One of the most anticipated smartphones this year will be coming from Samsung and the hype has never been this high.
The Galaxy S8 has seen its share of leaks and rumours in the past six months, and while everyone was expecting the smartphone to make an appearance at the Mobile World Congress this year, the company only left us with a teaser for an ‘Unpacked event’.
This is going to take place on 29 March, that’s tonight, at 8:30 PM.
The Korean tech giant is under a lot of pressure, ever since it had to deal with faulty batteries on the Galaxy Note 7 last year and eventually kill the device. This year, not only does it have to impress its loyalists but it needs to regain customer trust.
Now, let’s just give you all the details that we have gathered over the past few months around the Galaxy S8.
Availability and launch
First things first. Let’s talk about when we would actually see the smartphone officially. As mentioned above, the flagship smartphone never made an appearance at MWC, which we expected thanks to a couple of reports. Samsung did however tease us with a short video and announced an Unpacked event dated 29 March. Which means tomorrow we will officially get to see what Samsung has in store for us. If you are interested in the launch, click here to know more on how you can follow the announcement.
The smartphone will not be available immediately as it is expected to hit markets a month later, so somewhere at the end of April is when the smartphone will be available for purchase.
Design and renders
It all started with some rumours where a bunch of sources claimed that Samsung will launch the device with a 4K display, a dual-camera setup and support the S-Pen, since the Note 7 was killed. Others suggested that Samsung will ditch the 3.5mm audio jack as well. Then some renders popped up and eventually we saw the handset in a leaked image by case makers itself. Early renders suggested that Samsung will only have a curved-edged Galaxy S8 and will say goodbye to the flat design.
Boo!
It was rumoured that Samsung would also add the option for users to lower the resolution to Full HD and HD resolutions. This would be great to save some juice.
We also saw one extra hardware key which was and is still being speculated to trigger a digital assistant just like Siri or Google Assistant. Samsung has at least confirmed that it’s called Bixby. Some sources said Samsung would make the handset bigger this time around, in terms of display size, which could go up to as much as 6 inches.
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Early leaked images started to drop in where we saw the device with a display covering most of the front and no home or navigation buttons. A few days later, we saw yet another leak showing the back of the device which confirmed that Samsung would not indulge in a dual-camera setup and that it would place the fingerprint scanner right next to the camera rather than placing it below. Oh and the 3.5mm headphone jack appeared to be intact.
Right after Samsung’s MWC (Mobile World Congress) press conference, we saw famous tipster Evan Blass tweeting an image of what is believed to be the real deal.
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