Testseek.com have collected 1214 expert reviews of the Samsung SM-G950 Galaxy S8 and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung SM-G950 Galaxy S8.
April 2017
(89%)
1214 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(82%)
1461 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Infinity display Excellent design Impressive power Alldayplus battery life
A slimbezel design finally brings a more modern design to the Galaxy line
Onscreen buttons allow for smaller bezels
Bigger screens
And a customizable (and correctable) button order
Samsung's alwayson hardpress home button is an awesome and innovativ
Gorgeous display
Wireless charging
Good battery life
MicroSD card slot
Shiny curved design with top screentobody ratio
Fast recharging
Both wired and wireless
Highres
HDRcertified display
Featurerich interface
Very easy for onehanded operation
All games and videos fit the standard 16
9 display
Richer apps and service
Superb bezelless screen
Liberating 64 GB of storage microSD
Slightly better camera
Slightly better battery life
Cool accessories
DeX dock
Still a great camera
Still a great smartphone allaround
Much better price
The best mobile display ever
Dualedge screen for both sizes
Efficient and gorgeous design
IP68 water and dust resistant
Fantastic new software buttons
Great battery life
Ultra fast charging and wireless charging
Every software feature you can think
Fancy exterior design
More convincing software design
A bit cheaper without compromising much
Versatile wideangle camera lens
Industry leading
Stylish and sleek design
Singlehand friendly
64 GB of storage microSD support
Good camera
Excellent battery life
Waterproof
Affordable for what it is
Fast performance
Extremely fast Dash charging
No microSD car
Sleek design
Futuristic bezelless screen with great colors
Very good camera with excellent lowlight performance
Smooth performance
Incredible camera performance
Great for both images and video
Excelle
Water-resistant (IP68) and heartbeat
Fingerprint
And iris sensors
Better design – curved display and tiny bezels around it
Super AMOLED display with QHD resolution
High brightness and contrast
Accurate colors
More durable 3000mAh battery + Ultra Po
The best displays I've ever seen on a smartphone. They're bright
They're beautiful
They have excellent viewing angles
And tiny little bezels. You get a ton of screen in a remarkably compact package
I only tested the S8in depth
But the battery life on
Amazing design
Gorgeous widescreen
Excellent camera
Snappy performance
Water resistant
Gorgeous AMOLED display that seems to curve over into the chassis
Performance that's substantial enough for virtual reality
Fast
Responsive camera
Water resistance
Extra goodies you won't find on other phones
Like Samsung Pay
Backed by Apple's superior hardware and software ecosystem
Best ever performance
Illegaly good speakers and earphones
Exciting
Trendsetting design
More versatile camera
Higher screen resolution
Much more convenient fingerprint scanner position
Improved camera
Smoother performance (but still not perfectly smooth)
More affordable
Display
Camera
Design almost as good as S9's
Excellent screen
Stylish design
Fast SoC
Very good GPS qualities
Fast Wi-Fi
Gigabit LTE
Decent call quality
Solid sensor configuration
USB 3.1 with DP
HDMI
And OTG
Quick-charge and wireless charging
Water and dust-resistant
Almost bezel-less design
Best display quality on a smartphone
Lightning fast and high quality camera
Awesome battery life
Useful software features
High-end hardware specs will appeal to gamers and other power users
Exquisite design
Amazing curved display
Blazing fast performance
One of the best rear cameras ever made
Hand-friendly design
Gorgeous screen
Best processor and modem available
The best-looking phone around crushes it in performance
Battery life
Water-resistance and wireless charging. An external storage slot lets you keep more photos
Videos and music
Stunning display in a useful new aspect ratio
Industry leading performance with excellent battery life
Bluetooth 5
Fast wireless charging
Waterproofing
And micro SD support
Gorgeous design
Small bezels
Surprisingly quick iris/facial scanning
64GB of internal storage AND a micro SD slot
Always On Display
Dual Audio and Separate App Audio
Samsung DeX desktop interface
Samsung Pay
Headphone jack
Class-leading display
Excellent performance
Excellent display
Great performance
Camera is top notch
Slim and lightweight
Great camera
Brilliant display
Excellent design
Incredible & comfortable design
Outstanding Super AMOLED display
Good allround camera
Bixby Voice Assistant has potential
Best in class inbox headphones
Acceptable battery life
Frontfacing camera has autofocus
Plenty of customizat
The Samsung Galaxy S8 has one of the best displays we've ever seen on a smartphone
Beautiful design
Curved Super AMOLED screen looks and works great
Fast and lag-free
Camera is among the best
Elegant and thoughtful hardware design
Solid allaround performance
Stateoftheart phone camera
A fresh
New look for Android
Great OLED display
Good performance for the price
Sharper selfie cam and improved rear shooter
Meticulous fit and finish
Enormous
Stunning display
Modern 2017 flagship design (Phablet that feels small)
Great build quality
Software optimized for one handed use
One of the best cameras of 2017
Good audio performance through headphones
Best specs on a flagship so far
Stunning design
Extra large display
Excellent photo experience
Fastest Android hardware and networking
Very fast and accurate autofocus in all lighting conditions
Good color rendering in lowlight conditions
Very good target exposure for all lighting conditions
Very good shadow detail for high dynamic scenes
On flash pictures noise is low
With only sli
Incredible fit and finish
Samsung's interface feels more polished
Comfortable to hold
Strong performance
The editors didn't like
Terrible fingerprint sensor placement
The gimmicks. The iris scanner
Curved screen
And heart rate sensor all seem designed to give talking points to your local Verizon salesperson
Rather than provide a good user experience for customers
The glass back is fragile and a fingerprint magnet
Expensive
Fingerprint sensor location
Only one camera on the back
Downward firing speaker
Inconsistent camera image quality in daylight (particularly zoom detail)
Construction which retains fingerprints
Presence of PWM
I actively hate the fingerprint scanner on the S8. It may be better on the standard S8. But yeah
It's bad
The S8 and S8ship with Android 7.0
And I've seen exactly nothing from Samsung indicating they plan to change their attitude about timely Android p
Awkwardly placed fingerprint sensor
Unreliable iris scanner
Bixby is useless
Bixby button can't be reassigned
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Rear fingerprint sensor is oddly placed
Face biometrics are finicky to set up and use
Bixby
Samsung's voice assistant
Is barely there
Fingerprints. Everywhere. Constantly
Though not much better than in the predecessor
No dual-SIM
Fingerprint scanner hard to find via touch
SoC throttling during permanent load
Warranty does not cover damage due to liquids
Slippery and fragile exterior
Terrible fingerprint scanner placement
Bixby assistant is very limited
Awkward size and finish make iy hard to hold and use
Placement of fingerprint sensor makes it difficult to use
Glossy screen results in distracting reflections
Bixby not fully implemented as yet
Not cheap
Bixby button not reconfigurable
Awkward fingerprint scanner placement
Average battery life
Its awkwardly placed fingerprint reader leads to camera smears and longer unlock times
Which is aggravating when you use it to unlock your phone dozens of times a day
Bixby is a flop
The fingerprint sensor is located in the worst possible place
It's still full of bloatware and duplicative Samsung apps
Curved display
Display issues (red tint inconsistencies
Burn-in
Grayscale banding)
TouchWiz is still stuttery as ever
Camera's excessive noise filtering
Overly aggressive RAM management
Fingerprint placement and performance
Speaker quality
Old fa
Divisive software design
Duplicate apps
Bixby is incomplete at launch
Glossy design is fragile and a fingerprint magnet
Rear mounted fingerprint sensor placement is awkward
Bixby is a bore
Difficult to unlock
Battery Isn't as good asS7
Odd fingerprint sensor location
Bixby is limited and needs work
No major improvements to the camera
Iris recognition is hit and miss
Bottomfiring speaker is average at best
This smartphone has an awkwardly placed fingerprint sensor
Fingerprint sensor is awkwardly placed
No dual-camera optical zoom
Bixby Voice isn't available at launch
Graphics performance could be better
Display colors aren't too natural
Bixby isn't a great assistant
Lacks dual cameras for optical zoom
Annoying preinstalled apps
Atrocious fingerprint scanner placement
Larger size can be cumbersome
Third-party software needs to scale up to 18.5
9
Lacks stereo speakers
Battery life is just ok
Where is Android 7.1?
Some variants are fingerprint magnets
Hello Bixby is half baked and slow
Software tends to stutter
Fingerprint scanner placement m
No support for wide-angle photography
Slight loss of detail in low contrast areas in all lighting conditions
Strong variations of sharpness visible in the field
Ringing visible
Very fine color details are lost in all lighting conditions
On flash pictures in tungsten light color shading is
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Published: 2017-11-30, Author: by , review by: technobaboy.com
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Published: 2017-04-13, Author: John , review by: unbox.ph
After spending around a week with the Galaxy S8, we've come to the conclusion that it's the best phone we've seen so far this year. While Samsung has never failed to impress us with their flagship offerings, the company has pulled out all stops this year...
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