Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus review

Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus review + GIVEAWAY

 Pros:

• Incredible & comfortable design
• Outstanding Super AMOLED display
• Fast performance
• Good all-round camera
• Bixby Voice Assistant has potential
• Akg Headphone
• Acceptable battery life
• Auto Focus In Front Camera
• Plenty of customisation options

   Cons:

• Odd fingerprint sensor location
• Bixby is limited and Software needs to be updated
• No major improvements to the camera (except some minor changes)
• Iris recognition is hit and miss
• Bottom-firing speaker is average at best

The Samsung Galaxy S7 And Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Are One Of The Best Flagships Smart phones Of The Year 2016 But The Note 7 With It's Technical Issues Made 2016 A Bad Dark Year For Samsung.

Samsung Has Learnt So Much From It's Failures And Now It's Back With It's Brand New Flagship Smart Phones The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. Yes, Now The Edge Naming Is Gone And Now It Is Called Infinity Display.

Samsung is back with the latest evolution of the Galaxy S line that   tries to pack a big screen experience onto a body that doesn't feel such big and it's also in a package that you might argue tries to do a little bit too much.

Display:

Now Samsung galaxy s8 is available in two sizes, which both have the new infinity display.The regular s8 comes with 5.8 inch display and the s8 plus comes with 6.2 inch display,But the size of the phone is not really changed. Both variants packs an almost completely bezel  less display, which samsung calls it as an INFINITY DISPLAY, which packs a weird aspect ratio of 18.5:9.

It has the best display in market today. It is rated to be the first smartphone in the market which is coming with a HDR display. It supports HDR in apps Like Youtube and Netflix. It Offers the best entertainment in the smartphones today. 

Samsung has now removed it's branding on the top and the signature home button in the front, for the sake of infinity display which all lead to the weird placement of the fingerprint scanner.

Out of the box it comes with a normal resolution for battery savings and safety to avoid any issues like the note 7.

Performance:

As a latest flagship from samsung you can expect latest and high end Flagship grade hardware. Depending on your market you can expect Samsung latest Exynos 8895

which is based on the latest 10 nm chipset or you can get snapdragon 835 which is also based on 10 nm chipset. For both the variants you get 4gb of ram and 64gb of onboard storage which can be later expandable via microSD card. 

The Exynos version comes with the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU while the Snapdragon 835 has the Adreno 540 GPU.

As you might expect, there are no performance concerns with the processing stack that powers the Galaxy S8 and we’ve noticed no issues with performance in applications or while gaming. When running Super Mario Run and Jade Empire – which are both heavy mobile games – there were no issues with dropped frames or lag.

The Galaxy S8 also powers the Dex, Samsung’s new docking accessory that allows you to turn your Galaxy S8 into a full desktop computer. It’s testament to the processing power of both chipsets that they’re able to deliver a full desktop experience with little more than a couple of small hiccups and ever so slight latency when recognizing the input from a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

The only minor issue is the iris scanner Unlike the note 7 It warns you to remove glasses or lens while setting it up which means you need to look over the top of your glasses.

Hardware:

As you might expect, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus come equipped with a heavy hardware stack which includes expandable storage, a 32-bit audio DAC, dual-band Wi-Fi, and a plethora of connectivity options.

This is the first phone to come with Bluetooth 5.0 which has a much longer range and you can have active connections with two different devices. But we can't use it properly until bluetooth devices are equipped with 5.0

Right next to the USB Type-C port on the bottom of the phone is the single bottom-firing speaker and the headphone jack. The loudspeaker has the same issues that are inherent to its design, mainly a tinny sound, and overall, it’s decent at best. Samsung’s acquisition of Harman Kardon should eventually result in much better audio, but it likely came too late for the speakers on the Galaxy S8.

However, with the headphone jack, Samsung has taken a different approach by focusing on headphones instead of including a third-party DAC or built-in amp. Instead, they’ve included a pair of high-quality earphones made by AKG, and while we have a full review of these headphones coming soon, we can say they are significantly better than the headphones included with any other phones.

The headphones are surprisingly “bassy” for small earphones and feature a premium feeling design that includes a fabric cable and in-line controls. Diving deep into the sound settings, there’s a bunch of equalizer toggles that can be used to cater the audio experience to your preferences. There’s an Adapt Sound tutorial that helps you tune the output to your own ears and the result is a headphone experience that manages to be surprisingly deep for the average user. Given what’s happened in a short-space of time, we expect Samsung’s acquisition of Harman Kardon to result in a vastly improved audio experience on future flagships.

Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus specifications

Battery Life:

The biggest issue facing Samsung with the Galaxy S8 is the fear that still resides from the Galaxy Note 7’s batteries catching fire spontaneously. Personally, I think the company has played it a little safe with the battery capacity inside its new flagships, in a bid to prevent any issues with the battery.

Rather than stretch the boundaries like they did with the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung has opted for the rather safe capacities of 3,000 mAh for the Galaxy S8 and 3,500 mAh for the Galaxy S8 Plus. This means the Galaxy S8 battery is the same size as the Galaxy S7, while the Galaxy S8 Plus is slightly smaller than the 3,600 mAh battery found inside the Galaxy S7 Edge, but with new 10 nm chipsets and better optimization batteries will work efficiently.

Camera:

Samsung has refined its camera over the past few generations of its phones to produce what is arguably the all around best smartphone camera on the market. The Galaxy S8 camera may not be heavily changed from the Note 7, and even the Galaxy S7 Edge before it, but enhancements in the overall picture taking experience mean Samsung’s legacy of high quality photography continues.

The big changes in the cameras come at the front, where Samsung has included an 8 MP shooter with a Smart Autofocus system. Autofocus is not something found too often on front-facing cameras and selfies benefit from the higher megapixel count, resulting in good photos in most lighting conditions. In low light, the pictures lose some sharpness as the shutter requires more time, but this is expected, especially from a camera that lacks image stabilization.

The main camera is a 12 MP shooter with large dual pixels, f/1.7 aperture, optical image stabilization, phase detection autofocus, and an LED flash. The interface is largely like before, prioritizing swipes and certain gestures to keep shooting simple and as easy to use in one-hand as possible. There are no new modes in the camera, though there is the addition of 1080p recording at 60 frames per seconds for smooth video recording. Video recording also sees the addition of manual controls in the Pro mode, including manual focus for finer control over the focus of your videos.

Samsung touts that the camera has multi-frame processing, which means it takes multiple shots of the same image and puts them together to get the best colors and detail from a scene. This aside, the experience and quality are almost identical to the Galaxy Note 7 and Galaxy S7, with images featuring high amounts of saturation and detail in all but the very darkest of conditions. The camera isn’t the most accurate – Samsung devices never produce the most accurate photos – but the bump in saturation and detail mean the photos look more appealing to the eye compared to other phones.

The only real difference in the camera UI is the addition of a small eye icon in the bottom left of the viewfinder, which fires up the biggest addition to the camera, and the phone itself: Bixby.

Software:

Samsung’s take on the mobile assistant comes in the form of Bixby, which can be found throughout the phone in a lot of different ways. Bixby isn’t the first time Samsung has attempted to offer a virtual assistant, after all the company did launch the infamous S Voice on the Galaxy S3. Despite much hype, it ended up being a poor imitation of Apple’s Siri – and more recently, Google Now – and S-Voice was heavily criticized, quickly forgotten, and slowly it got relegated to the status of one of the first apps you disable when you get your phone.

Samsung is hoping that Bixby doesn’t suffer the same fate and seemingly recognized its weakness with S Voice through the acquisition of Viv, an AI platform that was developed by none other than the makers of Siri. That said, Bixby does not include Viv technology right now, though that will likely change in future iterations.

Samsung’s assistant focuses on three key areas: Vision, Voice and Home.

We’ll start with Bixby Vision, which manifests itself in the camera through the little eye icon. Tapping this fires up Bixby Vision, which brings augmented reality to the camera in a bid to provide information in real time, based on the objects in the viewfinder. The premise of Vision is that it’s meant to be able to deliver reviews on restaurants, shopping links for items, and related images all in real time. While our initial demo looked impressive, Bixby Vision is in a very early stage.

For now, Bixby Vision does do a great job at looking up reviews of wine

Scanning a restaurant name brings up no related info, and scanning a simple water bottle doesn’t bring up any shopping links. Samsung has teamed up with various apps and services to have a wider range of data and while most partnerships seem to be in early stages, Vision does do a great job at looking up reviews of wine. Samsung has partnered with Vivino to bring wine reviews, average selling price, and ratings directly to Vision, and it works as well as the regular Vivino app does.

On the left of the Galaxy S8, you’ve got a dedicated shortcut button to launch Bixby Home, which aims to integrate various apps and services into a single screen in a similar way to Google Assistant. A new reminders app means you can set a reminder from within an application using the share menu and then it appears as a reminder within Bixby Home. While it works well enough overall, you do need to use all of Samsung’s apps that feed into it, rather than say, Google’s native Android apps. For some users, this won’t be an issue but for others, a reliance on Samsung’s apps over others could be a deal breaker, especially as Google’s own apps feed into Assistant which is also present on the Galaxy S8.

For now, Home is the most interesting part of Bixby, at least until Bixby Voice launches later in the year. Voice is expected to offer a lot of the conversational tone, that Google offers with its Assistant, but the biggest issue for Samsung is how long it will take for Bixby Voice to launch. We expected Bixby Voice to be available around the time of the Galaxy S8’s launch later this week, but instead, it’s likely to only be available in South Korea, with an US launch scheduled for later this spring.

Samsung has shown with Samsung Pay that it’s not the fastest at rolling features out to new markets, and with places like Germany not expected to get Bixby Voice until the end of the year, it’s likely that future devices will benefit more from Bixby Voice than the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. Like with all assistants, Samsung will improve Bixby and it will get better with time, but right now, it’s lacking features that make it truly outstanding.

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