Do you like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, but wish it were bigger? Meet the Galaxy S6 edge+, which essentially supersizes the smartphone for larger mitts. With Samsung's expansive product line, you have to think about where the S6 edge+ fits. It's somewhere between an upscaled S6 Edge and a Galaxy Note 5 sans stylus. It isn't a true successor to last year's Galaxy Note Edge, because of seriously reduced edge functionality. Samsung misses a few opportunities here, but if you think of this phone as simply a larger S6 Edge, you'll be satisfied.

Physical Features

A quick note: Samsung sent us a European model of the phone for review, which has a bit of non-U.S. bloatware and some of the wrong LTE frequency bands for our country, so this is a preview rather than a rated review. We'll add a rating once we receive the U.S. carrier models to test. 

In 2013, Samsung figured out how to do curved smartphone screens and introduced a device called the Galaxy Round, which was basically a proof of concept. It was followed by the Galaxy Note Edge, which cascades its screen down the side and uses the curve to great advantage, delivering information and app shortcuts on the edge of the phone.

The Note Edge was followed by the S6 Edge, which curves both edges of the screen, creating a dramatic design that feels great to handle. But the S6's edge is mostly cosmetic; it doesn't have the app shortcuts and calendar widgets the Note Edge has, it doesn't extend the UI usefully onto the edge the way the Note Edge does, and it also has trouble working as a nighttime alarm clock because some units keep the rest of the screen slightly lit up.