Samsung - Galaxy S6 edge 4G LTE with 64GB Memory Cell Phone - Black Sapphire (Verizon)

Pros: Display: Arguably the best smartphone display to date, a Quad HD (QHD) display with over 577 pixels per inch (PPI), the contents on the screen really jump out at you. The Super Amoled screens patented by Samsung have only gotten better with each iteration of their phones. You have the choice to make the display super saturated and make colors really pop, or dull it down to a more true to life look with the display mode Samsung has implemented into the software. Camera: Again arguably the best smartphone camera to date. Using Sony's IMX240 sensor along with a new f/1.9 aperture lens with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) really helps the S6 and S6 edge outshoot the competition when it comes to low-light shots and camera altogether. The phone also records in 4K, the front facing camera is bumped up to a 5mp camera with real time HDR. Samsung has done a wonderful job with the settings and user interface for the camera, really simplified things making it the best choice to go with for a really great camera with not much effort to take great pictures. There is even a "pro mode" that lets you really dive into the settings and manually set things such as iso, aperture, and other settings to get the right picture. Performance: This thing is stupid fast and powerful, Samsung used their own in house processor for the phone, the Exynos 7420 which is an industry first octa-core processor built on 14nm technology. Essentially it uses significantly less power (about 35%) less than other competing smartphones that use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors. Another industry first is the 3gb of LPDDR4 ram samsung uses, all you really need to know is that it's fast!! The addition of the new finger print scanner on the home button is a much needed upgrade from the Note 4's and S5's. Similar to Touch ID on the iphone. Internal memory: Now this one is sure to throw a lot of people of, how can internal memory only be a pro? Let me explain the reasoning behind this. In the past, Google allowed users to install or move some of their apps to their SD card, a lot of people took advantage of this option, however and here is the problem with this, most users don't understand that internal memory is and will always be faster than an external source in this case the micro sd card. By moving apps, games, pictures, videos to the micro sd card, the card has to first read and scan the card for each file before loading or opening anything, and the speeds all vary depending on what type or class sd card you have. Were you cheap and kept the same sd card you had from an older phone that was as old and slow as dial up? Or did you opt to purchase the newest and fastest and definitely more expensive class 10 and higher sd card with read and writes speeds in the 80/90 Mbs? Most likely, you didn't want to spend $50-100 on a new sd card and ultimately suffered slow speeds, poor performance that didn't live up to expectations on a new phone and think how can this be? Now back to the internal memory on the S6 and S6 edge. Samsung is using an industry first Universal Flash Storage (UFS 2.0) memory in the phone that takes advantage of speeds much much greater than anything on the market right now. I like to make the comparison between SSD vs HDD. If you have a new laptop or upgraded your desktop to a Solid State Drive, you know the difference is literally night and day. Before it took you several minutes to boot up your computer, let it display the logging into windows animation, then after you log in to your account it takes another 2-3 minutes before you can even open or touch anything without your computer freaking out and freezing. Now with SSD, the computer is up and running, you're logged in and you can open 20 different applications and programs all in about 30 seconds. That is the difference between SSD and HDD on computers, and it's kind of the same thing with the UFS 2.0 memory samsung uses for the S6 and S6 edge. Charging: Quick charge on the S6 and S6 edge is extremely fast. Most times, I can fully charge my phone from dead to 100% in just a little over an hour. The S6 and S6 edge have the fastest charging battery on the market. The built in wireless charging is also very convenient when I just want to lay my phone down on the table beside me at night without having to search for a cable and plugging it in in the dark. Six Appeal: Last but not least. The phone is simply sixy.. See what I did there? The Edge is a looker, it will attract all kinds of attention, random people will stop you and ask is that the edge? Simply put, it's a gorgeous phone with a really nice feel of premium material. Cons: Battery life isn't great, it isn't terrible by any means, it's just not a phone that you can go 2 days or even a full 24 hours with without having to charge. On a normal day, I wake up at 9am. check emails from several different accounts, exchange servers, facebook messages, notifications, text messages etc etc. by noon and after lunch time and having watched 30-45 minutes worth of netflix, I'm down to about 75%. Throughout the day of a couple hours of phone calls, constant emails syncing, paired up to my Moto 360 smartwatch, having another bluetooth earpiece paired up, streaming some music, using gps on the commute home, i'm down to about 40% by around 6pm. By the time I'm going to bed at midnight or 1am. I'm down to about 20%. Although it is nice to know that I can use ultra power saving mode if need be, and that with only a 10 minute charge, I can get 4 hours of usage from the phone. If I come home at 6 pm and have only 40% battery and I'm going out in 30 minutes, I just throw my phone on the charger for 20 minutes while I get ready and I'm already up to like 80% in that short period of time. Guys, I'm a power user, I use on average 30 GB a month of data, over 10,000 text messages, and over 6 hours of talking a day. If I can use this phone to the max without any complaints than so can any non heavy users.

The phone itself has many great features, it is easy to use and has a design that kills. The phones design is very attractive. it's unique shape and figure really set the phone apart from the competition. It fits perfectly in the user's hand and the manual buttons are at comfortable positions for single hand use. The camera themselves are vibrant and very detailed. The selective fucls is one of many feature the phone has to offer. The front facing camera is quite the surprize. when taking a selfie, the user can immediately see that the phone has automatically smoothes and removed blemishes from the face...no need to edit the photo further. Overall, this product is something thathey should be experienced first hand.

While so far it has been more ups than downs I have noticed a few glitches with this device already. I am not alone in this. Again this is something that tends to happen when you are the first few to own a device

Had this phone for 25 days and I babied it, never dropped it, did not even put in my pocket most of the time because I heard it could be more susceptible to damaging the screen. That does not matter because it will randomly just crack. I had it sitting in a drawer pulled it out to do a double take seeing what looked like a hair but nope it was a crack. Conveniently starting from the power button (where it is super weak) and traveling downward to the opposite side. Now Samsung wants me to pay $268 to replace screen. Wow....

Pros: Fast, flexible, beautiful phone with amazing photo ability. Cons: Battery life sucks and edge feature doesn't offer a lot To start, the screen is beautiful. Bright, colorful and sharp; you won't be disappointed. Pictures are captured exactly as they look on the screen and they are almost instant - very little blur during action capture. I've compared photos with iPhone and these are far superior. The phone is also the fastest I've experienced. Apps load quickly, screens shift smoothly, and the phone is extremely responsive. Samsung features also make a undeniable nod to iPhone with fingerprint password and Android Lollipop app grouping which makes this the closest non-iPhone phone. But there are drawbacks: The battery life sucks. With all of these high powered features, I haven't gotten through a full day without charging at some point. While I prefer to keep my phone above 50% at all times, I find that I am charging this phone more often than others I've had in the past. Recognizing this problem, Samsung added a "Ultra Power Saving" mode that will give you 1.5 days of power on a full charge, or a few hours (depending on use) at 15% battery, but this feature reduces the phone to grey scale, limits the phone to essential features chosen by the user and turns off features like wi-fi and bluetooth. The edge feature has limited functionality. While it is cool, it occasionally interferes with swipe texting and really doesn't enhance the phone that much more than the flat screen. The night clock is a nice feature for those who no longer depend on a lit digital clock and I like that it confirms my morning alarm, but the news scroll and priority contacts features I haven't used and probably never will. Conclusion: This is a cool phone. Sleek, beautiful and fast. But with the poor battery life and no great advantages to the edge feature, it's not a "must have" phone. If you're looking for beautiful photos with awesome graphics, I highly recommend. But if you are looking for a longer battery life because you can't charge it during the day, I suggest looking elsewhere. Personally, I'm happy with my purchase and don't wish for another phone.

First off let me say if Best Buy allowed half stars I would give 4.5, not 4. This phone is almost perfect. It has the most beautiful and unique screen ever, it's ridiculously fast, the exterior design is sexy and practical, it has the best camera by far, and fast charging and wireless charging is awesome. The one and only downside is battery life. I came from a Galaxy Note 2 which had a 3100 mah battery and in it's prime I could make it last up to 36 hours, 18-24 hours with regular usage. So far after 1.5 weeks of owning my S6 Edge I am getting on average 10-12 hours with regular usage, and I haven't been able to make it last more than about 15 or 16 hours before the battery runs out of juice. This isn't entirely the phone's fault however as the Google operating system is currently very buggy. There is a WiFi bug that drains battery like no other, and many third party apps aren't optimized for the new OS yet and have battery draining bugs (I had to delete ESPN for example because of it's battery drain). This isn't make or break for me however. To fix the WiFi bug I just went into my WiFi settings and turned off always let Google search for location even when WiFi is off and also set WiFi to never be on when the phone is sleeping. It will result in slightly more data usage (depends on what apps and widgets you have), but will keep the WiFi from draining the battery while the phone is sleeping (screen off). Unfortunately the WiFi bug causes the battery to drain fast when you're connected to WiFi and using your phone (screen on) and there's nothing you can do about that until they release an update to fix the Google OS bug. In the meantime I just disabled or uninstalled all apps that were draining battery (you can check this in the battery settings) and turned off all location features in apps that had them. With all that I can get a good 12 hours of usage before it's time to charge which isn't as nice as my 18-24 hours on my old phone, but all the other pluses I mentioned earlier make the phone worth it. Plus my old phone would take 2.5 hours to fully charge and with fast charging the S6 can go from 0%-100% in less than 1.5 hours. All in all, the S6 Edge is the perfect phone in my opinion. Once a few updates for Google's OS are released and the battery draining bugs are fixed, this phone gets a 5/5 from me.

I like the phone and the pics are sharp. But I wish the battery would last a little longer. Wireless charger is smiple to use and the design is nicely fit my house decor.

Better camera, which was upgraded. Sleek design. It makes for a slippery phone. I feel bad for those who use the phone without some kind of case. It took too long for me to find a case due to the edge. But hey its a new design. It charges relatively fast. The battery surprisingly dies sooner than I would think it should. But all in all, a really great phone.