Samsung Galaxy S8 review
Smartphone Galaxy S8 by Samsung is made in the classic shape. The phone uses Android 7.0 and supports working with two sim cards like nano SIM in alternate mode. Phone dimensions: width — 68.1 millimeters, height — 148.9 millimeters, thickness — 8 millimeters. Weight — 155 grams.
Diagonal of the color screen is 5.8 inches with a maximum screen resolution of 2960x1440 and 568 pixels per inch (PPI). The curved screen of the device protected by scratch resistant glass and has the automatic rotation function.
Samsung Galaxy S8 runs on 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 MSM8998 processor and Adreno 540 videoprocessor, has 64 gigabytes of built-in memory and 4 gigabytes of RAM. The phone has a slot for a memory card of up to 256 gigabytes.
Capacity of Li-Ion battery is 3000 mA⋅h, this is approximately 20 hours of talk time. The phone has fast and wireless charging functions.
The phone is also equipped with sensors of illumination, approaching, Hall sensor, gyroscope, compass, barometer, fingerprint scanner and iris scanner. This gives additional functionality to the phone in various applications.
Samsung Galaxy S8 was presented to the public on March 29, 2017.
Samsung Galaxy S8 specifications
General characteristics
- Type
- smartphone
- OS version
- Android 7.0
- Case type
- classic
- Construction
- waterproof
- SIM-card type
- nano SIM
- SIM-card amount
- 2
- Multi SIM mode
- alternate
- MST support
- Weight
- 155 grams
- Width
- 68.1 mm
- Height
- 148.9 mm
- Thickness
- 8 mm
Display
- Diagonal
- 5.8"
- Screen size
- 2960x1440
- Number of pixels per inch (PPI)
- 568
- Screen type
- Sensor screen type
- Curved screen
- Aspect Ratio
- 18.5:9
- Automatic display rotation
- Scratch-resistant glass
Calls
- Light indication of the events
Multimedia features
- Rear camera
- 12 MP
- Flash
- Rear camera functions
- autofocus
- optical stabilization
- Rear camera diaphragm
- Video Recording
- Video resolution max
- 3840x2160
- Max. frame rate of video
- 30 fps
- Front camera
- 8 megapixels
- Audio
- Headphone jack
- 3.5 mm
Connectivity
- Standard
- GSM 900/1800/1900
- 3G
- 4G LTE
- LTE-A Cat. 16
- VoLTE
- Interfaces
- Wi-Fi 802.11ac
- Bluetooth 5.0
- USB
- ANT+
- NFC
- Satellite navigation
Storage and processor
- CPU
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 MSM8998
- Processor cores number
- 8
- Video processor
- Adreno 540
- Built-in memory
- 64 GB
- Amount of RAM
- 4 GB
- Memory card slot
- yes
- volume of up to 256 GB
- SIM-card compatable
Power supply
- Battery type
- Li-Ion
- Battery capacity
- 3000 mA⋅h
- Talk time
- 20 hours
- Time in music listening mode
- 67 hours
- Connector type for charging
- USB Type-C
- Wireless charging function
- Quick charging function
Other functions
- Speakerphone (built-in speaker)
- Control
- voice typing
- voice-activated control
- Airplane mode
- Sensors
- illumination sensor
- approaching sensor
- Hall sensor
- gyroscope
- compass
- barometer
- fingerprint scanner
- iris scanner
- Flashlight
- USB-host