Be honest, after Samsung made a bold move with the hardware, don't you wish LG did the same?

[I Can Be Your Hero]

Leather is a more interesting choice than glass for the back. The S6 is quite slippery and despite it being a thin phone, it's slightly hard to grip.

Hoping the leather has better grip. I don't think Samsung had a drastic design change, they just changed the materials of the phone. Going from plastic to glass/metal. Design is pretty much the same. That's not to knock Samsung, but it's not some entirely new design language built from the ground up.

Neither is the G4 for that matter, and that's fine. I don't think phones need to constantly come out with different designs over and over. I like the design of the G4 and the leather sounds like a great addition. I don't even intend on getting an extra battery or using a micro sd card.

 

[dpham00]

Removable battery is nice but I rarely use it. And I have a lipstick battery pack in case I need extended usage away from the charger

SD card I don't find to be a big deal because Samsung has 128gb internal memory option. Sd cards are far more likely to have problems than internal memory,and Samsung file system is fast, even compared to lg internal.

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[anon(5719825)]

I don't understand why people obsess over metal phones and, after owning a Nexus 4, I will never own another phone with a glass back. It's no fun feeling lie your phone is extra fragile and then it just cracking anyway.

I never worried about my Nexus 4. One night, I forgot I had the phone in my lap and got out of the car. The phone landed face down on the pavement and all that happened was it got a tiny chip on the bottom corner of the screen. I always felt that the phone was pretty tough and I had no doubts after that accident.

I even dropped a caseless iPhone 4S one day on a hard tiled floor. Landed face down and I picked it up, wiped it off and used it for another year. Glass on both sides was perfect.

I'm going to watch and see how this G4 turns out. I wanted to get a S6 but after reading what was happening with it, I changed my mind.

I do have a Note 4 and a Note Edge that I have SD cards in and I bought a Battery kit with charger for each one just to have as backup and to use on vacation this summer, plus it will be good to have when the original starts wearing out.

I'm happy that LG has kept the SD card slot and removable battery. I will always continue buying phones that have those options. I never liked the idea of having to send a phone somewhere to have the battery replaced.

 

[asanatheist]

Bold move? Can't reboot a frozen phone with a boot image on the SD card? "Bold" isn't the word I'd use.

Send my phone away for a week and pay $45 to have a $15 battery replaced. I wouldn't call that bold either.

Add locked bootloaders and Knox and I'd call it "wanting to lose the entire geek customer base". Marketing and the pooch had an affair over this one.

If LG does the same thing, I just won't buy another phone until Ara phones are available.

Don't mean to sound too offensive but getting tired of people throwing out words like geek, like it's cool.

Problem is the Geek market doesn't make them money. It actually doesn't make anyone money. This is why manufacturers like Apple have been so successful.
Second the Geek market you talk about is mostly people who think they are geeks but would get lost reading an anandtech review of a smartphone.

 

[bembol]

That's the problem is that majority of users will slap a (cheap) case so they couldn't care less about the build/design like I do.


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[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

I never worried about my Nexus 4. One night, I forgot I had the phone in my lap and got out of the car. The phone landed face down on the pavement and all that happened was it got a tiny chip on the bottom corner of the screen. I always felt that the phone was pretty tough and I had no doubts after that accident.

I even dropped a caseless iPhone 4S one day on a hard tiled floor. Landed face down and I picked it up, wiped it off and used it for another year. Glass on both sides was perfect.

I'm going to watch and see how this G4 turns out. I wanted to get a S6 but after reading what was happening with it, I changed my mind.

I do have a Note 4 and a Note Edge that I have SD cards in and I bought a Battery kit with charger for each one just to have as backup and to use on vacation this summer, plus it will be good to have when the original starts wearing out.

I'm happy that LG has kept the SD card slot and removable battery. I will always continue buying phones that have those options. I never liked the idea of having to send a phone somewhere to have the battery replaced.

Well, yeah, you can drop one and they don't always break, but I sure saw a lot of people using iPhones with both the front and back broken.

 

[MDMcAtee]

Well, yeah, you can drop one and they don't always break, but I sure saw a lot of people using iPhones with both the front and back broken.

Me too. Saw one break from dropping it off the lap to the ground from a car. Wasn't pretty

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[SactoKingsFan]

Nope, I don't want a phone with glass back. Would much rather have high quality plastic or leather.

Sent from my LG G2 running CM 12

 

[illdini]

What SD cards have you been using? A reputable card from a reputable vendor should not cause problems. Also, with an SD card you can recover data easier than with internal memory (remove the card, place in adapter & use a recovery tool).

 

[getbretweir]

That's the problem is that majority of users will slap a (cheap) case so they couldn't care less about the build/design like I do.


SHIFT_sixty four s6 edge

let me get this straight, if somebody throws a "cheap" case on their phone, they don't care about the build/design (like you do)

so if somebody throws an expensive case on it, that means they do care?


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[doggy2965]

I always use cheaper diztronic cases work great keep phone mint and don't and bulk or change the phone design to much.

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[psp1232171]

No way, LG FTW.
Off of the Samsung teet and very happy with the G3 so looking forward to the G4.

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[lrrowley]

When I first saw the new S6 and edge I was blown away, mostly that Samsung finally had the cojones to design something nice. My wife has the edge now and it's pretty great. When I first saw the leaked images of the G4 I did actually wish they had done more. But now that I know the full details of the phone it doesn't bother me anymore. The phone is nice enough and added new aesthetic elements like the leather backs. But since they drastically updated things like the screen and camera it especially doesn't bother me that they didn't change more design wise.

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[xetaray]

When I first saw the new S6 and edge I was blown away, mostly that Samsung finally had the cojones to design something nice. My wife has the edge now and it's pretty great. When I first saw the leaked images of the G4 I did actually wish they had done more. But now that I know the full details of the phone it doesn't bother me anymore. The phone is nice enough and added new aesthetic elements like the leather backs. But since they drastically updated things like the screen and camera it especially doesn't bother me that they didn't change more design wise.

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Yeah, the S6 is pretty, but it isn't pretty enough to justify taking out the SD card slot or removable battery, and LG proved you can still make a pretty phone without going those lengths.

 

[Bodzm]

Yeah, the S6 is pretty, but it isn't pretty enough to justify taking out the SD card slot or removable battery, and LG proved you can still make a pretty phone without going those lengths.

The S6 looks just like the S-S5. I honestly can't see what everyone else sees. It's just glass on an old design - a very plain design by accountants that mimics the competition (*cough* apple) but in a worse way. The edge looks great but it's eye wateringly expensive - namely because here we don't have the 32gb version (which most people want) so it's 64gb or nothing and works out £200 more than the regular S6. That's almost the cost of a One Plus One! It's come to the point: would you pay 3x OPO or say Alcatel Idol 3 for a flagship from a bigger brand? Where do we draw the line

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[drone3]

Honestly I think the G3 looks better than the G4, but those G4 specs are grand.

dreaming of electric sheep

 

[davcole]

OK I will be honest with you.

Personally I don't like either of the Samsung s6's.

I think the edge is ugly and the the regular s6 is just a iPhone copy.

Don't get me wrong they both have top notch spec's but neither wow me nor do I have any plans on buying one.

From what I have read Samsung is locking the bootloader with 5.1 which makes the phones, even more undesirable to me and added to this the lack of removing the SD card when the standards have been raised with the latest Qualcom Soc to 2TB and then raping you for their internal memory really irks me.

So I am not jealous or wishing for a new Samsung phone nor really care about them in any way. While they have nice hardware, there is a great looking and great feeling phone called the LG g4 that I am excited about that I do plan on buying do out soon that will have what I like on it that many s6 owners will wished they waited for.

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I agree about the sd card! That was definitely a buzz kill for the S6!

 

[the53rdcard]

the real issue to me on the sd card is this, i can pick up a super fast, very high quality 64gb sd card from amazon for $40. and i can take that from phone to phone, so minimum i can use it on 2 phones, no problem for 2 contract changes and have no loss of data. and it will be nearly, if not as fast as the built in so really what is the advantage. Not to mention, a sd card that gets a bath while in a phone, typically will still work just fine with a bit of drying time, a phone that takes a bath, is just dead and everything on it is gone.

You wont be able to up the storage with it being built in by 64gb on any phone, for that cheap, it will almost always be around $100 or more for that much, not because they have to, but because they can. and you do that over 2 phones, you can buy nearly 5 64gb cards with the difference, so that is a lot more money saved, and or memory for storage.

 

[Almeuit]

Well, yeah, you can drop one and they don't always break, but I sure saw a lot of people using iPhones with both the front and back broken.

I have also seen many other phones smashed .. You just notice iPhones more because there are more out in the wild.

Any phone can smash .. glass or not. Can glass possibly shatter easier / more often? Sure .. but most people put cases on their phones. The ones who don't and toss their phones around .. well .. you see them .

 

[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

I have also seen many other phones smashed .. You just notice iPhones more because there are more out in the wild.

Any phone can smash .. glass or not. Can glass possibly shatter easier / more often? Sure .. but most people put cases on their phones. The ones who don't and toss their phones around .. well .. you see them .

I pointed to iPhone because they had glass front and back. Of course other phones can break as well, but the backs are usually safe. It is true that a lot of people use cases, but i don't like to. If I get an s6, it is likely I will feel compelled to due to the glass back, protruding camera, and most troubling, due to the awkward feel in the hand of the bare phone. Hopefully, I will be able to get some sort of leather back cover that will solve these problems, but honestly, they are problems with the design that didn't need to happen.