Samsung Galaxy S6

Samsung Electronics Co. is trying to regain its competitiveness after Apple released its new IPhone 6 with bigger displays. The new Samsung phone the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge wraps around both the right and the left sides of the phone. This design is similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. However, the Note Edge only had the right side of the screen curved instead of both. The new Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge also use premium materials which changes the view of the phones as many believed that the phones appeared to look cheap with its plastic backing.

Some advantages to the curved screen are being able to check notifications by swiping the curved part of the display without the need to unlock your phone in order to check. The Samsung also lets you set up five contacts to have a specific color designation. If you receive a call from someone and your phone is face down on the table, the sides of the screen will light up the color you designated it. Another element which was changed in the new Galaxy phones was the plastic designs on the back, now the phones are wrapped in Gorilla Glass.

After the reveal of the new Samsung Galaxy phones, Samsung’s shares increased by as much as 3.8 percent or one million, four hundred nine thousand won which as the company’s highest since June twelfth, in Seoul, South Korea. The Galaxy S6 models will go on sale worldwide, including in China, where most consumers are beginning to want larger devices so it can be a phone and a tablet in one. Due to this, consumers in China have been purchasing the new IPhone, because the large amount of sales of IPhones in China, the Samsung Co began to decrease its sales. 

Apple tries to compete with Samsung by creating a wider screen and a thinner phone through its new IPhone 6 while Samsung has begun to create a phone with a cascading screen on both the right and left sides of the screen and using Gorilla Glass for the backing.