Samsung Galaxy S8 Release Date, Specs And Price Revealed In New Leak
Samsung Galaxy S8 Release Date, Specs And Price Revealed In New Leak:- Venture Beat, thanks to the ever-brilliant Evan Blass, has secured an image of the Samsung Galaxy S8 in all of its glory, it would appear. There are some things to rejoice about and some things that aren’t so good. Many of these things aren’t a huge surprise, given the leak that came via The Guardian earlier this week.
First up is that rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, we knew from the leaks that the new phone would have a tiny top and bottom bezel and a curved edge. This means that there’s no room for a fingerprint scanner on the bottom edge of the front face. Take a look at the section below and I’ll explain why I think this is a disappointment, given technology available.
My real concern is about the proximity of that fingerprint scanner to the camera. It may sound like a stupid thing, but it’s going to result in people smearing finger grease all over the camera lens. This isn’t the end of the world, but I often find with my iPhone that finger grease can mount up and ruin images. When you’re snapping things quickly, there often isn’t time to wipe the lens first.
You’ll also note that claims of the headphone jack being removed are largely disproven by this leak. That’s interesting given that Apple hasn’t suffered too much for the dropping of the now-ancient port. Bluetooth headphones and dongles are common enough not to cause many problems, and HTC is rapidly moving away from including headphone jacks and using USB-C instead. The bonus of this, on HTC phones is that they can measure your ears to give better audio quality, and also include noise cancelling.
Two models, there’s no “flat” phone this year
The leaks currently suggest two devices, one of 5.8-inches and one of 6.2. Now I know every one of you reads all of my posts like a gripping novel, so there’s no need to remind you that I wrote about this sizing plan before. But prior information suggested a 0.1-inch smaller screen, at 7.7-inches, which the new information rules out.
As predicted, the flat S7 has been replaced with a curved model of a different size. I’m all-for this, I think it’s a sensible idea although I would like to have seen the smaller handset be 5.5-inches or even smaller. I say this because I maintain that the S6 Edge is Samsung’s best ever phone.
Same same, but different
Although the processors are moving to a 10mm process – which is very important – the phones aren’t changing all that much internally. These are still quad-HD screens that have 4GB of RAM. There’s a boost to the baseline internal storage, which is now 64GB and the microSD slot that Samsung brought back to thunderous applause can give you a 256GB increase if you fancy splashing cash on a high-capacity card.
Other than those small tweaks, these phones are technically very similar to the S7. It’s therefore the design which is going to sell these devices. And I suspect that their new screen ratio – Venture Beat says it’s 18.5:9 instead of 16:9, the standard widescreen ratio – will be the thing that sells this phone as most impressive to general consumers.
USB-C is, obviously included. The image makes it look a bit like those are microUSB ports, but that would be insanity – Samsung already introduced USB-C on the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7, and it wasn’t responsible for the phones problems.
Batteries drop very slightly in capacity, but with a gain from the move to a 10nm processors it’s quite unlikey that the real-world battery life will be reduced over last year’s models. And you’ll get a more powerful phone with a much improved graphics system.
Can the camera pull off the Pixel trick?
Google’s Pixel has a good camera, but the hardware isn’t very impressive. Apple and Samsung have better low-light lenses but Google manages to produce images with less noise and low-light mush. This is a processing trick, and it relies on the way the pixel takes several photos to reduce noise – there is a standard photographic trick that can be used the same way.
So Samsung could, if it wanted to, perform a similar trick with the new camera that massively boosts its performance over the Pixel. Samsung might also opt to use optical image stabilisation – against the Pixel’s electronic version – to further boost low-light performance.
But one thing is for sure, Google has sent a message to Apple and Samsung that can’t be ignored – it can do better low-light photos than either of the two big names.
Source:-Â http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2017/01/26/samsung-galaxy-s8-leaked-image-shows-phone-and-confirms-two-big-details/#926abc739e5f
