I had the same choice and went G5. I dislike samsung as a company, but their galaxy line of phones has always been solid - I had an S4 before this. That being said, the G5 has better all around hardware. The S6 has the AMOLED screen, tho which is better seems to be a personal choice, I love the G5's screen.. unless i'm looking REALLY hard for for a reason to dislike IPS on the black lock/always-on screen when I'm in a pitch black room. Unlike the S6, the S7 and G5 have always on displays, but you can turn that off if you want. The app drawer is back as well. The G5 also has expandable memory up to 2gb whenever that comes out if u still have the phone when a 2tb card costs less than a phone lol. I also love the ammo clip like...