Samsung India will be hosting an
event on Monday for the launch of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. The device
was officially showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this
month.
IndiaToday.in has learnt that
Samsung will launch the two devices in India on Monday, but the product will
not be available before April 10. This is in lines with the global
announcement, which clearly states that the roll out for the devices will
happen on April 10.
Retailers also claim that pre-orders
for the phone will go live in the last week of March, though it could happen
earlier.
The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge has
received a positive response. In South Korea, Samsung's home market, the device
has already received 20 million pre-orders.
The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are
expected to compete with phones like the LG G-Flex 2, which was announced
yesterday in India. The G-Flex 2 will launch later in the month for Rs.55,000. The
Galaxy S6, however, could be slightly more expensive. Even in the UK pre-orders
for the device stand at Euro 700 for the 32GB model, which converts to around Rs.47,000,
but if one takes into account taxes and duties, the price of the phone could
end up at around Rs.55,000 or a little more.
The Edge variant will be more
expensive. Like the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge we could be talking
about a premium of around Rs.6,000-Rs.10,000. In the UK, pre-orders suggest a
starting price of 850 Euros, which is roughly Rs.57,000, so again the price
could go well beyond the Rs.60,000 mark.
The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are
considered to be Samsung's most well design phones. The devices mark a design
renaissance of sorts for the Korean company, which is often criticised for the
monotonous design of its products.
Both the devices pack, a speedy
64-bit Exynos 7 octa-core processor manufactured using a new 14nm FinFET
process, 2GB of DDR4 RAM and variants ranging from 32GB to 128GB of storage. On
the back, the phones have a 16-megapixel camera with optical image
stabilisation and dynamic focusing capabilities. On the front, Samsung has
stacked a 5-megapixel sensor.
The screens are notable as Samsung
has added 5-inch Super AMOLED panels with 2K resolutions. However, on the Edge,
the screen is curved and slops outwards from both the sides.
Samsung is also talking up new fast
charging battery technologies, a new biometric scanner, and a new cashless
payment system called Samsung Pay. Software wise too, Samsung claims that the
device has a cleaner user interface that's faster based on the underpinnings of
Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Notably, Samsung has also preloaded
Microsoft's apps - OneDrive, Skype, and OneNote on the device, in addition to
the standard suit of Google's cloud services.
The Galaxy S6 is a crucial device
for the South Korean company as it grapples with depleting sales of its
smartphone division, which is a major money spinner for the company.
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