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and a couple years ago. In 2014, Samsung made a surprise product announcement called the Galaxy Note Edge with this crazy display hanging off one side and for a random unexpected phone. It got a lot of attention. Since then that product has evolved again and again into Samsung’s entire flagship lineup, which brings us to the galaxy S8. So This new phone looks awesome and that’s its hallmark headlining feature is how good it looks and how well it’s designed and then of course being a flagship.

It Has All The Bleeding Edge Specs

inside and the hardware you’d expect from a premium android phone. So is this the complete package like the ultimate smartphone almost it’s almost it’s almost there so let me start by saying I love this phone’s build like pretty much everything about the outside of this phone. is premium and well-built and awesome. The display up front sort of melts over both sides and it does so smoothly into the back frame while last year’s phone did it more sharply and if you want to talk about modern or about the future of smartphone design This year has been a shift to these really tall displays making these slightly taller candy bar shaped phones now the best part of these super thin bezels on all sides is that the footprint of the phone shrinks a lot so the 5. 8 inch and 6.

2 Inch Displays Respectively.

On the S8 and S8 plus Don’t feel like huge phones, even though they have huge screens. In fact, the S8 I think is a great size because it’s so narrow. I might have big hands, but I think even anyone with regular hands can reach across to the other side of. Display just maybe not all the way up to the top and I think the best indicator for this is the fingerprint sensor.

Obviously, Theres No More Room To

put it up at the front of the phone. So they moved it around to the back, but instead of putting it somewhere in the middle of the back. They put it right up there next to the camera now with most back fingerprint sensors. They’re a little lower on the phone for reachability just the way you hold the phone makes it easier now I think the top fingerprint sensor might look a little bit better in some cases, but it is definitely harder to reach even with my larger hands. I legit dislike this location.

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I Hold The Phone With My Right

hand. So I’m reaching the maximum distance up and over across the phone over across the camera. With my finger and often I don’t quite make it or I touch the camera glass instead or I only partially cover the fingerprint sensor and the reader doesn’t unlock it doesn’t work so this is through a week of using the phone. I’m sure I could get used to it eventually, but for most people. This just makes it a two–handed phone and then you can end up just using the phone with two hands all the time now to be fair the glass over the camera actually does a good job deflecting smudges that come from errant fingerprint unlocks but honestly a clever way to get past.

This Is With A Case Or Better Yet

a skin actually so this is the skin from Dbrand and not only is it better for gripping this all glass phone, but the tiny depth difference actually lets you better distinguish the fingerprint sensor from the camera on the back, so fun fact highly recommended either way Samsung’s word on this is now. They provide you with a bunch of other ways to unlock your phone. Biometrically that Don’t use a fingerprint sensor, mainly being the Iris scanner and the face unlock now. I didn’t expect to like this answer mainly because the face unlock can literally be tricked with a picture of you so that’s no good and the Iris Scanner usually requires you holding it up at a weird angle that you don’t normally hold your phone, which is a little awkward but this Iris scanner. I think it might have.

A Wider Angle Lens Or The Sensor

has improved something about it is better because I don’t quite have to hold it up at that awkward angle anymore, and it does a pretty good job of unlocking my phone when I’m not like trying to I set it up. I didn’t expect to use it but a lot of times. I just hold the phone up and start using it and it would unlock for me so that actually turned out to be a pleasant surprise either way. Aside from the awkward tallness of the phone and the fingerprint sensor. The Galaxy S8 is the best industrial design of any smartphone in a long time in my opinion.

Even Though There Are Other Phones

out now and coming soon that do the tall display thin bezels thing you still gotta add on all metal and glass still has expandable storage. through a micro SD card slot still fully water and dust resistant IP68 certified so you can spill water on it and it’s cool. It still has UsB type-C with quick charge still has wireless charging. Still keeps the headphone jack and the speaker is below average and downward facing it might be the worst part of the phone’s build, but that comes with the territory. When there’s no room on the front and you kind of want to water seal your phone so back to the screen it’s incredible it is I would say the best display on any smartphone again.

It Gets Extremely Bright So Its Visible

outdoors or whenever and it’s an oled so of course it has fantastic color and contrast ratios and dynamic range and it’s super high resolution too we’re talking 2960 by 1440 on both phones actually so all that makes for an. Media experience a great web browsing experience and great scrolling through twitter and instagram and seeing a lot of stuff at once Experience and all of Samsung’s software obviously supports it perfectly now not every app in the app store fills the display right now right out the box. Like a lot of games, especially will have to be updated or may just never fully support that so you’ll either have the black bars on either side or you can punch in and of course. Most videos also aren’t in this aspect ratio either so when watching a video you’ll get the black bars as well. Unless you hit the button in the software to punch in a little bit, but then you lose some of the frames so it’s kind of your call.

Its Give A Little Take A Little For

the slightly taller display, but overall i’ll take. It I think the screen is awesome and with its curved edges and curved corners. I’m a fan and then there is the inside of the phone and since this is a flagship. Samsung is again pushing things to the highest end of what’s available except for one particular area, but there’s some pretty high end specs. In here Snapdragon 835 Adreno 540 GPu four gigabytes of Ram at least 64 gigs of storage which like we said is expandable and this is the first phone to ship with Bluetooth 5.

0, Which I Made An Entire Separate

video about that just dropped highly recommend that so the performance aspect is pretty much taken care of the same way. It always is great specs, great speed and animations out the box, but nobody has used this phone for a year or two yet so we’ll have to see how the Samsung. Software ages and that’s just what it is? It’s Samsung software on top of Android 7. 0 and it has its pros and cons I actually like that It’s adapted to be more like Nougat with the swiping app drawer and the cleaner overall look especially of the settings app, but it’s really obviously still Samsung eyes with all the colors and some interesting quirks here and there with the paginated app drawer and a couple extra animations nothing too crazy or extra, but it’s not necessarily better than not having it The edge screen has gotten better there’s now A couple features like from the note with Smart select and the Gif maker where you can select part of your screen to make an animation or even take round screenshots. All kinds of stuff that we didn’t have before so you know there’s interesting stuff you can put in there.

I Really Like The Extended Screenshot

feature where you can take a screenshot, but then it gives you the option to scroll down and extend that as much as you want so I’m really glad that made its way back into this phone, but yeah overall it’s familiar to anyone who’s used a Samsung phone in the last two or three years both aesthetically and functionally now one of the biggest new features in the software department of the galaxy. S8 is called Bixby. You may have heard of it. It’s the virtual assistant that’s built for this phone that just does a lot of what Google assistant does now. The circumstances surrounding it are interesting because Samsung put a dedicated button on the side of the phone just for launching it a Bixby button.

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Now A Lot Of People Didnt Like This

for fair reason whether they didn’t like. Bixby or didn’t want it so they found a way to use an app to remap the Bixby button to do whatever they want probably should have been in the Samsung settings. In the first place, you can make it the default for the button sure but in in regions where people don’t use Bixby or Bixby is not supported or language support’s not there yet or it’s incomplete let them go on the settings and remap it to whatever they want it could be a legitimate useful separate feature well. Yesterday Samsung actually patched that up and blocked any remapping of that button at all on the galaxy S8. So it’s definitely now just a Bixby Button so understandably again.

People Got Kind Of Angry About That Nobody

wants accidental triggers of the app. They want to never use, but a couple of people were asking well hey what. If what if Bixby is actually really great, what if Bixby is amazing? What if it’s better than Google, so I gave it that chance I didn’t remap my Bixby Button and I was using Bixby alongside this phone for the past week and I’ll give you that so first of all the voice feature is not activated yet and it won’t get added till later this year so that’s a pretty rough start, but aside from that it does show you some cards your gallery your upcoming calendar events maybe some weather some frequent contacts, but then that pretty quickly devolved into a bunch of samsung apps like themes and wallpapers and flipboard and a bunch of stuff. I don’t use so really it’s working in catch-up mode to be able to do all that Google does with gmail and navigation cards and flight status and all that now. One place it did do some interesting stuff is in the camera app in the viewfinder.

Theres A Bixby Button That If

you press it, it can recognize images in the viewfinder and search for them whether it’s images or if it’s a product. It will get you amazon search to maybe buy it. I’ve seen Google Goggles try this a couple years ago and with Bixby it was about the same pretty hit or miss Sometimes they would get it and it would be.

Summary

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