time flies in the world but in the tech world that seems to go at hyperspeed the
Galaxy S8 is almost a year old and the Galaxy S9 is coming in about four to six weeks SO I
thought it'd be fun to do a final revisited a last look if you will at all
the things the S8 brought to the table and sort of the newness that it was and
the climate that it came into the smartphone world Samsung was right off
the Note 7 debacle these things need it to be a hit now while it is the end
of the product life for the S8 it's not necessarily the end of when you should
buy it they're gonna be crazy deals and then go
on on the S9 comes up and the S9 looks to be sort of an "S" version type upgrade
sort of fix some small quibbles and small complaints with the almost perfect
Galaxy S8 and S8+ and for the sake of this revisited I'm mostly just gonna say S8
the phones are pretty much identical save for screen size and a little bit
different size in battery so first the S8 got rid of the edge
version of phones we saw with the Galaxy S7 it was just the S8 and they brought in
beautifully marketed term infinity display Samsung displays are
absolutely incredible and they did a gorgeous job this time around a big
knock I had a previous Samsung displays they look great when you were
indoors soon as you stepped outside in direct sunlight they got completely
washed out and almost invisible Samsung fixed that in this time around the
display gets incredibly bright don't buy into the marketing hype of how many nits
brightness it is that's really just how bright one single pixel can get but from
some real user standpoint you can use this phone and outdoors these are
obviously the best screens that Samsung had made before the Note came out
they're pretty much identical but the infinity display while looking nice
it's still been far from perfect in my use often times I was activating the
edge panels by accident that was relatively annoying to have I had to
turn that off so I would accidentally activate them it also makes the phone a
little bit on the fragile since the screen curves around and the front
and back are completely coated in glass in fact as we documented on video I
cracked my S8+ pretty badly and I was sitting down
and it fell on a uncarpeted floor so I don't like two and a half feet ish it
fell and it would be shattered the screen so it was definitely more fragile
than those people like that fragility also goes through on the back in fact I
used my S8+ in the office without a case as I mentioned in without and you
skin on the back and you can see what the back looks like it looks totally
gross and disgusting so if you pick up and current-gen Samsung phone whether
it's the Note the S8 S8+ even the S9 when it comes I recommend putting a
Dbrand skin on that to keep the scratches down and also give it some
protection I'll link to it down below in case you want to check those out it also
marks the first time the Samsung got rid of their capacitive buttons and opting
for on-screen buttons for navigation I love that change I also love that you
can customize it a little bit whether or not you want the backup on the left or
the right give you more flexibility than what you had with sort of those buttons
that were always in the same area so rounding out the awesomeness that the S8
was the cameras were absolute incredible this was before the pixel 2 and before
the iPhone X these were the camera kings they were absolutely incredible
obviously making do with single sensors they did incredible job with portrait
modes by that I just mean blurring the background
they brought a ton of effects the pictures look gorgeous in almost any
setting I'll be it a little bit saturated but I tend to prefer it and
they give you a lot of granular setting if you want to get in and tweak those
these cameras were beyond awesome and the video side the video also looked great
the microphone could use a little bit of improvement I think that's the case with
almost all smartphones but really good I think Samsung did a really good job
with biometrics obviously there wasn't some sort of face ID type technology when
this phone came out but the redundancy is absolutely incredible
you've got iris scanning you've got kind of a rudimentary face unlcok you've got pin
or passcode you've got options and different layers of course the
fingerprint sensor on the back as well I liked that there were options that you
could pick and choose from but coming to the things that I didn't like
so speaking of biometrics the fingerprint reader on the back I've
talked about this at nauseam I'm not gonna sort of harp on it I hated the
location of the fingerprint sensor maybe you guys had other issues said it didn't
bother you with case on for me I did not like the location in fact I never really
used the finger reader because of that another thing I didn't like was the
single downward facing speaker often found myself covering it with us playing
games listening back to movies or just watching content it's really annoying
sort of location of it you're watching something like this you're playing a
driving game you gotta make sure you're moving your finger all around and I
should mention both of those things but to be improved when the S9 finally hits
and of course rounding out the other stuff I didn't really like or even used
Bixby and that that Bixby button it's a goodbye to the S8 and the S8+
it's an incredible phone and if you have one it'll probably be good to even
skip the S9 and wait until the S10 hits but it's got great battery life the
screen is incredible the cameras great on it have that fast charging it's USB-C
everything about these phones I've absolutely loved I don't want some sort
of pour one out for the S8 as sort of it gets overshadowed very soon by the S9
did you pick up an S8 you guys upgrade from an S8 are you waiting for the price
drop when the S9 hits to pick one of these suckers up if you like these final
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Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo
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