Samsung Galaxy S8 Edge Leaks: Pictures

New Leaks reveal more about Expected features of the Flagship phone

Galaxy s8 edge

Galaxy s8 edge

Galaxy s8 edge

Galaxy s8 edge

Galaxy s8 edge

Galaxy s8 edge

Samsung to play Plus card with S8, sport Beast mode and launch late

The next Galaxy smartphone, which may act as the knight in shinning armour for the Korean giant, was expected to launch or at least showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona but now a new date in April is being sought.

Samsung might be going for the kill with the new Galaxy S8 due to its setback with the Note 7. It no longer wants to hurry but take its time and go in for a bulls-eye.

The next Galaxy smartphone, which may act as the knight in shinning armour for the Korean giant, was expected to launch or at least showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona but now a new date in April is being sought. 

Change in Launch Strategy

Experts claim that the delay in the launch is to make sure that all battery issues are resolved unlike Note 7 and also ensure that marketing and communications teams have enough time to bring back confidence about the brand after the fiasco. The time might also be used to harvest some hype about the flagship as well.

The date change has tactical advantages as well, experts said. The push back to April gives Samsung a different tactical angle to take with its press launch. Even if Apple does not release the equivalent of an iPhone SE 2, the Galaxy S8 launch will come a few weeks after all of Samsung’s Android-powered rivals will have shown off the handsets at Mobile World Congress. Samsung’s press launch will be in the enviable position of making the last move with this generation of handsets.

                                                            Beast Mode

Apart from launch strategy, the new phone is expected to come with a ‘Beast’ mode. Samsung, which unveiled the mode in a trademark application, is expected to launch the mode in competition to battery-saving modes currently available in Android. The ‘Beast’ mode may be able to leverage greater processing power, graphical ability and increased memory of the handset.

Hardware Changes

The Korean giant is also expected to emulate Apple’s startegy of adding an ‘S’ or ‘Plus’ variant with the upcoming flagship. It is rumoured to be making two different Galaxy S8 sizes - one, called Galaxy S8, will have a display around five inches in size, just like its predecessor - the Galaxy S7. The other phone will be the company’s first 6-inch phone. The Plus is also speculated to arrive at the same time with a AMOLED display. However, experts claim that the S8 Plus has similar overall footpront as the now-discontinued Galaxy Note7.

According to a tipster on weibo who has been accurate on previous calls related to Samsung devices, the Samsung Galaxy S8 will feature 8GB of RAM. In addition, it will also sport a UFS 2.1 flash storage chip. In addition, S8 Plus might sport a dual-camera set up at the rear just like the iPhone 7 Plus.

Both the phones, either might be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor or an Exynos 8895. The devices are expected to be running on Android 7.0 Nougat.

New Artificial Intelligence

Samsung might also include its new AI powered assistants reportedly named Bixby (male) and Kestra (female) with the Galaxy S8. Speculations are adrift that Google is talking to the Galaxy device-maker about making Google Assistant the only voice activated personal assistant on the device.

Leaked documents suggest Apple will launch a premium iPhone codenamed 'Ferrari' next year

A Chinese social media user has revealed what they claim are leaked production documents from Apple that seem to substantiate rumours that the company can launch three iPhones in 2017 — "s" models of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7and, and a redesigned, top-tier model internally codenamed "Ferrari," Apple corporate executive reports.

The blogger, who posted the document on one amongst China's biggest social media platforms Sina Weibo (it was first noticed by Chinese technology web site cnBeta), is understood for leaking info from Apple's East Asian supply chain.

And the documents seem to verify a list of rumours concerning options the "Ferrari" — maybe a codename for the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 10 — can have.

The rumoured options include an "AMOLED" panel — a brand new kind of OLED (organic LED display) screen already utilized by Samsung — which might enable the phone to possess a borderless, all-display front surface. Another rumour is that the OLED screen would be mounted on plastic, suggesting that it would be arced. This lines up with a report from The Wall Street Journal that says Apple is testing prototypes for brand new iPhones which can have a brand new style focused on a sinuous screen.


Other rumoured options the document mentions include a glass-sandwich style (glass at the front and back of the phone), an "invisible" home button, and wireless charging.

The "Ferrari" iPhone, that can be released to mark the iPhone's tenth anniversary, can accompany "a substantial internal design," the leaked documents claim. The document additionally says that Apple is considering relocating the SIM card receptacle towards the bottom of the handset to create area for internal parts.

The iPhone 7s and 7s plus, internally codenamed D20 and d21, are expected to possess liquid crystal display displays like previous iPhones, the documents reveal.

All of this is often in line speculatively from KGI Securities, that pointed to three iPhone models in 2017, with just one sporting the new reasonably OLED screen.

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