Re: So tired of hearing negative reports is anyone happy
Super happy with mine (s6, black, VZW). I traded in my s5 with no regrets. The Lollipop update and the update to fix the update did not play nice with my phone. At all.
Mine is running super smooth. I did do the animation thing from 1X to .5X in the developer menu. Pretty snappy.
My battery life has been variable. I took it to a ball game and took about 40 pictures (no flash), several short videos, sent some texts, did a few Google searches, etc. Went from 100% at 3 p.m. to 10% at 9:45. Didn't quite make it until the end of the ball game. We were losing anyway. The cell standby thing varies from 3-17%. The fast charger is really awesome, in my opinion. And I like the extra information you get about how much longer to charge, etc. And it seems pretty accurate.
I had to do a search for kid mode, but finally found it, downloaded it from the Galaxy store in the Galaxy folder and it's much better than the old one. My grandkids will be happy.
The themes are fun (I'm an old Blackberry user, so glad to see these) but the selection is limited. Tried a couple and they made the status bar hard to see because the color wasn't contrasty enough, and the icons were so "cute" that I couldn't see what some of them were very easily. I'm using the retro one and it's very cool. I'm guessing there will be many more to come.
Love the dedicated Google, VZW, folders etc. to keep all the stuff together. Easy to drag out what you want, leave the rest where it is. Much less clutter in the apps screen to to wade through.
Call quality is great, speaker sound is better than the s5. Haven't had a chance to mess with with adapt sound through the headset/earbuds. I'm a real fangirl of my iPod touch, so probably won't use this feature much.
Pretty. So pretty. But I did put a case on it. I hated to, but it's new so I'm babying it. I did try to use a little bit without the case, but I felt like I was going to drop it. I've always gone commando on the screen but I liked the salesperson's tempered glass screen protector so much that I got one too. So much better than the plastic for me. Optics are great, fingerprints wipe up with an alcohol lens wipe, and it never looks smeary.
I have had the auto screen dim go off and on, but it doesn't really bother me. It just gets brighter. Meh. I can live with it.
I like the new location of the right-hand on/off button being closer to the middle; easier for me to handle.
The camera: haven't been able to go through all the settings, but the double click to open the camera is an amazing feature for me. Click-click-boom I've got a camera and can start shooting. My friends with the iPhones (theirs were 6+ on ATT) missed pictures that I got. So I texted the pictures to them and they had them within a minute of my taking them. I'm not bashing iPhones--I have many Apple products (iPods, MacBook Pro, desktop, a couple of iPads) and my whole family uses nothing but iPhones.
The upgrade from s4 to the s5 was kind of more of the same to somewhat better, but the s5 to s6 is quite a jump and I'm having fun with it. I love holding it. I always disliked the plastic, the bezel would always look ratty quickly, even in a case. And the charging port situation on the s5 wasn't great--the little plastic door fell off after a month or two and didn't seem worth trying to fix it. Going back to the mini usb on the s6 was okay with me. I didn't want to take my s5 in the water, anyway, so no biggie.
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