Samsung Galaxy S8+ Smartphones

The phones is great. Better than the iPhones in my opinion, for its no compromises design including a headphone jack over none on an iPhone. The phone is fast and able to play the latest games and is huge extra wide screen allows you to experience movies as well in HDR. One of the best phones of all time in the history of phones. One drawback that this phone has is that the single mono speaker it has is average at best when it comes to ringtones and audio playback. Another drawback is that I have found the screen of the phone, while very good quality with low reflectivity, scratches easily, so I recommend getting a screen protector to prevent it getting scratched. Another drawback, which is kind of a carrier limitation, is that some software features like he voice or volte are hidden or not enabled when you have this phone with software running from a different carrier and you are on service with one of the companies not under Samsung’s BYOD program.

This is a review of the Samsung S8+ (used purchase on Ebay)., 1) Setup: easy and quick...no problems. It also updated to Android Oreo 8.0 immediately after setting up the phone., 2) The Samsung Experience 8.0 is very good, best version of "touchwiz" so far. I like it about as good as any other skin or launcher (though Nova Launcher is my favorite). , 3) Performance: phone is very snappy and easy to use. With the snapdragon 835 it performs well, at least for my "office" type use. I've played very little with games, but the few I did--they did well, not skips, jumps or lag., 4) Battery Life: a little disappointing. I am a heavy social/video/GPS user and it drains battery pretty quick due to screen on-time. Regular use, I can make a whole day on one charge...but heavy video use pushes me to do a partial charge in the mid afternoon., 5) Memory: nothing to complain about here. , 6) BLOATWARE: my most hated area of ALL smartphones. The Verizon variant (as well as all carrier variants) come pre-loaded with a massive amount of bloatware. Would be nice if Samsung had a quick and simple way to uninstall/diasable all these non-value added apps., 7) Price-to-performace: I give it a solid 5stars. The reason for 5/5 stars is due to purchase of used and previous generation device. I would not spend full $$$ for new S8+ though, even though I love my device.

I've had several smart phones over the last 5 years. Mainly BLU and Samsung brands. Went back to Samsung for the Ant+ feature and my Garmin watches. I've bought used flagship S4 and S5 Samsung models but they were unlocked from a carrier and this year I went ahead and bought the S8+ US version that is not tied to a carrier and no bloatware. So far is does not disappoint. I coming from a 2017 Samsung J7 and I went with the S8+ over the S8 simply because there wasn't that much of a difference in size between the J7 and S8+. The S8+ is a little longer but just a little short in width than the J7. I can still hold it in one and with my thumb on the the same hand hit most of the screen. The picture on the screen is great. You don't really notice the curved edges. No issues with hitting icons that are on the curve. Some of the little things that I like is that with my stereo it will read and link the volume to the phone with the stereo. So there is no turning up the stereo and realizing that the phone is turned down. It will turn up and down with the stereo, cool feature. I don't use the edge side screen yet. I'm sure I will, I've had the phone set up for about a week now and still playing with it. I also use the always on display that I haven't used with other phones in the past. Overall I'm very happy with the purchase and also bought my wife the S8. The only negative I have is the battery life. It has the same mAh is my J7 and can normally get me though an entire day with no issues. Needless to say the screen is much bigger more ppi and I'm using always on display with would cause lower battery life. For the most part though at the end of the day I still have about 40% or a little under and this is with moderate usage. Great phone for the price and the one I bought was used or open box. With I could have bought new but all I really wanted was something with no bloatware. This is the newest flagship phone I've ever bought and so far I'm very happy with it.

I'm an old school kind of guy that upgrades his phone once every 3 to 4 versions. My last phone the Galaxy 5 and now the Galaxy 8 plus. Right away I noticed the speed of the processor didn't expect anything less . I actually don't keep or do a lot of gaming as a matter of fact I don't do any gaming at all. I'm a bare bones smartphone user likes to keep the phone lean. I do like to keep a lot of video at music on a micro SD card. Now with the 64 gig internal memory I don't have to constantly worry what's on my micro SD card which by in fact 200g and almost full. My resolutions on front and back are Stunning! Especially on the front camera which is 8 megapixel. Is beautiful pictures and amazing video. The phone's size and weight are ideal even with a case on it it feels very sleek yet it's a big phone. My only small thing is the curved glass. I don't find it necessary. Actually it's difficult to find case friendly screen protectors that will work. Samsung is an amazing phone company. I'm and all Mac user at work and at home from ipads iPod, My cell phone which I prefer the android over the iPhone. I actually have an iphone That's my work phone. I used to use it more often because my Galaxy S5 is so old it was getting clunky. Now that I have the S8 plus I never even remember to bring it with me. Also this phone is worth what I paid for it which was pre owned for less than half the price it was last year. One thing I would never do is pay over $500 for a phone. Pre owned is the only way to go and I found an excellent seller on eBay that has fantastic merchandice. I would never pay the premium for this phone let alone pay the premium for the new phone coming out. By vice get yourself the 8 when the 9 comes out. Lastly I'm glad that Samsung even with the 9 coming out is keeping the analog headphone Jack. Please don't take that away I still have things with wires… old school!

For screen quality as well as size, though the screen isn't overwhelmingly big, its size is somewhere in the middle and good for everyday viewing of news and emails. Buy a tempured cover for it so nothing will touch the glass upon impact. I also bought grip pads so whatever cover you use, you can add the grip pads on the back so it doesn't slip from your hand., , Quad core matters and its performance is pretty good. Apps will hang anything eventually so killing an app does still occur but I am not complaining about performance. It's pretty good. The battery life is excellent and I use the Samsung wireless charging at night so I have a full day's charge. Rarely do I have to charge it with a cable. Screen is excellent and the options to create performance is excellent by Samsung., , In some ways I wish I bough the Note 8 but the cost was getting out of hand. This is the perfect compromise without performance being a part of that equation. Either way I need reading glasses so it didn't seem necessary., , Samsung is the way to go and buying on ebay i was able to bypass Verizon who I abhor their store salesmen.

You can see all the app background ven you close the phone it’s not worth to buy rather pay more get the new ome

Can't send picture texts with this phone even after APN settings have been changed to my current carrier, and battery life was good only for the first month

I used the phone 3 days before the bottom of the phone started freezing. I have to restart phone several times, in order to get it to unfreeze.

Unfortunately I am having issues with this phone, when I press on any app I have to do it more than once and it will not open. It is quite slow and I will have to return it. The battery does not last long enough.

Facial recognition is slow and dependent on lighting., The fingerprint recognition only works on my thumb and it is awkward and only works half the time., Apps and phone calls open when in pocket if not turned off., My phone switched to wi-fi only by itself, the the alarm turned off. It may be related to my switching to airplane mode for a short period., Battery seems to run down quickly., Quick charge cable or charger does not function.