Samsung Galaxy S8 Review: Attractive Phone With Few Flaws

Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy S8 with much fan fare and rightly so, in that location is a lot riding on the new Samsung flagship. The Galaxy S8 has to make sure that people forget the disaster that was the Note 7 while also making sure everyone gets hyped. Well, so far, it seems the S8 has succeeded. There is a lot of hype effectually the S8, plus, everyone only has skillful things to say about the Samsung device. Simply is everything corking about the Galaxy S8? Well, I have been using the Galaxy S8 (priced at $724.99) equally my daily driver for more than ii weeks now, and so here is my review of the Galaxy S8.

Samsung Milky way S8 Specifications

Before nosotros get started with the review, let's take a look at the specifications of the Galaxy S8:

Dimensions	148.9 ten 68.1 x 8 mm
Weight	155 grams
Brandish	five.8-inch Super AMOLED QHD+ Display (1440 ten 2960 pixels)
Processor	Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 with Adreno 540 GPU or Exynos 8895 Octa with Republic of mali-G71 MP20
RAM	iv GB
Storage	64 GB, microSD back up
Cameras	12 MP f/1.7 rear camera with phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED wink and 8 MP f/1.7 autofocus front photographic camera
Battery	three,000 mAh, QuickCharge 3.0
Android	Samsung Experience UI (Android 7.1.one)
Sensors	Iris scanner, fingerprint, face up recognition, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate sensor, SpO2
Connectivity	Dual SIM, WiFi dual band 802.eleven a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, USB Type C, USB OTG, NFC
Price	$724.99

What's In The Box

The Galaxy S8 comes in a box that is very similar to what Samsung offered with the S7 and S6. Here are the contents of the box:

• The Samsung Galaxy S8, obviously!
• USB Type C cable
• Power Adapter
• Type C to USB cable
• SIM ejector tool
• Booklets
• AKG Earphones

Design and Hardware

Chances are, you will buy the Galaxy S8 for its astonishing blueprint. We have the Midnight Blackness version of the S8 and there'southward no dubiety that the S8 is a stunner. In fact, most people had a "wow" reaction when I showed them the device. The bezel-less blueprint looks zip like the previous flagships. There are no hardware keys for the navigation buttons, which is something I really similar and it too makes up for a beautiful seamless front. There's no Samsung branding on the front either, which also adds to the skillful looks. The metal frame and the glass back also make up for a 1 hell of a gorgeous looking device.

The back has the Samsung branding and on our unit, there's also the Duos logo, signifying the dual SIM adequacy, which does ruin the wait a bit.

Thanks to the bezel-less design, the Galaxy S8 is a very compact device, even with the huge 5.8-inch display. See how information technology compares to the iPhone seven Plus, which has a smaller 5.5-inch brandish. Sorry, Apple fans but the bezels on the iPhone but await hideous now. The Pixel and the iPhone seven too look embarrassing in front of the Pixel because the S8 is like to them when it comes to footprint while packing a much larger brandish.

The bezel-less design also brings up a few changes from last twelvemonth's S7. The fingerprint scanner is on the back, and it's bad-mannered. Well, I'll get dorsum to it afterwards. Plus, the device is narrower and taller, which makes the device much easier to agree because it'south actually slender. Withal, this besides makes reaching for the notification shade a tough task.

Also, while the glass dorsum does look great, it'southward a fingerprint magnet. You can only wipe everything to get the shiny new look renders show yous only the moment you lot utilize information technology, there will be smudges, fingerprints, dirt and what non. That's not all, it'due south a bit slippery and I always fabricated certain to hold information technology properly because first, it's an expensive device and second, if the drop tests are to be believed, the S8 tin exist easily broken.

Other than that, the pattern of the Milky way S8 is flawless, almost. There's a Type C port at the bottom and there is a headphone jack, yay! As I take said almost a one thousand thousand times now, it looks stunning and while the placement of the fingerprint scanner and the glass back accept some caveats, it's not a deal breaker, non for me at least. The S8 is a pleasure to hold and looks really squeamish.

Display

The Milky way S8 volition sell like hot cakes and most people buying it volition get it for the design and the brandish. Well, the great design of the Galaxy S8 is complemented by the gorgeous brandish. Every bit with previous Samsung flagships, there'south a Super AMOLED panel here and it'southward the all-time brandish I have ever seen. Outset off, the brandish has rounded corners and thanks to edge curved pattern, it feels crawly when you take to use a swipe gesture from the sides. It's mesmerizing actually.

The display is a 5.8-inch QHD Plus display, that is 2960×1440, however, past default the phone is but running at Total Hd that is 2220×1080 by default. Evidently, Samsung has done this to brand certain the performance of the device and bombardment are height notch. The good thing is, you can change the resolution and set it max if you want. It's a bit strange but afterwards the Note vii debacle, Samsung is allowed to be paranoid.

Other than that, the device a new 18.five:ix aspect ratio that's similar to the xviii:9 screen on the LG G6, which does cause some problems. Many popular apps similar Netflix, Pocket etc. don't scale up to use this aspect ratio. There'south also a problem of 16:9 videos. While Google is encouraging app developers to back up the new attribute ratio, Samsung has included a fix for videos in 16:9. Whenever a video is playing with the blackness confined, a push pops up that lets you scale the video to full screen but the problem is, yous practice lose some frame of the video.

However, watching videos and movies on the gorgeous display is a treat. The display is sharp and offers vibrant colors and deep blacks, something that's expected of AMOLED displays. Plus, as with Samsung, the display brings a little extra saturation merely information technology looks very pleasing to the eye. The display as well offers decent maximum effulgence and great minimum brightness and the sunlight visibility of the display is astonishing, i of the best I take seen. In that location's also the very cool Always-on feature, which shows you notifications, forth with other info.

Overall, the S8 has 1 of the best displays on a smartphone ever and that in itself is plenty for me to purchase this phone.

Cameras

Samsung flagships have always featured cameras that go toe to toe with the iPhones and the S8 is no exception. The S8 packs in a 12 MP Dual Pixel rear camera with an aperture of f/1.7, OIS, stage detection autofocus and an LED flash. Really, the rear photographic camera on the S8 is pretty similar to what the South Korean behemothic offered with the S7 simply it's still one of the best smartphone cameras right now.

The device captures some great shots in both ample light too as depression light and while the camera does oversaturate things, the photos wait not bad. Also, thanks to the college aperture, the S8 camera captures more than light, so the shots always have great details and good lighting. The HDR mode too works well, and the dynamic range in photos is pretty good. Here are some shots nosotros took from the S8:

All's non practiced though, the flash is very harsh and if you tend to use flash for your photos, you won't similar it. Plus, if y'all like natural realistic photos, yous will not be a fan of the S8 camera.

On the front, the S8 packs in an viii MP autofocus camera with f/1.vii aperture, making it i of the first smartphones to pack an autofocus selfie camera. Well, the photos from the S8's front camera come up out keen. They are bright, thank you to the higher discontinuity and also have decent detail. However, the front camera does lack when information technology comes to the dynamic range. Other than that, the S8 captures some great selfies. Check out a few selfies I took from the S8:

Plus, the Samsung camera app offers a ton of options and modes to play with. Along with the usual shooting modes, the Samsung app brings a Pro mode, which brings transmission controls for ISO, shutter speed, white remainder, focus etc. Plus, there are tons of filters, and Snapchat like masks for the front end camera. I like the manual controls, merely the masks, non so much.

Overall, the cameras on the Milky way S8 are really really nice. Y'all can as well cheque out our video, where nosotros compared the S8 camera with Pixel's in detail.

Operation

In the US and other western countries, the Galaxy S8 is powered by the latest and greatest Snapdragon 835 octa-cadre processor with Adreno 530 GPU, while other countries get the S8, powered by the Exynos 8895 processor with Republic of mali-G71 MP20 GPU. The device features 4 gigs of RAM, which is surprising, because Samsung's very own C9 Pro comes with half dozen GB RAM. Having said that, the device is pretty snappy.

When it comes to benchmarks, the S8 tops the list when it comes to multi-core performance. However, the iPhone vii'south A10 Fusion chip is still the one to beat when it comes to single-core performance. When it comes to AnTuTu scores, the iPhone 7 beats the S8 by a slight margin. Talking about the graphics prowess, the iPhone 7 is ahead of the S8 but in that location are a lot of factors hither. The S8'southward Mali GPU has to push out QHD Plus pixels.

Well, to be honest, most high-end smartphones these days perform really well and the S8 does not really blow up the competition when it comes to real world functioning. However, I'm glad that the Samsung flagship is responsive only there are reasons to be a little skeptic. Samsung phones, even the high-end ones are known to ho-hum down over time. Will that exist the case with the S8? Well, no i knows right now. So, fingers crossed! Hopefully, the S8 manages to surprise us when it comes to long term performance.

User Interface

• The Samsung Feel UI

I have never really been a fan of Samsung's TouchWiz UI and when I started out with the S8, I had kind of made up my heed that'south information technology going to suck. Well, I'k glad to tell yous that's not the example. I accept been pleasantly surprised past the new "Samsung Experience UI" on the Galaxy S8. At that place are a few gimmicks hither and there merely I'one thousand happy that I don't need to install the Nova Launcher on the S8. The home screen is inspired by the Pixel Launcher, with a swipe up to open the app drawer. Plus, a swipe up in the app drawer brings you back to the habitation screen. Other than the new Samsung launcher, there are new icons with a wireframe design, which look pretty dainty to me. However, if you'd like a stock Android look, there are diverse themes, wallpapers, icon packs and fifty-fifty different types of always on displays to download from the Samsung Store.

The S8 likewise comes with its own native apps, like phone, contacts, messages, camera, clock etc. and they are pretty capable. While at that place has been a lot of contend over should Samsung really exist making these apps when Google already offers them. Well, I don't listen Samsung apps and they certainly don't ruin the experience. All the Samsung apps have a bright UI, which makes them look great. Also, they are all feature packed. I accept been using them and I similar some apps more than their Google counterparts.

Forth with the skillful looks, the software on the S8 comes with a ton of customization options, likewise every bit handy features. When you dig deep in the different options in the Settings folio, yous volition find a ton of options. Let me tell yous my favorite options and features. I honey the fact that Samsung has included a Bluish Calorie-free Filter mode and the fact that you can swap the navigation bar keys. The lovely Always on Brandish too can be customized to view dissimilar content and clock styles. There are too the Edge panels, which come in really handy when you need to launch an app apace, or contact someone or select a part of the screen to take a screenshot or GIF. Plus, there are various Edge panels you tin download, which is astonishing.

That'southward non all! The device comes with a Game Launcher, which makes sure that resource are properly managed while playing games. Then, there'south one-handed mode, which works similar a charm and Samsung Laissez passer, which is a password manager service. Another notable characteristic is the Secure Folder, which works as the proper name suggests but in my usage, information technology was a fleck too slow for my liking. Likewise, there are other useful services, similar Samsung Cloud and Samsung Pay.

Yes, Samsung has just packed the S8 with every feature they got their hands on while managing to make the device feel restrained. You heard that right. At no point of time did I discover the S8 overwhelming. The good thing is, Samsung hasn't put all of these features on your face and they are but there.

• Bixby

The most hyped software feature of the S8 has to be Bixby. In fact, Samsung was so confident of the AI assistant that it put a dedicated push button to launch it. This push button only launches Bixby and while ways to remap it take come popped out, Samsung has made sure that they don't work. So, is Bixby worth a dedicated button? Well, No! Out of the box, Bixby does non even have the voice features yet, which is surprising. There's the Google Now similar Bixby folio on the home screen that brings you cards on weather, alarms, reminders, news etc. It too works with your social media accounts to bring you personalized cards. And then, how is information technology unique from the Google Now page? Well, I don't know.

There's also Bixby Vision, which is like to Google Goggles and what Amazon offers in its app. You can simply launch Bixby Vision, betoken the camera to an object and it will place the object for you. It's certainly a decent novelty feature but is it actually useful? I'thousand not sure!

Well, if you ask me, Bixby is a failed attempt from Samsung!

Telephony and Audio Performance

When information technology comes to the audio functioning, the S8 comes with a rear mounted speaker and information technology's pretty decent. It'south louder than the likes of iPhone 7, vii Plus and Pixel and brings decent clarity. However, it does sound one-directional because there's one speaker. On the phone calls front end, the S8 is neat, every bit yous'd wait from a modern twenty-four hours flagship.

Also, the S8 comes with premium AKG earbuds, which the company claims is worth $100. I'm non sure if they are worth 100 dollars but they are pretty good and far better than what Apple offers with the iPhone vii or what Google offers with the Pixel. It does lack bass simply makes upwardly for it with great sound quality.

Bombardment Performance

The battery operation on the S8 is pretty average. The three,000 mAh battery on the S8 volition only last you lot a twenty-four hour period if you are a moderate user. For instance, in my solar day to solar day usage, where I always had the telephone continued to mobile data or WiFi, had always on display turned on all the time, the display resolution set to FHD+, the device lasted for around 18 to xx hours, with a screen on fourth dimension of around 15 percentage, that is 3 hours. When I bumped upwards the screen resolution to QHD+, I did notice a slight dip in bombardment operation, with the battery lasting for around 15 hours with 3 hours of screen time.

On extensive usage, the bombardment does drain a lot faster. In a mean solar day where I took a lot of photos and videos, while too making calls, checking social media, browsing the web, the device lasted for around 9-ten hours.

The S8 does accuse very fast, so at that place's that. The S8 charges to 100 from 15 percent in ane hr 15 minutes . In comparison, Pixel does it in ane hr 42 minutes while the iPhone 7 does it in ane hour 20 minutes when it merely has a meager 1900 mAh bombardment. The bombardment performance on the S8 is definitely boilerplate only yep, information technology charges real fast.

The Diverse Scanners

You saw this coming, didn't you lot? Well yes, the fingerprint scanner on the S8 is a huge annoyance. Thanks to its weird placement next to the camera sensor, I frequently touched the photographic camera lens instead of the fingerprint scanner. Information technology'due south besides non the fastest or the well-nigh responsive fingerprint sensor out in that location. Information technology has an awkward design, which results in the scanner taking also long when you are calculation fingers. Too, since I was using a case on the device, reaching out the fingerprint was a tough job. Samsung has included fingerprint gestures like the Pixel, which don't really matter, because y'all should be able to reach the fingerprint scanner easily to utilize information technology.

Now, I'm non sure if this comes in the proficient things or the bad things of the S8. Well, let'south merely say the face recognition and the iris scanner on the S8 are okay-ish. Let me first put it out there: I'1000 not a big fan of the Iris Scanner because it requires to scan your optics at a specified position while widening them.

So, when I set up the Face up Recognition and institute out that it works, and that too amazingly fast in my first few tries, I was delighted. However, my joy was short lived. The Face Scanner is only besides inconsistent to rely on. I'd empathise if information technology fails to piece of work when it's dark only information technology fails even indoors when there'southward low-cal. Plainly, it only works at an bending and when at that place's low-cal on your confront. And then, I constantly fabricated a fool of myself staring into the telephone while waiting for information technology unlock. Non cool Samsung!

The Competition

Well, the Galaxy S8 is a flagship smartphone and thus, competes with the best smartphones there are. There's the iPhone 7, the Google Pixel, the recently launched LG G6 and while they are pretty great smartphones, they don't really match up to the premium pattern of the S8. In fact, information technology will exist difficult for even the Pixel two or the iPhone viii (or 7s or 10 or any they plan on calling it) to vanquish the S8'southward design. The Milky way S8 has its flaws but information technology'south nevertheless as shut equally it gets to being a perfect smartphone.

Pros:

• Gorgeous pattern
• One of the all-time displays
• Fluid performance
• Great camera
• Decent speakers
• AKG earphones are good

Cons:

• Slippery build
• Weird placement of fingerprint scanner
• Face up Recognition is inconsistent
• Average battery performance
• Bixby is useless, as of now

Run into ALSO: fifteen Cool Galaxy S8 Tricks and Hidden Features You lot Should Know

Galaxy S8 Review: Pros Outweigh Cons

You must have noticed that the bad things well-nigh the S8 outnumber the good things about information technology but trust me, I all the same think the Milky way S8's pros outweigh its cons. The bezel-less pattern and the curved brandish are something that will definitely become you excited. Plus, it packs in groovy cameras, refined software, decent speakers, sleek performance and handy additional touches similar the pressure level sensitive push button and the AKG earphones. However, its shortcomings include the weird fingerprint scanner, the inconsistent face recognition feature, the poor to average battery and well, useless Bixby. So, should you buy the S8? Well, if y'all enquire me, I would get the S8 but for that amazing brandish and design.

What well-nigh you? Volition y'all be buying the Milky way S8 over the iPhone seven and the Google Pixel? Let me know your thoughts on the Samsung flagship in the comments section beneath.

REVIEW OVERVIEW
Pattern and Build Quality 9
Display 10
Cameras 9
Functioning ix
Bombardment vii
Software eight.five
Telephony and Audio 9
SUMMARY The Galaxy S8 packs in a stunning design and a cute display. Information technology also features bang-up cameras, refined software, decent speakers, sleek functioning and handy additional touches similar the pressure sensitive button and the AKG earphones. However, its shortcomings include the weird fingerprint scanner, the inconsistent face up recognition characteristic, the poor to average battery and well, useless Bixby.	viii.eight OVERALL SCORE

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