Description
For 2017 Samsung has redesigned the most important component of a smartphone: the screen. With an incredible 5.8" Infinity Display with 4K UHD certification, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is truly a wonder to behold.
Reasons to buy the Samsung Galaxy S8
- Edge-to-edge Infinity Display with curved 3D glass
- Invisible pressure-sensitive home button
- Bixby Assistant for context-sensitive search, suggestions and navigation
- Samsung DeX desktop dock compatible
- High-resolution rear-mounted Fingerprint Sensor - (screen locking and payments with Samsung Pay / Android Pay)
- High-speed face recognition screen unlocking
- Iris scanner screen unlocking technology
Specifications: Network
Technology: GSM / HSPA / LTE
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), aluminium 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 colours
- 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
- Operating System: Android 7.0 (Nougat), upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo)
- Chipset: Exynos 8895 Octa - EMEA
- Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 - USA & China
- CPU: Octa-core (4x2.3 GHz Mongoose M2 & 4x1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) - EMEA
- Octa-core (4x2.35 GHz Kryo & 4x1.9 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
Main Camera
- Single: 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm, 1/2.5", 1.4µm, OIS, dual pixel PDAF
- Features: LED flash, auto-HDR, panorama
- Video: 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps, HDR, dual-video rec.
Selfie Camera
- Single: 8 MP, f/1.7, 25mm, 1/3.6", 1.22µm, AF
- Features: Dual video call, Auto-HDR
- Video: 1440p@30fps
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: MS(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