“On Wednesday Morning, Samsung’s two new phones arrived at my desk. The Galaxy S6 and S6 edge,” David Pierce writes for Wired. “They’re Samsung’s attempt to keep up with the iPhone, which has entered the big-phone market with no subtlety and lots of success.”
“The most surprising thing I’ve found so far is that the beautiful sloped-screen Galaxy S6 Edge is entirely pointless,” Pierce writes. “It doesn’t have two screens, or cool new ideas about smartphone interaction. It’s just curved.”
“The Edge is all about aesthetics, about Samsung showing it can make beautiful, unique devices with the best of ‘em. It’s a single screen, curved twice. That’s hard work, and I’m impressed Samsung pulled it off,” Pierce writes. “I’m just not going to buy it.”
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MacDailyNews Take: And the Galaxy S6 (sans the pointless edge) unsurprisingly looks like a cross-eyed iPhone 6 knockoff. Nothing new as usual. Just more pointlessness from the struggling, outclassed, slavish copier Samsung.
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