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Samsung returns to the flagship game with the latest in their Galaxy S line bringing a familiar but further refined body that is even edgier than ever it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the Samsung Galaxy s8 and the Galaxy s8 plus there are two versions of the newest Samsung device and the names no longer used the word edge making it clearer than ever that the curved display is the Galaxy calling card moving forward the edges have the usual tropes like the edge UX or any of the features at the edge brings to the table however it's less about that and more about how these curved displays defy logic the Galaxy s8 crams a 5.7 inch screen onto a body that feels much smaller than that leads on and the curves come down to meet the hand better than ever however for the Samsung Galaxy s8 plus it manages to cram in a 6.2 inch display onto a body that feels kind of decent to handle in one hand and a few things had to change in order to make this happen mainly a resolution ship 229 60 by 1440 for an aspect ratio of eighteen point five by nine and the galaxy s 8 plus manages to get a little bit taller rather than wider in order to accommodate this change another change comes in the removal of the hardware key yes this is actually happening folks the hardware home button is now gone by the wayside and even the Samsung logo at the top is gone as well on the back now is the fingerprint reader and while it doesn't feel too bad on the SI the SI plus makes it feel awkward because you have to reach for it and the change towards more display mean soft keys which means a navbar and customization speaking of software delays addition to the galaxy suite of apps is a whole new layer of assistance called Bigsby Bigsby is a little bit like Samsung's version of Google now and voice search and it can be triggered with yet another hardware change a new button underneath the volume rocker our time with Bigsby only really showed the splash screen where contextual slides are shown including new stories and calendar entries however further actions are available especially with voice input which we saw in a demo functions here included changing the brightness or taking a selfie and a new layer to the camera is available now as well as Bigsby can use the camera to scan not only words so you can translate among dozens of different languages we can also find product in formation for pretty much any item we plan to spend a lot of time with big speed to see what it offers and to see if it's truly a new layer of assistance or just a redundancy because you still get Google assistant built-in and all of this is housed in a water-resistant body that we were almost aggressively invited to dunk and that body protects a bevy of hardware bits that users have come to expect a 10 nanometer octa-core processor that Samsung is not really telling us clearly if it's the Snapdragon or the latest Exynos which is probably going to mean it's a mix of the two four gigabytes of ram expandable storage a headphone jack thank goodness every sensor in connection type possible and a 3000 milliamp hour battery for the s8 and 3500 milliamp hours for the SI plus the camera is also quite familiar with 12 megapixels on the rear and 8 megapixels on the front F 1.7 aperture for both what we were told however was that the cameras have gotten better post-processing so the picture should have an enhancement but it's more on the software side than just on the sheer specs so Samsung strives to make changes in just the right places even if it does mean a shift and familiarity gone are the Samsung logos the tactile home button and flat panels in our Bigsby and its new button a shifted fingerprint reader and screens that simply don't quit there are more capabilities that can be unlocked using the Galaxy S 8 and s 8 plus but you have to use their various tools in the Samsung ecosystem like the gear 360 and Samsung decks Samsung decks blows up the already large home screen to literally desktop size with a lot of features built in all of these different pieces will be covered here at Android authority and we encourage you to check out those pieces of content and video our first look at the Samsung Galaxy s8 makes us really excited to get our hands on the review unit sooner rather than later but the release information currently puts pre-orders at March 30th with the phone making it to you on April 21st keep an eye out for our full review and our final thoughts on the Galaxy s8 and the s8 plus in the coming weeks and you can also see all of our comparisons our Quick Looks and reactions to various features of the Galaxy s8 here in the next couple of days after that you can actually see a little bit of behind the scenes at the actual Samsung unpacked event if you head over to my channel Tekken T and you can find that link in the description below so you can find some BTS down there and from there you can keep it tuned to Android authority for our future full 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