Samsung just unveiled what are likely the best Android smartphones of the year — the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. They have novel displays, impressive cameras, the fastest hardware, superb build quality, and cutting edge software. If you’re looking to…
Samsung just unveiled what are likely the best Android smartphones of the year — the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. They have novel displays, impressive cameras, the fastest hardware, superb build quality, and cutting edge software. If you’re looking to get one of the new flagships, you can pull the trigger right now because, chances are, you’ll be super happy with it…
…except if you have a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge, that is. As attractive as the new flagships are, and as much as I like having the latest and greatest smartphone, there simply aren’t enough reasons to upgrade. Here’s what I mean.
Forget the fancy display
If you look past the new display — that is admittedly very cool — the Galaxy S8 represents only a slight upgrade over the Galaxy S7. Same goes for the Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy S7 edge.
The processor is faster, but not by much that you could feel it, the camera is close in terms of capabilities, and not so different that you’ll likely get a huge bump in quality, the design isn’t drastically different, and the software on both is based on the same version of Android as is now available on the Galaxy S7 range.
Samsung didn’t make the move to 6GB of RAM with the S8 line, so you get the same 4GB as last year too. In terms of storage you do get 64GB over 32GB base, but you can easily get a microSD card to expand it for much less than what you’d pay to upgrade.
