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Samsung Galaxy S8 Image Leak Reveals Design of 'iPhone 8' Rival [Updated]
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...because the name is the subject of ambiguity. Some say iPhone 7S and iPhone 8 will be released. Some say the new devices may just be called iPhone 7S. If you look at the forums here you can read different opinions of the users and analysts. There is a typo at the end of the article though, where "iPhone" 8 is stated instead of "iPhone 8" like the rest of the article.
That phone is DOA. Uses SD 821. As far as looks go every phone looks more or less the sameLooks similar to the LG G6 but with curved sides. This year is obviously the year of less bezel on smartphones.
The idiots here will never realize just how much in their precious iWhatever is made, invented and/or designed by other companies.
I am not a fan of the Edge screens for many reasons folks here have already said, but I liked the weight of the Galaxy 7 when I was looking at it in December. The price point is what keeps me away.
I still wish my Moto had some streamlined ways to access settings and a couple other tweaks, but I know my next Android phone won't be this one.
I still wish my Moto had some streamlined ways to access settings and a couple other tweaks, but I know my next Android phone won't be this one.
Ignore him. Spoken like a true fan boy.
I am waiting when people stop complaining about burn in as an inherent OLED flaw once Apple adopts it
Forgive me if this has been covered before... but was there some particular hardware advancement in the past year that is suddenly allowing the bezels to shrink on all major handsets this year? Did every phone manufacturer simply have the same idea at the same time? Here in Canada, our telecoms offer near identical pricing changes in lockstep with each other, and it screams 'cartel'-like behaviour.
But it's so tall !!!
Remember when Apple took the iPhone 4S and made it taller with the iPhone 5 ?
And everyone lost their minds?
Where are the people complaining about this yuuuge tall Samsung phone?
com on m8. did you just say that Samsung is trying to look like Iphone8 which is not even out yet based on some leaks? I think you are getting paranoid really. You know this products are in development for years before they are announced.. right?
If anything i think this time will be the other way around (Since Iphone8 will come later than Samsung ). Good for Samsung. hope the Samsung phone has a jack though
Samsung does indeed shape products around Apple rumors, the same rumors you and I are privy to.
And it usually works out terribly for them. They are still stuck explaining "curved screens" to users, something no one ever wanted, which they rushed to market ahead of the iPhone 6...because rumors....which of course turned out to be curved glass, and nothing to do with the screen itself.
As phone manufacturers run out of more and more ideas they are all going to think about the same incremental features. Just look at the features of the iPhone 8.
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Is that why the iPhone 8 is gonna have curved screens?
thank god it does. All the bezel-free mockups look like fishes. I dont want that.
Well in all fairness they also recently made a phone that caused fires, sent people to the hospital, and re-routed commercial airliners. Who knows what's in store this year.
Bah, the A11 will make the 8895 look like yesterdays news. Apple dominates in Architecture Design. 
Because they're 6 months apart, so Apple gets the upper hand in time for the holidays.
Android's lead is already so large, that there really isn't room for a "gargantuan" increase. As is evidenced here (on MR), there are millions of people that will ALWAYS buy an iPhone and say iOS is the best regardless of how badly Apple screws it up.
"Dirt cheap" phones aren't really meaningful in the US. Maybe third-world countries, but here in the US, there are so many ways to get an iPhone cheap (from free, free w/trade-in, super low monthly payments, etc.) that I don't think a dirt-cheap iPhone (which if Apple did this, the iPhone would be bottom-of-the-barrel specs) would be very attractive here.
That may have been true for Pre-2016 Samsung. The phones they released in 2016 were excellent (with the exception of the exploding Note 7, of course). Toned-down functionality, very fast (and lastingly so). iPhones have been very iterative and boring for years now. Sure, they work, but they bore the crap out of me.
If there's one thing I'd fault Samsung over is the physical durability of the devices. The S7 EDGE scratches extremely easily and if you drop it from a foot, chances are either the front or the back glass (or both) break. I'm really not looking forward to an all-glass iPhone (or S8, for that matter). Even Sony has resorted to a glass back for the XZ Premium - for whatever reason. The standard XZ I've been sporting for a while now was robust and pleasant to use, now they're effing that up as well.
The iPhone isn't inferior. Even if you think the screen is worse, the build quality, camera and chip design are great.
Yup bye bye bezels.
I bet Tim Cook announces the 7S/7S Plus and then does a "one more thing" and shows the world the iPhone X!
I bet Tim Cook announces the 7S/7S Plus and then does a "one more thing" and shows the world the iPhone X!
#1 - We should stick to talking about the flagship phones if you want to even the playing field. Flagship phones are all in the same price range. So yes, that does affect overall app purchasing. But consumers don't care about this metric. Developers do. At the same time - developers create apps for Android because the base is extremely large.
#2. Do they? Do you have a recent study to point to? I will say that unlike iPhone apps, you can get Android Apps from multiple sources. And sometimes these other sources are competitive when it comes to pricing/sales. Something iTunes lacks.
#3. Oh please. There's a ton of crap on the iOS store and the store itself is a hot mess and has been for years.