Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ review
You'll need a thick chunk of wedge for this brilliant Edge
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge+ is the ultimate Android phone, and it comes with an ultra-premium price tag.
Oil barons with billions to burn, forget those bonkers gold mobiles from Vertu. This is the status symbol you’re looking for. As for the rest of us, it’s the phablet interest-free overdrafts were made for.
The Edge+’s concept is nothing too bold. It’s a larger version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge that wowed us earlier this year, with a screen that curves around at the edges. The sort of thing that would only have been a far-off concept design a couple of years ago. However, an extra chunk of screen gives the Edge+’s display that extra-impressive edge while it’s also technologically superior to almost everything out there.
There’s just one issue with Samsung’s sort of Note 4 successor though. At around £749 for the 'entry-level' 32GB version and up to £829 for the 64GB one, it’s expensive enough to make your debit card run for the hills.
Oil barons with billions to burn, forget those bonkers gold mobiles from Vertu. This is the status symbol you’re looking for. As for the rest of us, it’s the phablet interest-free overdrafts were made for.
The Edge+’s concept is nothing too bold. It’s a larger version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge that wowed us earlier this year, with a screen that curves around at the edges. The sort of thing that would only have been a far-off concept design a couple of years ago. However, an extra chunk of screen gives the Edge+’s display that extra-impressive edge while it’s also technologically superior to almost everything out there.
There’s just one issue with Samsung’s sort of Note 4 successor though. At around £749 for the 'entry-level' 32GB version and up to £829 for the 64GB one, it’s expensive enough to make your debit card run for the hills.
Curved to perfection
As its name suggests, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ looks an awful lot like the original S6 Edge. It’s just bigger.
That means the front of the phone is all-glass and curves around at the edges, in a way that seemed to defy the limits of what was possible when it first arrived. It’s a stunning phone, but it’s not the curve itself that impresses most.
What really draws the eye is the way the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+’s curvy bits catch the light, distorting reflections like the mobile phone equivalent of camera lens flare in old movies. It just looks cool, even if it does amount to the fetishisation of a bit of glass.
Like other Samsung phones of 2015, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ is also about 46 times more impressive in the hand than the company’s pre-S6 phones. Glass on the front, glass on the back and aluminium on the sides add up to a phone that feels hard and expensive.
£829 expensive? I’m not even sure a phone can feel £829 expensive without being plastered with cringe-worthy gold and jewels. Especially when you’ve got handsets like the OnePlus 2 floating about.
That means the front of the phone is all-glass and curves around at the edges, in a way that seemed to defy the limits of what was possible when it first arrived. It’s a stunning phone, but it’s not the curve itself that impresses most.
What really draws the eye is the way the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+’s curvy bits catch the light, distorting reflections like the mobile phone equivalent of camera lens flare in old movies. It just looks cool, even if it does amount to the fetishisation of a bit of glass.
Like other Samsung phones of 2015, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ is also about 46 times more impressive in the hand than the company’s pre-S6 phones. Glass on the front, glass on the back and aluminium on the sides add up to a phone that feels hard and expensive.
£829 expensive? I’m not even sure a phone can feel £829 expensive without being plastered with cringe-worthy gold and jewels. Especially when you’ve got handsets like the OnePlus 2 floating about.
The original
Tech Specs
Screen
5.7-inch Super AMOLED with 2560x1440 (518ppi)
Processor
Octa-core Exynos 7420 @ 2.1GHz
RAM
4GB LPDDR4
Cameras
16MP with single-LED flash rear, 5MP front
Stuff says...
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ review
More than a blown-up S6 Edge, this big-screen beauty is also a worthy follow-up to the Note 4
£749
Good Stuff
Superb screen
Sublime camera
High quality build and design
Bad Stuff
High price
No IR transmitter
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