TECH TITANS GALAXY S

Stuff's top five phones from Samsung's flagship series

Warn in my side

The curved edges were just to look nice, but could also display mainly notifications or flash for incoming calls when it was face-down.

Sweet beams 

We miss the days of phones with nifty extras such as the S6's IR blaster, which meant you could use it as a universal remote.

01 SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 EDGE

Samsung had made phones that had outsold the iPhone before the Galaxy S6 Edge came along, but it had never launched anything that made even the most hardcore Apple acolytes question their whole belief system.

With its curved display, and the plastic chassis of its predecessors replaced by two slabs of Gorilla Glass connected together by a band of aluminium, the S6 Edge felt as good to hold as an iPhone or HTC's One M9 (remember them?). And what a stonker that screen was as well: a 5.1in QHD Super AMOLED that packed in almost 80% more pixels than Apple's Retina display of the time.

Samsung boldly ditched Qualcomm chips for the S6 range, opting instead for its own octa-core Exynos processors, and it was a move that paid off. Paired with 3GB of RAM, the S6 Edge blew the competition out of the duck pond.

This was the first Galaxy phone to get a fingerprint sensor that didn't require a fiddly swiping gesture to work, while Samsung also streamlined its TouchWiz interface, removing a large amount of the bloat. Oh, and did we mention the camera was superb?

The only real gripe was the axing of the removable battery and microSD card slot. But overall, the Galaxy S6 Edge was an absolute stunner of a handset - and one that set up Samsung to be the world-beating smartphone player that it still is today. RELEASED 2015

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