The apps and back buttons don’t get the same haptic response. When you press harder on the home button or just in that area (since the button is sometimes hidden), you’ll feel a haptic vibration and are taken back to the home screen. Hidden under the bottom of the screen is a pressure sensor. Flanking the home button are the open apps button and the back button - also virtual. Where the button used to exist is just more screen, and an onscreen representation of a home button is often present. The Galaxy S8 is notably one of the first high-end Samsung phones without a physical home button. Some games, apps and video automatically resize to fill the whole screen, but not all. Full resolution photos shoot at 4:3 aspect ratio, leaving huge black bars on either side (you can shoot in a wider format, but you end up losing some resolution). Not everything, though, can take advantage of all that ultra-widescreen real estate. So honestly the corners made no difference to me. I saw everything from Samsung features to games follow those curves, but just as many retained their sharp corners, (with the virtual home/back/app buttons appearing at the bottom, and the thin activity strip at the top). This is one of the first smartphone screens I've ever used with curved corners. Everything from the Android 7/Samsung TouchWiz interface (which gets cleaner and better with every iteration) to movies, TV, games, and websites look sharp, vibrant and colorful. The iPhone 7 Plus has an HD screen with 401 ppi.Īnd all that resolution shows it’s just a beautiful screen to behold. The aptly named Infinity Display is a Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,960 x 1,440, which Samsung calls Quad HD+ - essentially an elongated version of Quad HD - and a pixel density of 529 ppi on the S8+ (570 on the S8). The information shown is user configurable. The always-on monochrome display is a great convenience when you just want to know the time, date, your next appointment. The front of the S8+ is virtually all screen, and what a screen it is. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy S8+ blows away Apple’s iPhone when it comes to screen size and resolution. And the curved sides make the S8+ feel even smaller. The Galaxy S8+ is, however, noticeably narrower than the iPhone 7 Plus: 2.9 inches to 3.1 inches. You don’t stretch your fingers top to bottom on the S8+, so you don’t notice the height disparity (the Galaxy S8+ is almost a millimeter/0.04 inch thicker than the iPhone 7 Plus). To put this in context, Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus is 6.2 inches tall and the S8+ is 6.3 inches. The result is a phone that looks a bit long but is comfortable to hold and, at least to my hands, doesn’t feel large at all. Plus, the edges are tapered - front and back - much in the same way the Galaxy S7’s back edge was. However, the Galaxy S8+ is unusually narrow, with a screen aspect ratio of 18.5:9. The front of the S8+ is virtually all screen, and what a screen it is.Ī 6.2-inch smartphone sounds comically large. I focused much of my attention on the larger S8+, but my comments could just as easily be applied to the "regular" S8, which I also had on hand. The 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+ has the exact same cameras as the 5.8-inch S8: a 12-megapixel camera in back and an 8MP selfie camera on the front. Unlike the choice between Apple’s iPhone 7 and an iPhone 7 Plus, there is no grand benefit, aside from battery life, to choosing the larger model. With this new LCD density set, navigation menus, bars, address bars, title bars etc are nearly half the height, increasing the usable space of these small multiwindow-windows quite significantly.įor those of you who actually utilize MultiWindow, and find that the work space for each app is too small, I highly recommend changing your LCD density to 35-40% less than what it is normally.There's Gorilla Glass on the front and back of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ Credit: Lili sams/mashable Which is why I always set my LCD density roughly 40% smaller. It boggles my mind how stock Android is so HUGE. That solution, is changing the LCD density (and no, not that display size change in your phones settings app - It sucks, dont use it).įor me, my OnePlus device has a stock LCD density of 480, meaning things like icons and menus are freakin MASSIVE. Thankfully, there is somewhat of a solution that I personally have been using for years. Even if you have a gorgeous 6.2" screen, things can still get pretty packed, and after keying in some top title bars, navigational bars etc, the usable space can be pretty tiny. One limitation however is due to the smaller content area when splitting two apps. MultiWindow is a fantastic feature that has made my workflow on the go a whole lot easier.
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