Samsung Galaxy S8 Review
This is like the Samsung s8+ almost everything about the Galaxy 8+ to the Galaxy S8. It’s built with:
- Great design
- Best display ever
- Beautiful cameras
- Good processor
- Storage facilities
Features
- 8 inches display instead of 6.2
- The battery is 3,000 MAH instead of 3,500
It comes with some of the problems with S8 + which is the bad location of the fingerprint sensor and the lack lustre debut of Samsung Bixby AL assistance. They are irritating but can be managed because it’s not much of a big deal.
Speed and Stamina
The 8 and 8+ are the first phones to boast of the Qualcomm’s view 10mm snap dragon 835 processor. The results are impressive because the delivery is a faster benchmark, compare to the snap dragon 821 especially for multi-tasking and graphics performance. You won’t notice the difference in many apps because software optimisation is more about how a high-end phone feels compared to the processor performance. The energy efficiency is quite impressive.
Display
A smaller display compared to S8+ which means the lower power requirement means it comes with a smaller battery. The battery will last all day with heavy usage with WIFI and Bluetooth, turn on plus adaptive brightness and all the other sub optimal settings. A bigger phone will last longer mainly because higher capacity will offer more standby to screen time. The phones have excellent battery span because a test was run with the display on and fixed at 200 nits.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Review – More Features
Hardware is more than a great processor speed and long battery span, there are future proofing feature such as:
- Gigabit wireless
- Wireless charges faster with support for both Qi and PMA standards
- USB-C charges faster from zero to 73% in one hour with the included charger
- Storage standard is 64GB
- Supports Micro SD for expansion
- Bluetooth 5 promises longer range, higher bandwidth and faster connections
The IP68 waterproofing is a life saver, although this is not a licence to be careless with the phone. The GS8 speaker’s quality is good, the 32-bit DAC delivers clean and detailed audio from the headphone jack. The two phones come with AKG buds which is one of the best ears bud worth about $100. It produces an excellent built in good quality clear sound. It supports Samsung pay plus the MST technology that is compatible with swipe style card readers. Samsung’s produces lots of technological products that compete with Google and in some cases, it’s difficult to decide which product is better but with the Samsung pay, it beats Google.
The placement of the fingerprint sensor is the major flaw, perhaps there’s a technical reason it was fixed at the side of the camera. This placement wouldn’t have passed the most rudimentary usability testing. The good thing Samsung compensates for this by making the camera and fingerprint reader flush with the phone.
The iris scanner is highly impressive because it is:
- Fast
- Reliable
- Secure
The fingerprint is needed to unlock some apps and unlocking your phone with your eyes is:
- Fast
- Reliable
- Secure
This is good enough to mitigate the disastrous fingerprint scanner placement.
High Water Mark for Display
The Samsung phones have claimed the title of the best display in the last few years and this
phone is not different:
- Peak Brightness
- Best contrast
- Colour accuracy
- Colour gamut
- Sharpness
- Leads the pack in every metric
- Good slopes sides
- Very thin forehead and chin above and below
- Virtual home button at the bottom of the screen
Software
TouchWiz is the previous name given to the software design which has been changed to Samsung experience. You won’t be disappointed at all; it still maintains the wholly Samsung interface built on the top of the latest major version of Android which in this case is Android 7.0. The interface fewer offensive compares to the past it looks great after some adjustments.
There are lots of features with the Samsung Galaxy S8 experience such as:
- The screen stays on while looking because of smart stay
- Launch the camera with a double tap of the power button
- The screen shot function can capture long scrolling screen
- Send your location to emergency contacts with a quick three times press on the power button
- An optional front and rear camera images and a 5 second audio clip
There are lots of detailed ways that the Samsung interface differs from stock android, but not all changes are impressive. The new Samsung experience is different because it’s far better than touch wiz, there are many options regarding the features.
- If you’re not happy with the Samsung puts frame around the app’s icon you can turn off the feature.
- You can choose to show the app drawer button or not
- You can get rid of the app drawer completely and have everything on the home screen
- You can schedule and tweak the blue light filter
- Turn off the LED notification if you want to
- Change the display layout
Samsung Galaxy S8 Review – also boast of:
- App store
- Web browser
- SMS app
- Health app
- Calendar
- Clock
- Contacts
- Phone apps
There are more worthwhile apps such as:
- Secure folder
- File browser
- Support service
Bixby
There are still some works to be done in other for Bixby to compete with the likes of Google assistant or Siri. In the meantime, there are still some positive qualities about Bixby such as the vision which promises future potential. It can be launched from the camera app, the gallery or at the top of the Bixby home screen. You’ll have to point your camera at an object and Bixby will try and identify the object. Identifying objects is not 100 percent accurate for the exception of wine and books.
The best thing about the vision is the ability to scan a business card and import the information directly into the contact app. A button can be found below the volume rocker which summons Bixby. Google assistant is also handy to give the necessary support you won’t get from Bixby. I hope with time Bixby will be able to stand by itself.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Review – Top quality Camera
Smartphones will never earn the title of greatness without great cameras; a good camera is a high priority for most users when it comes to deciding on the type of phone to get. Samsung approach regarding the camera in this phone is conservative, it comes with two cameras:
- A single 12-megapixel rear camera
- An 8-megapixel front camera
The quality and ease of use are great for both cameras, the rear one is like the excellent shooter in the Galaxy S7 at 12 mega pixels with:
- Dual pixel auto focus
- Optical image stabilisation
- At F/1,7 apertures
- A new sensor with new optics
- Improved image processing with algorithms
The front was bumped from 5 to 8 the added auto focus helps to deliver a beautiful selfie. The 
camera’s software is top notch with new filters and stickers plus a clean interface and its:
- Super fast
- Easy auto mode
- A powerful pro mode
- Selective focus
- Slow motion
- Time lapse
- A new food mode that blurs the edges and punches the colour
One might be indecisive about this camera being the best, but no one will argue that it’s one of the best installed in smart phones.
In conclusion
The fingerprint sensor is not well positioned, but the compensation is the excellent iris scanner. It’s a killer phone with a gorgeous display with a fantastic new aspect ratio with a fast and power efficient new processor. The phone does everything needed.
This cutting edge device provides the benefit of effortless high performance and comfort, thanks to an outstanding innovation. The secret behind this stunning device is the amazing design which provides much functionality with effortless power. The device offers an amazing feeling of comfort and control.
