I want that screen...on my iphone. That's about it. Samsung is OEM and the hardware looks good. Software is still the other half though and anything from samsung is bloat. The unwashed masses don't care though. If I going with google, I'd get a google phone though, not a bloatware special POS from samsung.
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Image Leak Reveals Design of 'iPhone 8' Rival [Updated]
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Huh? You do realise everything Apple are adding to the iPhone 8 are what Samsung have had for years?
Don't think about what's happening today but what's going to happen tomorrow (aka think about what's going to happen in five years if current trend prevails). In order to stay truly competitive Apple must have very strong and innovative flagship and competitive low end. In 2009 Android had 4% market share and now it's over 80%. This isn't promising trend for iOS and app development/developers. I truly hope Apple will stay competitive. It's also worth mentioning that my most important apps are not paid apps but free apps used to control third party systems. In this scenario market share is very important. I would truly hate (understatement) to switch to any Google operating system / poroduct(s) but it seems many are more than happy to sell their privacy to get something for "free".
That's a really pretty device
Reliable mobile phone leaker Evan Blass this morning posted what looks like an official press image of the Galaxy S8, Samsung's first flagship phone of 2017.
Coming on the back of last year's Note7 debacle, the S8 represents a hopeful comeback for Samsung's smartphone business and is likely to be the biggest rival to Apple's radically redesigned "iPhone 8" expected to launch later this year.
The single rendered image appears to confirm the expected new minimal-bezel design and the absence of a home button on the front of the handset, with the larger edge-to-edge curved OLED display showing launch icons in the bottom corners of the screen.
On the right side of the handset is a power button, with those on the left side likely to be volume controls and a separate button to activate Bixby, Samsung's new virtual assistant, developed by the original creators of Siri.
It's unclear from the picture which model is shown, but the available display sizes of its Quad HD+ Super AMOLED panel will reportedly be 5.8 inches and 6.2 inches (the latter being for the S8 "Plus", according to Blass). The screen also teases the Galaxy S8 launch date of March 29, as confirmed by Samsung during its relatively low-profile appearance at the Mobile World Congress.
Further spec details have yet to be officially confirmed, but the S8 is expected to feature the Exynos 9 Series 8895 processor, Samsung's first chip built on 10-nanometer FinFET process technology, along with USB-C, wireless charging, iris scanning, a fingerprint sensor on the back, 4GB of RAM and at least 64GB of internal storage, with a 12 megapixel rear camera and an 8 megapixel front camera also in the offing.
Apple is widely expected to use Samsung-made AMOLED display technology in at least one of three possible iPhones to be released this year. Compared to LCD screens, OLED displays are thinner, lighter, and offer more flexibility, making modifications to a phone's form factor and geometry easier to undertake.
Added to these advantages are several performance gains over LCD panels, due to the fact that each sub-pixel in an OLED display is individually directly powered, which typically results in better color accuracy, image contrast accuracy, and screen uniformity.
With an edge-to-edge design, the "iPhone 8" is said to be similar in size to the 4.7-inch iPhone, but with a display the size of the 5.5-inch iPhone. Rumors suggest it will feature a 5.8-inch display with 5.15 inches of usable area, with the rest given over to a "function area" for virtual buttons. Other rumored features include a glass body, iris scanning and some form of wireless charging. Apple is expected to release its new iPhone line-up in the fall.
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Nice rule of thumb if not totally true.
No matter how we want to package it, the method Google and Apple use to announce then roll out new versions is very different. You can't call them the same and then claim one has faults in comparison.
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Yes. Had a 6 Edge - had a screen protector that was edge to edge and a case that was the same.
Bought on Amazon. (Tech Armor and OBLIQ)
So will the iPhone 8, in fact it will simply follow what the Samsung S6 was. Those that think the iPhone 8 will be this new incredible thing just needs to look back 5 years with what Apple has released, they were always behind and will always be behind. Jobs is no longer here, the dream that was Apple died with him, now it's just operating like the rest of them. Genius like that comes just once in a life time. Stop hyping the iPhone 8, if you were in front of me right now I would bet you a $1000 that the iPhone 8 will be nothing special.
You want special, check out what Xiaomi created with the Mi Mix and soon the Mi Mix 2, Sony's new flagship will have the best mobile camera available today, since Apple use Sony's camera modules, they won't give up their edge to Apple. Samsung's new S8 will have less of a bezel than Apple's iPhone 8, in fact Apple won't even be using AMOLED, but OLED. So what, please tell, what will the iPhone have that none of us hasn't sent before, wirless charging over the air, dream on, they're not even using normal wirless charging. Heck, their not even using NFC to its full advantage, why not, simple, iOS, it's a POS OS.
The fact is this, if Apple can't make an phone for under $300 and sell to the idiots for a $1000, it won't happen. WHich means all of that fantasy tech that you believe is coming, oh buts it's been 10 years, yeah, sorry it will never, ever happen. These people are all about the greed, that's it, nothing else. As such if you buy an iPhone 8, your an idiot. Especially when iOS is such a horrible OS, I mean you can't even download a file in the background that takes longer than 10 minutes to finish, ooohhhh super advanced. File system, no, multitasking, no, I mean not in the traditional sense as you can't run multiple apps in the background, FYI, I run at least 9 apps including a friggin LAMP server on my Android phone as well as scriots, PHP, Python, Perl, MySQL, etc. Inner app communication, the worst in the biz, just horrible, external monitor support, again, horrid, I mean, just so, so, bad, UI customizations, no, the list of deficiencies is so long that it would take up a chapter in War and Peace. iOS is, well, just garage. This all do to that ridiculous Walled Garden nonsense, excuse mw, walled prison.
Yes, iOS is a prison and thats just the way Apple likes it.
And the Titanic was unsinkable too.
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But specs matter when they favor Apple. Ditto for market share and sales numbers.
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My wife has a 7 Plus and we both think it's a great experience. If I could find a convenient way to carry it I'd get one too.
The S8 Looks like a solid phone. I think the whole "Edge" design is cunning, but I believe will be short lived. If Apple follows suit (Which I don't believe they will), I'm curious to see how it would differ from the S8. With OLED being heavily rumored, It should be interesting to see how it turns. Then you have to factor Micro-LED in the bigger Picture (Perhaps @Cubanmissiles can weigh in on this more).
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You mean then Apple releases their phone and latest version of iOS that has flaws and bugs.
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Lots of people who don't have much money have iPhones. There's a lot of crap in the App Store too.
And the Chinese empire lasted almost five thousand years.
Anyone can throw out meaningless corollaries. It doesn't mean anything. Apple is nothing like the titanic.
Could Apple fail? Sure. Just like any company.
Will it fail?
Where were all of you when Apple was being criticised left and right from 2012 to 2014 for supposedly being behind the curve?
If you want me to believe you know how and why Apple will fail, then first demonstrate to me you understood how Apple grew, and how it grew to be so large in the first place.
Exactly.
Comparisons of Apple to Blackberry or Microsoft under Ballmer's tenure completely miss the mark. The Apple of today is nothing like those companies, even when they were at the peak of their success and popularity.
That's the biggest drawback to Android, IMO.
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A good point and quite true.
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People will say Samsung copied Apple.
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Now that's courage.
Nice looking device for sure. Too bad about the built in junkware and bloat. Still would probably go for it to upgrade to from my S7e if I did have spare funds to do so.
Samsung looks well on their way to be their own Google or Apple, meaning have their own services, app store, hardware accessories etc. Trying to get away from android.
Samsung looks well on their way to be their own Google or Apple, meaning have their own services, app store, hardware accessories etc. Trying to get away from android.
You are right.
That terrible branding, with samsung on the front and the back, those sensors on the top chin, and the gold/blue/silver fronts make it look cheap.
They should focus on solving that. It is just too much and tacky.
Make a logo, put it on the back, try to hide these sensors and make the front white or black and differentiate with the back glass and alu on the sides.
Apple disagrees. Samsung is one of their major suppliers
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The market as a whole is up about 2% today.
Wow, you really want t make your point on an apple forum.
Doesn' t matter.
I think apple is actually at the point of closing the spec gap with top androids. And better it.
They already are in the lead in the gpu/cpu/soc department.
The gap with the higher res oled screens is about to close this year and a few years after, there will be micro led, of which apple has bought a lot of patents and kniwledge aquiring luxvue.
They lost in the camera department for one year, last year with the s7, that had quite a lead. But apple closed the cap a little. And this year, i believe they will lead or be at least on par.
About the design: with this oled screens, bezelles iphones will be possible, and at least on par with lg/samsung. Apple has quite the lead in materials, they already had alu for years, before the other manifacturers like lg and samsung caught up. They have tons of knowledge on other high end materials like ceramic and (black) stainless steel, sapphire already incorporated in their apple watch, they really have the lead on that.
Wireless charging: samsungs, etc. lead will be gone this year.
No physical button tech /haptic feedback: apple has at least a 2 year lead with forcetouch, 3d touch, taptic engine, and creating the feel of a mechanical button with haptics.
So all of those techies with just looking at their spec sheet instead of user experience, will be in for a treat this year. It took a little time before apple caught up on paper specs, but by spending massive amounts on R&D and buying machines for suppliers, this will be the year that it will really happen. At a price of course.....
But it will have ios and for me it is worth it.