Review: Samsung Galaxy S6

The very best thing about the Samsung Galaxy S6 isn’t the new design or the gorgeous high-res screen. (Those are nice, though.) It’s the fact that no matter what you’re doing, no matter where you are on the phone, all you have to do is click twice on the Home button and you’re immediately launched into the camera. There’s no journey to the home screen, no swiping through a control panel menu; you just click-click, and tap to shoot.

The S6 is, as you could probably guess, the sixth in Samsung’s massively popular, industry-shaping Galaxy S lineup. Yes, it keeps some of the hallmark features of doesn’t-quite-get-it Samsung software, and sure, it looks a lot like the iPhone. Samsung apparently decided the best way to compete with the iPhone is to borrow from Apple. So what? Borrowing—from Xerox Parc, from those dozens of hideous MP3 players—is part of what made Apple great in the first place.

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