I haven't seen any Sprint specific posts here yet, so I thought I would post my observations about the changes from the S5 to S6 Edge for me:
1. There is no question that it is harder to grip naked than the S5 - the metal is so smooth that it slides down my hand when holding it upright. However, in a case, it is very comfortable to hold, and I love the fact that it is narrower than the S5 with the "infinity pool" illusion of being bezel-less (my quibble with the S5 was large side bezels and chintzy faux chrome edges). Overall I love the look and feel, but I guess it is not as striking as I imagined because I showed several people pictures and videos on it today and they didn't even notice that I had a new phone!
2. There is some image distortion at the edges (but apparently not even noticeable to my colleagues), but there are less issues with glare than I imagined, and no issues with typing or accidental taps.
3. The Edge panel for contacts is cool, but I turned off the ticker stuff because it is totally stupid. I thought I would love the night clock, but for some reason it was turning on my whole screen to a very dim glow - I thought AMOLED screens were able to be pitch black except for the pixels that needed to light up?
4. The fingerprint scanner is awesome, and what is even better is that my company's Exchange server is allowing me to use it for authentication, which they did not allow for the S5.
5. Transferring data from my S5 SD card to the S6 was much easier than I thought it would be - I thought I would need to use a computer or cloud service as an intermediary (which is part of the reason that I was annoyed about losing the SD card slot in the S6). I used the Samsung Smart Switch app and it transferred all my media files (~37GB) over WiFi direct in around 6 hours.
6. Things that I used on my S5 that I did not realize would be missing here: a very old (but quick) app I used is no longer available - maybe because of no legacy menu button? No 4x2 calendar widget. No pre-installed Swype keyboard, though the Swiftkey flow used on the Samsung keyboard is working well for me so far. The Gallery app no longer has the interface with the albums on the left and the content of the albums in the main window. (The default album view is a 2x3 grid, pinch to zoom to make it 3x4)
7. Camera and Gallery are much quicker to launch, which was another annoyance with the S5. Nothing I would say here would contribute to everything that has been said previously about the camera.
8. I like the fact that in the TouchWiz launcher, you can now do a 4x5 or 5x5 icon layout instead of just 4x4 (which I think makes the icons look cartoonishly big on a >5 inch screen)
9. I took some vacation pictures in a swimming pool with my S5 a couple days ago, which I guess I will no longer be doing.
I may update this post as more things come up, but I thought it might be helpful for people making a similar switch.
1. There is no question that it is harder to grip naked than the S5 - the metal is so smooth that it slides down my hand when holding it upright. However, in a case, it is very comfortable to hold, and I love the fact that it is narrower than the S5 with the "infinity pool" illusion of being bezel-less (my quibble with the S5 was large side bezels and chintzy faux chrome edges). Overall I love the look and feel, but I guess it is not as striking as I imagined because I showed several people pictures and videos on it today and they didn't even notice that I had a new phone!
2. There is some image distortion at the edges (but apparently not even noticeable to my colleagues), but there are less issues with glare than I imagined, and no issues with typing or accidental taps.
3. The Edge panel for contacts is cool, but I turned off the ticker stuff because it is totally stupid. I thought I would love the night clock, but for some reason it was turning on my whole screen to a very dim glow - I thought AMOLED screens were able to be pitch black except for the pixels that needed to light up?
4. The fingerprint scanner is awesome, and what is even better is that my company's Exchange server is allowing me to use it for authentication, which they did not allow for the S5.
5. Transferring data from my S5 SD card to the S6 was much easier than I thought it would be - I thought I would need to use a computer or cloud service as an intermediary (which is part of the reason that I was annoyed about losing the SD card slot in the S6). I used the Samsung Smart Switch app and it transferred all my media files (~37GB) over WiFi direct in around 6 hours.
6. Things that I used on my S5 that I did not realize would be missing here: a very old (but quick) app I used is no longer available - maybe because of no legacy menu button? No 4x2 calendar widget. No pre-installed Swype keyboard, though the Swiftkey flow used on the Samsung keyboard is working well for me so far. The Gallery app no longer has the interface with the albums on the left and the content of the albums in the main window. (The default album view is a 2x3 grid, pinch to zoom to make it 3x4)
7. Camera and Gallery are much quicker to launch, which was another annoyance with the S5. Nothing I would say here would contribute to everything that has been said previously about the camera.
8. I like the fact that in the TouchWiz launcher, you can now do a 4x5 or 5x5 icon layout instead of just 4x4 (which I think makes the icons look cartoonishly big on a >5 inch screen)
9. I took some vacation pictures in a swimming pool with my S5 a couple days ago, which I guess I will no longer be doing.
I may update this post as more things come up, but I thought it might be helpful for people making a similar switch.
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