While the Note 5 and S6 edge+ are far from the first Samsung phones with reported issues killing background tasks with unusual aggressiveness, they are the first ones with four freaking gigabytes of RAM to do so. We've long assumed that Samsung's background task issues on certain handsets are related to a lack of RAM headroom due to TouchWiz, and yet, the Note 5 and S6 edge+ may exhibit the most aggravating task killing of any Samsung devices we've yet seen.

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Compared to a Nexus 6 opening the same apps in the same way after a handful of intervening loads of different apps, the S6 edge+ in our video here almost always reloads the background app more slowly. Differences in load times range from a fraction of a second in apps like Twitter to several seconds in apps like Yelp, Uber, and Chrome. Such a thing is clearly detrimental to overall user experience, no matter how you slice it. Sometimes this results in other annoyances, too, like reflows that send you to the incorrect scroll point in a given application. Basically, it's not pretty - when a Nexus 6 with less and slower RAM, a slower processor, and slower storage is easily pulling up background tasks more quickly and reliably than the substantially more powerful S6 edge+, you know something weird is going on.