The Galaxy S8 must have felt like a bit of a paradox for Samsung engineers, execs, and marketers. This is the phone they hope will wipe the Note 7 off everyone's mind, but at the same time the S8 is a clear continuation of the Note 7's design cues. I admire the patience of tech writers who went into detail explaining the symmetrical curves of the S8 in their reviews. Me? I ain't got that endurance, so I'll keep it short and to the point: The S8 looks and feels just like the Note 7, except it has slimmer bezels, no physical home button, a really stupidly-placed fingerprint reader and no stylus. The device's front almost looks like it's entirely screen, with no buttons. It's a look that LG actually achieve back in 2014 with the G3, but Samsung's curved screen and all-black aesthetics do make the device look even better.
( I tested retail units of the S8 and the S8+ for close to a week, but for the sake of simplicity I'll just refer to the devices as S8, but everything applies to the S8+ unless stated otherwise.)
In fact, a lot of the features first introduced in the Note 7 - iris scanner; a less-trash TouchWiz; ability to record a portion of the screen and turn the action into a gif - have made their way to the S8 too. When one considers that the Note 7 had such a short life span due to premature death, that makes the S8 almost like the Note 7 remix.
This isn't a knock. The Note 7 was, in my opinion, the best feeling/designed hardware of last year. The phone's all black look ( including black metal frame) was sleek and sexy as hell; and the improved angle of the dual-curved screen made for a lot less erroneous touches than the gimmicky Edge screens of S6 and S7. The AMOLED panel on the Note 7 was stunning - use a black wallpaper and the icons look like they're popping out of the screen. All of the above applies to the S8, except the screen is more immersive.
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