I guess I could sign up for this and never touch the phone, then send it back after a month. Seems kind of pointless though *shrug*
Never touch it cause you're afraid at quite a few turns it'll reveal how much better than your iPhone it is?
(The screen alone; my wife's iPhone 6 looks a bit pathetic next to the S6 edge- the edge screen is just freakin' beautiful.)
Yeah, pointless indeed!
Anyway, one thing I've gotta say that now pisses me off about this new direction of Samsung's- that to me is just strikingly obvious now more than ever since having this in hand constantly for a day:
The thinness of this thing is 100% POINTLESS.
To me, it actually makes the phone feel unbalanced. It just feels exactly like an older galaxy phone with the back cover removed- which IMO always makes the phone feel unbalanced- the top glass screen weighs a lot and the back part weights next to nothing, so it just feels 'top heavy' in a sense. The S6 feels like that. In hand, the glass smoothness is just too slick- so again, pointless. The front looks incredibly impressive- the back is just a boring slab of sheer *NOTHING*. Held up and viewed from the back, the phone is NOT impressive.
The fact that a few mm's are shaved off to make it so *needlessly* thin and flat just makes it feel unbalanced to me. And it doesn't even lay flat since the camera sticks out some.
This same design with just the few added mm's of thickness that would have accommodated the missing features and a grippier removable back would have actually improved this phone tremendously, IMO. The weight difference would have been negligible, and it'd feel more balanced in the hand. And of course it could have a proper battery, and get better battery life.
The trend toward thinness for no other reason than it's supposed to make things 'hip' is kinda stupid to me, but whatever.
Beyond that, I have to say the S6 is one super nice device. My perfect device would be a Note Edge with all the bennies of the edge-screen, plus pen input, PLUS the removable battery and SD back and the added (actually IMO needed) heft added back to the phone for balance. Yeah yeah, I know I'm not getting that probably ever, but just sayin'.
ON SUBJECT:
I think the promotion was actually a good idea of Samsung's. I told every iPhone owner I knew about it, and all of them jumped at it. Nothing was available though. But all were eager to give it a go. I showed this phone around to everyone yesterday, and it's pretty impressive. I can only imagine all the even more impressive edge+ and Note 5's out there making the rounds in the hands of people techie enough to know about and sign up for the promotion anyway (therefore people eager to show off a new gizmo to others).
Oh, and it's telling how those got snapped up first. The larger phones. By what we can assume are iPhone owners at some level. What was left (at least when I signed up for it) was the smaller, closer to iPhone-size s6 edge, not the other way around. Just pointing that out since sometimes the common 'wisdom' here is floated that smaller phones are better and more sought after, and it must just be a niche going for all those 'big ass' phablets. Seems given the choice- people snap those big ass phablets up first.
Samsung's just getting their product out there. If anything- they should have had more available.
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