Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Release Date Has Surfaced, Records Highest Ever AnTuTu Benchmark Scores

The Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge are scheduled to get unraveled on March 1 through the Galaxy Unpacked 2015 event at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 tech expo in Barcelona, Spain. Both the smarpthones from Samsung will be sporting overhauled design compared to the previous Galaxy S series handsets.

On Feb 10, Phone Arena had published a report on newly surfaced AnTuTu benchmark scores of the Galaxy S6 Edge. The scores belong to SM-G925W8 model of the dual edged curved display S6 Edge.

The benchmarks report has revealed the Galaxy S6 Edge specifications. It is powered with Samsung’s very own octa-core Exynos 7420 chipset that delivers a processing speed of 2.1 GHz. It is coupled with ARM Mali-T760 and 3 GB of RAM.

The main display of the handset is of 5.1-inch that supports a display resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels along with a pixel count of 576 ppi. Phone Arena says that it is probably going to house a Super AMOLED display.

The primary camera of the Galaxy S6 Edge is of 20 MP and there is a front-facing selfie shooter of 5 MP. The handset comes with a native storage capacity of 32 GB and it is preloaded with Android 5.0.2 Lollipop OS.

As far as the Galaxy S6 Edge AnTuTu scores are concerned, the powerhouse smartphone recorded the highest ever score of 60,978. AnTuTu’s benchmark test involves multiple stages and this helps in determining that the Exynos 7420 chipset scores over the former Exynos 5433 chipset in the 3D content visualisation department, states Phone Arena.

According to a recently published report from the International Business Times, the probable Galaxy S6 Edge release date has surfaced. The report states that after the launch of the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge on March 1, Samsung has arranged a vacation blackout period in the coming month starting from 22 until March 30. Speculations have it that the Galaxy S6 release date is set for March 22 or in the couple of days following it.

The Galaxy S6 Edge is also expected to release in the same period as that of Galaxy S6. The dual edge curved screen variant is also speculated to arrive in April when Samsung has arranged another vacation blackout period starting from April 19 until April 27. Rumours also claim that the tentative Galaxy S6 Edge release date is April 19.

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