Samsung has revealed that the virtual home button on board the Galaxy S8 slowly fades in and out when the Always-On Display mode is activated to prevent the icon from burning into the screen. Eager to put the firm’s claim to test, the folks over at GalaxyClub marked out the position of the home key on their handset’s display, and witnessed it shift back and forth ever so slightly...
There's been a bit of controversy over the Galaxy S8's dedicated Bixby button, which Samsung doesn't want you to remap for other purposes. But a new app that's just surfaced in the Google Play Store lets you redirect it to Google Now instead. Grab it now before Samsung gets it blocked! Before the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ made their official debuts last week, there was another app named...
Samsung's new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ have all the features under the sun, some of which it seems aren't even active yet. A new teardown reveals that the devices have a front-facing selfie camera with optical image stabilization, but Samsung is yet to take advantage of it. Optical image stabilization can drastically improve your photos and videos. It reduces camera shake significantly...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is the hottest phone on the market right now, packing beastly specs into a gorgeous design. Unfortunately, that design is very difficult to fix. iFixit got its hands on a Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus and performed its standard teardown to reveal that it is nearly impossible to repair. Both the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus earned a 4 out of 10 repair score, which is better...
A video uploaded to YouTube on Monday showcases Dolphin, the best-known GameCube and Wii emulator, running smoothly on a display model of the recently-announced Galaxy S8. During the short clip, three GameCube titles — Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker — are opened on the handset and they appear to run cleanly, with very few...
Samsung’s enlisted the help of Landscape Photographer of the Year Matthew Cattell to showcase the capabilities the of the “incredible camera” on board the Galaxy S8, which, for the record, is more or less the same as the one found on its predecessor, but it is a little more advanced in the processing department. Armed with a Galaxy S8, Cattell took to various locations in Britain —...
Samsung has teamed up with Dish and HelloTech to launch a new service called Premium Care, aimed at ensuring clumsy Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus owners aren’t left with a broken handset for too long. Unlike the standard one year warranty, Premium Care covers accidental damage — so if your device happens to fall from a twelve...
Despite its design comprising of a thin metal frame sandwiched in between two slabs of glass, the Galaxy S8 Plus is actually a pretty durable smartphone. At least, that’s what a new drop test uploaded to the EverythingApplePro YouTube channel would lead you to believe. In the 12-minute video, the Galaxy S8 Plus is pit against the iPhone 7 Plus — but the results aren’t quite what you’d...
You're probably well aware that the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus ship with a dedicated button that toggles Bixby. What you may not know, however, is that the key can be reconfigured to launch a different application, like Google Assistant. Pretty neat, huh? Remapping the button is pretty straightforward. As outlined by the folks over at XDA, it's as simple as downloading an application...
Bixby, Samsung’s next-generation virtual assistant, is no longer exclusive to the new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Fans have discovered that with very little effort, Bixby can be installed on any Samsung Galaxy device running Android 7.0 Nougat. Samsung is late to the game with Bixby, but that doesn’t matter. Its virtual assistant offers the same kind of...