Help Samsung S6 vs HTC One M9 vs Droid Turbo

[jackajesusfreak]

Greetings all! I have had Samsung since the S3 and currently have the S5. Since the Lollipop update my S5 is slow and the battery gets drained much quicker.

I was sooooo disappointed when the S6 was announced with an even weaker battery than the S5. I want to get rid of this S5 and I'm looking at either the M9 or Droid Turbo.

The specs are very similar between the Turbo and M9, except for battery which makes me lean heavily to the Turbo.

I guess I am looking for someone to tell me which phone the would pick, in my circumstances, and why.

Thanks,

Jack

 

[funkylogik]

Both good phones as far as I can tell. I suppose it depends on what UI you prefer and which will get more timely updates

 

[davoid]

Well it sounds like your biggest concern is battery stamina, so I would wait to see what the M9's battery is like on final release and then choose, as I've heard pre-release rumours that its power consumption is worse than that of the M8 in spite of a more efficient chipset.

Maybe you could root and try Cyanogenmod 12.1 which is released for the S5. The energy efficiency is apparently better on Lollipop 5.1

Basically though, wait for reviews of battery use before buying.

 

[fordguy00]

The Droid has the Turbo Charger, plus a waaaay higher pixel density and a much faster processor.
However, the M9 has a SD card slot, which the Droid does not.
So it just depends what you need in a phone.

 

[Hadron]

The Snapdragon 805 used by the Droid Turbo is actually rather less powerful than the Snapdragon 810 used by the M9. It has a higher clock speed, but that is not the same as faster: the processor architecture is completely different, and the A57 cores are more powerful than the older Kraits used in the 805. Also the 810's GPU is more powerful than the 805's, as well as having fewer pixels to draw.

But let's be realistic here: both are quite powerful enough for whatever you want to do, and that's the only thing that actually matters.

I'll give you the advice I give everyone (which is also the rule I use myself): go and play with both devices before making a choice, and see which you think you'll be happier using.

 

[Cakeisspy]

Well S805 is a soc which is less powerful but does not throttle or overheat that much but on the other hand S810 is a more powerful soc for sure but it also throttles/overheats
Another thing S810 should be more 'future proof' due to 64 bit support