**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Thread ****

Cold Fusion said:
I'm similar to you Ivan, currently have an S6 and due an upgrade (the battery on my S6 isn't doing very well at the moment) but think i will stick with it for the time being and go on to a 30 day rolling contract. I think i got my S6 on £40/month and the S8 is not £50-£60 a month. :eek:

There will be plenty of people queuing up for this though as evidenced above
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It's a lovely looking phone no doubt, and I'm sure it will sell. But i can't see it shifting in vast volumes at that price.

I bought my s6 a few months after release for 479, so a fair bit cheaper than the launch price. So they do come down. I have a 12 quid a month sim only deal.

But like you, my s6 battery isn't great now :( To be honest, the s6 never had a great battery life.

It is still a good phone though, so i can wait it out for a while.
 
Whilst I don't doubt it's a stonking phone - £700 + is just mental....

I used to want to be first with new phones etc - now a phone is a phone to me, so long as it makes calls, text, whatapp and plays music etc - that's all I need a phone for. Was keen to upgrade my HTC M9 to S8 but at that price - forget it.
 
Samsung didn't cause Brexit. Sure, it's expensive but not anymore than anything else equivalent right now.

Compared to Pixel and iPhone it's still cheaper and better. I suppose they do charge us £50 for the earphones as well on this.
 
booyaka said:
Whilst I don't doubt it's a stonking phone - £700 + is just mental....

I used to want to be first with new phones etc - now a phone is a phone to me, so long as it makes calls, text, whatapp and plays music etc - that's all I need a phone for. Was keen to upgrade my HTC M9 to S8 but at that price - forget it.
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Spot on
 
PhoenixUK said:
Samsung didn't cause Brexit. Sure, it's expensive but not anymore than anything else equivalent right now.

Compared to Pixel and iPhone it's still cheaper and better. I suppose they do charge us £50 for the earphones as well on this.
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Well i wouldn't buy a pixel or iPhone at those silly prices either.

But I'll agree the s8 is better than either of those by some way.

Still doesn't make it worth 700 quid though.

And i think with some of these prices, brexit is just being used as an excuse to gouge even more now.

Its funny, because when i was younger and had less money I'd be more inclined to just pay whatever for the latest and greatest. Now i have to justify it to myself despite earning far more. Sign of growing up i guess :p
 
After using a Lenovo P2 recently for only £199 with all you can eat minutes and 4 gig data for £9 a month I just can't ever see myself going for top end phone/contract ever again, it's just money down the drain, I think we've come to a point now where most phones feel pretty similar in performance, and something like the P2 that gives you up to 4 days battery life, that's an actual real world useful feature, that's innovation imo, much more so than my web page appearing one hundredth of a second faster.
 
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the_chicco said:
I'm torn. I'm starting to tire of my Note 5. Samsung announced they were going to sell refurbed Note 7's at some point so I was going to hold out. But to be honest I don't really use my stylus anymore.

So its either wait for the next Note (of which I probably won't use the stylus) or pick this up.
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Yep, my note 4 seems to be struggling with all the recent updates, perhaps I should try custom rom but I do find it slowing down to the point of annoying on certain Web pages with videos etc sometimes, certain apps as well.

After playing with the s8 for few minutes, it feels like what the note 7 was supposed to be - a bigger leap + great design rather than just s7 with pen and partially working iris scanner. Which is why I've skipped note 7, it lacked the upgrade feel over even note4.

Needless to say, I've always been getting great deals so I refuse to pay full prices. If after release retentions offers me a decent 150-200 discount over current prices though, I wont hesitate to grab it instantly.
 
lowrider007 said:
After using a Lenovo P2 recently for only £199 with all you can eat minutes and 4 gig data for £9 a month I just can't ever see myself going for top end phone/contract ever again, it's just money down the drain, I think we've come to a point now where most phones feel pretty similar in performance, and something like the P2 that gives you up to 4 days battery life, that's an actual real world useful feature, that's innovation imo, much more so than my web page appearing one hundredth of a second faster.
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This is very true. There are fewer and fewer real differences between smart phone generations now. They have reached a plateau. The price just keeps going up for the top end ones though.

So the new ones will run angry birds at 300fps rather than 250fps. Who the hell cares?

The s8 is a lovely looking phone, and i would like one. But does it actually do anything my s6 doesn't? Can i justify 700 quid? I'll wait thanks.
 
the_chicco said:
I hear you. My Note 5 isn't struggling per se, its still relatively responsive its just every so often it will go into a bit of a 'tizz' (for a want of a technical term!). I guess with all the updates, etc its starting to show its age a bit. And the battery has basically given up. I need to charge the thing twice a day (by 3pm its down to 30% with little use). I used to use my stylus extensively (I'm an IT architect) so would often reach for it to show mock up designs, etc. But now its very rarely used. When the Note 7 got launched I actually held back (which is weird for me as I normally jump on the Note bandwagon with every release). Suffice to say with all the problems it experienced I gave up.

I would love to hold out for a Note 8 but my finger is currently hovering over the buy button at CPW :)
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Hold out, I am. The S8 has nothing to offer over the s7e neither.
 
IvanDobskey said:
This is very true. There are fewer and fewer real differences between smart phone generations now. They have reached a plateau. The price just keeps going up for the top end ones though.

So the new ones will run angry birds at 300fps rather than 250fps. Who the hell cares?

The s8 is a lovely looking phone, and i would like one. But does it actually do anything my s6 doesn't? Can i justify 700 quid? I'll wait thanks.
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dex, gear vr, iris scanner, 10nm processor.

I have a feeling phones will start exploring desktop replacements more commonly in the next few iterations, so long as developers optimise their apps for variable resolutions, it will be more common

the_chicco said:
6 months I can wait. I guess for me however is how much I would miss the stylus if I jumped ship.
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Does the stylus double up as a bluetooth handset?
 
With the whole note 7 flop and talk about them being sold as refurbs I think the note8 will be fairly delayed - that as well as the fact that it's going to be s8 with stylus and maybe 6gb of ram, same chipset. The size difference isn't there anymore either so I think Samsung killed the series the moment they closed the spec gap.

Since the size and spec difference isn't there anymore, I don't see why anyone would get a note unless they heavily make use of the s pen.
 
the_chicco said:
I don't think its just that. I held the Note 7 and ergonomically it felt amazing. I tinkered around with my friends S7 edge and the curved screen was frankly awful. Trying to pass him the phone whilst playing a full screen video was nigh on impossible due to the screen registering presses, etc. I guess I wish they had a flat version as well as curved. It looks utterly gorgeous don't get me wrong, but practically I can see it being a pain in the backside to use (I don't have the nimblest of fingers or touches).
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That was my experience and the s8 feels much better than both the s7 edge and note 7 did tbh, it feels like the previous 2 were a beta test version until finally they got it right.

Ive only had a play with s8 but have been told they're going to have the s8+ this weekend so will pop in and try that too, wonder how it compares to the note4.

Looking at paper dimensions:

S8+
6.28 x 2.89 x 0.32 inches (159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm)

Note7
6.04 x 2.91 x 0.31 inches (153.5 x 73.9 x 7.9 mm)

It looks they're almost the same, except the s8+ moves screen from 5.7 to 6.2 due to infinity screen.
 
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the_chicco said:
I don't think its just that. I held the Note 7 and ergonomically it felt amazing. I tinkered around with my friends S7 edge and the curved screen was frankly awful. Trying to pass him the phone whilst playing a full screen video was nigh on impossible due to the screen registering presses, etc. I guess I wish they had a flat version as well as curved. It looks utterly gorgeous don't get me wrong, but practically I can see it being a pain in the backside to use (I don't have the nimblest of fingers or touches).
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In agreement there. I had the S6E+ and the S7E (for about a week beforeI returned it) and the one overriding factor was that the curve display was indeed a pain in the backside although as you say they looked the business. I moved on to the Pixel and the flat screen is bliss - not forgetting the nice chunky bezels to really get a hold of the thing :p
 
Why are people using Brexit as such a big clutch to justify the price increase?
Yes Brexit would have played a part, but whilst I don't know Samsungs profit margins etc I'm sure they could have priced it lower and still made a respectable profit.

Samsung are charging high prices because they can...people will still buy it, same way Apple can.

Its unfortunate I feel phones in general should be cheaper, but unless we all suddenly stop buying these phones then its not gonna change anytime soon.
 
I would like it but it is the colour point that is making me hold for the moment. I felt the grey is to purple for my liking and the black shows fingerprints so well! If the blue was up for preorder i would have snapped that up instantly! All that being said it will go in a case anyway and they all look pretty much the same from he front....
 
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