Galaxy S6 Active review: Samsung gets rugged right

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge are absolutely beautiful smartphones … but they’re also absolutely impractical for anything resembling a sporty lifestyle. Enter the Galaxy S6 Active, a heavyweight version of the 2015 flagship built to take tougher treatment and last longer on a single charge. We covered the differences between them in a 

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If you’re going to call a phone rugged, make it rugged

An unadulterated, high-end, rugged, flagship smartphone. That’s the sort of thing that makes some tech enthusiasts weak in the knees, including our own Michael Fisher.Inherently, smartphones have become more fragile over the years as priorities have changed – both within the walls of the manufacturers and the personal preferences of the average consumer. We want bigger screens, thinner chassis, better cameras, faster CPUs, more memory and storage, larger speakers, longer battery life, and more connectivity ...

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Here’s what “water resistant” and “water proof” really mean

“Water proof” and “water resistant” mean the same thing, right? Apparently that’s what Archos CEO Loic Poirier thought — he was wrong. Poirier was happily showing off his new phone — a Quechua — which is advertised to French hikers and mountain bikers. He tossed it on the floor. No problem! Then, with cameras rolling, he found a glass jar, dropped the phone in, and started to fill it up with water. The phone is rated at IP54 and advertised as being ...

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