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Samsung launch Galaxy S8 and S8 plus

Samsung has finally launched it most coveted flagship smartphone the Galaxy S8 & S8+ at a event in New York.The all-new smartphones succeed Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge phones that launched in March 2016. Both the smartphones come with the company's home-brewed Bixby digital assistant, rival to Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana. There's a dedicated button to fire up the assistant. "With the new Bixby button, you will be able to conveniently access Bixby and navigate through services and apps with simple voice, touch, vision and text commands," said the company.


Bixby also works well with visuals and uses its intelligence to shop online, identify products, and even translate text from images. Bixby can also recognize locations with the help of landmarks. If you want to buy stuff you see, you can point your camera at the item and Bixby will let you know if it is available online with any of Samsung’s partners.



Samsung elaborated on Samsung Connect next where all your connected apps are at one location, which can be controlled remotely. It allows you to access all your connected devices in your home from anywhere. Samsung also plans to introduce voice supports.Samsung introduces a premium router called Samsung Connect Home – which allows the users to connect Samsung and Smart Things appliances in a better manner.



Galaxy S8 and S8+ run on Google's latest OS Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. Coming to specs, Samsung Galaxy S8 sports a 5.8-inch QuadHD+ (2960x1440) 'Infinity Display' with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection and 570ppi pixel density,while the S8 Plus has 6.2 inched display. No bezels on the phones.The phone is perfectly symmetrical and beautifully curved. 



Infinity display offers a large screen, which means users have to scroll less, and can multi task easily.Denison also talks about how a large screen is more fun for ‘entertainment’ purposes.comes with an end-to-end display which spills over the sides of the phone. The phone is made of pristine glass and an aluminum shell. This the highest ever screen to body ratio on a Samsung smartphone.Furthermore, both Galaxy S8 and S8+ have pressure-sensitive home buttons built right into the phones' screens.

On the optics front, the Galaxy S8 sports a 12MP dual-pixel camera with f/1.7 aperture and OIS. There is also a front-facing 8MP autofocus camera with f/1.7 aperture.

It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor along with 4GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage.The Samsung Galaxy S8 comes with a 3000mAh battery.Galaxy S8 Plus comes with the same RAM and inbuilt storage. The duo support microSD card up to 256GB.It is backed by a larger 3500mAh battery supporting the same wireless fast-charging technology. This time Samsung has taken extra care of the battery after the Note7 failure.Battery safety is addressed next with an 8-point safety check.


It is worth adding that the handsets may be powered by the company's own Exynos 9-series processor in select countries, including India.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 features iris scanning technology, fingerprint scanning (the scanner has been moved to the back this time), as well as facial recognition. Just looking at your phone would now unlock your smartphone (Another feature we’ve seen in the Pixel in the past). Users could also make use of the traditional patterns, PINs and passwords.Samsung also addresses security and mentions biometric security where users don’t type passwords, they are the passwords.


Samsung also made mention of Samsung pay and Samsung health.Quarter of a Billion transactions per day happens through Samsung pay.Whereas Samsung health allows the users to ‘ask an expert’ in the US (Already available in Korea and China). Users can easily take medical advice with the help of the Samsung Health service.

The phone is all set to release on the 21st of April. Every S8 will come with an AKG earphone, which is separately available for $99.Both come in five colour variants - Midnight Black, Arctic Silver, Maple Gold, Coral Blue and Orchid Gray. The duo are also claimed to be the first ones that come with Mobile HDR Premium certification.

The Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ can connect with the new Gear 360, which has been launched at the sidelines, to create 4K 360-degree videos and 15MP photos.


The Samsung Galaxy S8 will begin starting at $720 in the US and at £689 for those in the UK. The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus ranges from $840 to $850 depending on carrier to carrier.



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