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

When I questioned the author of the article on Twitter and asked if this came from Samsung marketing I was informed "no". And that it was from the "very detailed launch presentation". So yeah: Samsung marketing.

Apparently it allowed them to change the internal layout and therefore shrink the bezels.

I was then asked to go away. I have no words. This has really got my back up, as I work in the semiconductor industry.
 
azibux1 said:
I've just asked Vodafone to cancel my upgrade order (they couldn't match MPD) and I've placed my order for the below from www.smartphonecompany.co.uk (child company of MPD..
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Hmmm they have it under £40 on there with no upfront cost.

S8+ FREE Handset (Voda)
Unlimited Calls
Unlimited Txt
24GB Data
£39 a month (£42 a month before cashback)
[+ £30 quidco cashback]

We're getting there.. when it's under £35 and preferably on another network I'll be seriously tempted.
 
PhoenixUK said:
If you want the best you have to pay, it's been always like that. Remember when phones were all shoddy plastic 10 years ago and still coated £500? Think of the inflation since then and calculate how much £500 from 2005 would be nowadays.
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And absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with recovering the losses they took with the note 7, or their gargantuan marketing budget ;)
 
Fingerprint scanner placement just sounds awful to me. One thing that put me off the s7 edge was that I read there were issues with fingerprint scanner consistency, so it is an important feature for me.

Hope there is some good improvement in the camera quality as well with the software changes they've made.
 
e36Adz said:
Hmmm they have it under £40 on there with no upfront cost.

S8+ FREE Handset (Voda)
Unlimited Calls
Unlimited Txt
24GB Data
£39 a month (£42 a month before cashback)
[+ £30 quidco cashback]

We're getting there.. when it's under £35 and preferably on another network I'll be seriously tempted.
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Yeah that's not too bad for the S8+!

I wanted the 30GB deal for the S8 though as I wanted the Spotify
utajoker said:
how do you claim cashback from mobilephonesdirect.com?
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Submit bills from the account page online
 
PhoenixUK said:
You guys know if you want cheaper phones, Samsung has these too so it's not like they only have S and Note ranges, they have bottom and middle of the market covered too, this is their top range.

If you want the best you have to pay, it's been always like that. Remember when phones were all shoddy plastic 10 years ago and still coated £500? Think of the inflation since then and calculate how much £500 from 2005 would be nowadays.
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I've had a HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S2, S4 and S6. All flagship phones that I've got within a month of release and never paid more than £25/mo and £50ish upfront.

The price of these today is madness.
 
dbmzk1 said:
I've had a HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S2, S4 and S6. All flagship phones that I've got within a month of release and never paid more than £25/mo and £50ish upfront.

The price of these today is madness.
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Both S4 and S6 costed more on release - around $750-850 (64g model) if I remember correctly, it's just the pound is MUCH weaker now. We're talking 1.6-1.7 exchange vs 1.1-1.2, that's around 35%, if anything these phones are cheaper now than they used to be. There's also the fact that until around 2014, back when phones4u were still around, you could walk into a shop and as long as u knew what u were doing you could get between 20 to 40% discount on line rental, nowadays shop staff has no access to discounts.

The quality of design/finish has gone up a lot as well, other than very few phones such as the HTCs, most were cheap plastic - the s2 was horrendous compared to HTCs at that time. The functionality and quality of components also increased.

Don't get me wrong, both my Note 2 and Note 4 costed me basically around the price of the phone (phones released around £600, full contracts costed me around £750) and line rental worked out at almost nothing because I always had a 30% discount, unfortunately most people still paid the full price and it wasn't that much lower than what we have now.

At least now you have the choice of going for a much cheaper phone like OnePlus, MotoG, Huawei and other cheaper brands and still get a really good smartphone whereas in the past, until you've spent £500 on the top model you couldn't expect much of a performer, not with android at least.

Whilst I would love to get my s8 for £400, with the current market it simply isn't going to happen - and I think a lot of people hoping for OnePlus5 to be a copy of this for £350 are going to be very disappointed. Surely it's going to be a top end device, but if you look at what they've been doing with each upgrade, the prices have been going up and the OP3T has already been £400, I don't expect the OP5 to be less than £450.
 
So looks like almost none of my personal wishlist is included with this phone. Which is a plus.

Anyone who doesn't need raw power may be disappointed.

1, Sounds like equal at best usage time (I'm willing to bet it's worse with that screen)
2, A single camera only synthetically better
3, poor fingerprint scanner
4, still qc2
5, one speaker still.
6, android 7.0

Apart from power users.. Why would you choose this phone?
 
413x said:
Apart from power users.. Why would you choose this phone?
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Because it's the latest must have gadget...

I have friends who will get this just because of that. Because it's more trendy than their iPhone or their s7

They will then only use facebook , Snapchat , Instagram

That's where the money is ! All they need to do is be consistently decent with each release now they are such a fashion/trend piece .

Samsung and apple have it sorted. Sony used to have it and really stupidly threw it away
 
413x said:
So looks like almost none of my personal wishlist is included with this phone. Which is a plus.

Anyone who doesn't need raw power may be disappointed.

1, Sounds like equal at best usage time (I'm willing to bet it's worse with that screen)
2, A single camera only synthetically better
3, poor fingerprint scanner
4, still qc2
5, one speaker still.
6, android 7.0

Apart from power users.. Why would you choose this phone?
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Longevity perhaps? I wouldn't upgrade from s7 or maybe even s6 but if you're upgrading from 2014 phone models, why settle for s7 to save £250 on what can possibly start struggling in power in 12-20 months. With the way android is getting optimised and more power hungry and multi core oriented, that 30%+ extra multi thread power can come in quite handy in a years or so time. It feels more like a bigger upgrade overall. The s7 is too tiny and s7 edge has badly designed edge which I found annoying - what else is there really with SD835 equivalent? I was hoping the note7 would have better specs and was going to get that but we all know how that turned out.
 
PhoenixUK said:
Longevity perhaps? I wouldn't upgrade from s7 or maybe even s6 but if you're upgrading from 2014 phone models, why settle for s7 to save £250 on what can possibly start struggling in power in 12-20 months. With the way android is getting optimised and more power hungry and multi core oriented, that 30%+ extra multi thread power can come in quite handy in a years or so time. It feels more like a bigger upgrade overall. The s7 is too tiny and s7 edge has badly designed edge which I found annoying - what else is there really with SD835 equivalent? I was hoping the note7 would have better specs and was going to get that but we all know how that turned out.
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Surely you only need better cpu etc if you are a power user though?
As long as my camera is snappy and good that's about all the demand I place on the cpu.
 
If it's not a good upgrade for you - then that's your thing - but there are people coming from phones that broke, I came from the sony z3 compact, where the screen and rear cover had come off, the sd card kept popping out and the sim cover had broken.
 
413x said:
Surely you only need better cpu etc if you are a power user though?
As long as my camera is snappy and good that's about all the demand I place on the cpu.
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Well, I do a lot of multitasking and run multiple apps at same time, have ton of tabs open etc - unfortunately my note 4 seems to be struggling for the past few months ever since android 6.0 so I guess things are getting more demanding.

I wouldn't bother if I just used social media then sure, OP3 or s7 would probably make a lot more sense. I think we won't see any revolutionary upgrades until 2019-2020 now so would have hoped that whatever I get in the next 2 months (about as much as I'm going to wait with the note4 on it's last legs) will last at least 2 good years.

I'll wait to see if I can get s8 off MM after release with a bit of discount and by June time we should have some info about possibility of note7 successor although I am not very optimistic after note7, and not because of the battery fiasco but the fact that it was an s7 with stylus, better design and nothing else really.
 
Then you sound like you would be better with a much cheaper phone 413x. I understand where your coming from though. Why spend £800 on a phone if all your going to do is chat and browse the web and take pics. I think personally a phone like the S8 is better suited to that plus people who really need the power for things like gaming and so on. Especially with the 50% 3D speed boost.

For me this is going to be a massive upgrade on my note 4 which crashes and slows down to a crawl on multiple occasions.
 
From now on I'm not upgrading OS on any phone. Too many times bitten when it grinds a perfectly usable phone down. I don't know why I updated my s7E to v7.
I also multi task but always thought this was ram.i think the edge has 4, and never have I had an issue. I did when it was 2gb in phones.

I don't think I've been cpu limited since Samsung galaxy nexus

^it's not so much a cheaper phone, if it had a crackin camera or outstanding battery I might bite. But it seems for this iteration they've gone for under the hood and fashion (thin bezels).
It'll be good for some, but most will buy one fashion.
The s7 was such an upgrade over my one plus. And it was the features (outstanding camera, waterproof, qc2, fingerprint, battery) that nailed it
 
Matson said:
For me this is going to be a massive upgrade on my note 4 which crashes and slows down to a crawl on multiple occasions.
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+1, note4 user here as well, for the past few months since the updates it became almost unusable in some situations. The moment you have few things in the background and try to watch high res video on a website I might just as well put it down and pick up my laptop. The android 6.0 and higher don't seem to like quad core CPUs. Also since the CPU is dying to get everything processed, it jumps to 100% utilisation, phone gets hot and kills the battery life - and I only just replaced it few months ago.

RIP Note 4, 2014-2017.


I would really get a OP3/OP3T as a sidestep until something else good comes out but I really do need the SD card slot as I always carry around 150GB data on the phone.
There really isn't much choice on the market if you want 5.5"+ screen, QHD res, decent battery, good octa core and SD card.

I've done a search on GSM arena and putting the criteria in, I only get S8, S7 Edge and 5 others phones which haven't yet released and are planned for later this year....
 
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