Galaxy S6

Overview

Samsung’s 2015 Galaxy S6 moves to glass and aluminium with a flat 5.1-inch QHD Super AMOLED screen, Exynos 7420, 3 GB RAM and 16 MP OIS camera. Its sealed 2550 mAh battery, storage choices, built-in wireless charging and regional variants follow maker documents and contemporary tests.

Period and variants

Samsung unveils the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge in Barcelona on 1 March 2015; the global English release follows the next day. Its 10 April shipping date is the announced start plan, without a separately established earliest worldwide retail sale. This record covers the flat 5.1-inch S6, apart from the dual-curved edge, larger edge+ and protected Active.

The 143.4 × 70.5 × 6.8 mm, 138 g aluminium/glass body has Gorilla Glass 4 front and back and a sealed 2550 mAh battery. User battery removal, microSD expansion and the S5’s water-resistance rating are absent. The guide and hardware test establish bottom Micro-USB/3.5 mm/mono speaker, top IR, right SIM/power, left volume and home-key fingerprint sensing. April G920F/FQ/I instructions describe one nano-SIM rather than every regional configuration.

Exynos 7420 combines four 2.1 GHz A57 and four 1.5 GHz A53 cores with Mali-T760 MP8, 3 GB LPDDR4 and 32/64/128 GB UFS 2.0. Total storage differs from user-free space. Android 5/TouchWiz represents the launch period; reviewed 5.0.2 is a sample version. The rear 16 MP f/1.9 camera has autofocus/OIS, with a 5 MP f/1.9 front camera. Tested video includes 4K30, 1080p30/60 and 720p120 slow-motion capture, distinct from playback speed.

Built-in Qi/PMA charging differs from earlier accessory charging backs and from S7 fast wireless charging. Radio bands, LTE capabilities and Samsung Pay vary by market, carrier and period. Original photo screens/backgrounds remain intact without appearance-based launch-software or regional-model inference.

Sources

• Samsung — original Galaxy S6/S6 edge announcement and specifications, 2 March 2015
• Samsung — original retrospective of the 1 March Barcelona unveiling
• Samsung — original SM-G920F/FQ/I user manual, April2015 Rev1.0
• MobileTechReview — Lisa Gade’s own S6 and S6 edge review, 31 March 2015
• GSMArena — Orlin Milinov’s own S6 hardware review, 13 March 2015
• GSMArena — own S6 processor tests and retail-update paragraph
• GSMArena — own S6 video recording tests

Image credits

Samsung Galaxy S6 white handset front with original lockscreen, charging cable and background; no regional or launch-software inference — Shanze1, CC BY-SA 4.0; source file unchanged by this archive.

Samsung Galaxy S6 white handset rear, camera and heart-rate sensor area, original framing retained — Shanze1, CC BY-SA 4.0; source file unchanged by this archive.

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