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

The S8 and S8+ feel a lot nicer and look better in the hand than in online images and videos. The haptic Home button felt fine to me although my finger didn't fall naturally onto the fingerprint scanner. Having said that there's no way I'd pay that much for a phone with a non-removable battery.
 
So I went for it.. Ordered :D

I have been waiting for this since selling my S6 Edge after I got it back from a warranty repair in January. Borrowed an iPhone 5 in the meantime (first ever iPhone for me). Can't wait to get back to Samsung, loved my S6 Edge!

Went for Orchid Grey, S8 standard size - 10GB data and 24 months spotify, £30 upfront and £53 a month... but I should get Vodafone Advantage discount bringing it to £45.05 a month

Could have got the data extravangza deal, but simply do not need 30GB and also can't apply Advantage to that one as it is a special offer already.

Looking forward to receiving it :D

I mainly chose orchid grey as the black one has the metal frame (I believe it is metal?) in black and I think that looks less premium. The orchid grey (and all other colours, bar black) keep the metal frame in the nice metal colour as per the S6/S7s
 
Like one previous post I often unlock my phone pressing the home button while it's sitting on my desk.
Not only is it on the back its so high up. Holding my s7E now my finger can't reach it as I hold my phone at the bottom

No VR is obvious due to the exchange rate. The cost of phone would have to go up. And not everyone wants a vr
 
413x said:
Like one previous post I often unlock my phone pressing the home button while it's sitting on my desk.
Not only is it on the back its so high up. Holding my s7E now my finger can't reach it as I hold my phone at the bottom

No VR is obvious due to the exchange rate. The cost of phone would have to go up. And not everyone wants a vr
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Well, I don't really need 'fancy' earphone nor a speaker. I use IE80s so anything that comes up bundled with a phone won't even be remotely as good. I'd much rather get them to drop the price to £539/£619 for 8 and 8+ and don't add anything extra rather than give us supposedly £200 worth of extras that we don't need.

Then again, after Pixel and iPhone released inferior phones for £750-1000, I suppose public thinks this is acceptable...

I wouldn't mind getting the new VR though - I've tried one of the cheap ones on my note4 and really liked it, especially for watching movies with the cinema app, the only thing that annoyed me is lack of control/remote to navigate between menus, which apparently now is solved.
 
Has anyone used the renew 24 from Samsung (or whatever it's called)? On the face of it it seems to cost about the same as contract (I pay £15 pm for 8gb data, unlimited calls and texts), plus £34 for the Samsung deal, so £49 all in with the option to upgrade every 12 months or just run it like a normal 24month contract if wanted.

I guess it would hinge on how harsh they are with the inspection of the returned device but I use a case and protector anyway.. Anyone got any experience with it?

I'll order Monday, either on contract with EE or using Samsung.
 
PhoenixUK said:
Well, I don't really need 'fancy' earphone nor a speaker. I use IE80s so anything that comes up bundled with a phone won't even be remotely as good. I'd much rather get them to drop the price to £539/£619 for 8 and 8+ and don't add anything extra rather than give us supposedly £200 worth of extras that we don't need.

Then again, after Pixel and iPhone released inferior phones for £750-1000, I suppose public thinks this is acceptable...

I wouldn't mind getting the new VR though - I've tried one of the cheap ones on my note4 and really liked it, especially for watching movies with the cinema app, the only thing that annoyed me is lack of control/remote to navigate between menus, which apparently now is solved.
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The Pixels weren't cheap I admit but they still weren't this expensive, the Pixel and the XL were £599 and £720 respectively at release and these DID come with a free VR - I promptly sold my VR to be fair, got me a good few quid back on the price.

In my opinion I wouldn't say they were inferior either, obviously given the 6 month gap they will have fallen behind ever so slightly but compared to the Samsung phones I've owned it is head and shoulders above.
A lot to be said for slick software and timely updates.
 
Nexus18 said:
Yup I know facial recognition has always been easily bypassed with a photo.... which is why I never use it :p Reason I posted it here is because people have said that they would use it instead of the using the ridiculous finger print scanner on the back but it seems odd to use something that can be bypassed even more easily.

Main reason I lock my phone is stop family and friends from messing with my phone and being nosy etc. All of them have easy access to photos of me but not my finger prints! :p
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You call that family? :p
 
Just seen s8 plus at O2, I was looking forward to it but it feels too big, or rather too long. I like how it's just a bit more narrow than note4 to fit in the hand but it's definitely too long, that 5mm makes big difference than I thought it would. I think the s8 is much better buy here.

It would look much better if they just kept same length and stayed with 16:9 ratio.

Perhaps for someone wit bigger hands it would be fine.
 
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