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Samsung Product Showcase

It'southward never easy keeping a lid on the various details of a smartphone, but some companies try much harder than others. Apple, even in the post-Jobs era, tries to keep some upcoming features on lockdown. Samsung, in contrast, tends to leak like a sieve — and the full details and photos of the Samsung Galaxy S8 that leaked yesterday are a instance in signal.

VentureBeat'due south Evan Blass managed to score images of the larger device, both front-and-dorsum, as shown below:

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Source: VentureBeat

These images confirm that the new phones are bezel-less, and that they'll be bachelor in two sizes — one will have a v.viii-inch screen, and 1 will sport a 6.2-inch display. Both announced to utilise Samsung's "border" displays with a curved edge on both sides of the screen, then it's not clear how the visitor volition differentiate the two. Previously, Samsung has relied on the "edge" brand to distinguish its smaller phones with conventionally shaped panels from the models that offer ane or two curved edges.

The two devices are codenamed "Dream" and "Dream 2" and both sport QHD Super AMOLED screens, according to the Guardian. These are similar to the displays that Samsung has used in the past, to very good affect.

The new bezel-less designs leaves no room for buttons or even a logo on the front of the device, so branding, fingerprint scanners, and logos have all been shifted to the back. Fans of the 3.5mm jack can rejoice — other devices may get out the standard behind, only Samsung seems to have learned from the Galaxy S6 and its sick-fated attempts to strip ports. Both of the new Samsung Galaxy S8's support standard earbuds.

Both S8 devices will be based on Qualcomm'southward Snapdragon 835, with an anticipated xi% CPU performance improvement and 23% faster graphics. The 835 is built on Samsung'south 10nm process and is supposedly 20% more than efficient than its predecessor. Samsung will need that efficiency if information technology intends to drive a screen that large; VentureBeat reports that the batteries are a relatively graceful 3000mAh and 3500mAh for the v.eight-inch and half dozen.ii-inch devices, with 4GB of RAM and a minimum of 64GB of storage.

Samsung is said to be prepping a number of additional features, including a new docked option that would allow the S8 to connect to a monitor via an HDMI-equipped dock. Users would be able to attach a keyboard and mouse and surf their phone in such fashion. Android'south keyboard and mouse support isn't what I'd call great, simply this does open up interesting options given that Microsoft has ported its Office suite to Android and Google Docs has always supported the platform.

This is far from the start fourth dimension nosotros've seen the phone-as-PC concept touted by various companies, but mod smartphones are becoming powerful plenty to make a limited argument for themselves in that role. Samsung'south Galaxy S8 could offer existent competition to Microsoft'due south Continuum thought — and while desktop power users might prefer a phone that runs Windows as a desktop, the consummate lack of actual Windows devices means Android is far more practically useful.

The Milky way S8 volition debut on March 29 and should be bachelor in late April. Samsung needs to boom every attribute of this launch — while its business hasn't more often than not suffered in the wake of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, it still needs to demonstrate that the Note 7 was cypher only a fluke.