Testseek.com have collected 625 expert reviews of the Samsung SM-G955 Galaxy S8 Plus and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung SM-G955 Galaxy S8 Plus.
April 2017
(88%)
625 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(87%)
1739 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Infinity display Excellent design Impressive power Alldayplus battery life
Easier to handle beaut with top screentobody ratio
Fast recharging
Both wired and wireless
1Gbps LTE speeds support
Highres
HDRcertified display
Featurerich interface
Autofocus front camera
All games and videos fit the 16
9 display
Optical zoom a
Incredible bezelless screen
Liberating 64 GB of storage microSD
Slightly better battery life
Very good price
Good battery life
Still a top performer
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
Beautiful design
Tall display is great for text / Internet browsing / split screen
Has expandable storage
Waterand dustproof
Conventional display (flat
16
9)
Cheaper
S Pen
Frontfacing
Hardware home button / fingerprint sensor
Great priceperformance ratio
Dash charging is very fast
Lots of storage
Solid battery life
Very loud loudspeaker
Sleek design
Display is very bright and sharp
Best in class camera
IP68 rated
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
Dual camera with real 2x zoom and simulated bokeh is pretty cool
Better camera quality
S Pen for drawing
Taking notes
And more
Slightly less difficult to handle
A wee bit longer battery life
Costs less
4K video at 60fps is impressive
IOS
App Store
IMessage
Guaranteed timely software updates
Excellent battery life
Outstanding loudspeaker quality
Futuristic design that's easier to hold
More exciting color options
Immersive
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Great lo
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
Sexy design
Loaded set of hardware and software features
Smooth performance and decent battery life
Excellent camera quality
Longer battery life than the Galaxy S8
The Galaxy S8 Plus is a big phone that manages to make a 6.2-inch screen look graceful. It has every hardware and software advantage of the ultrasleek
Curved Galaxy S8
Including long battery life
Amazing
Brilliant
Eye-popping display
An incredible design that makes a 6.2-inch screen feel like a 5.7-inch one
Camera offers nice refinements over the S7
Especially for selfies
Incredible & comfortable design
Outstanding Super AMOLED display
Fast performance
Good allround camera
Bixby Voice Assistant has potential
Best in class inbox headphones
Acceptable battery life
Frontfacing camera has autofocus
Plenty of customizat
A bold new formfactor
Solid allaround experience
Stateoftheart camera
Attractive design
More screen area to overall body size
Respectable camera performance
The most beautiful
Futuristic phone I've ever seen. Enormous
Vibrant display without being cumbersome. Great performance and battery life. Camera still stacks up favorably despite lack of hardware upgrade
Incredible fit and finish
Samsung's interface feels more polished
Comfortable to hold
Strong performance
Great display
Nice design
Fast SoC
Very good GPS performance
Fast Wi-Fi
Gigabit LTE
Good voice quality
Comprehensive sensor equipment
USB 3.1 with DP
HDMI
And OTG
Long battery runtime
Quick-charge and wireless charging
Water and dust-proof
The editors didn't like
Terrible fingerprint sensor placement
Inconsistent camera image quality in daylight (particularly zoom detail)
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
Slippery
Seems fragile
Fingerprint scanner is iffy
Speaker quality could've been better
Photos by Raj Rout
Bigger
Heavier
And more expensive than the Galaxy S8
You'll have to reach higher to get to the fingerprint sensor on the back -- a straight day of this gets annoying
Fingerprint sensor is in a horrible location
Bixby isn't very useful or compelling
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
Performance could be better
Screen colors are not too accurate
Characteristic Samsung stutters
Especially with Bixby
Little software to actually take advantage of this aspect ratio
Concerns over curved glass
Ergonomics
And durability
Just when I thought I was done with big phones
Samsung drags me back in. The
The most fragile phone ever made. Dumb fingerprint sensor position. Exynos version loves to throttle. Bixby isn't anything special. Expensive
Bixby isn't ready for prime time
Cameras aren't hugely improved
Fingerprint sensor placement is weird
…but unfortunately not much improved over the predecessor
Positively gorgeous, More of that beautiful display, The best smartphone performance so far
Doesn't offer much more than regular S8, Expensive
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is very much a five-star handset. It's big, bold and resoundingly beautiful, but the thing that holds it back? There's still that regular-sized S8 to contend with.That's the sticking point and the main reason I've knocked a star...
Positively gorgeous, More of that beautiful display, The best smartphone performance so far
Doesn't offer much more than regular S8, Expensive
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is very much a five-star handset. It's big, bold and resoundingly beautiful, but the thing that holds it back? There's still that regular-sized S8 to contend with.That's the sticking point and the main reason I've knocked a star...
As with the regular Galaxy S8, we're really impressed by the Galaxy S8+. Samsung has done a great job of making last year's phones even better. However, with both offering the infinity edge screen and the unwieldy size of the S8+, there's little reason to...
Whether or not you're going to buy the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is a big decision in so many ways. It's screen size, power and price are all going to be overwhelming.And that's the good and bad of this phone. You're looking at the flashiest phone of 2017, w...
It's looking a lot like the S8 Plus is the Android phone of the year, and we're not even halfway through yet. There'll be some exciting flagships later in 2017 - we'll be interested to see if Apple's next iPhone can top it - but Samsung's high-end phones...
Published: 2017-04-28, Author: Samuel , review by: theguardian.com
64GB microSD card slot, wireless charging, IP68, brilliant screen, good battery life, great camera, iris scanner, pressuresensitive screen, notification LED
fixed battery, only Android 7.0, no USBPD, fingerprint scanner placement not great
There are two reasons to buy the Galaxy S8+ – an epic screen and solid battery life. Everything else is pretty much the same as the smaller S8, but it's more awkward to hold and carry.There's no doubt it's a great phone that's practically unrivalled on th...
Best battery life on the market, Gorgeously curved, premium-grade metal and glass design, water and dust proof, lightning-fast processing power, well-optimized and polished software package, superb camera and display, great audio quality
UI has some missing bits and gimmicks, fingerprint scanner placement not left-hand friendly, lacks higher-tier onboard storage (128GB) model, gorgeous curved glass design can be tricky to hold and may be fragile - a case is recommended, which sort of dimi
Having said the immediately above, those few bullet-pointed gripes at the end of the UI section are just about my only dislikes with the Galaxy S8+, and they are minor, somewhat nitpicky I'll readily admit, and oh so easily looked past in practice when us...
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Published: 2017-04-21, Author: Chris , review by: pocket-lint.com
Excellent display for movie watching (will be even better when HDR content is available), great camera, refined and full-featured user interface, option to avoid Samsung bloatware for best software experience yet, eye-catchingly gorgeous design
Internal speaker isn't great, Bixby isn't fully realised, rear fingerprint scanner takes a backseat to iris scanning, Bixby button feels like it could be doing something else, undeniably expensive
Samsung waited a little later in 2017 to unleash its flagship phone - but it was well worth the wait.Exquisite design, a high-quality waterproof build, great camera, plus 3.5mm headphone socket for those decent AKG headphones just to kick off to list of p...
What you end up with is a fantastic smartphone in the Samsung Galaxy S8+, which has only a couple of flaws.The ultimate irony is that the area it excels in the most - that incredible design - is the area that it falls the shortest, owing to the awful plac...
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Published: 2017-04-19, Author: Matt , review by: techradar.com
Big screen, acceptable phone size, Best camera on a smartphone, Slick software and performance
Your most expensive phone yet, Flawed fingerprint sensor, Hello, Bixby? Hello
The Galaxy S8 Plus is the Android phone you want if you like big and tall smartphones. It has a massive 6.2-inch display that doesn't make the actual dimensions of the device much bigger. Samsung's trick was to rid its phone of the physical home button an...
