Samsung Announces Galaxy S8 and S8+
Click here to post a comment for Samsung Announces Galaxy S8 and S8+ on our message forum
holystarlight
Same love the design. Using a pixel xl at the moment great phone but looks crappy compared to the Samsung range, I was expecting them to improve the camera kinda a let down but the overall design is Fantastic!
nhlkoho
This is getting a bit ridiculous with screen sizes.
Extraordinary
Yea if the camera had been a significant upgrade from the S7/E camera, I might have been tempted, not really bothered about the front facing camera, for selfies you don't really need mega resolution anyway
WhiteLightning
Moderator
Samsung's Galaxy S8 can sign into websites using your face
You can also talk to a doctor through S Health.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/29/samsung-galaxy-s8-pass-and-s-health
Extraordinary
I use Samsung Pass to sign into sites with my fingerprint
Netherwind
Oh my god, that's one exceedingly beautiful phone! But the price tag will probably be ridiculous.
Aekold
About the Same Size
Did you mean phone size? If that's the case, then I definitely agree with you. For the S8, though, the screen size is a bit bigger (they made it taller and shrunk the bezel to accommodate), but the phone itself looks to be roughly the same size.
More screen real estate in the same form factor. I can live with that. 🙂
Amx85
Yeah
I fell my Droid Turbo's Screen big i don't want a bigger phone
Amx85
Same question xD
chispy
799 and 899 euro / £689 and £779 respectively means = 856.15 US Dollars and 955.56 US Dollars + Sales taxes + other taxes fcc etc... and we are looking at way over $1,000US Dollars mark after everything is said , done and paid for 😱 holly mother of Jesus. Samsung really has up the prices on their phones two times fold on the last few years. I was hoping for better pricing and i was looking forward to get me a new S8 , but i think i will pass this time around and my S6 will have to do for a couple more years then :frown:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/samsung-announces-galaxy-s8-and-s8.html
Ricepudding
The screen resolutions on these phones are becoming insane... If we go by current research you won't even be able to see most the pixels on this screen making it useless and just drain your phone batter... With a dpi of 567 ppi and it being estimated that the max ppi the human eye can see is 300 (least by the studies I've found) these screens must just be pointless
Extraordinary
I think most of these "The human eye can only see xxxx" are BS
People still quote that the human eye can't distinguish frame-rates above 30 some days, other days it's 60 depending on the thread/argument
nhlkoho
As long as they give you the option to turn the resolution down I'm fine with it. I keep my S7 at 720p instead of 1440p unless I'm watching a movie at work or something. Otherwise it just drains the battery too fast.
Extraordinary
Many tests were done on battery life vs resolution on the S7 running Nougat, and at best they gained 30 minutes by lowering resolution, most tests showed no difference in battery life, all pixels are being powered no matter what rez you're running it at, only time it might help is gaming
nhlkoho
Battery life is significantly better for me when its set at a lower resolution.
Ricepudding
You're talking about FPS i'm speaking about resolution, the human eye must have a limit, and studies have found 300 PPI on 20/20 vision to be about the limit, though this might change for everyone. considering most monitors these days are around 100 PPI
Odellot
Can't wait to have mine..I will be renewing my contract and S8 will be my target phone..Time to retire my S7..:D
Mr.Bigtime
I am so sad about back side fingerprint scanner. It is so hard to use it. Especially when your phone is lying just there. Give me that refurbished note 7 please.
But I accept screen size is very good. Multi tasking is far better now on s8 series. Well done.
And yet again Fingerprint magnet body..why? why? why?
moab600
Not impressive in the slightest, my mate 9 will stomp on it in terms of CPU and battery performance, heck DVFS is still there which means, you can never use your amazing phone speed to it's fullest, been always like that, throttle on purpose...
S8 could have been much better, S7 camera at normal light was just ok in my opinion, low light was great, battery life was great but it will probably suffer now on intensive runs, unknown DAC quality, no stereo speakers....
slyphnier
personal opinion i guess, depends on usage screen sizes can be useful
with nougat, it have function multi-windows, so its not ridiculous as bigger size can mean better windows view
you should provide screenshot of battery usage with each resolution
whether low resolution giving lower battery usage or not
s7 with nougat update default the display to 1080p(full hd) instead 1440p
but many said it more for performance (ie. animation etc.) rather improving battery life
