Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Smartphone Review

Overall Look

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge uses an Exynos 7420 64-bit CPU from Samsung itself, which has four Cortex-A53 cores running at 1.5 GHz and four Cortex-A57 cores running at 2.1 GHz. Even being an eight-core processor, it uses the big.LITTLE architecture, where low-consumption cores are combined to high performance ones, so when the CPU is not under heavy load, the four low-consumption cores are active, and the power-hungry ones are inactive, and the opposite when high performance is demanded. The GPU is a Mali-T760MP8.
It has 3 GiB of RAM and 64 GiB of storage, but it can be found with 32 GiB or 128 GiB, as we mentioned before.
The 5.1-inch Super AMOLED LCD screen has a resolution of 2560 x 1444 pixels (Quad HD), resulting in 577 dots per inch. Image quality and angle of vision are excellent, as expected.
Figure 4 shows the back side of the device, which is covered by Gorilla Glass 4. The model we tested is black (actually, dark blue), but you can find it on white, golden, and green.
The phone is very thin, being with only 7 mm thick. There is no way to open it to access the battery.
In the back of the device, you can see the 16 MP main camera, with a LED flash. Next to it is the heartbeat sensor.

Figure 4: back side

Figure 5 shows the top of the Galaxy S6 Edge, where is the secondary microphone, infrared transmitter, and the NanoSIM drawer.

Figure 5: top side

At the bottom are the headphone jack, the MicroUSB/charge connector, main microphone, and the loudspeaker. Notice that the device uses an USB 2.0 port, which is a throwback when compared to the Samsung Galaxy S5, which uses an USB 3.0 port.

Figure 6: bottom

At the left side are the volume buttons.

Figure 7: left side

At the right side is the power button.

Figure 8: right side

In Figure 9 you can see the detail of the screen edge, that gives the name of the model.

Figure 9: screen edge detail