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Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com)
Samsung may have big plans to overcome the whammy of its disastrous Galaxy Note7 this year. The company is reportedly planning to push the boundaries of design with the next flagship smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S8. The smartphone, which was recently pegged to ship without a headphone jack, will have an "all-screen" design, Bloomberg is reporting. The report adds that there might not be a home button -- at least the way we know it -- and that any part of the lower display will serve as a fingerprint scanner. From the report: The bezel-less displays will provide more viewing real estate while a virtual home button will be buried in the glass in the lower section. Samsung needs the Galaxy S8 to be a hit after suffering through the Note 7 debacle that tarnished its brand, led to an embarrassing recall and may cost the company more than $6 billion. While Samsung is targeting a March release of the S8, that could be delayed until April, the people said. Samsung is adopting tougher testing procedures in the wake of the Note 7 debacle that could push back the launch by about a month, one of the people said.
This will allow for more glass to be used as shrapnel when it explodes!
.reportedly planning to push the boundaries of design
Now might be the time for them to pull back, go for a less cutting-edge stable design, and save pushing boundaries for another day.
Well the iPhone 8 is going to have TWO screens. One on the front and one on the back.
>All-Screen Design
I bet the replacement glass will be sold at 10000% markup.
I was about to say that, finally, finally, finally. How long have we been waiting for to finally get rid of that!
Definitely the must-have (or rather, must-not-have) feature everyone was looking forward to.
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Will this version continue to support the popular "burn as brilliant and ferociously as the star at the very center of our galaxy" or will i be left to get by as I have been with random acts of arson and dumpster fires. Im tired of vendors lackluster of support for acrid fumes and metal fires.
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Accidental touches galore! When are they going just embed the phone into your hand? Or better yet, direct brain stimulation?
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Umm, isn't the very center of our galaxy a giant black hole with no burning whatsoever?
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The people are revolting.
Go learn some science, nimrod. I really can't stand morons like you.
So, in the wake of exploding phones and the efficiency at which consumers break or shatter their displays regardless of Gorilla hardening, you chose to make the new model essentially out of glass?
Let me guess, the new Samsung VP of Design is Elijah Price.
Brilliant move there, Samsung. Way to re-gain consumer confidence.
Don't forget to include a wireless buttplug to prepare consumers for the reaming you plan on giving them for display repairs...
The whole exploding battery could have been resolved a lot easier and probably wouldn't have happened at all had Samsung not chosen to seal the battery into the phone. As it is I won't be upgrading past Note 4 because being able to remove and replace the battery is a feature that is very important to me.
Well the Note 8, will have a hole where the pen goes, so it makes sense it has a hole where the headphone goes, it has to be thick enough for the pen and the jack is smaller.
It's difficult to see why they'd remove it on the S8 unless there's some advantage in it. I remember they removed the MicroSD card slot at one point, and it didn't sell, so they put it back. Dumb fucks copying Apple, quickly learned that Apple users *tolerate* dipshit Apple ideas, they don't seek them out.
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Both of these design changes (screen taking up the entire face of the device, home button integrated into the display) are also rumors that have been floating around for the iPhone 8. The iPhone 7's design that changed the home button from a physical button to a capacitive touch "button" using the haptic feedback engine was an incremental step towards that end. Samsung is trying to preempt Apple and get a phone to market first that incorporates the rumors of what Apple is going to do.
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I think that the phone was tested, and likely the issue was known. ;)
The problem is that, in an order to save costs and decrease the chance or product leaks, Samsung has moved away from using 3rd party labs and started setting up their own internal labs.
An internal battery lab was used to test the note. The testing for batteries is standardized. And while the ISO 17025 accreditation requires a sort of separation of the lab and the production side, it is clear that the lab would be under intense pressure to both speed up the certification and down play any issues which may block the ship date.
3rd party labs will of course feel the pressure from customers like Samsung, most European and American labs would never close their eyes and issue a passing test report. In Asia though, it is a different story. One reason why the FCC no longer allows test reports from Asian lab. Often times the reports are available as soon as the PO is sent
For you guys in the USA, nearly every one with a cell phone is using one which is PTCRB certified. PTCRB mandates the use of 3rd party accredited labs. PTCRB however is concerned with the health of the network, not whether or not the battery will explode. Though, they do test conducted RF (100's of hours) from -10c to +55c, but the battery is actually removed in those tests.
Perhaps they should think about requiring 3rd party battery testing also. As Li batteries get larger and larger, the potential for this type if thing increases.
Yes, I know it was a corny movie.
However, I am still waiting for Val Kilmer's hand held. That roll our screen, IMO is what Samsung and others should be shooting for. Not a giant 8inch PC that I need to cram in my pocket. How cool would that be to have something which is small enough to fit in your pocket, but can unroll to look at real internet pages?
Those of us who use protective phone cases dislike this trend.
Sorry Samsung, as a current user... I won't be getting anything above the S5.
It's probably going to be the LG G5.
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If the screen is the entire front of the device, will you be able to put it in a case? I would not want to pay for a phone that I couldn't protect.
With glass to the edges it will have almost zero impact toughness. You can't use a case as it would fall off or obstruct the screen and you couldn't do things like scroll or click properly.
God forbid they actually put some rubber around the corners and make it a sane thickness.
Does this mean that it will not burst out in flames? For, if it does not, it cannot be a true Samsung phone.
Much like 1/4" thick TVs, this is the feature nobody is asking for. More marketing than feature, a full touchscreen is going to cause way more problems than the one slight advantage of 6 more pixels.
>It's probably going to be the LG G5.
That's a pretty fucking sad state of affairs. (I owned the G3 and G4...I couldn't stomach more of the same but in a clunkier package)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Removing the headphone jack and the home button would be the last shitty straws. Unreliable phones, bloatware, nagware, and lagging Android releases = a bad experience. Not to mention a battery you can't remove - they are copying Apple's worst decisions. My next phone will not be a Samsung. Which is a shame.
I own a LG G4 currently.
I used to strictly buy Samsung phones, but when they went to sealed batteries I didn't follow. I've always had some sort of problem with Samsung's phones, whether it be a bad battery or some other weird quirkiness that I'd have to reset my phone every other day.
I have discovered, now that I bought something besides a Samsung, that it is Samsung and not Android like I previously thought. I've had my G4 for a year and a half and haven't had any hardware issues. I did have a software issue when updating from 5.x to 6.x that required me to software reset my phone, but I haven't had any issues since then. I doubt I'll ever buy a Samsung again, at least in the Android ecosystem end users actually have a choice of manufacturer.
Actually, now that they've taken away the removeable battery and headphones jack, it guarantees I'll never buy one. I want a phone that's actually functional and can run alternate browsers. If I wanted to get a phone that went full-Apple-retard, I'd just buy an iPhone, not an Android device.
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You just lost another loyal customer. I DO NOT WANT a phone that has no headphone jack, no swappable battery and will break if I look at it cross-eyed. The idiots at Apple and Samsung have such a hard-on for innovation - any innovation whether good or bad - that they don't even realize they're losing tons of customers by doing so.
>sticking with the S5
I'm also sticking with the S5. I really like a removable battery and a headphone jack and a microSD card. (and waterproofing) If they can add all that back to the S8, I'll buy one the day it comes out. If not, I'll hold pat until I have to buy a new one...then I'll look for another S5.
Can anyone pass this along to Samsung? There are a LOT of us out here who want the features of an S5 back.
Me too! The S5 is pretty much the perfect phone for me....I owned every galaxy since s1. Their latest trend of locked bootloader unremovable batteries etc etc made me look elsewhere for a replacement.
Do we need a phone where the entire surface area is touch responsive?
I just want better versions of existing phones. The Note 7 would've been fantastic, had it not exploded and had the idiot curved screen.
I guess I'm skipping the S8
Yet more garbage, released in a race to the bottom.
Samsung, you'll never see another dime from me or those like me until you stop gluing batteries into your phones. It's not okay.
BTW. You're not Apple. You do not have a mesmerized, captive audience. Removing the headphone jack will cost you a noticeable number of sales. Grow up.
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...only in reverse: odd numbers good, even numbers bad.
S5 - great
S6 - removed the SD card slot
S7 - put the SD card slot in again
S7 - removed the headphone jack...
All glass screen, no home button? For some reason that design sounds somewhat familiar..
No earphone jack and add contactless charging.
A waterproof speaker and you have a much more waterproof phone.
Is any user out there clamoring for an extra 0.8 mm of screen real estate?
Is this even going to be viable when someone puts a protective case on their phone, or will the case impede on the edges of the screen?
This smacks of change for the sake of change, with little regard for improving the actual design or usability of the phone.
Removed a feature? UPGRADE
Less user friendly? UPGRADE
Harder to service? UPGRADE
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Finally a phone that will not only be awkward to hold, but impossible to hold.
>It's probably going to be the LG G5.
That's a pretty fucking sad state of affairs. (I owned the G3 and G4...I couldn't stomach more of the same but in a clunkier package)
Do tell more. I haven't heard anything negative about the G5, but I also have not done a super-thorough research, either. Any and all accounts would be of value to me.
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