so mrk, you got Samsung's latest and greatest, what do you think of it?
Very impressed with it. Samsung has finally reached a level some people never thought would be reached. There are a few things I’m getting used to and/or find tedious, such as accidentally touching one side of the edge screen causing something to be pressed or a keyboard key to be touched while quickly typing…
I also don’t use the Edge panel much, I have enabled just the compass, RAM usage and Data usage bars. Everything else I had customised via Nova gestures and things anyway and I don’t intend to change that.
The camera is really excellent. The amount of light it picks up and is able to focus with is pretty insane and puts the speed of the Z5 to shame in most cases.
The QuickCharge 3.0 Anker wall charger doesn’t play ball with the Samsung Wireless Fast charger though. When charging the charger will randomly flash the blue LED and the phone will say it’s wirelessly charging again. Plug in the Samsung mains adapter and it’s fine. I imagine it’s also fine with the Aukey QC2.0 adapter too but will test tonight. USB charging from all the adapters show Fast charging without issues though. Seems the Samsung wireless fast charger needs strictly QC2.0/Hybrid fast charging blocks attached.
It wirelessly charges faster than the Z5 does wired and the Z5 has a smaller battery and is supposed to support QC2.0 as well…
The AMOLED screen is warmer in colour tone than the Z5 (tweaked white balance), getting used to this but the clarity is great. Battery life is as we all expected, excellent. I used it for several straight last night from a full charge and at 48% was on 4hrs 44mins screen on time. That was installing, configuring, using VR, transferring files and so on.
I don’t like that when I enable vibrate only in the sound slider, the phone will vibrate for app notifications when those apps have been set to not vibrate in their settings (e.g.: GMail). ON the Z5 this works great, only apps that have the Vibrate checkbox selected will vibrate in vibrate mode, all others will remain silent.