Samsung Galaxy S8

Gorgeous display ; Excellent build quality, design ; Useful software features and options ; TouchWiz is a lot prettier ; Water-resistant

Bixby is hardly useful ; Poor speaker placement ; $100 more expensive than S7

The Galaxy S8, in both its sizes, is an excellent smartphone with great build quality, a fantastic screen, solid cameras, and standard daylong-battery life. The Bixby voice assistant is underwhelming, but you can turn it off and opt for Google...

Incredible fit and finish ; Samsung’s interface feels more polished ; Comfortable to hold ; Strong performance

Bixby isn’t ready for prime time ; Cameras aren’t hugely improved ; Fingerprint sensor placement is weird

The Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus aren't perfect, but they're as close as Samsung has ever gotten. That's a hell of a rebound for a company whose phablets... well, you know. Beyond the gorgeous design and the boost in horsepower, they feel like devices built...

Hand-friendly design. Gorgeous screen. Best processor and modem available.

Awkward fingerprint scanner placement. Average battery life.

Phones are connected devices. That's also what they do: connect us, to each other and to the internet. We create things, whether they're words or pictures, and we share them. The Galaxy S8 is the best phone available for creating things you want to...

excellent screen ; stylish design ; fast SoC ; very good GPS qualities ; fast Wi-Fi ; Gigabit LTE ; decent call quality ; solid sensor configuration ; USB 3.1 with DP, HDMI, and OTG ; good battery life ; quick-charge and wireless charging ; water and...

...though not much better than in the predecessor ; no dual-SIM ; fingerprint scanner hard to find via touch ; SoC throttling during permanent load ; warranty does not cover damage due to liquids

With its Galaxy S8, Samsung has created a superb product that scores even a bit better than its larger Galaxy S8+ sister model. This was different in the S7 lineup, but the Plus model cannot take advantage of its larger battery and is also heavier....

Beautiful design ; Curved Super AMOLED screen looks and works great ; Fast and lag-free ; Camera is among the best

Fingerprint sensor is awkwardly placed ; No dual-camera optical zoom ; Bixby Voice isn't available at launch

There had been suspicions that the fallout from the Note 7 battery fiasco might sour would-be Galaxy S8 buyers. Based on the degree of pre-launch excitement, however, those fears seem to have been unfounded. Whether it’s the safety promise implicit in...

The Samsung S8 phone features an upgraded 8 megapixel F1.7 front camera with enhanced autofocus. The 12 megapixel F1.7 Dual Pixel rear camera comes equipped with enhanced multi-frame image processing, which creates sharper pictures, even in low-light...

Photographer Matthew Cattell was particularly positive about the Galaxy S8 camera, especially in poor lighting conditions yielded the smartphone camera surprisingly good quality pictures. The following sample pictures give an impression about the image...

A clear difference is the display. By narrowing the bezels the screen size of the two smartphones is increased by 0.7-inch, to 5.8" (S8) and 6.2" (S8 +). The type of display is changed as well, the Super AMOLED display of the Galaxy S7 was already...