Update [May 04, 2017]: And here’s our winner — say congrats to Naitik for winning a shiny new — well, review unit, actually — Galaxy S8.
We would be remiss to not name some of the most active participants on our blog in a recent while, who really surprised us a lot by becoming almost ubiquitous at every post we covered recently. We’re talking about Ashwin Prasad, Rishab Warrior, Vishal Giri. On a sidenote, though: guys, really, commenting on almost every article and such, it did give an impression of spam, especially when sometimes you commented only for the sake of it, something which we didn’t really like. That was the reason we didn’t rely on comments as the only basis for deciding on this. But we still have something for you, for the efforts you put in, we are giving Google Play credits of INR1500 to each one of three, which you should be receiving soon in your inbox. This text is directed towards you because we just know you are quite waiting to read all of this.
Anyway, now why we chose Naitik. Well, Naitik helped us with things we bloggers just love: breaking stories, as well as social sharing. Some of his tips were really cool — getting us extra coverage we really crave for, which also helps with social sharing and garnering new visitors. You are some guy, we’d admit, although we’d love it when you stop remaining anonymous for most of the times.
We’re yet to receive our S8, but once we have received and reviewed it, we’d send it over to Naitik quite asap-ish. Of course, for those waiting for it, we would ask Naitik guy to share with us a pic of him leaning with his S8, sure!
Update [April 29th, 2017]: The contest is over now. And we’ll announce a winner shortly. Keep your fingers crossed!
We’ve been thinking about holding a giveaway on TheAndroidSoul for quite some time, and what better time to do this than on the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8.
The company has taken wraps off the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ at the Samsung Unpacked 2017 event today. The device is everything we expected it to be. Beautiful design, powerful hardware and larger display.
Starting today (March 29, 2017), we’re holding an international contest to let you win a Galaxy S8 from us, for free. FYI, this will be our review unit.
Our S8 giveaway will run through 30 days from today. And one lucky winner will be taking away the Samsung Galaxy S8 on April 28, 2017.
Since this is an international giveaway, the winner will be receiving the device when we’re done reviewing the device.
Update: In case you noticed, we used to use a way to kind-of force you to follow us on twitter to enter the giveaway, and follow it up on daily basis with a Retweet to increase your chances. Well, we’re doing away with all of that.
How to participate?
- Comment on this post to enter.
- Remain active on blog to increase your chances of winning:
- Comment on other posts to share your thoughts.
- Help those in need on blog.
- Share links on social network sites.
Of the above, sharing your thoughts on other posts is what we’d like to see from you.
So, participating is easy. Just enter a comment below and you’re in. It goes without saying that the sharing our links on sites like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc. help us grow, something we like very much, so please do that to increase your chances of winning it. Of course, please do not spam Reddit and like sites with our links — it would be cool if you share only breaking stories, or tips pages with those in need of help.
In deciding the winner, we will see top candidates who participated the most on sites: commenting on posts, sharing links, etc. But, the comments need to be pretty natural feedback or personal thoughts, not spam or one for-the-sake-of-it.
We would select 15 most active users at the end of the period, and go through each of the 15 users’ comments and social network pages to see who was the most positively active user on site, and award a our review unit of Galaxy S8 to him/her.
So, be active on our blog, sharing your thoughts and helping others in need of some tip to sort things out, and you get a good chance to own the Galaxy S8 for free.
1,364 responses to “Here’s our Galaxy S8 Giveaway!”
All the best to all the guys who took part in this.Its been a pleasure meeting y’all 😀 Win or No Win I’m really glad I arrived here and decided to take part and that feeling will stay and I still will contribute.Thanks for everything team 🙂 @disqus_gE6HGDm7mA:disqus @AshwinPras:disqus @vishnuvardhanprem:disqus @bossmanghostrigzburner:disqus
and Carlos Andres 😉 Its been nice talking to you these past days and hope we stay in touch after this 🙂
@Rishad its been nice talking to all of you , i mean you guys are the best out there wherever you are. I appreciate it ?????
you too thanks for the advice!!!!
oh and the facts
as the competition comes to a close, I’d I like to wish everyone the best of luck.
Of course I want to win, but the great experience on the forums of the site should come first!!!!
Good Luck!!!!!
The experience has been surreal. 🙂
spanish – español
yo siento que la experiencia fue el mejor premio que he tenido en muchos años, gracias a todos por contribuir en el debate y a @Theandroidsoul por abrirlo, gracias @theandroidsoul, este fue uno de los mejores regalos de cumpleaños en años!!!!!!!
inglish – ingles
I feel that the experience was the best prize I have had in many years, thank you all for contributing in the debate and @Theandroidsoul to open it, thank you @theandroidsoul, this was one of the best birthday gifts in years !!! !
Thank you and all the best to you, too, my friend. ^^ The pleasure has been all mine. The last few weeks have really been amazing thanks to this community and the discussions, arguments and conversations we have had. Really enjoyed all the tech talk. Indeed hoping to stay in touch and have more of this like we have.
It’s a shame you did not mention me !, but hey, since, you helped me a lot, really, a lot!
Ah really sorry about that :/ nothinf a quick edit can’t fix eh ? And again glad I could help 😀
@ Aditya Pradhan @Ashwin Prasad @Vishnuvardhan Prem
And everyone else its been an amzing experience with all of you i hope either of you guys win.
Its been really wonderful
good luck!!
Good luck Makar
you too!!!
Thank you, my friend. 🙂 It indeed has been an amazing experience, @bossmanghostrigzburner:disqus
Hope to continue to keep in touch and see you around in these comment sections in the days to come.
It was fun ! Thanks to everyone who has been active 🙂
Thanks buddy 😀 Its been an awesome couple of days 🙂 I’m sure we’ll see each other around here in these articles every now and then 😀
Thank you, although you have also opened too much court to discuss, thanks for that!
Thanks the android soul.
I just thank you for the experience you guys have offered.
So for now samsung will stick with the nougat ,i pray in the coming days we get an update that will enable us to have use the android 8.0. Nougat cane with some pretty interesting feature…and amazing experience cant wait to see the fun stuff the the android 8.0 would be bring
I swear android nougat is 7.0…….
Yes, looks like it will be nougat off the bat. 🙂
But considering samsungs priority list, android o should be hitting the phones a month or two after its global release with the pixel 2.
Android O seems like an incremental update rather than a major overhaul in design and interface. Some notable features so far seen in the developer preview are picture in picture mode which should let you do other stuff while watching videos, autofill APIs which will make autofill forms and all that redundant stuff a lot more convenient, better notifications control and lockscreen shortcuts. There is a ton of other features too. Many many small ones. And this is just from the google’s side. When Samsung takes O, they will add a bunch of their own features I suppose and it should be great. 🙂
Android O (Hopefully Oreo) will most likely release around Q4 this year according to most article 😉 I didn’t check the developer’s preview out
Is what to expect from samsung, innovation, insurance will take advantage of android O!
Yes, although I do not know what the difference between android updates, I hope it can know and be good.
Who is the winner? 😛
as far as I know it ends tomorrow but I don’t know what time
Tomorrow? But the result will be announced today right? 28th April?
Lol, I’m excited to see who take the S8 to home 😛
same but we still havent found out the winner!!!!
wow so eager???
I was just thinking….
how old do I have to be to enter?
just because I’m younger than most here doesn’t mean I can’t be an enthusiast
right……?
I’m thinking android should be a universal utopian paradise for tech lovers that anyone can take part in and enjoy and bond through common interest so there shouldn’t be any age restriction to be in the commumity.
same applies to samsung I guess
I may be very wrong and just blind to the fact that people are just sitting in California making money off of us chatting about their operating system but I believe that we can change the. community to make it what we want Or r be to the benefit of all who take part.
also as new updates roll out and new devices are produced we should remember our values of being humans and not becoming like robots and helping our fellow (androiders?)
as I said I may just not understand and you can tell me so but we are an all mighty community who are capable of great things??
You know, I have the feeling that you are revolution!
lol thanks 😉
I don’t think they laid down any age bar as such so you are cool. But they might expect you to be of majority age of whichever country you are from in case you win and they want to ship it to you I suppose? I cant be sure since I don’t know how international shipping works. :/
With International shipping ,they might include import duties and delivery charges maybe as they can’t simply put a value of 0 on the phone (they’d be put in for fraud XD)
They didn’t mention any age requirement like most other giveaways 😀
It has been such a pleasant and enjoyable experience throughout. Its been a smashing few days with all the discussions and tech talk I have shared with you all. Especially the regular ones like Rishab, Aditya, Vishnuvardhan, Bossman. We have talked tech non stop for days and I never grew tired of it. That reminded me how and why I love android and phones so much. And to have shared the madness with like minded folk was an absolute joy.
Most comments below are making me feel nostalgic, as if this is all coming to an end. We all should come hang around here often. Android Soul has after all is a reliable source for tips and updates of al things tech so it would make a nice place for us to come by and hang out with one another more often in the comments. But if you are indeed not going to be visiting again, do stay in touch. Hit me up on Instagram, twitter or send me a message on disqus and I’d love to keep in touch. Take care everyone and thank you androidsoul for this. 🙂
It’s been a pleasure here too 😀 I loved the long comment sections that we ended up leaving at posts every now and then 😀 Although I’ll be active here while I can I did send you a follow on Instagram 🙂
Totally. 🙂
Got the request. Hit you back with one. Thanks. 🙂
agreed??
android soul is a great website with great people and we should thank the creators for that.
I’ve had a great time hanging around here with tech geeks like me(there aren’t enough I’m my class??) so I’d like to thank everyone who made the discussion so lively, informative and enjoyable?
Thanks for pitching in and adding your share of the discussion too, Makar. (:
Sure i will
Totally, agreed!
Ami I found this experience spectacular, where I live, I thought I was the only one who loved to talk about technology, mobile android and its system, the only one who wanted a mobile, but I meet people who are the same, and express What you have repressed is like an orgasm, I would feel good if anyone won, you really need it.
I understand exactly, brother. I have also been alone with my craze for android and phones most of the times and getting the people and the place to talk and share that interest has been really amazing. 🙂
i like this mobile i want to my house please
Haha!
You will, just Remain Active
it’s been a pleasant experience this whole month, I never would have thought there will be so much tech lovers out there besides me and it was fun to read their thoughts as well as give some of my own, love this site a lot and giveaway or not I’m sure gonna be active on this site coz there always a lot of tech stories to cover, thanks for this @TheAndroidSoul !!
Its been a pleasure reading your comments although we haven’t talked much you seem pretty cool 😀 The giveaway has been a really nice way for all of to meet and discover new people and discuss about trending topics 😀
Ha si, tu también ayudaste mucho en este debate, tenia una gran cantidad de dudas que no puede preguntar porque @bossmanghostrigzburner:disqus se me adelantaba, pero cuando le respondías, quedaba satisfecho, aunque tampoco me dejabas responder!
Lol I’m sorry about not letting you answer XD and glad I could help you every now and then 🙂
That was the best part, isn’t it. So many people from across the country and some from the other parts of the world even, talking about android and phones. It was really nice. Hope to continue seeing you here, Vishal. 🙂
You haven’t seen anything, there are more than double, or triple, but for one reason or another, we can not meet!
Really like the looks of this phone. Will be a buyer when the price comes down and my contract with ATT ends in Sept.
The looks are really amazing and the display is too good and the hardware is the best you can find in android phones especially that processor .
In short, this is the best phone you’ve ever seen in your life to date, except its price
Price factor varies from person to person based on their earnings and how much they’re willing to spend on a phone.Take a man earning an average salary,he definitely won’t spend so much on a phone even if the specs are really good and the features are something really new ,as much as he would like to have it,he simply can’t afford it ,Now take a business magnet who earns quite some money he would get the phone simply because its top-of-the line and not care about specs but just the pride of having the latest thing out there.I have a feeling what I say is completely of topic ,Hope not XD.The S8 so far is the best Android phone you can buy in the market ,not really willing to compare it to the iPhone as that’s based on people’s liking more than the features 😀
Great choice, right now this is the best Android smartphone you can buy.PERIOD. I heard sprint is providing a pretty good deal.Maybe you could even get the next Note then, which is touted for launch in October. 🙂
Yep Sprint offers two phones for the price of one *_*
Wow, Wish The Offer Is Available Here in Indoa too?
We all do :/ Sadly that’s most likely not happening 🙁
Yes, yes. @Jio, this should be among your upcoming targets. 😛 Lmao!
Lol if that happens then Jio will definitely be crowned as the best carrier in India and along with all the people going crazy XD
Jio has its hands everywhere these days, sponsorship deals with so many products. 😀
IPL, offers clubbed with most new phones, DTH. They are really aggressively marketing themselves..
Jio really rocked the Indian market when it was first released remember ? The top three companies(Airtel,Idea and Rcom) lost around 13k crores on the day they announced it and have been trying to outdo Jio eversince 🙂 That itself was enough marketing and shot it to the top,now they just need to hold their end and maintain good service and innovate so that they don’t use customers fast 🙂
I wish jio would launch their fiber network already :/
Have they announced it?! If that happens airtel is going to lose a loooot of money.If what happened with the phone carrier happens here ,that will push airtel to offer much better services than what we have now 🙂
They haven’t. It is still in development phase in Mumbai and they will roll it out to consumers once it is ready. And like jio welcome offer, it will also be free for the first 90 days I believe during its testing stage.
It would be different here as they might offer or request the customers to buy a new router and that way they can ensure a much longer subscription even if the offers are not for long.Seems to be good news,I’m sure airtel right now is trying to make as much money possible now and start counter offering once its out of the testing stage ane announced 🙂
Yeah. I believe they have a preview list of customers they will be releasing it to. We should wait and watch. 🙂
Any rumoured release dates ? How is the testing phase going ?
I had seen a screenshot of their’s which was essentially a speedtest and it read somewhere around 500Mbps of download speeds so I am guessing the testing is going well. So sign of any dates, although they keep saying coming soon.
Ah that’s great,really waiting for them to come here which might be soon as chennai is one of the main places for ISPs and people like oneplus never seem to settle XD
I live in Bangalore. You are in Chennai. We are both lucky as far as things like these goes. It will come first to these cities
Especially as most IT companies are situated here and they require very gpod connections for office environments
Yes they usually get an intranet in such cases.
Besides, ACT fibernet has captured over 70% of the market in Hyderabad and are the country’s third largest market leader. And Jio considers them rivals. They hope to gain market share by providing superior service
Even in chennai it was one of the most preferable ISPs but after the floods and cyclones it took them forever to fix all the connections and they just kept postponing no matter how much we called.A friend of mine showed a screenshot of 1gb/s I’m not sure if that’s his or just to show the max speeds in hyderabad ,with that speed lag is a thing of the past XD so one less thing to complain about when you lose at COD lol.Superior speeds sounds good ,Hope it comes here soon.
Yup ACT is at the top of its game really. They provide good service here. The response time to any complaints is really good. Maybe it was too bad after the floods there unfortunately and they just gave up. That was unfortunate.
I’m not sure about now as most of my friends shifted to other ISPs and strongly recommended against it when I was about to get it .Chennai might just be one of the biggest marker for Jio fiber as people are waiting for a better connection and airtel seems to be taking forever with their fiber net in my area
Then I hope they don’t run into the same problems as they did with mobile and speeds were throttled to speeds as low as 100 kbps. They should offer it after being prepared to handle the load
You’re right.After a while Jio at times became really slow but that was adjusted after a while. I have a feeling that that won’t be the case here as they have a lot of capital(ambani ;D) and have enough time to set up proper services and this is a field where trust is a huge factor ans if at the beginning things go bad then their name will already be spoiled.
They have held up well so far. Jio is running under huge loss right now but that is expected since they are trying to gain market share. Once they do, they will start making money. There is risk involved but they know what they are doing, so they should be fine.:)
Didn’t know they’re in loss ,so that’s why they kept changing the deadlines for the introductory offer and the prime feature….hopefully all is fixed after the internet launch
Yeah. That’s a part of their plan though. For example, Flipkart spends more money than it earns. Intentionally running in loss. They do that to gain market share. To get more customers under their belt. Once they have a large percentage of people, they will start charging to make profits
That’s smart bur still risky.Talking about flip kart didn’t they stop providing refunds as fast as they did before.
Yes, their service has indeed gone down relative to the past. I guess their loss is beginning to show slowly. They know they cant compete with Amazon and they know that they will be acquired/bought sooner or later. They are just trying to expand and make themselves more valuable before that point.
I guess you’re right….Their best option right now is to partner with other e-commerce websites like PayTM or others to offeroffer easier payments and better offers and also offers some more job offers.Talking about jobs …. Right now many people are getting layed off and once most processes get automated in the E-commerce and IT many will lose jobs and thats not really far away.
They are still in the very initial testing stages. They probably have to set up the hardware required for the network and all that. Might take a while. I’d recommend looking into any other alternatives if you are in a hurry. 🙂
Lol not in much of a hurry …out of town rn xD…
They were originally using coaxial cables used for TVs for providing Internet Service. They made good profits and upgraded to optic fibers in no time.
And finally gave all of us a taste of the high speeds we’ve been waiting for,sadly I couldnt get it in my region and by the time it arrived service had really gone down…with jio around the corner the might and hopefully will step up their service.
I’d say you still have quite a long wait ahead of you but it surely is coming. 🙂
Any speculations? Maybe another Happy New Year offer.
Maybe it wont be as generous as the new year offer but it will be definitely cheap and fast. Very slowly, it will cost more.
That’s their marketing technique isn’t it ?offer cheap,attract customers and then continue slowly raising prices….this is only working out because of their high capital reserves.
Yeah. They are pouring in everything they have got. It is a huge risk but a calculated one at that. So it might go either way.
We haven’t seen how Jio went so far as they haven’t started charging yet and will only start pulling in profits once they do…. Quite a risk as once the free stuff is gone most people who use it as a secondary for data(about 60% maybe?) Will simply throw it off and will only continue if the prices are satisfactory and not too high.
Yeah that’s the biggest problem jio faces I guess. When they offered free data and services, they did not expect users to use their sim as a throw-away that they use and exploit until the free services last and never change their primary number. More than half of the people have done exactly this.
They don’t see jio as a reliable, primary source for this calls and messages yet.
I’m sure they might have noticed that recently and will probably devise a strategy to fix that,maybe a proper pricing that’s still not too pricey but still enough to help them raise enough resources to support them till they can expand and provide better services.
Or something that commits a user for longer than a few weeks. Like a bundled plan for six months. They have a lot of options at their disposal
Yep 😀
Yes, airtel will have to back down and offer better plans to everyone to retain their customers exactly as it happened in mobile network services. 🙂 It will make the market a level playing field again
Iikr. That’s another place where airtel is trying to exercise monopoly in. Except for ACT, most of the services are pretty expensive.
Besides, the data packs and calling packs were extremely expensive a year ago. Costing over 200 rupees for 1 GB a month. I used to live in a hostel back then and my phone being my only source of internet, I’ve suffered a lot.
Now, for a little more than that, they are offering the same 1GB but it’s per day. 😀 and unlimited calling just to counter jios offers and stop their own customers from porting out.
I don’t know how long this phase will go on, since jio will surely start costing atleast a little bit more eventually. But the Indian telecommunications industry has changed forever. For the good. Monopoly is never a good thing.
thats epic!!!!!
but im in the uk and we dont have sprint here:(
In many ways not having a carrier is goodThe only thing about them which attracts people is the offers that they provide to attract customers to choose their service.Having a carrier unlocked phone is much better as we have the freedom to shift anytime we want without paying a hefty sum as the fee
Aren’t there contract based phones phones in the UK too, @makarv:disqus ?
Yes, I read that! :O
The carrier’s contracts in the US always help the people get even the most expensive phone for a cheaper price. But the catch is that the difference in the few hundred dollars that the customer saves is actually for the signing of the contract. It ensures that the customer sticks with that carrier for the whole period of the contract and hence will guarantee the carrier the monthly fee from the customer. Cancelling the contract will have a cancellation fee which will more or less be the same amount that the customer saved while buying the phone under contract.
So all in all, if a person uses the phone with the carrier for the whole of the contract, he or she will have effectively saved that difference in amount from an unlocked phone. Which is a win win for everybody. The downside is that you can’t change your carrier to get better deals or service in between unless you pay the fee. :/
Yeah, that just about sums it up. But, like Jason mentioned, that his contract period was getting over at September, so he is free to choose his carrier and Sprint offer is really good. It is also likely that the Samsung Note 8 will be announced pretty much around that time and that will more likely be an improvement over the S8. so, choices, choices! 😀 . It almost makes me wish we had something like that. 🙂
Hopefully all these amazing offers come along with the Note 8 too.That would really boost Samsung’s profits and the people’s liking towards them 😀
If that is half as good as this(which we all know, it will), then sure, offers will follow. With the amount of pre-orders that the carriers are getting for this, I would not be surprised if they lineup with better offers for the Note 8.
Everyone knows that the Note series is much better than the s series but after last years problem people would have lost trust ,now I’m sure that Samsung would do their very best to regain the trust which they already have with the s8 series but will still try to attract more consumers with better offence with the Note 8 ,At least that’s what I think.
No doubt, they will play it differently. Part of their game plan is re introducing the Note 7 into the market, and it will go a big step in gaining the trust of the consumers back. If this comes off, well, half of the battle is already own.
They already launched the refurbished pieces of the note 7 in Korea I think . That was smart as in one way they got to clear off all those phones they produced just for the sake of testing but also have an option to the people who don’t like the New design and can’t wait for the note 8 all this while showing us that they can improve and learn from their mistakes 🙂
Take the kind of innovation they brought with the S8, improve it further and add bleeding edge technology to it and you get the glorious Note 8. It will surely impress us all just like the S8 has. 🙂
Yes, the customer reviews of the S8 will prove handy in seeing the backdraws, no doubt, as the Note 8 is going to be launched this year. 🙂
Yeah, the feedback will be key to Samsung because they have tried something totally new with the S8 and they will be listening to what the users think to see what they did right and what they didn’t. But definitely seems like they did a lot of it right.
By default, or that I believe, the notes, are an improved or advanced version of the s
I agree. While Samsung is for the mainstream consumers, the Note is for the power-hungry super users that make the most of the phones internals and use it to its better capacity. Notes are packed with so many features and tweaks that a normal, non-tech enthusiast wouldn’t even know all of them while using. Although it is a great phone no matter who uses it.
Very good timing, no? 😀
Yes, would be a major difference as phones become a lot more affordable. But then if that had happened, no one could have switched to jio easily in India. That kind of freedom is lost and comes at a cost, I suppose. 🙂
His timing couldn’t be better 😀 like you said by then all the major flagship phones would be out and he can pick his choice by easily comparing them and reading reviews .If that happened in India we wouldn’t be able to switch carriers and the service might not be that great either as they know that we’re stuck with them for quite a while.We wouldn’t get these additional data packs and boosters like we do now and that would simply be replaced by cheaper prices.Moreover unlocked phones can connect to any wireless technology without being limited to either CDMA or GSM and dual sim phones would not be so common either which would really be a bummer for most people and also they come with a lot of bloatwares.On the contrary most Carrier-Locked phones come with additional warranty options too 🙂
Unlocked phones can be a boon if you’re a traveler. When abroad, one can simply slap in a local SIM card temporarily and use the same phone.
Exactly ,unlocked phones makes everything easier the only issue is they’re charged at a much higher price than the locked or even the market price for that matter.Some carrier offered an unlock s8 for something around an extra 100$ I think.
And sometimes with carrier phones, you get sweet deals with the carrier for the duration of the contract.
Yeah that’s one one of the advantages but as you said the discounted price will end up being paid when you try to break the contract and they get back more than that too by ways of malware and junk that comes with the phone most of the times
Malware and junk problem is real. First of all, I am betting the apps will be poorly designed as the carriers are in no means, good app developers. Secondly, they serve mainly as a means for advertisements and data mining by the carrier.
One of the things I’m glad Samsung has stopped. Their malware problem was huge in the low end phones. When my mom got her J1 the internal was half way full and trust me the internal wasn’t that big on that phone
Oh man, yes I can imagine. Can be really frustrating.
They surely have learnt. So has other OEMs like HTC. They didn’t release HTC 10 with any of the apps that google already offers with stock. The shift to positive. 🙂
Talking about HTC ,I’m pretty hyped for the U 11.The squeeze feature is something I’m really interested about and waiting to see how they put it to use and with those ads they seem to concentrate a lot on that particular feature.
So am I. 😀
My instincts tell me its going to be great. And of what I have seen of the phone, it seems gorgeous. Lets see how they “squeeze” it out this time
I see what you did there XD nice one ;P
Haha thanks.
Thats great! (:
September would be a great time to buy phones. That’s around the time when a lot of highly anticipated phones release. The second generation pixels by Google is gaining a lot of hype. So are the iPhones which are making rounds in the news circles to outdo even the Samsung galaxy s8 with the design and looks. Besides they’ll come with the A11 chip which might be really good too. The note 8 has a lot riding on its shoulders and will surely be a powerhouse of a phone and might be a great choice too.
All of these phones will surely be offered by AT&T in the US. Also, if you don’t mind buying an unlocked phone after your contract, you can keep an eye on the OnePlus 5 also. Which will be releasing in a couple of months before September. All in all, you’ve got some great options you can choose from. (:
Thanks for the info
Glad to have been of any help, my friend. 🙂
2 years ago, we were able to get Note 4 as “certified new” at zero $. Only had to pay the activation charge. Seem to have a lot better leverage when your contract is up and you choose a phone that’s been out a year already. I really am tired how long Samsung takes to roll out updates. My tab S2 is still on Android 6. I think my next phone may be a pixel, but I will not pay a lot of money for the latest phone.
Whoa. Isnt that a real sweet deal although the phone isn’t necessarily the latest?
Pixel is a great idea as far as service and updates go, I agree. But wasn’t the pixel 1 exorbitantly priced. That was the only major downside of that phone. Threw the affordability that Nexus had right out the window
Yeah, that is why I plan to keep an open mind until Sept. S8+ will be a big contender as well as Note 7, if it is properly redesigned. We are on a new phone every 2 year cycle so we only need a phone to last that long and then we sell them for $50-$100 and sign a new contract. Sprint service is really not that great here. ATT is about the best (IMHO)
ATT has held my price the same for a really long time now (10years??). $70/month unlimited data on LTE network
70$ is honestly a steal for unlimited LTE, especially considering it is AT&T and the speeds and signal levels should be good.
Nice of them honestly, to have kept it the same for a decade. Shows they appreciate customer loyalty and show some loyalty back.
they have tried to trick me into other plans and once you change from the original unlimited data plan, then you can not get back on another unlimited plan without paying over $100 per month
Haha, yes I guess its the same everywhere. I had a plan with Vodafone and stuck with it for 4 years. At the time it was a standard. After those many years, it was unfairly cheap compared to the existing plans. They took me for a fool and tried to offer other plans over two dozen times
Great Choice, Its the Best Phone out there 🙂 ?
As of now ,yes but I’m really waiting to see the next iPhone,all those rumours really got me excited and still the Note 8 is yet to come (around October I presume) and that will most likely be crowned the best android phone of 2017
i like the way people come here to win a phone and end up making friends
its kinda cute:)
Yes, this was spectacular, I loved it all while hard, I hope it will be repeated other than a contest!
I agree with you. 🙂 It should be something that will happen even when there is no contest happening as you said, carlos. And I think it will since one community has been created now
We all loved it 😀 I really liked the way they decided to conduct this giveaway than the usual Gleam method and decided to make us actually take part in discussions and talk with each other .I really hope they come up with more giveaways 😀
Exactly! 🙂
This lead to a lot of social interactions 😀 😀
Hit me up on other networks if you can!
Sure mate 😀 you on facebook ? I spend more time there.I’ll hit you up a link 😉
Thanks for the experience. All of you are simply awesome
It’s been great talking to you too 😀 thanks for those interesting bits of information you shared every now and then ,really had a lot of fun talking to everyone
You are welcome and likewise bossman. 🙂 It has been really nice having you here
Really hope I can win! You guys are amazing! 😀
It was a pleasure to do this debate, but before I finish, I would like to know your opinion in depth of the red screen, I know there is a solution, but because it gives !!!!, and if after the solution is repeated again !!, What’s up’?
It has been an issue that is getting mixed responses across the world. As far as Samsung goes, they have given it due consideration and declared that it isn’t a bug or a malfunction but simply the nature of amoled screens that sometimes have variations in colour and isn’t a defect. To an extent, that is true. They have rolled out an update none the less dealing with the colour calibration settings.
Ho! Thanks, I needed it
You are welcome. ^^
Well the issue arouse when the users tried maximizing the brightness on their phones.According to Samsung there is no issue hardware wise and a Ashwin said it’s the manner of the display and it varies they said it could be fixed by adjusting the colour settings and when it was reported it couldn’t be fixed with the existing they released an update offering much more options to the users and of that didnt fix the issue they also offered to replace the phone .
I knew the price of doing a s8 and s8 + is between 200 and 240 dollars, think of this bomb !!!
Anyway, thanks @The Android Soul! To realize the dream of a dreamer, enjoy your winning prize, although they have not announced yet, I congratulate you in advance, because I can not be active all the time, if you won because you played well, fought and won, I do An idea of who he is, and it would not hurt that you were.
Well, I hope to discuss again with you, that this is not the last.
Ha !!, another thing, please, winner, when you find out, write your feelings in your new phone, which would be your final opinion of the phone, since you would have it in your hands, what pressures and experience you give, and send it To this discussion or debate, so that we can see the letters of a phone that we dream, and read the feelings of a dream come true, since that since that is something almost impossible to live, I do not say it is impossible because a dreamer You became a winner I feel very good for you, I look forward to your name, although I think I know who you are !!
Hello Carlos., it was really nice interacting with you friend. Always nice to get to know brothers from other parts of the world and I love it that tech brought us all together into a community. Hope to see you often in the comments. Cheerio mate. 🙂
Thank you, I wish the same, this is something that can not be left alone like this, we must continue to express what we know about the technological, wish you the best and luck in the election!
Its been a pleasure talking to you and discussing tech with you brother,thanks for all hose questions and promotion people to take part in the discussion.its been nice knowing you and has been a great feeling to know there are many people out there just like me 🙂
si alguien no me entendió, discúlpenme, es que en realidad hablo español, no se mucho ingles, los ayude en lo que pude
If someone did not understand me, apologize, is that I actually speak Spanish, I do not know much English, I help them in what I could
No hay problema amigo. None of us are experts by any means, we were only putting forward our own thoughts, or in spanish Pensamintos 🙂
Looks like we got a multi-lingual member here XD
Haha :P. All the best buddy :).
You too bud 🙂 Nervously waiting for two results XD my exam and this xD
Your English was not really bad and was good enough for us to understand but had a hard time when you commented in Spanish but that was something a quick translator could fix so no problem 😀
So far we have all been able to communicate with you without any problems thanks to a quick google translate. When you used English, it was very clear and easily understandable. Most of us do not speak English as our mother tongues too so we understand carlos. 🙂
Judging from your previous comments, you can actually speak in a very good English. Your words choices are pretty good and clear. So I don’t see anything wrong with it. In fact, I’m glad you’re trying to speak another language beside your native one. Props to you for trying!
thanks brother
😀
Brothers in the passion for technology, thank you, I did not think they would think that about me, it is nice to talk to you, although this contest is over, I see that we still keep entering and finding gifts like friendship, would be nice that this It will take more time!.
I feel this like @Theandroidoul would have planned for us to relate their followers, if so, it was well done and I love it!
Ahh sorry :/
Couldnt keep up!
Just had the last of my semester exams! Was busy with that.
Haha I know the feel. I have mine going on right now. Engineering.
Ah that’s sad.I’m yet to experience all that this year I’m just finishing up school and entering college.Hopefully it goes easy on me 😐 btw you’re out of college? Thats good to hear.What next?
You are in for a ride. 10th or 12th?
Just finished my 12th this march XD now it all depends on my marks…results are out in a few days and i couldn’t be more scared.Diwali comes early this year in my family XD
Aha. 😛 Been there, done that. All the best.
Thanks bro 😀
Best of luck with college mate! Its an amazing ride! 🙂
And best of luck with your cpt and all that since you are CA! 🙂
Pretty scared about the whole thing… Hearing a lot of horror stories about CA ,chose to write the CPT im december as after this I won’t get a rest like this and listen to my teachers lies”study hard now, after this you can take rest” although that wasn’t the case for my science friends(entrances) XD
Know this. Wherever you go, whatever happens, things will all pan out. It will all be okay. Good luck. 🙂
Thanks 😀
^^
BTW, what next? Engineering? Something else?
I’m really not sure… Thinking of doing CA side by side with B.A economics or something (commerce student hehe …found out that the education system is messed up and if I choose computer science which I love I’ll end up hating the whole subject)
Ah nice to see commerce people. We have an abundance of science anyway. 🙂
Especially in India ..computer engineers are in surplus and if you want a decent job you need to go out of town.
Oh yes they are everywhere. And non cs engineers also end up getting IT jobs because of mass recruitment by the IT industry.
Haha still result not announced, so no worries!
Uff, it, I can understand very well, then, this situation was one of the culprits that would not let me be active, my faculty is: engineering; And my program or career is: systems engineering.
Ahha that’s a graduate or undergraduate program?
Is the career that you choose in yourself, the name of the full career, example: my career is “systems engineering”, and is a pre-degree.
The faculty, is like the common factor between several careers, example: my faculty is engineering, there are other branches like; Engineering (industrial, mechanical, agro-forestry …).
There is what it expresses in common factor, in fact it is.
Industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, agro-forestry engineering, and all are pre-degrees; Pre-degree, is before having the title of professional, postgraduate, is after having the title you will become a specialist in one or more areas in the career that you graduated. I am studying systems engineering (pre-degree), I finish the career and now I am a systems engineer (professional title) specialist in hardware and software design (postgraduate), do you understand?
Talking about exams. I had one today. and yes, semester exams at that :/
How’d it go ?btw which year? Tried searching for you on fb too btw couldn’t find you.could you send me a link or email?
I have sent a request. 3rd 🙂
Got it 🙂 almost out eh? G’luck 😉
When’s it getting over mate?
4th of May. So, which sem are you in? :).
Done with it bro. Final semester done.
Oh Congratulations and All the best 🙂
Same to you bro 😉
Fellow engineers. 😀 I have mine going on too. Which branch?
Electrical and you?
Electronics. Middle of my 6th SEM finals right now.
cant wait 🙂
I NEED this in my life
lol 😀 Everyone is here for that 😀 Good luck!
I assure you that if you do not win, you will still live
and the winner is???
Not yet revealed!
Being decided XD it was closed on the 29th
I hope i win this
🙂
lol, announce the winner…excited about it 😀
lol they’re probably reading all the comments XD
haha, me doing the same 😀
i have heard rhumours that there is an issue where the screen randomly adopts a more reddish tinge.
as far as i know,this doesnt affect performance,but cant be removed
UPDATE:
after doing some research, i found out that this is a legitimate issue that some users are experiencing even now. Currently,samsung is doing their best to find the cause of the problem and will release an update that may help
Lol been reported a long while ago .Samsung stated that its not an issue but simply the nature of AMOLED screens,they provided an update which helps the users adjust the colour settings much better and even offered to replace the phone if the problem persists
Friend, this has already been commented before, it seems that you did not read the previous comments during the debate process, if so, you should read the Previous messages the next, it is a suggestion!
Well Samsung did say that it’s due to the nature of AMOLED but they recently launched the update to fix this issue in Korea, once they see that the problem is fixed they will launch a global update soon for it, u can trust Samsung for that much, they never let their customers down!!
many users have reported that they arent happy about the new placement of the fingerprint scanner. Athough they are made of diffent materials (namely plastic and glass), some mistake the cameral lens for the finger scanner,causing the lens to be dirty.i think that samsung shouldve put the scanner below the camera to make it more accessible to users’s fingers
The placement was a bit rushed up as the phone was designed to come with the scanner under the screem initially.The placement isn’t that bad and is something that people will get used to thanks to our built in feature called muscle memory and it won’t end up in bad pictures as Samsung informs them to clear the screen before shooting just in case.
I think my previous review can answer this!
yeah, it’s happening a lot but all it need is some time to get use to or some case or skin can make it easy to detect, it’s same as the absence of 3.5mm jack on iPhone7, people got mad at first but they got use to it by using bluetooth devices and no one is complaining right now, besides there always the IRIS scanner which is faster, easy to use and as reliable as fingerprint scanner!!
The lens is sapphire so it shouldn’t get all that dirty very easily. It is odd indeed, yes. It will be a challenge for people with small hands to reach it since it is not at the high centre position like most phones. It is higher up but honestly, I think it is something we can get used to.
Samsung has really pushed on the innovative side of this phone. Trying something new and bold all the way. And they really came this making it as they had hoped to. They have fallen short on the scanner placement for the reason rishab has stated below. So, although I am not thrilled about it, I can understand and appreciate it none the less.
it is really good of them to take such large risks in the design sector of the phone, considering that the smartphone industry is so fragile these days
Exactly my point. It is very brave of them. This also pushes the bar for other manufacturers and forces them to keep up with these high standards which is also great
i read on the internet that that users are having problems with”Device Quality Agent” which monitors the quality of wifi connections
UPDATE:
simple fix offered by Forbes:
force stop the app,to stop it crashing and wait for a patch to be offered to users by samsung
That issue was fixed by an update through the Galaxy App store.
cool!
apparently, it only affected users in north america
after all, they do use slightly different hardware to the rest of the world
Nah ,as far as I know a change in processor can’t lead to wifi connectivity issues ,this problem seemed to have started only after the first update was installed so I’m guessing there was some bug there.
I agree with @rishabwarrier:disqus, the processor should not affect the wifi, unless they find something stumbled, but generally, you can not have problems because of the processor,
new update!
The truth, this information did not know, actually, I think I do not know anything in depth, the situation of this terminal !.
apparently facial recognition isnt working very well for some users:/
Poorly lighted environment and other aspects lile having to hold your phone up and look ar it is one of the reasons the fingerprint is a much better option as its faster and much more secure.The recognition will slowly get better with development. 🙂
really? Then it will be under development process! I hope Apple will find out a way with facial recognition before Samsung 😛
It is functional and it does work actually. It just hasn’t reached the levels of reliability reached by the fingerprint security. As the algorithms improve, it will eventually get there. 🙂
I’ve seen in many reviews that the facial recognition feature can be overcome by a photo of urs so not that safe but the Iris scanner is way better than facial recognition and faster as well as easy to use than the fingerprint scanner on the back, which is great but require some getting use to..
This is true. A selfie can sometimes be used to unlock the device using the facial recognition software. These are usually algorithms which have machine learning. So overtime, Samsung will improve on it and make it a lot better. For now, it will be as unreliable as it sounds. :/
i heard google is making changes to the algorithms in an update that alleviate the “photo issue”
apparently they will use smarter algorithms to detect whether the face is on a picture of real.
I wouldn’t be surprised. The kind of data google has at its disposal to test and try something like this is immense. Have you tried google photos?
I have and I have uploaded nearly 6,000 of all my photos to it. And it gives me a list of faces of all the people in my pictures and upon selecting them, it shows me all of that persons pictures in my collection through the years, in different lighting conditions and sometimes even aged. It is scarily accurate.
It works actually but is inconsistent and also, not very secure. Mostly because its still new as far as the feature goes and needs improvement. This is the reason why face unlock and iris scanner aren’t coupled with Samsung pay yet while fingerprint scanner has. Since its used and proven and a more reliable form of biometric security. 🙂
samsung has introduced the ability to use more tan one unlock method at a time
for example, oyu could set it up so that it could be unlocked using fingerprint,iris,face recognition or a password/pattern depending on the situation
They intend to give maximum choices and freedom to the users. None of that is new with the S8 though. Even the Note 7 had all of these unlock mechanisms.
except it didnt last very long ):
Actually, Note 7 will be back as refurbished units available for purchase in a month or two. 🙂
One of my friends bought it and it has the red screen problem , hope it get fixed
The updates are rolling out and hopefully it gets fixed with that 🙂
yea, but it can be fixed easily….no worries about it! Also after getting new updates we can fix it in no time!
They have rolled out an update regarding this but have however declared that it isn’t an issue. But should be fixed none the less. Ask him to try calibrating the screen 🙂
i found that they have made the bottom part of the touch screen pressure sensitive,kinda like force touch on iphones.its nice of them to try a anew technology that few other manufacturers have used yet
yes it is pressure sensitive but not that much useful as it on the iPhone, it only gives u a feel like a physical button by vibrating but what I’ve seen in many tech reviews is that they just reduce the sensitivity of the button and use it as a normal on screen navigation button..
The front facing home button which doubled as a finger print scanner was popular with Samsung. It also worked as a way to turn the screen on, which was really widely used by Samsung lovers. Without bezels, they had to change to on screen buttons and this was their solution to retain that functionality of the home button. They gave it a haptic feedback too. And honestly, I loved the idea. 🙂
yeah, you can still turn on the screen by pressing the non existent “home button” by pressing where the soft keys would be if the screen was on.
i guess they did this because a small pressure sensor under a bit of the screen would be more battery efficient than if you were to use the touch screen to determine if the thing was pressed.
im assuming that the pressure sensor can prevent the “button” being pressed by triggering the touch screen to check if its a finger or just a pocket before turning on the AMOLED display.
if they arent doing that then i think theyve missed a very practical software function that could prevent the display being turned on by keys or change in the pocket
They surely will have. The pressure sensor will be able to detect if the pressure is being exerted by a finger or something else quite accurately. 🙂
but wait……!
it has a 8mp selfie cam!!!!!!!
yeah, and that has some cool features like large F/1.7 aperture for cool low light selfies, can take some great shots and can record upto 2K resolution!!
“sammy” is really getting to grips with its specs
hehe hehe
Yep,being a flagship it needs to have that quality of a camera and Samsung didn’t disappoint 🙂
the iPhone has a 7.0 selfie cam, so i think samsung making theirs an 8.0 is just a beginning of what competitions to come.
Hello…?
hey
how you doing? 🙂
Am good ..thanks ..how do you do?
I’m good
can’t wait for the results though
Same here…..?
good luck
Good luck
Hello 😀
How u doing?
Just thought of commenting here!
Am great …how do you do.?
Super cool here 😀 Thks!
have you heard that you will not get the full WQHD+ resolution?
this is reserved to a performance mode. that can be activated from the settings, to decrease battery usage from normal use. that doesn’t require that step up in screen performance.
Yep Samsung comes with 1080p out of the box.TBH you won’t see much difference unless you’re really looking for it.This was done simply to provide better battery out of the box and to offer the users a choice between max screen res and shorter life or low res and long life .You can also choose 720p if you want to save battery 😉 btw its not reserved to performance mode but it will be turned on by choosing said mode the resolution can be chosen even without having to do that.
it’s very hard to notice the difference between two very good screens unless you know how to find it.
performance mode is meant for pro gamers who want the best out of the device’s screen for a period of time
Lol yeah perfomance mode is made to reduce lag and maximize performance with a hit on battery life but not many people use it. The resolution at 1080p is decent and one might want to boost it to max either when they want really good picture or video quality,like you said,gaming and most importantly to get to experience the most advertised feature;) With such a small screen you won’t find the difference really betweem 1080P and 1440p except every now and then when watching videos or others.Also the lower resolution imo is better for perfomance while gaming as when the resolution is lower its less taxing on the hardware and also you get higher fps 😀
Yes, casually seeing, you cant notice the difference at all. 🙂
Performance mode will take limitations off the processor and will let the cores run at a higher clock speed than they would have in non-performance mode. Everything will be faster and snappier. The battery will be used up faster as a result.
Choosing 720p extends the battery life and also provides better performance.
Yes, that’s the general idea of it and it does. 🙂 Even if the phone is run at WQHD+ mode, it wont make a huge decline in the battery life or performance. Samsung is just being conservative.
Let me put this into perspective. With the WQHD+ mode, which is the full resolution of the screen, the total pixel density would be 4,262,400. The processor will have to handle 4 crores or nearly 42 million pixels. When you bring it down to FHD+ which is slightly more than a 1080p screen, the screen pixel density would be 2,764,800. Which is half and will take a load off the processor. As a consequence, it will improve battery life too.
When Samsung took the bezels away and made it all screen instead, they increased the screen size without increasing the battery. This was one of the ways they hoped to reduce the load on the battery. I think its a good idea. Human eye can barely differentiate between FHD and WQHD. Only difference would be during texts as they will appear crisper in WQHD. But even if you decide to run it in WQHD+ all the time, it wont be very bad to the battery either. It will hold up. I read this battery stats review by a S8+ user and he consistently got 6-8 hours of screen on time even with the full resolution. S8 will be slightly lower but still should be decent enough
The screen time was 6 hours with brightness at max,max resolution and with intensive usage and after 10% they ran asphalt 8 with the flash on just to see how fast it drains so they can name a winner in the comparison.
That was probably a reviewer or a tester on YouTube or something?
Those are great. The one I saw was just another phone user. Who had used the phone over a span of ten days and had shared the screenshots of the battery stats. No testing. No reviewing. Just plain normal usage over a week. That is more appropriate don’t you think?
Hmm ..weird ….Yeah the one I mentioned was a youtuber comparing the S8 and S8+ battery life.Could you link me to the user ? Did he mention whether he charged it at 0 or left it to charge around 15-20% ?It should last longer than 6 hours maybe they Youtuber didn’t put on a sim and used Wi-Fi instead and also was the user Indian and have a dual sim setup ?I’m pretty confused now.
He discharged it to 5% or less everytime.
Not indian. American.
He was using it with the SIM. Like I said, normal day to day use, not testing. (:
With WiFi, he once got over 12 hours. Other WiFi days were always over 8 hours.
Data days were the least with 6 hours minimum. I was impressed. Sure, I’ll try to find the link.
Ah I see .I guess that’s more reliable as the way you mention the details he has listed out the details properly ,I guess that’s more reliable. Btw when you link it don’t give a direct link because disqus by default puts all the link included comments to pending and waits for the moderators to accept 😉
Sure, I shall post it as plain text. 🙂
Ah sadly there’s a number limit too .Just send the link with a few spaces? Or text me XD forgot about that
I’ll figure out a way for you. (:
https://imgur(dot)com/a/ZKcDv
Replace the (Dot) with an actual dot, please.
ahh thats so smart !!!
Thanks. 🙂 Do check the link out. I think you will find it interesting
Good Luck for everyone <3
Good Luck you too!
good luck!
Good Luck for everyone <3
don’t copy others’ comments
Would love to win, but best of luck to everyone!
good luck to u too!!
I do not want to disappoint anyone, but, this is not luckily, it is for reason !.
Please, winner, when you are revealed, do not forget to do what I asked you a few days ago, to write your experiences and the other things, please.
You too Carl.. Don’t forget to do same if you win
Of course you would
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡The winner is already here !!!!!!!!!!!
Who bro ?
One of those who participated in the debate xdxdxd 🙂
Lol …I thought they announced and I was late 😐
nothing yet
Haha you’ll have got everyone’s heart to beat faster for a second there Carlos 😀
He got me XD
Sorry guys I might not be able to take part in discussions as I used to before due to my being admitted in the hospital the past few days .I’m extremely sorry I’ll try my best and all the best everyone 🙂 ( hope I don’t come off seeking for attention )
Get well soon my friend.
Thanks bro 🙂
take care bro and get well soon!!
Should be out in 2 days 😉 feeling much better 🙂 thanks bro 😀
Is there a disqus app to respond to comments faster!
I wish android soul had an app as well……Hope it gets developed pretty soon…
Busy with last college stuff these days….Just don’t get time to login.