Samsung Galaxy S8

Purchased brand new in November 2017. The things I like.. Its lightweight, fits well in your hand, regular self updates, initial battery life..
Things I dislike.. Sound quality is dreadful and made worse by horrible headphones provided with phone. It is obsessed with given me notifications. You can them off but every time the software updates it resets your preferences and you have to do it all over again!

After I had phone fer 4 months, it started loosing charge quickly (Full charge 3-4 hours) then it lost signal and 2 days later I got blue screen of death and phone would not reboot. Samsung replaced unit with refurbished phone which I have had now for 2 months.. but camera only works intermittently, some days it just won’t focus despite my best efforts.

I could not in good conscious recommenced this phone to anyone.

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH	Announced	2017, March
	Status	Available. Released 2017, April

BODY	Dimensions	148.9 x 68.1 x 8 mm (5.86 x 2.68 x 0.31 in)
	Weight	155 g (5.47 oz)
	Build	Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5), aluminum frame
	SIM	Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
		– Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified) – IP68 dust/water proof (up to 1.5m for 30 mins)

DISPLAY	Type	Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	5.8 inches, 84.8 cm2 (~83.6% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~570 ppi density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 5
		– HDR10 compliant – 3D Touch (home button only) – Always-on display

PLATFORM	OS	Android 7.0 (Nougat), upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo)
	Chipset	Exynos 8895 Octa – EMEA Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 – USA & China
	CPU	Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz Mongoose M2 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) – EMEA Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) – USA & China
	GPU	Mali-G71 MP20 – EMEA Adreno 540 – USA & China

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 512 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual SIM model only
	Internal	64 GB, 4 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	12 MP (f/1.7, 26mm, 1/2.5″, 1.4µm, dual pixel PDAF), OIS, LED flash, check quality
	Features	Geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama
	Video	[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], HDR, dual-video rec., check quality
	Secondary	8 MP (f/1.7, 25mm, 1/3.6″, 1.22µm), autofocus, [email protected], dual video call, Auto HDR

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		– 32-bit/384kHz audio – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	No
	USB	3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

FEATURES	Sensors	Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML5
		– Samsung DeX (desktop experience support) – Fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0) – Qi/PMA wireless charging (market dependent) – ANT+ support – Bixby natural language commands and dictation – MP4/DivX/XviD/H.265 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player – Photo/video editor – Document editor

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery (11.55 Wh)
	Talk time	Up to 20 h (3G)
	Music play	Up to 67 h

MISC	Colors	Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Arctic Silver, Coral Blue, Maple Gold, Rose Pink, Burgundy Red
	SAR	0.44 W/kg (head)     0.75 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.32 W/kg (head)     1.27 W/kg (body)
	Price	About 530 EUR

TESTS	Performance	Basemark OS II: 3272 / Basemark OS II 2.0: 3376 Basemark X: 42370
	Display	Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal), 4.768 (sunlight)
	Camera	Photo / Video
	Loudspeaker	Voice 66dB / Noise 70dB / Ring 72dB
	Audio quality	Noise -92.5dB / Crosstalk -92.8dB
	Battery life	Endurance rating 84h