- Even though there have been so many leaks
about these phones leading up to this event
they are now finally official.
So here is my quick hands on for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus.
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So the big stand out feature you'll
notice immediately is the screen.
Like the Edge devices before it, it has a screen
that wraps over the edge of the device
and curve into the body,
giving the appearance of a bezel less side,
at least on the two sides.
At the top and bottom of the front of the device
there are bezels but they've been drastically reduced.
Thanks in big part to Samsung
finally removing the physical buttons,
which I've been griping about for a long time.
Android has built-in software buttons
that could change depending on the screen.
You can customize them.
It just feels like physical buttons
are like an outdated component that we no longer need.
So it's nice to see Samsung finally getting on board.
Samsung does claim that there's a special component
that mimics the feel of a physical button at the bottom
when the quote unquote invisible home button is pressed.
To me it feels like just a better version
of our normal haptic feedback, but it still is a nice touch.
Both phones are also IP 68 certified
so it's the same as the S7 and waterproof
up to 1.5 meters in depth for up to 30 minutes.
Beyond that the screen itself is super nice
and it's a super AMOLED screen
that we've come to expect from Samsung
that is either 5.8 inches on the S8
or 6.2 inches on the S8 Plus.
Both have a not so normal resolution of 2960 by 1440.
The noticeable difference in resolution
from with the height is due to the fact
that Samsung is using an 18.5 to 9 aspect ratio,
which makes the phone obviously taller and not as wide.
Now of course they had to do point five
more than LG with the G6.
Just like G6 this is Samsung's way
of getting more screen into a thinner phone,
which I appreciate on both of those phones.
Both devices feature a 12 megapixel F 1.7 mirror camera
that has dual pixel tech, which is something you find
in like a fancy Canon camera for example
that basically allows the camera to auto focus really fast.
And on the front they have a F 1.78 megapixel camera
with face detection for auto focuses
for you selfies of course.
Under the hood, both devices have
the Snapdragon 835 Octa-core processor and 4 gigs of RAM.
They're both running Android 7.0
with Samsung's Touch wiz UI on top.
And have 64 gigs of storage internally
with a micro SD card slot that
will accept up to a 256 gigabyte card.
There are a range of security options
for unlocking the device.
From the fingerprint scanner
that is now finally on the back.
To me it's just the natural place
where a fingerprint should go
because it's kind of where your hand goes
when you're holding the phone just naturally.
To an iris scanner that you can use your eye
as the password, which is above the screen
to a facial recognition system that
should unlock the phone as soon as you look at it.
Think of like Windows hello.
Samsung is trying to compete it seems with Google's own
Google assistant with the launch of Bigsby.
Bigsby is their own AI that is contextually aware
with what is on the screen as well
as can be summoned by a dedicated button
on the left side of the device.
Powering all of this is a 3,000 million battery in the S8
and a 3,500 million battery in the S8 plus.
Samsung also announced decks, a software
that allows the S8 to dock
and be used in a more desktop-like way
with Windows, a keyboard, and a mouse.
And a new version of the gear 360 that can be used
with the S8 to capture 360 videos and photos,
but also do live streaming with them
as well to Facebook and YouTube, et cetera.
On the audio front, they've also announced that the S8
and the S8 Plus will include a pair
of AKG pure sound headphones in every box,
which obviously can't hurt.
And that and the S8 and the S8 Plus have
dual audio Bluetooth, which is Bluetooth 5.0 by the way,
which will allows you to stream music
to two separate Bluetooth devices simultaneously,
which could be interesting.
There you go.
Quick hands on,
showing off the S8 and the S8 Plus.
I did have a very limited amount of time with these so,
hopefully I'll get a review device and then a full review
will come as soon as possible.
But let me know what you guys think of the S8, the S8 Plus.
The phone is pretty sexy in person.
I actually, I didn't expect it to be as nice,
but it's pretty nice.
But what do you guys think?
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