Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S8 Impressions!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here and the day we’ve been waiting for is finally here, the samsung galaxy s8 and s8 plus are officially revealed now. I say that a little bit ironically, obviously, because this phone was leaked everywhere, but it’s okay, it’s good to actually like see it in person now and feel it in the hand. So now that everything is officially official, this is everything you need to know about this new phone. First of all, from the very beginning, it was all about that display the design, the lack of bezels, just the jaw dropping edge to edge nature of that front panel. That’S where samsung went all in with this phone, so the galaxy s8 is rocking a 5.8 inch, 2960×1440 oled display and the s8 plus is rocking a 6.2 inch oled with the same resolution. So that’s extremely sharp and that’s an 18 and a half by 9 aspect ratio for those counting. So it’s a little bit taller even than the 2×1 aspect ratio from the lg g6.
So these are huge displays and very tall resolutions. But, of course, the footprint of these phones, when you compare them to something with a more traditional, larger bezel, it’s awesome. It fits in the footprint of a phone with a way smaller screen, they’re, calling it the infinity display. I’M calling it like the almost bezel-less look. You can call it whatever you want. I really like it now: it’s not a completely new concept.
The galaxy s7 edge had the display glass melting over the edges already last year, but for some reason that phone’s edges always felt like kind of sharp to me. Never really got quite comfortable with it, but the s8 edges here feel much softer, they’re much more seamless feeling than before, which no doubt took a lot of careful engineering and then, of course, they push the display further up to the top and further towards the bottom Of the phone by getting rid of the physical buttons and replacing them with software buttons, so, okay. Finally, samsung is actually now switching from hardware buttons on the bottoms and the chins of all their phones to the software on-screen buttons, that’s great.
I love them. But what does that mean? We lose by switching well, first of all, samsung’s software buttons are not pretty. I mean, maybe it’s just me, but i think they’re, pretty ugly, uh and they’re. Also out of order like the back button should still be on the left, but luckily we can reorder these buttons in the software to switch the order. If we want, we can’t change the way they look, but there’s that and you also lose a physical home button which had the fingerprint reader on it on the last phone.
So the fingerprint reader now here moves up to the back of the phone and way up by the camera. This one is kind of a stretch and i actually don’t mind you know fingerprint readers on the backs of phones like on the pixel xl, for example, when i’m holding my phone in a normal reading position, the fingerprint reader is actually easily reachable. So i don’t mind that it’s in the middle of the back, but these stretched out samsung phones are a little bit taller. So even with my big hands, holding the s8 in a normal position puts the fingerprint reader just a little bit out of reach.
So i have to stretch a bit to find it and then with the s8 plus again, when it’s way up at the top of the phone like this. If i just hold it normally, and i turn the phone over it’s like completely out of place and if i try to find it blind, there’s not really a big indentation to know exactly where it is. So. That’S definitely something that’s going to take some getting used to many people. I think, will need to use two hands with this. In fact, in the official samsung commercial, the dude does it with two hands so that fingerprint reader placement is a little odd, but i think everything else about this hardware samsung pretty much hit it out the park.
This finally feels like a 2017 or even 2020, futuristic smartphone design in the seamless, beautiful type of way that we dream of, but without sacrificing really any functionality or features it’s still thin and pretty lightweight phone. It still has usb type c at the bottom, with fast charging. It still has a headphone jack. It’S still fully ip68 water resistant still has wireless charging still has a micro sd card slot for expandable storage and with all that sandwiched between the sheets of metal and glass. The galaxy s8 will also have pretty much some of the best specs you can find in any android phone, so snapdragon 835, four gigs of ram first phone in the world with bluetooth 5.0, and it brings iris scanner also back from the dead. From that galaxy note, 7.: my only question mark here is the battery the only difference between the s8 and the s8 plus there’s not any features, it’s just the physical size, so the displays are different and the battery sizes are different.
It’S three thousand milliamp hours on the galaxy s8 and 3500 milliamp hours on the s8 plus and a 3000mah battery can seem decent, maybe a little bit small. But the number one draw of battery on a phone is the display and it’s so easy to forget. While holding that this is a 5.8 inch display, it’s huge, so a 3 000 milliamp hour battery on a 5.8 inch display not really too sure if that’s going to hold up and then same thing with the bigger one.
The s8 plus is a 3 500 milliamp hour battery, which seems pretty decent size, but it’s a 6.2 inch display. Not a lot of 6.2 inch display phones out there and it’s also a super high res super bright display. I mean that’s going to be a big draw. That’S definitely something we’re going to be testing for the full review. Now the cameras on the back of this phone, as far as i can tell, are the same as the galaxy s7 from last year. So 12 megapixel camera, f, 1.7 aperture optical image, stabilization the whole deal it’s high-end and that’s not a bad thing at all.
That was a really good camera, but obviously that’s not exactly pushing the limits here. It’S just a pretty safe bet. That will do you just fine and then, of course, there’s the software.
A lot of people have mixed feelings about this stuff, including me. Obviously, i like stock android – and this is not that this is samsung’s ux on top of android 7.0, with all their slightly redesigned. Colorful icons and launcher and everything here it feels fine with the hardware they have a new set of wallpapers to look pretty great on this display and the home screen. Icons and widgets are a little tweaked, but overall it’s nothing drastically different from before. There are some neat tricks up at sleeve, like there’s this button that shows up when you’re watching youtube videos full screen that basically lets you do what the ipad does and punch in a little bit to fill the display. If you really hate the black bars on the side, your call, obviously you can still rearrange the software buttons at the bottom, like i said, i’m sure we’ll find even more stuff when we get to playing with this phone even more, but the biggest new software feature Of the galaxy s8 is actually its personal assistant called bixby, and to me it’s a little bit confusing just the way it exists on the phone at least to users. I think so. Bixby does all the same things that google assistant does, but by samsung. Instead of by google, so you can it’ll show you a bunch of cards in an order, that’s relevant to you, so it tries to show you information that it thinks is important before you need it. It’S really similar to google now and what google does with the cards.
You can access it by swiping over from your home screen. Just like google and bixby even has its own freaking button on the side of the phone look power button on one side, then volume, rocker and bixby button. On the other side, that’s a big commitment. Now, to be fair, there were a bunch of other like image, recognition and context recognition things uh that they claimed bixby could do, but they couldn’t show us any of these things. That’S going to be launching with the phone, but the funny thing is. This is still an android phone, it’s still android 7.0, which means it still also has google assistant on the phone.
If you long press the home button, sure enough, you get google assistant popping right up. So it’s weird. I got this s voice, rebooted type of vibe, with those two things doing the same thing existing next to each on their own, the phone, it’s kind of a weird thing. Obviously, we all know how s voice went down, and i really hope that this isn’t as bad as s voice we’ll give it the benefit of the doubt we’ll see when it launches, but until then that’s just kind of a cross.
Your fingers and hope type of thing so, overall, as a package, the galaxy s8 is pretty impressive promising. I might even say to me, it looks like samsung really picked their battles with this one. There are certain areas where they they clearly really wanted to go all out and push the boundaries, the design the display, and it shows – and it’s that’s on the outside of the phone, but other areas where they’re definitely not pushing forward too hard, are also pretty obvious. The camera the battery, but as an entire phone, i’m pretty optimistic for the galaxy s8.
So there you have it. That’S everything that you need to know with this new flagship. It’S coming out on april 21st. That’S when you can be able to get it feel free to share this video with anyone who, you think might be interested in this bomb new flagship.
Well, actually, probably, hopefully not bomb it i mean it might be the bomb, but like not the bomb. In that way, you know what i mean. I think you know what i mean thanks for watching expect a full review of this phone obviously talk to you guys in the next one peace .