Readers: Samsung itself says that the S8 uses the same camera sensor as the S7. Is this where we stop reading about the new phone? Of course, that’s still a better sensor than in the iPhone 7/7S, according to DxOMark (my personal experience is consistent with the DxOMark objective tests; the S7 was a better camera than anything from Apple).
You can dock the phone to use it as a desktop computer, but the result is more like a Chromebook than like my 2005 idea of a “dock” that actually is a PC.
This review says the S8 is the best phone available, but it still might not be exciting enough to get down to the Verizon store.
Journalists who live in urban (and almost all-white!) neighborhoods aren’t going to bother testing phone call performance in the tower-free exurbs (the S7 that I tried was not as good as an iPhone 6 Plus in hanging onto a weak signal). Right now they are writing about new Samsung software bundled into the phone as though that were a good thing rather than a terrifying prospect.
Apparently it is too much to ask for a slightly thicker phone with a bigger camera sensor and corresponding higher image quality. How did we get to the point where the market is cluttered with options and they are all pretty much the same?