LONDON: The Samsung Galaxy S6 looks like a fresh take from the company, with less bloat ware and a better design. The HTC One M9 seems to be boring, despite its beautiful design, which definitely won’t help the struggling Smartphone maker.
For Samsung, this is one flagship that has won praise from critics from a design perspective. It looks like Samsung has finally bid farewell to plastic in construction of its flagship phones, after years of criticism. With the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung has given us a unibody metal design with a glass front and rear. Sadly, the battery is no longer removable in the S6. It’s also a slimmer Smartphone at 6.8 mm thickness and weighs lighter at 138 g, while the S5 has weighed 145g.
Where the HTC One M9 Smartphone goes, it follows the same design style as the earlier M8 and frankly you can’t tell how the two are any different. It has the same metal unibody design that was started by the HTC One series in 2013, although in this case, HTC has added dual-tone silver and rose gold finish along with mirror polished gold sides. It’s a beautiful looking phone no doubt, but we’re not sure if this polish will help the M9 stand out in an already overcrowded market.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 outdoes the HTC One M9 in terms of screen resolution. While HTC One M9 sticks with a 5-inch full HD display along with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution at 441 ppi, Samsung Galaxy S6 has a 5.1 inch Quad HD Super AMOLOED display with 2560 X 1440 resolutions which comes to a very high 577ppi pixel density. Both Smart phones have Corning Gorilla Glass 4 for protection.
In terms of design and screen, Samsung has certainly outdone itself and the HTC One M9 doesn’t really stand out.
The HTC One M9 is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor and comes with 3GB of RAM. It has an internal storage of 32GB which can be further expanded upto 128GB via microSD card.
On the other, Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge are powered by the Exynos 7 Octa-core processor which contains two quad-core processors clocked at 2.1 GHz and 1.5GHz respectively. The Smartphone’s have 3GB RAM as well.
Samsung has introduced world’s first 14 manometers, mobile processor with a 64-bit platform and these phones have a new LPDDR4 memory system and UFS 2.0 flash memory which the company claims, will provide higher performance and enhanced memory speed with lower power consumption. LPDDR4 is the latest memory system with higher internal fetch size and external transfer speed. There’s no mention of a Galaxy S6 with a Snapdragon SoC.
In terms of storage space, the Galaxy S6 will be available 32GB, 64GB and 128GB storage variants (like the Apple iPhone) but sadly there will be no microSD slot, unlike the HTC Smartphone.
