I had an Honor 6 which worked wonderful until the battery died almost suddenly a couple of weeks ago, luckily though the phone is still under warranty but the local dealer is quite bad, it has been about 3 weeks since I send it to them and still it’s not ready yet! that and the fact that the battery life seems to be a common problem with many other honor 6s as I’ve read over the internet will make me depart from Huawei and might not buy from them again, so as a replacement I bought Galaxy S6 and here are my first impressions:
1- the performance is almost the same as both phones have 8 cores and 3GB ram despite the different GPU but you wont notice much different, therefor, I was not impressed at all.
2- I missed the SD card option on the Honor and don’t think the added internal storage of the S6 would make for it.
3- while I hope the battery of the S6 will live longer it certainly is way much limited in capacity and requires frequent charges through the day even though I don’t play games nor watch much videos, with the Honor I was using it heavily and need to charge it only once per day.
4- somehow the user interface of Honor is far much better and more convenient than the S6 which is a bit weird giving the size and market exposure of Samsung in the global market.
5- lastly the camera of the S6 definitely has a noticeable advantage over the Honor but unfortunately I don’t use it a lot so it’s out of my interest.
So all in all apart from the looks the the sleek design of the S6 I do not consider it an upgrade from Honor 6, contrary to that I’m a bit annoyed by the very low capacity of the battery and the extremely high consumption of the phone, I think I will have to replace it in the near future with another one.