According to a purported render that leaked earlier this morning, the tentatively named ‘Galaxy S6 Edge Plus’ will keep the industrial design largely unchanged but have a screen measuring between 5.5 and 5.7 inches diagonally.
It’s hard to tell from the renders as anyone can scale up the official press shots, but the device appears to be both taller and wider than the original S6 Edge, measuring approximately 155mm wide, 76mm tall and 6.85mm deep.
The pretty reliable blog called Sam Mobile, along with other sources, has it on good authority that the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus will have the following:
- It will have a 5.7-inch screen, just like the Note 4.
- The screen will be curved on both sides, just like the Galaxy S6 Edge.
- It will come preloaded with Android 5.1.1.
- The bottom microphone appears to have been swapped to the opposite side.
- The volume button size has changed and the rocker slightly repositioned.
- The Home button appears to be smaller.
- It will fix an issue which causes apps to load slowly and crash on both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge due to problems with memory management.
- Yes, it will be called the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus.
Whether or not the device will be powered by the Samsung Exynos chips that are in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, or driven by a six-core Qualcomm processor, is anyone’s guess at this point.
What we do know is that Samsung is well-known for producing a seemingly endless stream of various form-factor editions of its smartphones.
