三星(Samsung)是移动设备市场上最重要的参与者之一，已经发布了好几年的高端和顶级设备。地球上的每一位移动设备爱好者都听说过他们的(Every)Galaxy 系列(Galaxy line)智能手机和平板电脑。每当发布新的Galaxy 设备(Galaxy device)时，全世界的目光都会转向它。所以难怪今年早些时候，三星(Samsung)推出了其最新的旗舰安卓智能手机(Android smartphone)Galaxy S6 edge，每个人都想看看大惊小怪是什么。我们很好奇并设法掌握了这项技术，我们可以肯定地说，我们印象深刻。如果您想了解我们声明背后的全部故事，请阅读此评论并了解：
硬件规格和包装
Galaxy S6 edge(Galaxy S6 edge)装在一个紧凑、明亮的白色纸板箱中(cardboard box)，顶部带有三星徽标(Samsung logo)和设备的存储和彩色版本(storage and color version)，底部带有主要功能，而在侧面，您会发现制造商的安全密封件。
取出内部滑动容器，打开侧面的安全封条，打开它，您会发现智能手机本身位于包装内其他所有物品的顶部。
在设备下方，您会找到这款智能手机随附的所有其他配件：充电和数据传输线(charging and data transfer cable)、充电器（具有自适应快速充电功能）、耳机、SIM 卡(SIM card) 弹出销(eject pin)和快速入门指南(Quick Start Guide)，连同保修。
您可以获得四种颜色的三星 Galaxy S6 edge ，分别是(Samsung Galaxy S6 edge)黑色蓝宝石(Black Sapphire)、金色铂金(Gold Platinum)、绿色翡翠和白色珍珠(Green Emerald and White Pearl)。三星(Samsung)还提供各种配件，例如前盖和后盖，以进一步个性化您的设备。
现在，让我们看看这款智能手机在硬件组件方面的冲击力有多大。该设备的中心是一个八核 64 位 Exynos 7420 CPU，由四个主频为 1.5 GHz的 Cortex-A53 内核和四个主频为 2.1 GHz的 Cortex-A57 内核组成。该CPU是一款非常强大的硬件，它决定了这款智能手机的性能，您将在本评论的基准测试部分稍后发现。
就图形而言，它们由Mali-T760MP8 GPU覆盖，这也是当今市场上最新、最强大的GPU(GPUs)之一。
Galaxy S6 edge(Galaxy S6 edge)在 3 GB 的LPDDR4 RAM 内存(LPDDR4 RAM memory)上运行。在存储容量方面(storage capacity)，您可以在三星 Galaxy S6 edge(Samsung Galaxy S6 edge)的三个版本之间进行选择：32 GB、64 GB 和 128 GB 版本(GB version)，具体取决于您可以存储多少数据。不支持任何额外的存储卡，因此根据您选择的版本，这就是您将拥有的所有存储空间(storage space)。我们用于测试的单位是 32 GB 版本(GB version)。
三星(Samsung chose)为Galaxy S6 edge选择的显示屏是Super AMOLED 5.1英寸显示屏，分辨率为 1440 x 2560像素，具有相当高的 577 ppi 密度，并受到康宁 Gorilla Glass 4(Corning Gorilla Glass 4)技术的保护。显示器的质量非常出色，颜色是我们在智能手机上见过的最亮的颜色，图片非常清晰锐利，提供了很多细节。
S6 edge使用2600 mAh 锂离子不可拆卸电池运行。知道我们在谈论什么样的性能，它可能看起来并不多，但我们设法从中得到一整天的常规使用，并且在晚上仍然留下一些果汁。
在图像捕捉方面，Galaxy S6 edge配备了一个 16 MP 后置摄像头，能够产生分辨率为 2988 x 5312像素的图像，并具有HDR 模式(HDR mode)、光学图像稳定(image stabilization)、自动对焦和LED 闪光灯(LED flash)。前置摄像头要简单得多，即可以录制 1440p@30fps 视频的 5 MP摄像头。(MP one)
出于连接目的，三星 Galaxy S6 edge(Samsung Galaxy S6 edge)配备支持 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 协议并兼容 2.4GHz 和 5GHz 无线网络的双频 Wi-Fi 适配器，采用A2DP 技术的(A2DP technology)蓝牙 4.1(Bluetooth 4.1)芯片，一个GPS 模块(GPS module)、一个红外端口、一个NFC 模块(NFC module)和一个能够将设备变成USB 主机的(USB host)microUSB 2.0端口。不幸的是，您在这款智能手机上找不到FM 收音机接收器。(FM radio)
该设备的物理尺寸为 142.1 毫米（或 5.59 英寸）的长度(Length)、70.1 毫米（或 2.76 英寸）的宽度(Width)和令人印象深刻的 7 毫米（或 0.28 英寸）的高度(Height)。它的重量为 132 克。
如果您正在寻找此设备的更详细规格，您可以在制造商的网站上找到它们：三星 Galaxy S6 edge 技术规格(Samsung Galaxy S6 edge Technical Specifications)。
三星 Galaxy S6 edge 无疑是目前最快的移动设备之一。具有 2 种不同类型内核的革命性八核 CPU、新的强大 Mali GPU 和 3GB RAM 内存为其提供了运行流畅和闪电般快速所需的一切，无论您如何使用它以及在其上安装什么。(The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is undoubtedly one of the fastest mobile devices right now. The revolutionary octa-core CPU with 2 separate types of cores, the new powerful Mali GPU and the 3GB of RAM memory give it what it needs to run smooth and lightning fast, no matter how you use it and what you have installed on it.)
设计和建造质量
三星在设计(Samsung)Galaxy S6 edge时做出了许多大胆的决定。显然，这款智能手机最具革命性的方面是它的曲面显示屏。具体来说，显示屏在设备的左侧和右侧继续向下，在最后几毫米处弯曲。虽然这看起来很神奇，但需要一段时间才能习惯。这也适用于这样一个事实，即由于显示屏的这种曲率，设备的边缘不像您在其他手机上习惯的那样宽，而是更锐利一些，这使得设备很难握住前几次。之后，它变得自然，事实证明这根本不是问题。
该设备的正面在大显示屏下方设有主页按钮，其中还包含(Home)指纹传感器(fingerprint sensor)。该设计由顶部、听筒、前置摄像头和传感器下方的(front camera and sensors)SAMSUNG 标志(SAMSUNG logo)完成。除了引人注目的曲面显示屏外，正面设计(front design)几乎与我们之前的三星(Samsung)智能手机一样。
该设备的背面与显示屏一样光滑，并将背面的主摄像头以及LED 闪光灯(LED flash)和生物传感器（心率、SpO2和压力水平）固定在顶部。在这里快速提一下，后置摄像头(rear camera)镜头是从这款智能手机的背板上升起的，当它靠在背面时，除了设备的最低边缘之外，与它下面的表面的唯一接触点是摄像头挡板(camera bezel)。这意味着，随着时间的推移，这个点会被划伤和磨损。
左侧是音量按钮，右侧是锁定按钮(lock button)。
顶部是红外端口和SIM 卡(SIM card)仓，底部是扬声器、麦克风、microUSB 充电和数据传输端口(microUSB charging and data transfer port)以及 3.5 毫米音频插孔。
不利的一面是，我们不得不提到一个事实，即当我们一次使用该设备超过几分钟时，它会很快变热，因此握起来有点不舒服。这是我们在测试该设备的人体工程学时发现的唯一缺点。
三星 Galaxy S6 edge 是一款令人印象深刻的符合人体工程学的设备，尽管乍一看可能并不像它。侧面可能看起来太锋利而无法舒适地握住，但过了一段时间，我们习惯了它，它不再感觉不自然。按钮位置很好，感觉很结实。弯曲的显示屏很值得一看，它在设备侧面的延续方式也需要一些时间才能让人感到舒适，但随着时间的推移，它感觉很棒并且开始真正有用。(The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is an impressively ergonomic device, even though it might not seem like it at first glance. The sides might seem too sharp to hold comfortably, but after a while, we got used to it and it stopped feeling unnatural. The buttons are well positioned and feel strongly built. The curved display is a sight to see, the way it continues on the sides of the device also take some time to feel comfortable with, but as time passes, it feels great and starts being actually useful.)
三星 Galaxy S6 edge(Samsung Galaxy S6 edge)的智能手机体验(Smartphone Experience)
我们使用这款智能手机拨打和接听的电话都符合我们的预期。通话的音质完美无瑕，部分原因在于双麦克风设置(microphone setup)和设备的降噪技术。
如果您决定使用随附的耳机拨打和接听电话，虽然您将体验到的音质(sound quality)会很好，但另一端的人可能会抱怨风吹(wind blowing)入耳机麦克风引起的嘶嘶声 - 我们发现它并没有很好地屏蔽这一点。除此之外，使用耳机时的音乐质量(music quality)非常好，声音清晰，没有任何失真。同样在这个主题上，扬声器的质量也很好，它发出的声音在设置到最大音量时非常响亮，同时保持其清晰度。
就操作系统(operating system)而言，Galaxy S6 edge预装了Android 5.0.2 Lollipop。它上面安装了三星(Samsung)已经流行的TouchWiz 用户界面(user interface)。TouchWiz是(TouchWiz)三星(Samsung)应用于其Android智能手机和平板电脑的专有用户界面(user interface)，在标准Android 操作系统(Android operating)之上为他们的设备提供附加功能。
正如我们之前所说，在以我们通常的方式使用此设备的同时，我们设法从中获得了一整天的正常使用时间，包括打几个电话、一些互联网浏览(Internet browsing)、观看一些视频剪辑和发送一些短信。在一天结束时，我们只剩下大约四分之一的电池电量(battery juice)，因此根据您的使用模式(usage pattern)，您可能不会在一天结束时遇到任何问题，而无需在两者之间为您的智能手机充电。
三星 Galaxy S6 edge 出色地履行了其作为手机的主要角色。在拨打和接听电话时，音质无可挑剔，即使在较低的信号条件下也不会出现任何失真。(The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge fulfills its primary role as a phone admirably. While making and receiving calls on it, the sound quality is impeccable, with no distortions whatsoever, even in lower signal conditions.)
Reviewing Samsung Galaxy S6 edge - Bold Design Meets Outstanding Performance
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Hardware Specifications & Packaging
The Galaxy S6 edge is shipped in a compact, bright white cardboard box that bears the Samsung logo and the storage and color version of the device on top and the main features on the bottom, while on the sides, you'll find the manufacturer's safety seals.
Take out the inner sliding container, break the safety seals on the sides, open it and you will find the smartphone itself, sitting on top of everything else that is inside the package.
Under the device, you will find all the other accessories that come with this smartphone: the charging and data transfer cable, the power-charger (with adaptive fast charging capabilities), the headphones, the SIM card eject pin and the Quick Start Guide, together with the warranty.
You can get the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge in four colors, specifically Black Sapphire, Gold Platinum, Green Emerald and White Pearl. Samsung also has available a wide range of accessories such as front and back covers, to further personalize your device.
Now, let's see how big a punch this smartphone packs, in terms of hardware components. At the center of the device is an octa-core 64bit Exynos 7420 CPU, consisting of four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz and four Cortex-A57 cores clocked at 2.1 GHz. This CPU is a pretty powerful piece of hardware that accounts for the performance of this smartphone, as you'll find out later in the benchmarks section of this review.
As far as graphics are concerned, they are covered by the Mali-T760MP8 GPU, which is also one of the most recent and most powerful GPUs on the market these days.
The Galaxy S6 edge runs on 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM memory. In terms of storage capacity, you can choose between three versions of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge: the 32 GB, the 64GB and the 128 GB version, depending on how much data you can store on it. There is no support for any additional memory cards, so depending on what version you choose, that's all the storage space you're going to have. The unit we had for testing purposes is the 32GB version.
The display Samsung chose for the Galaxy S6 edge is a Super AMOLED 5.1 inches display scaled at a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels, with a pretty high density of 577 ppi and protected by the Corning Gorilla Glass 4 technology. The quality of the display is outstanding, the colors are some of the brightest we've seen on a smartphone and the pictures are very crisp and sharp, offering a lot of detail.
The S6 edge runs on a 2600 mAh Li-Ion non-removable battery. Knowing what kind of performance we're talking about, it might not seem much, but we managed to get a whole day of regular use out of it and still be left with some juice in it in the evening.
On the image capturing front, the Galaxy S6 edge is equipped with a 16 MP back camera, capable of producing images at a resolution of 2988 x 5312 pixels and featuring HDR mode, optical image stabilization, autofocus and an LED flash. The front camera is a much simpler one, namely a 5 MP one able to record 1440p@30fps videos.
For connectivity purposes, the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge features a dual-band Wi-Fi adapter supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac protocols and offering compatibility for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks, a Bluetooth 4.1 chip featuring A2DP technology, a GPS module, an infrared port, an NFC module and a microUSB 2.0 port capable of turning the device into a USB host. Unfortunately, you'll not find an FM radio receiver on this smartphone.
The physical dimensions of this device are 142.1mm (or 5.59 inch) in Length, 70.1mm (or 2.76 inch) in Width and an impressive 7mm (or 0.28 inch) in Height. It weighs at 132 grams.
If you're looking for more detailed specifications for this device, you can find them on the manufacturer's website: Samsung Galaxy S6 edge Technical Specifications.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is undoubtedly one of the fastest mobile devices right now. The revolutionary octa-core CPU with 2 separate types of cores, the new powerful Mali GPU and the 3GB of RAM memory give it what it needs to run smooth and lightning fast, no matter how you use it and what you have installed on it.
Design & Build Quality
Samsung made a lot of bold decisions when designing the Galaxy S6 edge. Obviously, the most revolutionary aspect of this smartphone is its curved display. Specifically, the display continues down on the left and right sides of the device, getting curved for the last few millimeters. While this looks pretty amazing, it takes a while to get used to. This also applies to the fact that due to this curvature of the display, the edges of the device are not as wide as you're used to from other phones, but instead they're a bit sharper, making the device quite unusual to hold the first few times. After that, it becomes natural and it turns out it's not a problem at all.
The front of the device features the Home button below the large display, which also contains the fingerprint sensor. The design is completed by the SAMSUNG logo on top, below the earpiece, the front camera and sensors. Apart from the eye-catching curved display, the front design is pretty much the one we're used to from the previous Samsung smartphones.
The back of the device is as glossy as the display and holds the back primary camera on the top, together with the LED flash and the bio-sensors (heart-rate, SpO2 and stress level). A quick mention here, the rear camera lens is raised from the back plate of this smartphone and while it rests on its back, the only point of contact with the surface under it, besides the lowest margin of the device, is the camera bezel. This means that in time, this point will become scratched and worn.
The left side features the volume buttons, while the right side is home to the lock button.
On the top side you'll find the infrared port and the SIM card compartment and on the bottom, there's the speaker, the microphone, the microUSB charging and data transfer port and the 3.5mm audio jack.
On the negative side, we have to mention the fact that when we were using the device for more than a few minutes at a time, it got hot pretty fast and became a bit uncomfortable to hold because of this. This is the only downside that we found while testing the ergonomics of this device.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is an impressively ergonomic device, even though it might not seem like it at first glance. The sides might seem too sharp to hold comfortably, but after a while, we got used to it and it stopped feeling unnatural. The buttons are well positioned and feel strongly built. The curved display is a sight to see, the way it continues on the sides of the device also take some time to feel comfortable with, but as time passes, it feels great and starts being actually useful.
The Smartphone Experience On The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
The calls we made and received using this smartphone went as we expected. The sound quality of the conversation is flawless, due in part to the double microphone setup and the noise cancelling technologies of the device.
Should you decide to use the included headphones for making and receiving calls, while the sound quality you'll experience will be just fine, the person on the other end might complain of hissing caused by the wind blowing into the headphones' microphone - we found it isn't that well shielded from this. Other than that, the music quality when using the headphones is great, the sound is clear and free of any distortion. Also on this subject, the loudspeaker is also of great quality, the sound it gives is pretty loud when set to maximum level, while keeping its clarity.
As far as the operating system is concerned, the Galaxy S6 edge comes with Android 5.0.2 Lollipop preinstalled. It has Samsung's already popular TouchWiz user interface installed on top of it. TouchWiz is the proprietary user interface that Samsung applies to their Android smartphones and tablets which offers additional features to their devices, on top of the standard Android operating system.
As we stated earlier, while using this device the way we normally would, we managed to get a full day of regular use out of it, including making a few calls, some Internet browsing, watching some video clips and sending a few text messages. At the end of the day, we were left with about a quarter of the battery juice, so depending on your usage pattern, you probably won't have any problems getting to the end of the day without having to charge your smartphone in between.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge fulfills its primary role as a phone admirably. While making and receiving calls on it, the sound quality is impeccable, with no distortions whatsoever, even in lower signal conditions.
