A Samsung announced on Wednesday (29), its new smartphones the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+. The devices came mainly to compete with the iPhone 7 and the 7 iPhone Plus, which have been in the market since September of 2016.
O MenosFios here brings to its readers the main differences and similarities of the Galaxy S8 and iPhone 7 smartphones, it is known with the launch of the models on the market several people are going to seek to know which is the best. Below are the comparisons:
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Design
Samsung and Apple devices are quite different in design. To start, the Galaxy S8 comes without borders and without buttons, Samsung provided both the front and the rear with protection Gorilla Glass 5. The iPhone 7 is a device that has no headphone jack.
On the Galaxy S8, the fingerprint sensor of the device has been relocated to its rear, near the camera. Already in the case of iPhone 7, the technology is located in the home button.
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Screen
The Samsung Galaxy S8 has curved screen, with the 5,8 OLED display. Already the Galaxy S8 +, has a screen of 6,2 inches (ideal for those who like audiovisual content). The 7 iPhone has an 4,7 inch screen.
The Galaxy S8's screen extends up and down and covers almost the entire front of the phone, the four corners of the device are slightly curved. The iPhone 7 also has a slightly curved screen, but its display does not cover as much space as the Galaxy S8.
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Processor and Memory
The Galaxy S8 + has a more powerful processor than the Galaxy S8, has cores (octa-core) of “2,35 GHz + 1,9 GHz”, against an octa-core of “2,3 GHz + 1,7 GHz” . Both Samsung devices have “4 GB” RAM and “64 GB” internal storage.
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7Plus have the “Apple A10 Fusion” processor, with 3 GB RAM and the internal storage for both devices is “32 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB”. In other words, in terms of memories and storage, there are no differences in the last two smartpones from Apple.
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Office Supplies
The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 + have cameras with the same specifications. The rear camera has 12 megapixels, with dual-pixel technology, while the front has 8 MP. Both have an aperture of f / 1,7, which guarantees, according to Samsung, good quality photos, even if we are in low light environments.
The iPhone 7 Plus has a camera with lenses with different focal lengths. Be the iPhone 7 and the 7Plus have the front camera with 7 Megapixels while the rear with 12 Megapixels; both with the optics of the image and the camera of the Galaxy S8 has some tricks similar to those of the iPhone 7, like the GIF mode.
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Batteries
The Galaxy S8 has a 3.000 mAh battery, while the S8 + has 3.500 mAh; both smartphones have fast and wireless charging capabilities. The iPhone 7 has a battery of 1.960 mAh, while the iPhone 7Plus is 2.900 mAh.
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Software
Samsung's smartphones bring the operating system Android 7.0 nougat and then there's the well-known Samsung Knox Security Suite, and Bixby, the new virtual assistant. Already Apple's pre-installed operating system iOS 10, a system created by the American company itself.
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Price and availability
According to official information from Samsung Portugal, the minimum price is 819,90 € (146.145,31 Kwanzas) by Galaxy S8 and 919,90 € (164.168,11 Kwanzas) by Galaxy S8 +, just add the import fees + profits of the importers, to see that these smartphones will not be sold for less than 200.000,00 Kwanzas in Angola.
IPhone 7 costs US$ 649, about 143 thousand AKZ at the official exchange rate and the iPhone 7 Plus costs US$ 749, about 165 thousand AKZ. In Angola, Apple devices have already been used since they have been on the market since 2016.
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Security
Samsung, Galaxy S8 and S8 + handsets come with a fingerprint scanner (located on the back of the phone, next to the camera) and an iris scanner. The iPhone 7 and 7Plus have a Touch ID fingerprint scanner embedded in the Home button but do not have Iris scanning capabilities.
As for the Samsung smartphones - the Galaxy S8 and S8 +, there is no specific date for its arrival in the Angolan market, however one of the markets most used by Angolans, the Portuguese market, receives the S8 one week after being launched in the States United States of America.
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