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 forRs.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.
