Gone are the ‘nasty’ plastics of Galaxy past. No faux leather finish as with the Note here either.
Instead, the S6 has a metal chassis, and glass covering the front and back. The fit and finish makes you want to use words such as ‘chamfer’, ‘roundel’ and ‘drilled’, whatever they mean.
While the S6 Edge gets a racy green finish to itself, the S6 gets a surfy blue. Both phones alternatively come in charcoal, white and gold – the finish is described by Samsung as ‘jewel-like’. Fortunately it’s classier than that sounds. The metal edges are almost imperceptibly darker from the white version to the charcoal version.
The glass back and the front screen edges curve slightly into the chassis, and there’s a very thin bezel on either side of the 5.1in, QHD Super AMOLED screen. Yep, no 4K screen – but that was never the most desirable of the S6 rumours anyway.
Despite the addition of all this glass and metal, the new S6 is lighter than the outgoing S5, albeit by only an imperial smidge. It feels solid and balanced, with a more traditional hand feel than the S6 Edge’s sharp sides.
The power button is situated in the center of the right-hand side of the phone, above the pin-and-socket type SIM tray, and the volume controls are high up on the left side. The top has only a wee microphone hole and the IR sender.
There's much action on the bottom edge, with the headphone socket, microUSB and a newly placed, power-boosted speaker. Samsung say it's 1.5x louder, a fact that we were unable to verify having left our portable anechoic chamber on the train. It’s got a lovely drilling, that speaker, but we daresay that HTC’s twin front-mounted BoomSound setup will still be the choice of the boom-tish social misfit.
Credits to: http://www.stuff.tv/samsung/galaxy-s6/review#fMdEoZtdwMrZxUI8.99
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