Design
- Excellent build quality, with a premium finish, and premium choice of materials
- Good grip, with a size that is easily pocketable
- Relatively comfortable to hold and operate with single hand for a phone of this size
- Attractive, aesthetic, futuristic design with two curved sides on the screen - this is arguably the best looking Galaxy phone to date
- Fingerprint sensor and heart rate monitor work flawlessly
- The glass back is a magnet for smudges and fingerprints
Display
- Best-in-class Super AMOLED quad HD display - has great contrast levels, superb viewing angles and superb sunlight legibility
- Gorilla Glass 4 is laminated to the display below it so there's very little reflection off the display
Software
- New refined TouchWiz interface over Android, is now leaner and more customizable
- The edge screens add a few occasionally useful features to the UI - night clock, weather/stock info strips, people edge, missed notifications etc
Performance
- Top-notch performance backed by top-end hardware - easily one of the fastest Android smartphone to date
Camera
- Excellent camera quality - easily among the best ever - images are detailed, impressively sharp and clear, and low light image quality is pretty good too
- Camera video capture quality is excellent too and very high on detail
Audio
- Decent call quality
- Excellent audio quality
- Good loudspeaker
Battery
- Good battery life, and fast charging feature gives you 4 hours of usage over 10 minutes of charging
- Support for wireless charging
More
- Good video playback quality