Let's face it. Samsung has been in the eye of the storm. Yes, with reason. Naysayers wondered if they could ever recover from the massive debacle last year. Loyalists, hoped they would do better; and tech enthusiasts, they were watching their every move. The spotlight was on their new launch, Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. The good news is that the company has moved past the fiasco and is on the right track. To put things in perspective—if Apple iPhone 7 Plus was a good looking phone, the new Samsung S8 Plus is a stunner that is ready to impress both the gadget veteran and the gizmo newbie. We reviewed the larger-than-life smartphone and this is what we could make of it.
Design The hard work put in by designers at Samsung is quite evident. Their brilliance can be seen in the extremely beautiful design of the Samsung S8 Plus . Right out of the box, the large 6.2-inch curved infinity display greets you with vibrant colours. It supports 2,960 X 1,440 pixels; however, the default resolution is slightly more than Full HD. The front and rear is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 (fully) for a seamless experience and adds to the show.
In fact, more than 90% of the phone's exterior is glass, only the sides have a metal frame, which has the volume, Bixby and power buttons. The top part has dual SIM/storage tray, while the bottom has single loud speaker grille, USB type C charging port and a 3.5 mm Jack. At 8mm thickness this is one of the slimmest phones currently available in the market with an audio jack. The front side also has the Iris sensor (which works at blitzkrieg speeds) along with an 8MP AF camera. The onscreen home key, back and currently opened apps button get camouflaged at the bottom. When the middle part of the screen at the bottom is hard pressed for the home key there is a haptic feedback, too. So, the user always knows he or she is pressing the right button. Turn it around and one finds the 12 MP AF camera with single colour LED flash on one side and a fingerprint sensor on the other. It opens the phone very quickly, but the placement of this sensor could have been better. Samsung branding is under it, which gets a little lost on the black shell. Performance This is what we love about flagships, the firms try to give as many features as possible in a device. Yes, this increases the price, but in the end (more often than not) it is value for money. So far, the Samsung S8 Plus seemed to be on the path to glory, but many and the mightiest have fallen face-down on our test bench, here's how this one fared. First, let's start with the rundown of the specifications. The Samsung S8 is available in three colours in India—blue, gold and black. Inside, it has 4 GB RAM, 64 GB memory (expandable by 256 GB via a microSD card) backed by Exynos 8895 chip that has an octa-core CPU (4 cores x 2.3 GHz plus 4 cores x 1.7 GHz) and Mali G71 graphics unit. Unfortunately, only the US models have Qualcomm chipsets. Together they are not the best available out there, but do make a premium device. We would have appreciated if the Qualcomm chipset would have been available for the Indian users as well.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus
vs
Apple IPhone 7 Plus
Octa core
PERFORMANCE
Quad core
6.2" (15.75 cm)
DISPLAY
5.5" (13.97 cm)
64 GB
STORAGE
32 GB
12 MP
CAMERA
12 MP
3500 mAh
BATTERY
2900 mAh
4 GB
RAM
3 GB
Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus vs Apple IPhone 7 Plus Full Comparison
That said, however, the Samsung S8 Plus does not compromise on power. We ran the Antutu Benchmark, where it scored 1,55,264 points and on Geekbench it scored 2,009 points (single core), 6,351 points (multi core) and 8,509 points in the computing test. All of them did not put it on the top of the list, but amongst the top four players in the market (behind the iPhone 7 Plus and One plus 3T). Switching gears, let's talk about the brilliant display. Here is where all the magic happens. The infinity display (as Samsung calls it) on the Samsung S8 Plus is breath taking. The colours are very vib
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