SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 PREVIEW by stuff

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We’re big fans of Samsung’s current flagship phone, the Galaxy S5. We even awarded it a full five stars in our review. But that’s not to say it’s perfect, and it’s certainly not the best smartphone around – in fact the S5 sits a fair old way down the chart when it comes to our best-rated mobiles.

But, in a few months’ time, the Korean company has a chance to grab back the top spot by launching the Galaxy S5’s replacement, likely to be called the Galaxy S6. While very, very little is known about the S6 at the time of writing, the Stuff team has butted its collective heads together to come up with a list of things we’d like to see from it – and we’re talking things that could actually happen rather than pure fantasy.

So, without further ado, here’s how Samsung can make the Galaxy S6 the best smartphone in the world.

~BUILD: VERY METAL~


The world keeps wondering when Samsung will ditch polycarbonate (that’s “plastic” to you and I) and join the likes of Apple, Sony and HTC in delivering a flagship phone with a slinky metal or glass body – and yet the company doesn’t seem to take the hint.

There’s nothing wrong with plastic smartphones per se. Nokia’s higher-end Lumia Windows Phones are plastic and quite glorious, as are the iPhone 5c and new HTC Desire Eye, but the Galaxy S range has always fallen a little short of expected standards. That could and should change with the Galaxy S6.

Some sources have hinted at a “more premium build” for the S6, with Samsung going for an aluminium build, or even using super-advanced material graphene (which the company has found a way to manufacture in greater quantities than previously). While the latter would be a bold, memorable move, it’d probably push the S6’s manufacturing costs a little too high, and to be honest at this point we’d be happy with metal rather than another year of uninspiring plastic.

We’d also expect to see some measure of dust- and waterproofing. The S5 is sealed against the elements, and its successor is sure to follow. It might even kick things up a notch so you can take it even deeper ‘neath the waves: bumping the spec to IP68 from the S5’s IP67 rating would mean you could completely immerse the phone for a prolonged period of time without water getting inside. No more desperate bags of rice and crossed fingers if your phone tumbles into the bath or the bog.

~SCREEN: TIME FOR 2K?~


The Galaxy S5 has a very solid screen: 5.1in; 1080p resolution; AMOLED technology. We like its lush, vibrant colours a lot – but we very much doubt Samsung will stick with it for the S6.

The company’s great Korean rival LG has already launched a phone with a 2K screen (the G3’s display has a grand total of 2560 x 1440 pixels), you see, and Samsung loves to be seen to be outdoing – or at least matching – its compatriot. We think the chances of a 2K screen making its way into the S6 are very high indeed, and it’ll probably get a slight size bump too (but maybe not too much, given that Samsung already has the Note 4 for people who want a huge screen).

We’d personally be more than happy with 2K and 5.2in – going any bigger risks making the phone too big for the hands of normal folks and going sharper strikes us as pixel overkill on a screen this size, especially as more pixels require more power and put more strain on the battery.

~POWER: QUAD-CORE, YOU KNOW THE SCORE~


Many are predicting that the Galaxy S6 will come with a new Qualcomm chipset – either the Snapdragon 808 or 810. Both are quad-core, 64-bit and more powerful on paper than any smartphone processor at the time of writing, and we’d be pretty happy to see either of them on the S6 (they seem likely to require more power than the S5’s Snapdragon 801, however, which could put extra strain on the battery life – see below for more on that), especially if they were paired with at least 3GB of RAM.



Samsung has form in launching its flagship phones with octo-core Exynos chipsets too, albeit not in the UK. While eight cores might sound twice as powerful as four, in reality it doesn’t quite work like that: in benchmarks, the Exynos-equipped S5 only performs marginally better than the Snapdragon 801-equipped S5. We think Samsung can stick to a quad-core Snapdragon 808 or 810 and still offer the performance a phone like the S6 will require.

We’ll talk about storage here too. If it goes down the removeable backplate design route, Samsung is likely to support expandable storage via microSD, and thus the built-in storage doesn’t need to be huge – let’s say 32GB. If, however, the phone is has a metal unibody design and memory isn’t user-increasable, we’d like to see 64GB and maybe even 128GB as an option, just to keep pace with the Apple iPhone 6. And Samsung does like to be seen to be trying to keep up with Apple.

~BATTERY: BIGGER AND BETTER~


The Galaxy S5 has a 2800mAh battery that matches up to the majority of its Android rivals by lasting around a day in normal use conditions (but not all: the Sony Xperia Z3 lasts at least half a day longer), and it holds an advantage over most too in that it’s user replaceable. If Samsung decides to go with a seamless metal body that could change, and if it does we’d like to see better battery life, either owing to a larger battery capacity or increased efficiency.

The LG G3 has a 5.5in 2K screen and markedly longer battery life than the 5.1in, 1080p Galaxy S5, so it’s certainly possible for Samsung to improve its power efficiency. Much of this will depend on the processor it chooses for the S6, and if that’s the Snapdragon 808 or 810, neither seems likely to offer lower energy use than the S5’s Snapdragon 805. So it could well be that a larger battery is required.

Of course, Samsung may want to retain its user replaceable battery selling point, in which case it’ll probably hint that those looking for more battery life could simply buy a second battery to carry around with them.

~CAMERA: BETTER IN LOW LIGHT, PLEASE~


Were we betting types, we’d put a significant wedge on the S6’s camera outstripping the S5’s when it comes to megapixel count. The S5 has a 16MP sensor, and we’d be surprised if the S6 doesn’t take things above 20MP.

But megapixels alone don’t make a good photo, and we’d much rather see some measures taken to boost performance in low light conditions: larger megapixels (Apple’s favoured method), optical image stabilisation, a wider aperture, or a combination of those. Optical image stabilisation is a distinct possibility, we’d say, as Samsung has already used it in the Galaxy Note 4.

We’re not personally much inclined to take selfies, but we hear a lot of “the young people” are, and Samsung may well attempt to entice them to the S6 with a higher resolution front-facing camera. The HTC Desire Eye manages to squeeze a 13MP snapper on its front side, and while we wouldn’t expect (or want) Samsung to go to those lengths, we wouldn’t be surprised to see something in the 7 or 8MP range.

~RELEASE DATE: NO HANGING ABOUT~
With Mobile World Congress 2015 running from 2nd-5th March, we’d expect Samsung to make its big Galaxy S6 reveal around that time (March/April is the period when Samsung traditionally unveils its flagship Galaxy S devices). Price-wise, we’d expect it to be on a par with previous Galaxy S models - so don’t expect it to be cheap and don’t expect it to be vastly pricier than the RM2399 the S5 cost at launch.

As is traditional in Android circles, we also expect to see many a leak about the S6 between now and its likely launch date. So keep an eye on Stuff.tv for all the news as we get it.

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我們是三星目前的旗艦手機，銀河S5超級粉絲。我們甚至授予它一個完整的五顆星在我們的審查。但是，這並不是說這是完美的，它肯定不是最好的智能手機四周 - 其實S5坐在一個公平的老辦法下圖，當涉及到我們最受好評的手機。

但是，在幾個月的時間裡，這家韓國企業有機會搶回榜首，推出銀河S5的更換，可能會被銀河S6。雖然非常，非常知之甚少的S6，在寫作的時候，東東團隊對接集體集思廣益想出的事情列出來，我們想從中看到 - 我們正在談論的事情，可能實際發生的，而不是純粹的幻想。

因此，事不宜遲，下面是三星如何使銀河S6在世界上最好的智能手機。

∼BUILD：十分金屬化∼


世界不斷懷疑，當三星將溝聚碳酸酯（這是“塑料”你和我），並加入蘋果，索尼和HTC的喜好在提供一款旗艦手機，擁有美觀的金屬或玻璃體內 - 但該公司似乎並不心領神會。

這沒有什麼錯本身塑料智能手機。諾基亞的高端的Lumia Windows Phone手機是塑料和非常光榮，因為是iPhone5c和新的HTC Desire的眼睛，但銀河S系列一直下降的預期標準有點短。這可能並應與銀河S6改變。

一些消息來源暗示的S6“更優質的構建”，與三星將會為鋁打造，甚至採用超先進的材料石墨烯（該公司已經找到了一種方法來製造更大的數量比以前）。而後者將是一個大膽的，令人難忘的舉動，這很可能推動S6的製造成本有點太高了，而且說實話，在這一點上，我們很樂意與金屬而非塑料平淡的一年。

我們也希望看到防塵和防水的一些措施。在S5密封兌元素，它的後繼者是一定要遵循。它甚至可能會踢東西了一個檔次，所以你可以把它更深的照耀下波：顛簸的規範，以IP68從S5的IP67等級意味著你可以完全沉浸在手機的長時間內沒有得到水。沒有更多的絕望的大米包裝袋，如果你的手機翻滾入浴缸或沼澤交叉手指。

∼SCREEN？TIME FOR2K∼


銀河S5有一個非常堅實的畫面：5.1in; 1080p分辨率; AMOLED技術。我們喜歡它的鬱鬱蔥蔥，充滿活力的顏色很多 - 但我們很懷疑三星會堅持做下去的S6。

該公司的偉大韓國對手LG已經推出了手機與2K畫面（G3的顯示屏有總計2560 X1440像素），你看，三星愛要親眼目睹才能勝過 - 或者至少是匹配的 - 它的同胞。我們認為2K畫面做它的方式進入S6的機會是非常高的實在，它可能會得到一個尺寸略有凹凸太（但也許不是太大，因為三星已經擁有了4注誰想要一個人巨大的屏幕）。

我們會親自很樂意與2K和5.2in - 將使得手機太大，正常的人的手，去更清晰的撞擊我們的矯枉過正像素在屏幕上這個尺寸，特別是隨著越來越多的像素需要更多權力的更大的風險並把更多的應變在電池上。

∼POWER：四核，你心中有數∼


許多人預測，銀河系S6將配備一個新的高通芯片組 - 無論是Snapdragon的808或810兩者都是四核，64位和紙張上比在寫作的時候任何智能手機的處理器更強大，而且我們會是非常高興地看到無論是他們對S6（不過他們似乎很可能需要更多的功率要比S5的Snapdragon801，它可以把額外的壓力對電池壽命 - 見下文進行詳細介紹），特別是如果他們配對與RAM至少3GB。

 

三星在推出其旗艦手機有八核的Exynos芯片組也一樣，雖然沒有在英國的形式。而八核聽起來兩倍，強大的四，在現實中卻完全不是那麼回事這樣的：在基準測試中，的Exynos-S5裝備只進行略微高於Snapdragon的801-S5配備更好。我們認為，三星能堅持到四核的Snapdragon808或810，並仍然提供的性能，如S6手機需要。

我們將談論存儲在這裡了。如果它的股價下跌了可拆卸背板設計路線，三星很可能通過microSD支持擴展存儲，因此內置存儲並不需要是巨大的 - 讓我們說32GB。但是，如果手機具有金屬一體成型機身設計和內存並不是用戶增大的，我們希望看到64GB，甚至128GB作為一個選項，只是為了保持與蘋果iPhone6的步伐，三星確實喜歡被看作是試圖跟上蘋果。

∼電池：更大更好∼


銀河S5有一個2800MAH的電池，通過各地，每天持續在正常使用條件下（但並非全部：索尼的Xperia Z3持續至少半天的時間更長）匹配到其大部分Android的競爭對手，並在它佔據了優勢大多數過在它的用戶可替換的。如果三星決定一起去，可以改變一個無縫的金屬機身，如果我們不希望看到更好的電池壽命，若非因更大的電池容量或提高效率。

LG的G3有一個5.5英寸2K畫面，顯著延長電池的壽命比5.1in，1080銀河S5，所以它肯定能夠為三星以提高其能源效率。這在很大程度上將取決於它選擇了S6在處理器上，如果是這樣的Snapdragon的808或810，也似乎有可能提供比S5的Snapdragon805降低能源使用，因此它很可能是一個更大的電池是必需的。

當然，三星可能希望保留其用戶可更換電池的賣點，在這種情況下，它可能會暗示那些尋找更多的電池壽命可以簡單地購買第二塊電池隨身攜帶它們。

∼CAMERA：BETTER在光線較暗，請∼


是我們投注類型，我們就會把S6的攝像頭超出了S5的一個顯著楔形，當涉及到像素數。在S5擁有1600萬像素的傳感器，我們會感到驚訝，如果S6不採取上述20MP的東西。

但是，百萬像素本身並不能成為一個好照片，我們寧願看到採取了一些措施來提高性能在低光照條件下：更大的百萬像素（蘋果公司的青睞法），光學防抖，更廣泛的光圈，或者它們的組合。光學防抖是一個明顯的可能性，我們會說，因為三星已經用它在銀河注4。

我們沒有太多的個人傾向採取selfies，但我們聽到了很多的“年輕人”是的，三星可能試圖將他們吸引到S6具有更高分辨率的前置攝像頭。 HTC Desire的眼睛設法擠13MP甲魚在其前側，雖然我們不希望（或需要）三星去的長度，我們也不會感到驚訝看到的東西，在7或800萬像素的範圍。

∼發布日期：NO閒逛∼
隨著2015年世界移動通信大會，從3月2日至5日運行，我們預計三星做出大銀河S6揭示在那個時候（三月/四月的時期，傳統上，三星推出了其旗艦的Galaxy S設備）。從價格上看，我們希望它是與以前的Galaxy S車型看齊 - 所以不要指望它是便宜的，不要期望它是遠遠超過RM2399的S5成本推出價格更高。

由於是傳統的Android的圈子，我們也希望看到從現在到其可能的推出時間很多關於S6洩漏。因此，密切關注Stuff.tv所有的消息，因為我們得到它。