The RAM management issue on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge might be a ‘feature’

For years, Samsung’s smartphone software has been pretty laggy and slow, even on smartphones that cost an arm and a leg. With the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung finally got around to optimizing TouchWiz, its feature-packed custom Android UX. The S6 devices are fast and smooth, but as users have realized after a few weeks with either phone, the S6 and S6 edge suffer from an extreme case of background memory management.

Samsung has used some aggressive RAM management values on the latest iteration of TouchWiz, and this makes apps in the background close down within a few seconds after you switch to something else. In fact, Chrome doesn’t stay loaded in memory even if you open a single app and then switch back to Chrome. The poor multitasking experience has very little to do with the memory leak problem in Lollipop, which wreaks havoc in a different manner and basically makes a device slower after a few days of use, as the OS doesn’t efficiently clear memory when needed.

We have been waiting for an official fix for the RAM issue from Samsung, and our insiders believe the fix might be introduced with the Galaxy S6 edge Plus and then make its way to the regular and curvy S6. However, I’ve personally begun to think that the memory management on the Galaxy S6 might be deliberately set to be so extreme at killing background apps.

The reason? Probably the fact that Samsung might not have completed its work on optimizing TouchWiz to a level that would offer a good experience when there are a lot of apps open in the background. A few years of Samsung adding more and more bloat to its Android UX with each iteration without focusing on optimization at the same time means TouchWiz was in a pretty bad shape, and while the company started clearing up the core even before the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge with the Galaxy A and Galaxy E series, it was possibly not able to get to a hundred percent before the two flagships were launched.

Of course, I’m only making a guess here, but the thing about Samsung planning to introduce the Galaxy S6 edge Plus with a more standard RAM management system does somewhat hint that it will unleash a more optimized version of its software with the larger S6. Then, maybe an update will bring the new optimizations to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, but with even the Android 5.1.1 update (for the T-Mobile variants) apparently lacking any solution to the problem, I’m beginning to lose hope.

What do you think? Could the memory issue on the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge be a deliberate thing, or do you think I’m just clutching at straws?

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Samsung Galaxy S6 wins blind camera test against its fiercest competitor

The Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 are two smartphones at the top of their game. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have their adherents, the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge their own. When it comes to the never-ending battle between Cupertino and Seoul, fanboyism is never far behind. However, the fanboy battle is but one: the other pertains to the devices. No matter how much devotion you have for one company in particular, average consumers who don’t have a stake in the fanboy wars will look at one thing: performance.

The Galaxy S6 series is the hottest Samsung star at the moment, and there’s good reason. A recent PhoneArena blind camera test between the Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 had users vote for which photos were the best (without knowing which photos were taken from which of the two rival smartphones). After voting, the results were then compiled and announced. In this most recent blind camera test between the two top smartphones, Samsung’s Galaxy S6 won – in overwhelming fashion. The Galaxy S6 received 27,063 votes to the iPhone 6’s 3,033 votes.

While these results may seem lop-sided to you, a simple glance at the photos in the camera comparison at the source link below will explain all. Some photos have slight, nuanced differences, but Samsung’s Galaxy S6 shined the best in low-light photos. Of the six different scenes snapped, scenes 2, 5, and 6 show the GS6’s camera prowess against that of its rival.

In Scene 2, Samsung’s Galaxy S6 camera provided a better portrayal of the ruins in the sunlight, while the iPhone 6 smears the sunlight’s color all over the ruins. Scene 5, the battleship, shows the GS6’s accurate portrayal of the scene with some accurate lighting for daytime photos. The iPhone 6 fairs well, but tends to have a colder portrayal of photos outdoors as though every object is in the shade.

In Scene 6, titled “Chill Out,” the Galaxy S6’s camera prowess clearly outpaces the iPhone 6. You can hardly see the bottles on the wall in the iPhone 6 photo, but the light is distributed exceptionally well in the GS6’s portrayal of the same scene. Even when zooming in, the GS6’s 16MP camera could better handle details than the iPhone 6’s 8MP camera.

In Scene 3, the iPhone 6 could very well be guilty of oversaturation, as many a tech reviewer of the iPhone 6’s camera has said the same. Scene 1’s close-up view shows the beauty of cameras with more megapixels: the GS6’s 16MP camera fared better in its details than that of the iPhone 6. Samsung’s f/1.9 apertures on both cameras continue to send the message that specs such as “f/1.9” really do matter – they’re not just impressive numbers on a spec sheet.

Don’t take our word for it: check out the link below to validate the win in your own mind.

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