Samsung - Galaxy S8 64GB - Midnight Black (Sprint)

While reviewing phones online, I noticed Samsung was giving this phone heavy discount due to their battery explosion problem last year. So I want to head and went for it just to see what it was like, even though I want to the HTC U11 because it is faster and smoother than the S8 if you watch reviews on the phones. Both are glass. Anywho, I'm Liking and enjoying the galaxy S8. It has a lot of neat features that are really discussed when researching. It even has a heart rate sensor next to the camera so you can take resting and activity heart rates. Just explore all the features you'll be pretty amazed. Bonus! You get a pretty decent pair of ear phones, which are way above in quality than the ones you usually get with phones. The Galaxy S8 also has a program that lets you set our program the listening experience design for your ears, meaning the phone gives you a hearing test of sort and adjust the settings to your hearing. Really nice feature .

I bought this phone 20 days back & my love for the features & performance of my Samsung Galaxy S8 is increasing day-by-day. Awesome camera, excellent picture quality, great design... the list is endless. I LOVE THIS PHONE. I actually went to the store to buy a Google Pixel XL but the guys there changed my mind & definitely for a good reason. I wanted an Android & this was the best thing. I had read about Pixel but nothing about S8. I have no regrets of not buying a Google Pixel. Hope this phone continues to surprise me :)

Migrating from a Galaxy S5 to a Galaxy S8 was much better than expected... improved performance, network and boot up time.

I use it to track my health and good camera. I love it..

Got the S8 to replace my 2+ year old S6 just as the S9 was coming out. I debated whether getting the already year old S8 was the way to go with the S9 just out, but I couldnt justify the huge payments on the S9 for a slightly better chip and a better camera, which I dont care much about. BestBuy had a great deal on the S8, and as I was still leasing my S6 through Sprint, I found myself paying more to lease the S6 than to purchase the S8. So it was a no-brainer. The phone itself is a huge upgrade, with a much better screen, slightly larger, with a lot more customization options and way faster. The lack of a true home button is annoying, but I've gotten used to it. The huge Bixby button on the left hand side of the phone (below the volume buttons) was also annoying as I was constantly hitting it accidentally. But that was solved when I shut off the annoying Samsung Bixby entirely. One other issue is the Calling Plus feature, which supposedly allows you to talk and surf (cellularly) at the same time (a la what you have been able to do on Verizon for years now). Unfortunately I found that if I turned that on making phone calls became pointless as after about 30-60 seconds or so either I couldnt hear the other party, or they couldnt hear me. Turning it off resolved the problem but failed to resolve the issue of why you still cant talk and surf on Sprint despite them promising it for years now. I suppose that wouldnt have been an issue if I was on Verizon, but I'm not. The phone otherwise is highly recommended and for the price a better option than the S9.

Let me start out by saying that I am very happy with my GS8. It's an excellent phone that is responsive, has a battery that easily lasts a day, and plenty of (mostly) useful features. Not to mention the minimal bezels and brilliant screen. I'm not going to go on and repeat all the good things pretty much every online review says about phone. My issue with the phone is Samsung's notorious and pervasive bloat-ware. Some of it adds rather useful functionality, a fair bit of it is annoyingly redundant and actually takes away functionality in my opinion. An excellent example of this is that a url sent in a text will launch that page inside of the messages app. You are not able to launch the web page in a non-Samsung web browser. Sure, you could copy the url or utilize one of the options the app gives for you but I'm not a fan of being forced into using one app or being required to go through extra steps to use other apps that are available to me. It is one of the primary reasons I use Android phones. I hate that Samsung is emulating Apple in the their own, and largely redundant, apps. I know that boot loaders and various other apps exist that feature "workarounds" for much of the more annoying features (such as the Bixby butto, that even activates when the screen is off) but the button-mappers that I have tried work on either a delay or close the app that was launched and then launches the a different app. For me, the annoying bloat is (barely) better than the delayed response. Having said that, there are proprietary features I am largely a fan of such as the screen stay (keeps screen on while you're looking at it), the various ways to wake up and to unlock the phone, and the edge app and its various panels. I've only had the phone a little over a week now and I am still getting used to the minutia of how it works. So far, the good easily trumps the bad.

Upgraded from a S6 to a S8 and I love it. Never used the finger sensor on the S6 cause I found it difficult to read my fingers but S8 was simple, read without a problem. The Iris is a great way to unlock the phone also, very easy to unlock and won't work with other people's Iris except yours(I tried with many people). There's one thing that does annoy me, the BIXBY Button on the side. It's too close to the volume button that I would accidently press it. But other than that annoying button, I am very pleased with my upgrade.

It's only been a week, but it's been fun getting to know my new phone. Coming from a S4 that was over 4-years-old but still running great, there wasn't much adjustment. Everything is just a little shinier, a little faster, a little newer. The screen looks so much smaller when you first pick it up, but as soon as it comes on...oh, man, beautiful and shiny. Liking the camera, but I don't necessarily understand the need for the Snapchat-like stickers. They are entertaining for the first 30 minutes, though. Pro mode is fun to mess around with if you understand that kind of stuff, but Auto mode is very easy to work with. I do worry about protecting this baby. I've got an OtterBox case on her right now, but they haven't figured out the built in screen protectors yet, so I've got an Amazon find on order for some of the more rough and tumble activities I find myself in. My friend's week old S8 has already found a pointy surface that cracked the corner of the gorgeous, curved screen, through a seperate, stick on screen protector. Besides that, I've been impressed so far, but let's see if I can make this one last 4 years, too.