After the short press conference, Samsung brought us the long-awaited masterpiece Galaxy S8/S8+. At first glance, the Galaxy S8/S8+seems to be a bit disappointing. Its appearance is the same as the previous packaging materials. It uses the Snapdragon 835 and its own Exynos 8895 in terms of performance. It is still a 2K curved screen with almost the same battery capacity. It is still a single camera. Have you been disappointed to see that? Let's continue to look down.
Samsung S8 series configuration:
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 level protection, intelligent assistant Bixby, face and iris recognition
In fact, there are few breakthroughs in smart phones today. With the help of Snapdragon, everyone has the same performance. The system is modified based on Android, and the battery capacity cannot be significantly increased before the material breakthrough is made (you can only exchange the thickness of the body for a large amount of batteries). But looking at the mobile phone market in 2016, manufacturers can still create differentiated competition through the following aspects: dual camera, curved screen/full screen, HiFi audio, and artificial intelligence technology.
Dream Infinity Display
Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+has adopted a new screen design, officially called Dream Infinity Display. In order to give users a better use experience, Samsung has removed the physical keys below the phone, greatly increasing the screen proportion of the whole device, and adjusted the screen proportion to 18.5:9. The whole phone looks more slender, with a resolution of 2K and a curved surface. Well, I know what you want to say. Its screen share is really not as good as Xiaomi MIX, but it will definitely have a better use experience than Xiaomi MIX.
First of all, this is an unconventional scale screen. Its scale is 18.5:9. What does this mean? When you read articles on the public account, go to Zhihu, post bar, and use the website browser, it can display more information than the regular 16:9 mobile phone and the 17:9 mobile phone like Xiaomi MIX. Why is Samsung making the screen longer rather than wider here? Because in fact, the left and right width of the thumb is much shorter than the upper and lower length in the process of operating the phone with one hand, and the human hand can coordinate the movement of the thumb through four fingers.
In addition, you should know that its resolution has not shrunk at all. It is still 2K (the Xiaomi MIX is 1080P). Because of the increase in length, its actual resolution is 2960 * 1440 (the 2K screen at 16:9 is 2560 * 1440). The most important thing is that it is also a curved screen. It has a longer proportion, a higher proportion of screens, a higher resolution, and a still curved surface. It can be said that Samsung combines the most differentiated points in the mobile phone screen to create the Dream Infinity Display.
The pressure sensitive virtual home key you should pay attention to
Samsung sacrificed its long held Home button design for screen share. Although the Home key does not exist on the surface, it does not disappear in fact, and it is easier to use than most virtual Home keys. Samsung has built a pressure sensor into this Home. Is it a familiar word? Because the iPhone's 3D Touch technology also uses this thing, but the iPhone covers the entire screen to obtain the so-called 3D Touch touch. In some scenarios, the virtual Home key will be hidden, but we do not need to slide up to pull out the Home key like other Android devices, but press and hold the position of the virtual Home key gracefully and forcefully to trigger its pressure sensor, and then trigger its Home key function.
Bixby AI voice assistant that won't be blocked
In fact, at present, only Microsoft Xiaona, Apple Siri and Google Assistant can truly achieve AI voice assistant on mobile phones. Here the author lists three AI voice assistants, and the truth is that as a 99% mobile phone population, the most we come across is Siri. Lumia's flattering sales have made Microsoft Xiaona disappear on the mobile platform (although Microsoft has released Microsoft Xiaona on iOS and Android platforms, both of them are castrated versions), let alone Google Assistant, What？ Do you still want to use Google Home's service in China?? Therefore, for Chinese users, Samsung's Bixby is the second real AI voice assistant in China.
For Bixby, we need to wake it up before using it, and there are three ways to wake it up:
1. Click the Bixby Home button on the home page
2. Long press the Bixby button on the side to trigger its voice function
3. There is an AR button related to Bixby in the camera app
Would you rather press the Bixby button on the side of Galaxy S8/S8+for a long time to wake up Bixby in a low-key way than crying "Hey, Siri" in front of your friends in embarrassment?
Samsung official website: "Bixby can understand dialogue, text and tapping, so you can use the most convenient way to communicate with it at that time, and switch the interaction mode at any time."
From the functional point of view, Bixby is very similar to Google Assistant. You can wake it up in many places of the system and let it receive some of your commands. For example, you 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. In addition, the Bixby Home page contains your smart light bulb, fitness data, news, weather and a lot of cards.
There is an AR button related to Bixby in the camera app, which can identify the objects in the camera viewfinder and then search directly. This is a very direct AR application. When your camera is aimed at your shoes, it will identify the model of your shoes, and then you can jump to Amazon (Taobao in China) to search for the same products, which is a bit like Taobao's function of searching for products by pictures.
According to the description of foreign live media, in fact, in many cases, they will not jump to Amazon or Pinterest, an official partner, but directly call Google search.
Of course, for a pure Chinese, none of the above is the most important. The most important thing is that Bixby really supports Chinese voice commands! You no longer have to speak your broken English deliberately to use the AI voice assistant.
Single shot can also be greatly blurred, but there is no optical zoom
As for the camera, this is the part that Samsung will always surprise us, but to be honest, we really didn't see any surprises this time. First, the camera parameters are changed from IMX260 to IMX333, which is not Sony's IMX400 with DRAM, so it does not support shooting 960 frames of ultra slow motion video. In addition, the CMOS size is also 1/2.5, the unit pixel area is 1.4 μ m, it is also 12 million pixels, and it is also F/1.7 aperture. So many foreign media are excited to say that the most obvious experience is that the camera speed is fast.
Although it is a single shot, the Galaxy S8 also supports the function of taking pictures before focusing. According to the information obtained so far, this probability depends on Samsung's own powerful algorithm. As for its actual effect, it can only be concluded after more real machines take samples. In fact, the Galaxy S8 does not need to improve its camera. Even at the S7 level, we still think its photography is quite powerful, but we often have great expectations for Samsung mobile phone photography. It is this strong expectation that gives us the illusion of "S8 photography is not powerful". Although the optical/lossless zoom function of the mobile phone is not useful in low light, the daytime shooting still has a significant analytical power improvement, which can not be compensated by this single camera IMX333.
Noteworthy accessory: AKG earplugs
Samsung recently completed the acquisition of American auto parts manufacturer Harman International with 8 billion US dollars, but we should be clear that although Harman is a company providing auto solutions, its AKG, JBL and HarmanKardon are all very famous audio equipment manufacturers. Earlier, there was a rumor that AKG earplugs would be used on the S8. This time, the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+standard earplugs were indeed printed with the AKG logo. The official website described it as "bringing high-quality sound effects adjusted by AKG".
Although the Galaxy S8/S8+is not equipped with an independent HiFi DAC, at least the quality of this earplug is guaranteed by the logo AKG, so you can look forward to its performance.
Noteworthy accessory: DeX expansion dock
The Galaxy S8/S8+has an independent accessory DeX Dock. It enables Galaxy S8/S8+to instantly incarnate as a "PC" and realize image output through HDMI interface. In addition, there are two USB interfaces that can connect keyboard and mouse. There is also a cooling fan in the DeX base, which can help the Galaxy S8/S8+cool 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 Galaxy S8/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 should be emphasized here that it can never be used to replace laptops!!
Well, that's almost the end. Although the selling price of BOC was not announced, American operators exposed its prices. The price of the Galaxy S8 is between 720-750 dollars, and the price of the Galaxy S8+is between 840-850 dollars. The Galaxy S8/S8+of Bank of China has also launched a 0 yuan booking activity on the official website. At present, there are only three colors available: black, silver and gold. It can be expected that there will be more color matching in the future, such as the international version of blue and the American version of gray. Finally, the Galaxy S8/S8+has a small detail. Its metal middle frame is made into a "bright face" this time.
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