I am so sad about back side fingerprint scanner. It is so hard to use it. Especially when your phone is lying just there. Give me that refurbished note 7 please. But I accept screen size is very good. Multi tasking is far better now on s8 series. Well done. And yet again Fingerprint magnet body..why? why? why?
Not impressive in the slightest, my mate 9 will stomp on it in terms of CPU and battery performance, heck DVFS is still there which means, you can never use your amazing phone speed to it's fullest, been always like that, throttle on purpose... S8 could have been much better, S7 camera at normal light was just ok in my opinion, low light was great, battery life was great but it will probably suffer now on intensive runs, unknown DAC quality, no stereo speakers....
Yes, there is definitely a limit, but it's not relevant here because VR users want as much DPI as possible. It is kinda understandable. Still it would be nice to know the DPI limit of human vision for VR usage, where your phone is only a few cm (like 5cm to be more precise) from your eyes.
personal opinion i guess, depends on usage screen sizes can be useful with nougat, it have function multi-windows, so its not ridiculous as bigger size can mean better windows view you should provide screenshot of battery usage with each resolution whether low resolution giving lower battery usage or not s7 with nougat update default the display to 1080p(full hd) instead 1440p but many said it more for performance (ie. animation etc.) rather improving battery life
https://youtu.be/4I5Q3UXkGd0 This video here does a good job explaining a few things about our eyes it also has a couple of links below which can further support what he is saying. Good watch/read if you have the time. Though I agree I don't know if there is a different ppi for VR as most studies are done from about a foot away where we would normally have our phones
There is a difference. And big one. The optics used in VR headsets are a bit like magnifier glass. You can see every pixel pretty clearly. Sure it depends on the optics used, but even S7+GearVR doesn't have enough PPI. So a proper study would be nice, shame I didn't find any.
Paid 650euros exactly 1 year ago for my S7E. And its staying with me a long it works! And I said this comes from a hardcore Note fan owning SGN phones since 2011. But I'm super excited about readiing about S8/S8+ when it launches!
It's not that big though, the further away from a square the screen is, the smaller the surface area is relative to the diagonal measurement. This screen is much smaller than a 16:9 screen with the same diagonal measurement.
Not impressed by any S8, awful battery life, get all the greatest features just to have average battery life, meh. Mine Mate 9 battery life is phenomenal, while being performance monster without throttling on purpose, so much for so little.
For once, not sure to jump from a phone to another phone. s7 edge to s8 plus. Lame finger print scanner and sht battery you say?
I'm waiting for the courier to deliver my S8. Can post impressions this weekend if you're interested. For the record I'm upgrading from a S6.
Got my unit and so far it's a fairly big difference between the S6 and S8. The screen obviously since it has this peculiar aspect ratio and also the absence of bezels and the hardware button. I'll miss it but it also gives the phone a completely different look. Nougat is a fairly big change too so it will also take some getting used to. I've only taken a few pictures but the camera seems to be quite good even though it's "only" 12M. Battery will be the big thing to test but so far it's decent.
