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Friday, April 7, 2017

Is the S8 gr8? by Karthik Sankar

Is the S8 gr8?
Samsungs flagship phones are a major part of what people think of when they think of Android. In fact, many people regularly use the names Samsung and Android interchangeably. Due to all that there is a lot of hype around the launch of the S8 (Officially launches on April 21).

Great new features in the S8 include:
  • The “Infinity display”. Samsung took the “edge” concept from the S7 to a new level with a bigger display in the same phone size.
  • The front camera went from 5 Megapixels on the S7 to 8 Megapixels on the S8.
  • The new iris scanner allows quick access to your phone. All you have to do is open your eyes!

Poor design choices on the S8 include:
  • They didn’t really upgrade the back camera. In fact it has the same number of megapixels and the S8 (12 Megapixels).
  • Like another phone brand (starts with A ends with pple) Samsung decided to kill their home button but they took it a step forward and put the finger print scanner on the back. This makes it uncomfortable to unlock and makes you more likely to smudge your camera.
  • Bixby... It’s Samsung's new personal assistant that has its own button. Unfortunately google already has a inbuilt personal assistant called Google Assistant. Bixby is really just bloatware.

Conclusion:

In this case the pros outway the cons because the cons are really just minor inconveniences compared to the amazing functionality of the S8. In short, this is a great phone!

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