Samsung launched its new flagship mobile phone Galaxy S8/S8+in New York at 23:00 on March 29, Beijing time. Everything is the same as what was revealed: Dream Infinity Display full view curved screen, ultra-high screen proportion, elimination of the entity home key, rear fingerprint recognition, and new Bibxy artificial intelligence assistant.

Samsung S series is still fully stocked:

• 5.8 "/6.2" 2960x1440 resolution Super AMOLED hyperbolic screen

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 or Samsung Exynos 8895+ 4/6GB+64/128GB

• Front camera 8MP, Rear 12MP Dual Pixel camera (f/1.7 large aperture)

• 3000mAh/3500Ah battery

• IP68 protection Smart assistant Bixby, face and Iris Recognition

Near Borderless Surface Design

Samsung S8 has adopted a new screen design, officially called Dream Infinity Display. It enables phones of the same size to provide a larger screen, and can also ensure single hand operation. The price of this design is that S8 can only cancel the entity Home key and use the back fingerprint identification.

There is no big change in the overall design language. Except for the exaggerated proportion of the front screen, the other parts of it are really not different from the previous generation. Although the new machine is still very exquisite and beautiful, from the S7 edge to the current design language, even though it has been polished perfectly, some people may already feel a bit boring.

Bixby AI speech assistant

Bixby is a new voice assistant just launched by Samsung, which integrates the research achievements of Samsung's artificial intelligence and deep learning, and is also one of the main selling points of S8. Even Samsung has specially added a special physical button on the body for it, which has greatly improved the search, conversation, recommendation, wake-up and other aspects compared with the previous S Voice.

It can use voice commands such as "Bixby, rotate the image left/send the image to the Galaxy S8" in the image library to directly replace button operations. If you have a Samsung smart home device, it can also be used to send pictures to the TV or control the switch of smart lights.

Another problem with this human assistant is that it overlaps with Google Assistant too much. In addition, there are a lot of cards on the Bixby Home page, such as your smart light bulb, fitness data, news, weather, and so on. They look like they are piled up randomly. In terms of effective organization and filtering of information, it is still a long way from Google Assistant.

The best and most special work Bixby does is actually the image recognition of the camera. It can identify the objects in the camera frame, and then search directly. It is a vivid AR reality enhancement. When the camera is looking at flowers, you can jump to Amazon to buy flowers according to the recognition results, or go to Pinterest to view more pictures of flowers. It can also identify wine labels and book covers, and jump to shopping websites. But in many cases, instead of jumping to an official partner like Amazon or Pinterest, Google search is directly invoked.

face detection

In addition to the iris recognition already available on Note7, Samsung S8 also adds face recognition, which is extremely fast and can unlock the phone in 0.01 seconds. In addition, the security of face recognition is not as good as that of fingerprint and iris, and fingerprint and iris are still used for payment.

Gear 360

The Gear 360, which was born to shoot VR videos, has also been updated. On the basis of the previous generation, the size has become smaller, and a handle has been added to facilitate handheld shooting. At the press conference, the on-site staff also handed out one and conducted on-site "teaching".

This new 360 ° panoramic camera seems to be born for taking selfies, which can It can shoot true 4K video with a resolution of 4096 x 2160, and can also carry out live streaming media with a resolution of 2K, which is impossible for the previous generation.

Gear VR

Motion sensing handles can usually be seen on high-end VR devices, but rarely on mobile VR headsets, because without a camera, it is difficult to do a good job of motion tracking. However, Google is a pioneer, and Daydream last year was equipped with a handle. Now Samsung has also developed a handle for Gear VR together with Oculus.

The disc on the top can realize the functions of moving the cursor and confirming. In addition, it is also equipped with several buttons of "main interface, return, volume+, volume -", which will be released together with S8 on April 21. It will be sold together with Gear VR for $129, or $39 if purchased separately. Oculus said that there will be 20 games that will be adapted to it when the handle is released. Compared with this new controller, Oculus's game adaptation is much more attractive.

DeX expansion dock

The DeX mobile workstation of S8 accessory can make S8 instantly turn into a PC, and realize image output through HDMI interface. In addition, there are two USB interfaces, which can connect keyboard and mouse. There is also a cooling fan in the DeX base, which can help heat the S8 when it outputs images. The base is powered by the USB-C interface, and can also fast charge the phone.

In this mode, notification message reading and resizing of the App interface are supported. The entire interface looks very similar to Chrome OS, but does not support desktop browsers. In fact, there are many limitations in this desktop mode. The usability of an app depends entirely on how well developers optimize the large screen. At present, most of the apps in Google Play Store are not optimized for this purpose. Samsung's own browser, Microsoft's Office applications and Adobe's mobile applications can perfectly adapt to the DeX base mode, but some other apps are just simple and crude amplification.

When the base is connected, the S8 iris scanner can also be used to unlock the desktop mode. This product is also specially designed for some specific people, especially business people who need light office work, but it cannot be used to replace laptops.

In the United States, the two machines only have three colors: black, silver and gray (purple), while the international version has gold and blue. Reservations will be accepted on March 30 and will be available on April 21. The press conference did not raise the price. Among the prices exposed by American operators, the price of S8 is 720-750 dollars, and that of S8+is 840-850 dollars. The price of the international version is unknown. Do you think the Samsung S8 can make Samsung counter attack this time?

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