{"id":33401,"date":"2017-06-30T06:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33401"},"modified":"2017-06-30T06:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:17:38","slug":"galaxy-note-8-leak-reveals-samsungs-nasty-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/galaxy-note-8-leak-reveals-samsungs-nasty-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Note 8 Leak Reveals Samsung&#8217;s Nasty Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Galaxy Note 8 Leak Reveals Samsung&#8217;s Nasty Surprise<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Olixar is at is again. Having successfully leaked the iPhone 7 and Galaxy Note 7 last year, the Galaxy S8 in January and revealed the iPhone 8 in glorious detail earlier this week, the popular case maker has contacted me with official cases for the Galaxy Note 8\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">So confident is Olixar in its information (and its track record backs this up), the company has put three ranges of Galaxy Note 8 case &#8211; FlexiShield, X-Duo and Ultra-Thin &#8211; immediately up for pre-order on retailer partner MobileFun\u2019s US and UK sites. Prices range from $5.49 (\u00a34.99) to $26.99 (\u00a319.99).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">And what the cases show is both good and bad news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The good news is the Galaxy Note 8 looks like an even more massive (6.3-inch Vs 6.2-inch) version of the Galaxy S8 Plus coupled with a stylus and exciting dual camera. This is in contrast to a dubious (and hideous) video render of the Galaxy Note 8 released earlier in the week which showed an Xperia-like design I doubt many would want to buy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">So this is a relief, if not a total surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The bad news, however, is likely to prove the bigger story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">What Olixar\u2019s cases also clearly show a cut out for the fingerprint reader on Galaxy Note 8\u2019s back. For months now Samsung has been in a race against time to integrate the reader into the display (like the iPhone 8), but it now appears Galaxy fans will face further disappointment &#8211; especially with Apple&#8217;s iPhone 8 reader success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">I say \u201cfurther\u201d because both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus were expected to feature integrated fingerprint readers back in March and when they missed out the Galaxy Note 8 was widely predicted to fix this. Worst still, the ridiculous fingerprint reader positioning will also be repeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">This was not lost on Sally Wijers, eCommerce Marketing Assistant at MobileFun, who told me: \u201cThese official renders give us a good look at the back of the Note 8, the camera and of course the placement of the fingerprint scanner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Given the Galaxy Note 8 will also have a dramatic price increase this is frustrating news, even if multiple hardware leaks suggest the cost will still be worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Then again with 2017 set to deliver the mother of all smartphone battles, I suspect right now there will be smiles at Apple and Google as the redesigned iPhone 8 and supersized Pixel 2 edge closer to release\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gordonkelly\/2017\/06\/29\/samsung-galaxy-note-8-design-specs-camera-fingerprint-sensor\/#2e6ddaa9167d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/galaxy-note-8-leak-reveals-samsungs-nasty-surprise.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy Note 8 Leak Reveals Samsung&#8217;s Nasty Surprise Olixar is at is again. 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