Samsung Unveils Galaxy S8 and S8+ With Iris and Facial Recognition, No Home Button

[Gix1k]

I ordered the S8, coming from iPhone 7+. Just smaller than 7+ and just bigger than 7. Perfect size! Excited!!!!

 

[9081094]

I ordered the S8, coming from iPhone 7+. Just smaller than 7+ and just bigger than 7. Perfect size! Excited!!!!

Let us know how it compares. And congratulations with your decision. I'm waiting for a new IMac, but if it's not suiting my needs I'll change the whole eco. So I would like to know if you're satisfied with the S8. Especially since you change from the best iPhone there is.

 

[Gix1k]

Let us know how it compares.

I will. Bought outright and keeping my iPhone just in case..lol. Will miss the iMessage fun I have with Fiance and synergy with my Mac/iPad/Watch.

 

[9081094]

I will. Bought outright and keeping my iPhone just in case..lol. Will miss the iMessage fun I have with Fiance and synergy with my Mac/iPad/Watch.

iMessage is good when you live in the USA. Not good when you live here because WhatsApp is the standard here.

 

[Gix1k]

Let us know how it compares. And congratulations with your decision. I'm waiting for a new IMac, but if it's not suiting my needs I'll change the whole eco. So I would like to know if you're satisfied with the S8. Especially since you change from the best iPhone there is.

I got to mess with it yesterday..

 

[9081094]

What was your first impression comparing it to the iPhone 7 plus you're using?

 

[bigjnyc]

This phone seamlessly running iOS and i would be in heaven (yes i know it would never happen)

 

[Gix1k]

What was your first impression comparing it to the iPhone 7 plus you're using?

First thing I said was "wow"!!! It's all screen. Very thin. It's narrow, too. The s8+ is wider than the S8. I have the Apple silicon case on my iPhone, so I was comparing size with that on. The S8+ is about from the earpiece up taller than the iPhone 7+.
It makes every phone look dated. The build is fantastic. Only thing I'm concerned about is the Bixby button. They must have a lot of confidence in Bixby to have a dedicated button for it. I mean Google Now is a fantastic product. Bixby isn't set to start working until the 20th, so no one has been able to see it in action.

 

[Michael Scrip]

To all of your points.. You are talking about the now. I was expressing thoughts about the future. A what might all this become scenario and generally thinking this is an exciting idea and I'm happy that MS and Samsung are are trying these things out.

Sure. There's always the future.

But this isn't the first time we've seen a phone that turns into a "desktop experience". That's what I was talking about. Do we think Samsung will be the company who finally cracks it?

I'd honestly like to see a Google Pixel phone that turns into a ChromeOS experience. ChromeOS and Chromebooks are already an accepted thing.

No one knows what "DeX" is anyway and I'm still not convinced it will take off.

But anything is possible.

 

[Kabeyun]

/silly fanboyism in the alternative universe

Samsung's curved, bezeless, all-screen front display ambition has been brewing for a long time, first fruit of which was this monstrosity. (circa 2014) That was before iPhone 6 came out, when the iPhone 5S/5C was still the contemporary Apple's best.

And surely you are aware that Samsung is the only manufacturer who has not given up on OLED for smartphones, and pushed the tech every year while LCD tech has been stagnant for ages? Without Samsung's innovation we wouldn't have an OLED iPhone. And without OLED there is no curved display. I hate to break this to you but in this case the one who is copying is Apple, not Samsung, for a simple reason that Apple does not have the technology for Samsung to copy.

I love Apple products' finesse, but people need to pull their head out of sand and give credit where its due.

Your entire counterargument, that Samsung can't possibly have followed Apple's design and jumped ahead with a release, and that I'm a fanboy living in an alternative universe, is that Samsung likes OLED screens? I'm not sure I understand how one follows the other.

But yes, that was indeed a monstrosity.

 

[9081094]

First thing I said was "wow"!!! It's all screen. Very thin. It's narrow, too. The s8+ is wider than the S8. I have the Apple silicon case on my iPhone, so I was comparing size with that on. The S8+ is about from the earpiece up taller than the iPhone 7+.
It makes every phone look dated. The build is fantastic. Only thing I'm concerned about is the Bixby button. They must have a lot of confidence in Bixby to have a dedicated button for it. I mean Google Now is a fantastic product. Bixby isn't set to start working until the 20th, so no one has been able to see it in action.

I'm really interested what's your opinion over a month or so. I'll ask you again in a month. Would like if you want to give an unbiased answer from what you experience. How it compares to iOS etc. thanks in advance

 

[The Game 161]

Looking forward to all the youtube reviews when they have had it for weeks

 

[shk718]

same sensor but new image processing chip that will take better photos

who cares if a photo will work just use fingerprint or Iris.

You're claiming a photgraph of a fingerprint can be used to unlock the iphone? - that is incorrect - it cant.

 

[kilcher]

This phone seamlessly running iOS and i would be in heaven (yes i know it would never happen)

I agree. I've only ever had iPhones but if Apple doesn't come out with something close this year I may be switching. That screen is beautiful.

 

[Harloh]

If you're as passionate about people reading what you have to say as you are at writing it, please would you format your text legibly, thank you.

I'll post, write however I like. You are free to move on to another person's post.

 

[62tele]

Apple will not be as clueless. A pure android system on an android phone is not to be taken lightly.

Who says Apple takes anyone lightly? However, Apple goes it's own way much of the time. It eschews features and concepts from others. Apple created an entirely new product category with the iPhone with a new interface. So again I ask what groundbreaking new device will Google develop to render the iPhone obsolete or inferior. What real expertise does Google have in hardware design compared to Apple?
Something may replace the current smartphone paradigm including the iPhone but it's not a Pixel phone. it won't be a Windows phone either.

 

[thekeyring]

Every decision that Apple has made since Steve passed was made under an Accountant.

If you were not aware, they made their accountant into their CEO.

Their Accountant king decided that it was time to:

Stick it to their pro user community in software
Stick it to their pro user community in hardware
Not invent a world-changing wearable ecosystem
Not invent a world-changing vehicle
Not invent a world-changing home automation ecosystem
Not invent a world-changing health data ecosystem​

Instead, decided to keep all the money in the bank and collect (until recently) his hefty bonuses.

He only allowed spending on the tweaking and incremental improvement of the old Steve-era ideas.

My thesis is that milking old ideas without coming up with ones is a great strategy...right up until it isn't. And by the time it isn't, it's too late.

Dirtfarmer

PS you are literally the only person in the world who thinks that the iMac was not revolutionary.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=imac...&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=PY7eWLrIMMaYjwPV3rmACg

Have you seen their R&D spending? You know what, never mind. I don't think facts or logic will work on you.

 

[wxman2003]

Who says Apple takes anyone lightly? However, Apple goes it's own way much of the time. It eschews features and concepts from others. Apple created an entirely new product category with the iPhone with a new interface. So again I ask what groundbreaking new device will Google develop to render the iPhone obsolete or inferior. What real expertise does Google have in hardware design compared to Apple?
Something may replace the current smartphone paradigm including the iPhone but it's not a Pixel phone. it won't be a Windows phone either.

Google isn't trying to steal iPhone customers from Apple. All they need to do get the fragmented android consumer market to switch to them. By doing that, they would become the dominant player in the game, considering 83% of the phones out there are android. Of course that isn't going to happen overnight. That will take years. I'm not saying the Pixel is a game changing phone. It isn't. It's just an android device. What I am speaking about is market share. Google would love to be the big dog.

 

[bigjnyc]

I agree. I've only ever had iPhones but if Apple doesn't come out with something close this year I may be switching. That screen is beautiful.

I agree, I think Apple dodged a bullet with the note 7 fiasco.... they wont be as lucky this year. I really think Samsung was poised to take a lot of iPhone users away before their batteries started blowing up. If the rumors are true that Apple is going to recycle the same design for a 4th year in a row and offer a $1,000 premium device on the side then they are in trouble.

 

[wxman2003]

I doubt Apple will ever be in trouble based on what Samsung does. I really do wonder if the sales of the S8 and S8 Plus are going poorly. Still no back order on the Verizon site, and now they are offering an additional 10% off the price.

 

[Dirtfarmer]

Have you seen their R&D spending? You know what, never mind. I don't think facts or logic will work on you.

No doubt that they have spent some money, but not a lot relative to revenues or cash flow.

They have a fraction of a trillion dollars as a cash hoard.

Meanwhile, in the marketplace they are swinging at the pitches they keep striking out.

Why they can't seem to win anymore is anyone's guess, but the proof is in the pudding.

They are being destroyed in every market sector and have declined to create or redefine any new ones.

This is a dramatic shift from the Apple of 1997-2011.

 

[wxman2003]

No doubt that they have spent some money, but not a lot relative to revenues or cash flow.

They have a fraction of a trillion dollars as a cash hoard.

Meanwhile, in the marketplace they are swinging at the pitches they keep striking out.

Why they can't seem to win anymore is anyone's guess, but the proof is in the pudding.

They are being destroyed in every market sector and have declined to create or redefine any new ones.

This is a dramatic shift from the Apple of 1997-2011.

Tell that to the stock market.

 

[Peter Abs]

There are really great touches in this phone that are missing from iPhones that would make a big difference in daily use. Samsung are so far ahead of the game right now. I still don't "want" a Samsung phone... but I really need to see these features in the next iPhone otherwise it's making less and less sense to stick with Apple...

 

[MH01]

So say certain people who are either being intentionally obtuse, or have some other agenda. The iPhone 7 was the first iPhone since I believe the iPhone 4 that completely lived up to all the rumors, it got every one of them to my surprise. Everything from the dual cameras to water resistance, to dual stereo speakers, to the haptic home button. Anyone that claims it was an incremental upgrade is full of it.
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Don't confuse a jumbled mess for being technically superior. I know people at the top of the tech world who will only use iPhones just for the security alone.
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So am I imagining things here, or are you just trying to prove why we have Trump in the White House?

And I'm sorry, the back of Samsung phones is a cluttered mess of circles, squares, and logo's. No thanks.

Very simple, the S8 comes in one size . You misread somewhere that there are storage options. Simple.

 

[calzon65]

And that is precisely what makes Apple so awesome in my book. That they march to their own beat and don't care two hoots about what the rest think.

I can't argue that Apple has been right many times and yes, they have led many times with innovative world-changing ideas, but with some ideas/products they have also failed. Don't forget the Apple III, the Lisa (in landfills today), the Newton, or the original mobile.me (a cluster mess). Even though I admit they have had more wins than failures, they have had some monstrous failures so they are not infallible.