Click-click. Tap.
The very best thing about the Samsung Galaxy S6 isn't the new design or the gorgeous high-res screen. (Those are nice, though.) It's the fact that no matter what you're doing, no matter where you are on the phone, all you have to do is click twice on the Home button and you're immediately launched into the camera. There's no journey to the home screen, no swiping through a control panel menu; you just click-click, and tap to shoot.
The S6 is, as you could probably guess, the sixth in Samsung's massively popular, industry-shaping Galaxy S lineup. Yes, it keeps some of the hallmark features of doesn't-quite-get-it Samsung software, and sure, it looks a lot like the iPhone. Samsung apparently decided the best way to compete with the iPhone is to borrow from Apple. So what? Borrowing—from Xerox Parc, from those dozens of hideous MP3 players—is part of what made Apple great in the first place.
Besides, the S6 still feels new. And its design, performance, and most of all its interface suggest that after five years of not quite getting it, Samsung finally understands what a great phone entails. For the first time, Samsung doesn't demand that you adapt to the way it works, or push you toward apps prefaced with S. It didn't pretend that "fast" and "good" are the same thing. It just made the best damn phone it knew how. This new Galaxy flagship is beautiful, it's powerful, it's really easy to use. It's the best Android phone you can buy.
The quality asserts itself from the moment you first pick it up. The S6 is (finally) not made of dimpled plastic, it's (finally) not cheap and unpleasant to hold. It's now truly elegant, all Gorilla Glass and metal, a simple rounded rectangle that fits comfortably in my hand. There are no seams, no sharp edges, no awkward angles—it's one of only a few phones I've ever used that feels like it just appeared, fully-formed, on the Earth.