive will – in the article “COP».
A quick test drive
Its appearance of the new flagship of Samsung’s inherited from predecessor but, nonetheless, fears that he will be nothing more than a slightly enlarged Galaxy 6edge, did not materialize. Similarities, of course, a lot – and the shape of the body, and the material and curved screen and AMOLED-display – but still get really different model. And the first thing caught my eye just hiding unlike in the screen – the upper and lower ends is no longer slants, they were only on the sides. Curved screen from a purely design “chips” was purely functional tool, side bends need it to, for example, scroll to it by writing in the diary or browser page. It happened somewhere between the taskbar classic versions of Windows and “tiles” of the new versions, but, in general, much easier and more of both. This “trick” was proposed in the previous model, but it is here that it has been brought to mind – may be grateful for this new operating system.
The side face does not reduced to normal taskbar and quick launch. There is an additional menu, where the user can register its five most important contacts. Light, which has a side panel has five different colors – purple, green, blue, yellow and orange – and every important interlocutor can be one of these colors assigned. And then putting the phone face down, one by one color to determine who is trying to reach you – in an environment where silence is required or no bright light sources, it is very convenient. On the side face can throw and information: information about missed calls, “Night Watch” as a side line. The screen itself is at this time can be switched off.
The next features Galaxy S6 edge + in the previous models was not – it is that touchscreen smartphone can easily be made Button with good old QWERTY-keyboard, which added navigation buttons on Android. This accessory is not permanent, but removable, so that fans can sensoriki do without him. When active, it is fully in line with already become for us a familiar virtual keyboard both in size and by the location of the function keys (operating system, by the way, takes it the same way and automatically “adjust” the screen, so no configuration is not necessary), and inactive can be worn on the back of the machine.
The screen, the camera and the processor together PHABLET converted into a versatile tool for working with data, storage, viewing and transfer. Vosmiyadernik Exynos 7420 due to the structure of the “2 to 4″ (two clusters of four cores: core 2.1 GHz and “economical” 1.5) consumes relatively little energy to such power. The screen is larger, the resolution has increased, but the density of pixels per inch slightly decreased compared to the Edge (although it is still 25% higher than the iPhone 6 plus). The cameras are also good, 16 and 5 megapixels respectively – all, as in the model Edge.
From minuses new leader can be noted except that the size, but that can not escape, the reverse side of the dignity: that eye is good, the pocket uncomfortable. But add a card reader for sure would not hurt – now, with the growing popularity of “clouds”, it is not so interfere, but still extra memory card will not be, and in such dimensions, I think it is quite possible to enter. As a second sim-card.
Korean War
The main competitor Edge + with high probability can be your own countrymen, and not the iPhone. LG has also seized on the idea of a curved screen and this summer has eight registered trade marks containing the word Edge. Moreover, they themselves have been the model series of the Flex flexible screen. According to experts, a possible new flagship of LG’s curved screen will be the successor model LG G4, which already makes Samsung Galaxy edge to compete.
Perhaps the looks G4 is not so unusual and beautiful as Edge + – conventional plastic enclosure with removable covers – but the majority of the characteristics of at least as inferior to him. And in some places, and exceeds, for example, by working time (the battery is the same as the power consumption is less) or the front camera, which is not inferior to the primary on the iPhone 6 plus. The screen is slightly smaller, but the same resolution, which gives a greater number of pixels per inch. Such features as a detachable keyboard and side taskbar is not here, but there are subtle, like the conventional, but the necessary amenities (card reader, support for two sim-cards, the ability to change the battery), which are the flagship of Samsung’s somewhere lost, catching up and surpassing the “Yabloko”. Therefore, their place in the market has earned this gadget. But how will it “bent” the heir, as it will react Samsung and will not leave you both of them behind the Chinese brands – time will tell.
Where, how much, on what terms
Sales of new items as already mentioned, will start in retail stores Samsung September 4, but now pre-order can be issued on the company’s website. Buy novelty will be in major retail networks, such as “Eldorado”, “M.Video” and MediaMarkt. About sales in the largest exhibition of digital retailers, in particular, “Euroset” and “The Messenger” (owned by Oleg Malis – brother of the president of “Euroset” Alexander Malis), it does not go, and from retailers of mobile operators on the willingness to put new product on the counter regularly Only MTS reported. “New products Samsung – Model Edge and Edge + – will be available in the retail network of MTS in Novosibirsk with federal start of sales of these devices in Russia – September 4, 2015 (that is, before the sellers of household appliances and electronics. -” KS ») », – the press service of the MTS, and added that the price of the gadget in the salons of the operator will not differ from the prices in the stores Samsung. As previously reported in the MTS, sales of Samsung smartphones in the retail network operator from the beginning of June in Russia as a whole increased by four times, and daily sales of flagship Samsung Galaxy S6 increased six-fold in comparison with April. All this is not surprising, as it MTS has become a major seller of Samsung’s Russia in a boycott of Samsung products from the “Euroset” and “The Messenger”, explains his step increase in the proportion of defective smartphone shipments gadgets brand.
The head Samsung Mobile in Russia Arkady Graf, represents a novelty, commented on the difficult situation in relations with “Euroset” and “The Messenger” this way: “In the market there are different situations, and they are caused by different reasons. Today, we are absolutely open to all partners and is in operation. If there are companies from any changes in the format of cooperation, we have not seen them. Perhaps for some companies to have the suspension in the supply. But I think, in an open dialogue, we come to the decision ».
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