Hands-on review: Updated: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+

By Gareth Beavis

Update: We’re really close to publishing our new Galaxy S6 Edge+ review – in the (short) mean time here are some of our, frankly lovely, pictures of the new phone in action.

Let’s be clear about one thing with this phone: the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ is a big Galaxy S6 Edge. There’s not a lot to choose between the two devices beyond the size.

The obvious change is to the screen, with a 5.7-inch choice rather than the 5.1-inch option on the smaller S6 Edge. However, internally it’s almost identical, with 4GB of RAM the only real difference.

That means there’s sadly no microSD slot again, the Exynos octa-core chipset lives on and there are only 32GB or 64GB options to choose from.

What’s interesting too is that this phone is a replacement for the Note range in the UK and other key markets – almost like an admission from Samsung that having the S Pen and its associated fancy extra bits doesn’t go down well in some territories.

The price hasn’t been announced, but I’m pretty sure it will be over £600 (around $930 / AU$1275) as per usual when Samsung’s high-end phablet range comes …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Phones