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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and the day we've been waiting for is finally here the Samsung Galaxy s8 and s8 plus are officially revealed now say that a little bit ironically obviously because this phone was leaked everywhere but it's okay it's good to actually like see it in person now and feel it in the hand now that everything is officially official this is everything you need to know about this new phone first of all from the very beginning it was all about that display the design the lack of bezels just a jaw-dropping edge to edge nature of that front panel that's where Samsung went all in with this phone so the Galaxy s8 is rocking a 5.8 inch 20 960 by 1440 OLED display and the SI plus is rocking a 6.2 inch OLED with the same resolution so that's extremely sharp and that's an 18 and a half by 9 aspect ratio for those counting so it's a little bit taller even than the 2 by 1 aspect ratio from the LG G 6 so these are huge displays and very tall resolutions but of course the footprint of these phones when you compare them something with a more traditional larger bezel it's awesome it fits in the footprint of a phone with a way smaller screen they're calling it the infinity display I'm calling it like the almost bezel look look I can call whatever you want I really like it now it's not a completely new concept the galaxy s7 edge had the display glass melting over the edges already last year but for some reason that phone's edges always felt kind of sharp to me never really got quite comfortable with it but the s8 edges here feel much softer they're much more seamless feeling than before which no doubt took a lot of careful Engineering and then of course they push the display further up to the top and further towards the bottom of the phone by getting rid of the physical buttons and replacing them with soccer buttons so ok finally Samsung is actually now switching from Hardware buttons on the bottoms and the Chin's of all their phones to the software on screen buttons that's great I love them but what does that mean we lose by switching well first of all Samsung software buttons are not pretty I mean maybe it's just me but I think they're pretty ugly and they're also out of order like the back button should still be on the left but luckily we can reorder these buttons in the software to switch the order if we want we can't change the way they look but there's that and you also lose a physical home button which had the fingerprint reader on it on the last bone so the fingerprint reader now here moves up to the back of the phone and way up by the camera this one is kind of a stretch and actually don't mind you know fingerprint readers on the backs of phones like on the pixel excel for example when I'm holding my phone in a normal reading position the fingerprint reader is actually easily reachable so I don't mind that it's in the middle of the back but do you stretched out Samsung phones are a little bit taller so even with my big hands holding the s8 in a normal position puts the fingerprint reader just a little bit out of reach so I have to stretch a bit to find it and then with the si plus again when it's way up at the top of the phone like this if I just hold it normally and I turn the phone over it's like completely out of place and if I try to find it blind there's not really a big indentation to know exactly where it is so it's definitely something that's going to take some getting used to many people I think will need to use two hands with this in fact in the official Samsung commercial that dude does it with two hands so that fingerprint reader placement is a little odd but I think everything else about this hardware Samsung pretty much headed out the park this finally feels like a 2017 or even 2020 feature Estate smartphone design in the seamless beautiful type of way that we dream of but without sacrificing really any functionality or features it's still thin and pretty lightweight phone it still has USB type-c at the bottom with fast charging it still has a headphone jack it's still fully ip68 water-resistant still has wireless charging still has a micro SD card slot for expandable storage and with all that sandwiched between the sheets of metal and glass the Galaxy s8 will also have pretty much some of the best specs you can find in any Android phone so Snapdragon 835 four gigs of ram first one in the world with bluetooth 5.0 and it brings iris scanner also back from the dead from that galaxy note seven my only question mark here is the battery the only difference between the s8 and the s8 plus is not any features it's just the physical size so the displays are different and the battery sizes are different its 3000 milliamp hours on the galaxy s 8 and 3500 milliamp hours on the s8 plus and a 3000 milliamp hour battery can seem decent maybe little bit small but the number one draw of battery on a phone is the display and it's so easy to forget while holding that this is a five point eight inch display it's huge so a three thousand milliamp hour battery on a five point eight inch display not really too sure if that's going to hold up and then same thing with the bigger one the si plus is a thirty five hundred million entire battery which seems pretty decent size but it's a six point two inch display not a lot of six point two inch display phones out there and it's also a super high res super-bright display I mean that's going to be a big draw that's definitely something we're gonna be testing for the full review now the camera is on the back of this phone as far as I can tell are the same as the galaxy s7 from last year so 12 megapixel camera F 1.7 aperture optical image stabilization the whole deal its high-end and that's not a bad thing at all that was a really good camera but obviously that's not exactly pushing the limits here it's just a pretty safe bet that will do just fine and then of course there's the software a lot of people have mixed feelings about this stuff including me obviously I like stock Android and this is not that this is Samsung's UX on top of Android 7.0 with all their slightly redesigned colorful icons and launcher and everything here it feels fine with the hardware they have a new set of wallpapers to look pretty great on this display and the home screen icons and widgets are a little tweaked but overall it's nothing drastically different from before there are some neat tricks up its sleeve like there's this button that shows up when you're watching YouTube videos full screen that basically lets you do what the iPad does and punch in a little bit to fill the display if you really hate the black bars on the side your call obviously you can still rearrange the software buttons at the bottom like I said I'm sure we'll find even more stuff when we get to playing with this phone even more but the biggest new software feature of the Galaxy s8 is actually its personal assistant called Bixby and to me it's a little bit confusing just the way it exists on the phone at least two users I think so Bixby does all the same things that Google assistant does but by Samsung instead of by Google so you can it'll show you a bunch of cards in an order that's relevant to you so it tries to show you information that it thinks is important before you need it it's really similar to Google now and what Google does with the cards you access it by swiping over from your home screen just like Google and Bixby even has its own freaking button on the side of the phone look power button on one side then volume rocker and Bixby button on the other side that's a big commitment not to be fair there are a bunch of other like image recognition and context recognition things that they claimed Bixby could do but they couldn't show us any of these things that's going to be launching with the phone but the funny thing is this is still an Android phone it's still Android 7.0 which means it still also has Google assistant on the phone if you long press the home button sure enough you get Google assistant popping right out so it's weird I got this s voice rebooted type of vibe with those two things doing the same thing existing next to each other on the phone it's kind of a weird thing obviously we all know how s voice went down and I really hope that this isn't as bad as s voice will give it the benefit of the doubt we'll see when it launches but until then that's just kind of across your fingers and hope type of thing so overall as a package the Galaxy s8 is pretty impressive promising I might even say to me it looks like Samsung really picked their battles with this one there are certain areas where they clearly really want it to go all out and push the boundaries the design the display and it shows and it's up on the outside of the phone but other areas where they're definitely not pushing forward too hard are also pretty obvious the camera the battery it has an entire phone I'm pretty optimistic for the Galaxy s8 so there you have it that's everything that you need to know with this new flagship it's coming out on April 21st that's when you can be able to get it feel free to share this video with anyone you think might be interested in this bahama new flagship will actually probably hopefully not bomb and I mean might be the bomb but like not the bomb in that way you know I mean I think you know to me thanks for watching expect a full review of this phone obviously talk to you as the next one pays