All About Samsung Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8

galaxy s8Samsung may still be trying to make up for its debilitating hardware nightmare, but it has one distinct advantage: it’s launching its new flagship phone, the Galaxy S8 early enough in the year that it gets to help establish a new standard for what a 2017 premium smartphone should be. The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch display crammed into what feels like a normal-sized phone, with a barely-there bezel. That alone is a feat of engineering, but the phone is also a thing of beauty to look at. It has a clean, unbranded face; a bright, fluid-looking display; and a mirror-like glass back. So far, the one bad thing we’ve noted about the display is its bizarre aspect ratio, which might result in pillarboxed 16:9 videos. Otherwise, Samsung has pulled off an optical magic trick. By the way, if you still want an actual phablet: there’s a version with a 6.2-inch display, too.BETTER SELFIE CAMERA Samsung was uncharacteristically… subdued when it came to the Galaxy S8’s photo-snapping capabilities, but that might be because the biggest change was made to the front-facing camera, not the rear camera. The selfie camera now captures 8-megapixel photos with an f/1.7 lens, and also has autofocus capabilities. In our brief tests of the front-facing camera, autofocus worked well and fast.

Full specification of Samsung Galaxy S8

NETWORK Technology GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE

 

LAUNCH Announced 2017, March
Status Available. Released 2017, April

 

BODY Dimensions 148.9 x 68.1 x 8 mm (5.86 x 2.68 x 0.31 in)
Weight 155 g (5.47 oz)
Build Corning Gorilla Glass 5 back panel
SIM Single SIM (Nano-SIM)
Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) – G950FD, G9500
  – Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified)
– IP68 certified – dust/water proof over 1.5 meter and 30 minutes

 

DISPLAY Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.8 inches (~83.6% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1440 x 2960 pixels (~570 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5
  – 3D Touch (home button only)
– Always-on display
– TouchWiz UI

 

PLATFORM OS Android 7.0 (Nougat)
Chipset Exynos 8895 Octa – EMEA
Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 – US model
CPU Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz & 4×1.7 GHz) – EMEA
Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) – US model
GPU Mali-G71 MP20 – EMEA
Adreno 540 – US model

 

MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) – single-SIM model
microSD, up to 256 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – G950FD, G9500
Internal 64 GB, 4 GB RAM

 

CAMERA Primary 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm, phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED flash, check quality
Features 1/2.5″ sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama
Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, HDR, dual-video rec., check quality
Secondary 8 MP, f/1.7, autofocus, 1440p@30fps, dual video call, Auto HDR

 

SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
  – 32-bit/384kHz audio
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

 

COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
NFC Yes
Radio No
USB 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

 

FEATURES Sensors Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML5
Java No
  – Samsung DeX (desktop experience support)
– Fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0)
– Qi/PMA wireless charging (market dependent)
– ANT+ support
– S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
– MP4/DivX/XviD/H.265 player
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
– Photo/video editor
– Document editor

 

BATTERY   Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery
Talk time Up to 20 h (3G)
Music play Up to 67 h

 

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