After Samsung was miraculously able to navigate its fiery Galaxy Note 7 fiasco last summer, which saw both the company’s profits and popularity plummet to all-time lows, the South Korean tech-titan is back in full-force this year — as it gears up to release its highly anticipated, next-generation Galaxy S8 and S8+ flagship smartphones.
While a number of leaks have surfaced showing these upcoming devices in the wild, an even newer round of images — this time, complete with a video, for good measure — has surfaced over the weekend courtesy of Slashleaks. See the videos below.
Galaxy S8+
Galaxy S8
The new image clearly shows a pair of devices that align just beautifully with what we know about the flagships so far. First and foremost, the S8 and S8+ are all but certain to launch featuring gorgeous, edge-to-edge AMOLED displays — the former of which is expected to be a curved, 5.7-inch Quad HD+ panel; while the latter, surprisingly, will boast a truly massive, 6.2-inch panel featuring the same 2,560 x 1,440 resolution. Moreover, since the displays on both devices will feature an edge-to-edge-to-edge layout, with very little in the way of bezels on either side, the venerable home button of Galaxy S devices past has been repositioned to the rear-side of the handset right next to the camera module.
Specifications for the S8 and S8+ are slated to include a 12 MP ‘Dual Pixel’ main camera, a stellar 8 MP front-facing selfie-cam, IP68 dust- and water-proof certification, 64 GB of built-in memory (expandable via microSD card) with 4 GB of RAM, an iris scanner, wireless charging, and more — all of which will be powered by Android 7.0 Nougat, and Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 CPU, boasting a zippy octa-core setup featuring one quad-core CPU at 2.45 GHz, and a second quad-core CPU at 1.9 GHz.
2017 is clearly shaping up to be ‘The Year of The Smartphone’, already, since Samsung — though it will be first to market — won’t be the only manufacturer to release a ground-breaking new device along these lines. Apple, for instance, is all but certain to release multiple iPhones this fall, including a vastly redesigned ‘iPhone X’ flagship, which will reportedly boast a 5.8-inch OLED display — sans the venerable Touch ID-equipped Home button, which could potentially be replaced by all-new Acoustic Imaging Technology.
As for the Galaxy S8 flagships, Samsung has already sent out an invitation to select media outlets ahead of its annual ‘Unpacked’ event, which will be held this year on March 29th at the Lincoln Center in New York City — while the devices, themselves, will officially launch to expectant users around the globe on or about April 21st.
Will you be picking up a Galaxy S8 or S8+? Or are you all-in for Apple’s 10th anniversary ‘iPhone X’?
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