10 Things Samsung's New Galaxy Phones Can Do That the iPhone Can't

  1. You can use the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge to make payments at any store with a credit-card reader using Samsung Pay.

LoopPay, which is the same technology in the new Samsung phones, has cases available for iPhones that enable this.

  1. You can also charge Samsung's new phone wirelessly with a charging pad instead of plugging it in.

It's a nice stock feature. iPhones need designated cases to enable such functionality.

  1. The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge can be charged super quickly; Samsung says 10 minutes of charging will get you four hours of use.

iPhone 6 Plus charges at about 64% per hour on an iPad charger (found those numbers from my own experience), which is about 1% per minute. The device is spec'd to have 12-24 hours of actual use per charge. Comparing 10 minutes of charge, 10% of 12-24 hours is 1.2-2.4 hours. That's quite a bit less than the Galaxy's 4 hours. There are claims that fast charging like that is dangerous for the battery and will reduce the life of the battery, but there are so many crazy ideas about batteries that I wouldn't give it that much thought.

  1. With the Galaxy S6 Edge, you can assign a specific color to any contact. Your phone will light up as that color when the contact calls.

iPhone has LED flash notifications, but it's no comparison to designated colors.

  1. You can launch the camera on the Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge by double-tapping the home button.

The iPhone lets you swipe from the corner of the lock screen and has a shortcut in the Notification Center. Using Activator via jailbreak, TouchID double-taps can be reassigned to launch the camera instead of Reachabillity.

  1. The camera on the Galaxy S6 also tracks a subject as it moves so it doesn't lose focus.

Not sure exactly how this works to find an equivalent. I expect iPhone doesn't have one.

  1. Both new Samsung phones come with a Smart Manager app that lets you clean up your phone with the press of a button.

iPhones do this automatically for you when storage runs low. A jailbreak tweak called iCleaner can enable this if it's really important to you.

  1. Most Samsung Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, let you run more than one app at once on the home screen (Galaxy S4 shown below).

ReachApp enables you to do this on jailbroken iPhones. There's no other way on iOS.

  1. The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge can also measure your heart rate.

There are 3rd party apps that can manage this on an iDevice with flash.

  1. With the Galaxy S6 Edge, you can still see the time even when the rest of the screen is turned off. There's no way to do this on the iPhone.

iPhones lack this feature because they still use LCD instead of OLED screens. It's technically impossible for iPhone to compete with this.

All in all, the article is correct. iPhone does actually have some form of most of this, but they are not as integrated or as convenient.

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