Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (SM-N950F) - SIM-Free Smartphone - 64GB - Midnight Black

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You’re going to need a Note 8 case to confidently hold this unwieldy glass beast, and two hands to operate it.

It has also added the best part of a centimetre to the phone’s height, and the most obvious difference when viewing the Note 8 next to the Galaxy S8 is how much taller is this handset. It’s a multimedia powerhouse visually, but its bottom-firing speaker still had us cupping the bottom of the phone to get better audio.But Bixby can do pretty much everything OK Google can do, plus manage settings and local applications on the phone. Testers note that Bixby has quite a lot of potential and is, in theory at least, smarter than other assistants. The other concern you might have regards the battery, following the misfortune of the explosive Note 7. The company says Live Message, app pairing, and other non-pen-dependent software features will come to the S8 and S8+ down the road, but didn't commit to a timetable.

It’s ironic that we have a phone that looks like it comes from the future, yet it’s been designed with a fingerprint sensor that’s become a textbook design misfire on smartphones. Thanks to its extremely thin bezels, the Note 8 is actually very compact considering its screen size, but still measures in at a finger-stretching 162. You can expand the viewfinder to fill the whole screen, and turn the camera button into a floating button. Other Samsung phones that support dual window and edge swiping may get this feature in the future, the company said.The speaker pumps out audio from the bottom edge of the handset, but given the Note 8’s height it’s unlikely that this will be in any way obscured by the palm of your hand. We took a look at some of them on a trip to Korea before the Galaxy S8 launch, but I think the best proof of these procedures is the success of the S8 and S8+. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you.

SIM cards (MiniSIM) can be cut to MicroSIM, MicroSIM can be cut to NanoSIM and a SIM can even be cut to a NanoSIM (although not recommended). The various shades of black and grey on our digger were clearly defined, the text on the bottle label easily readable, and colours again very true to life.

QHD+ display, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor (or Samsung’s own Exynos 8895, depending on region), 6GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. The Note 8 maximizes Samsung’s dual curved edge and nearly bezel-less Infinity Display to the point where this phone feels like a mini tablet from the future.